Not Evil Sudoku 4+

Name: Not Evil Sudoku
Rating: 4.3 (522 reviews)
Author: Ashish Selvaraj

Ashish Selvaraj

- 4.3 • 522개의 평가

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Built natively for iPhone and iPad with the sole aim of providing users with a joyful sudoku-solving experience. Never played before? Move by Move validation in Settings can tell you whether your moves are correct as you make them.

Features:
- Fully offline
- Ad-free
- Real-time move checking
- Timer: Track your sudoku-solving speed. The timer can be hidden in Settings if time pressure isn't your thing.
- Difficulty Modes: Easy, Medium, Hard
- Haptic Feedback
- Notes: Users can keep track of all the candidates for a cell with two modes:
- the default which supports up to 4 notes which is ideal for easy and medium puzzles
- the expanded version which supports up to 9 notes (Settings → More Settings → Expanded Notes)
- Auto-clear Notes: When a number is placed, all instances of that number in notes in the same row, column and grid are cleared.
- Undo: Take back the last action.
- Streak: Number of consecutive days in which you’ve solved a puzzle.
- Best Time: The shortest amount of time it has taken you to solve a puzzle (separate for easy, medium and hard)
- Charts (Pro):
- Track your solve speed over time for each of the difficulties
- See how many games of each difficulty you played
- Highlighter: When the user taps a number, the app highlights all the places where that number appears, making solving much faster.
- Game Controls: Start over or start a new game at any time
- Daily Sudoku Reminder: Sends a notification at the time the user chooses. For those who like playing a daily puzzle and don’t want to lose their streak.
- Display Modes: Supports light and dark modes as well as switching between them within the app.
- Themes: Switch up the app theme to freshen up the experience. Some colors require Pro.
- Fun Alternate App icons (Pro).
- Unlimited puzzles (Pro)

Users can play a daily sudoku game for free while leveraging all the powerful features of the app. Unlimited games can be unlocked with a small one-time purchase (Pro). Pro supports family sharing.

2024년 2월 23일

버전 2.7.0

It's been 2 years of Not Evil Sudoku and this update brings some highly requested features including Speed Demon and Clear All Notes.

4.3/5

522개의 평가

Best Sudoku App… almost perfect

I love this app, it is certainly the best app i’ve ever found. Aside from the simple to navigate UI, minimalism, and the rick roll banner ad (I totally fell for it)- the statistics is something that any sudoku nerd needs. Seriously, I’ve deleted my other sudoku apps.

My only complaint is how the notes work. I’d like it to be more traditional, like put them in the typical order and spaces. I find the notes function hard to use since it’s a lot of visual information that’s hard to quickly read. With me at least, I don’t rely on reading the numbers themselves, but rather reading the location I expect them to be in, and find patterns/answers from there. Also, you can’t put more than 4 notes in it, which makes it kind of useless for me. As I start playing harder levels, I’d like it to use the notes, but don’t with this app. If others like the way it is now, perhaps putting in a way to toggle which notes version they prefer.

I have never left a written review for an app, but I really love this one, so I’m invested in making it perfect and if the devs changed this one thing, I’d be over the moon. Either way, this is still going to be the only sudoku app I’ll use.

Thank you for the review! You can actually have up to 9 numbers in the notes. Settings → More Settings → Expanded Notes.

I’ll keep your other thoughts related to notes in mind!

Great features & lives up to name Not Evil

I really love this app - I’ve been using the free version for a few months now. The one puzzle per day didn’t bother me so much as I’m not an avid sudoku player, I only do one puzzle before bed usually. No ads is STELLAR (wish/hope more phone games are like this). I also really appreciate the different levels of difficulty and various customizable features like turning on/off the number highlights. I never felt particularly good at sudoku when I was young (I hadn’t picked up sudoku in a decade!!) but the way this app is structured has helped me learn new strategies & increase the challenge based on what settings I use. Less important but this app works in dark mode settings which just adds to my contentment. I just paid the one time $5 for the upgraded version (to support the developer) and am curious to try the features that unlocks too.

Least Evil Sudoku Ever

It takes a bit of customization to get the app tuned to your preferences. I personally recommend turning on Speed Demon (beta), >4 notes (forgetting the actual setting name) and fixed note positions - it is worth noting some of these are under settings > advanced. The number placement can be a little janky at times (speed demon helps a ton) but it’s perfectly functional.

Honestly I’m just glad to have an app that isn’t bogged down by ads. The default experience is one game a day which is fair but you can pay 5 USD which permanently gives you unlimited games and more cosmetic tweaks - unlimited games alone makes it worth imo, the rest is icing.

Dev, thank you for making this; I hope more devs follow in your footsteps of less evil monetization.