# Sudoku Premium

> Puzzle

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id326973977](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id326973977)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id326973977`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** genina.com
- **Category:** Puzzle
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (58 ratings)
- **Version:** 11.0.10
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-26
- **First published:** 2009-09-24
- **Size:** 21 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sudoku-premium/id326973977)
- **Website:** [http://www.genina.com](http://www.genina.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://genina.com/pages/privacy/privacy.jsf](http://genina.com/pages/privacy/privacy.jsf)

## Description

Sudoku Premium brings the classic puzzle to your screen with a clean, intuitive interface and a robust feature set. It offers 4 difficulty levels, 3 input modes (Digit first, Cell first, and popup), pencil marks with auto fill/erase, selected digit highlighting, digit-count visibility, auto-save, and unlimited Undo/Redo. Hints are intelligent and logic-based, with two levels of automatic error checking.

Track your progress online by submitting results, viewing top scores and history, and competing in real-time weekly challenges. Stay connected with the community via social links and support, and reach out at sudoku@genina.com with questions or suggestions.

## Rankings

- #168,754 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviews consistently crown Sudoku Premium as a top choice with a clean, calming UI and a design close to the newspaper puzzle. Players value the ad-free premium experience and long-term reliability across years. However, several recurring concerns muddy the picture: paid users report ads still appearing, some ads play audio, iOS lacks a custom puzzle mode, score transfer between free and paid versions is not supported, and puzzle difficulty can shift unpredictably. A noted feature request is an overlay for taking notes. Overall, strong gameplay with notable caveats.

### Pros

- Widely praised as the best or a favorite Sudoku app among many options.
- Clean, simple, calming design with a newspaper-like feel that's easy on the eyes.
- Premium ad-free option is valued and widely considered worth the price to avoid ads and support developers.
- Generally strong, straightforward gameplay and intuitive interface that keeps users returning over years.

### Cons

- Ads persist in the paid/premium version, which users feel defeats the purpose of paying to be ad-free.
- Ads occasionally play audio, disrupting gameplay.
- iOS lacks a Custom mode for inputting personal puzzles (unlike Android).
- Difficulty can shift dramatically over time, making hard levels suddenly unplayable.
- Inability to transfer or import scores from the free version to the paid version.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id326973977)