Sven's SudokuPad 4+

Sven Neumann

Designed for iPad

    • $2.99

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Description

Sven's SudokuPad finally lets you play your own Sudoku puzzles in the same app as used by Cracking the Cryptic in their videos. Created by Sven, the same developer who has created and improved the Cracking the Cryptic Sudoku webapp over the past year.

It also includes a few brand new classic Sudokus created by Simon and Mark exclusively for Sven's SudokuPad.

What’s New

Version 1.3.1.1

Various bug fixes and improvements
Option to paste link inside app

Ratings and Reviews

3.5 out of 5
86 Ratings

86 Ratings

Ian Denker ,

Excellent, but outdated

This is a wonderful app to solve the puzzles featured on the channel, however, there's some key features in the web app that are missing from this. Notably, the letter function, the extra colors, diagonal lines on the line tool, and the new fog of war mechanic are missing. The latter is, albeit, quite new, but seeing as this hasn't been updated in 11 months, adding at least some of the new things would be great. Additionally, the ability to detect if a solution is correct for irregular or otherwise "non-normal" sudoku puzzles would be most welcome. When I do complete one of those, it is often marked as wrong and therefore incomplete, so I usually just delete it from the app.

Overall though, it works superbly well for almost every puzzle!

stepwisecliche ,

Fantastic App

It gets 5 stars for being the only app of its kind on iOS to allow solving puzzles from all over the internet. Previously, I had a huge bookmark folder of puzzles I had to wait until I was on a desktop to solve, but now I can solve them on my phone, and that is a beautiful thing.

Some suggestions: The process of cleaning up pencilmarks can be rather tedious, so auto-pencilmark elimination in row/column when placing digits would be a very nice feature to have as something that could be enabled in settings.

Also, while long pressing on a cell highlight similar cells, it would be nice to be able to do this highlighting from the number pad with a long press. For example, if I wanted to highlight all cells with corner marked 5s, I could go to corner marks and hold the 5 button to do so. Currently, I have to have a corner marked 5 with no other corner marks to highlight just the 5s.

Some sort of cloud syncing would also be nice so people could continue playing puzzles on different devices. Those features missing aside, this is still the best iOS app for solving sudokus and has earned all 5 of these stars until that stops being true.

Edit: also auto-pausing the clock when switching apps would be good. There is some glitchy behavior with the clock in general, but I am not personally reliant on it.

tjh ,

Great Sudoku app, but needs an update

This is a great app for solving the Cracking the Cryptic hand-crafted puzzles featured on the YT channel, as well as any other Sudoku puzzle that you care to enter manually. Puzzles are stored locally, offline, and completion times are stored, so you can build up a nice library of puzzles, abandon a puzzle and pick up where you left off weeks or months later, and compete against your best times.

However, this iOS app has fallen far behind the web app in features, and some of the puzzles featured on the CtC YT channel are much harder to solve in this app as a result. Unfortunately, the web app does not scale nicely to mobile touch interfaces and provides no mechanism for storing puzzles.

This app needs an update.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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