Sven's SudokuPad

Sven Neumann

About this game

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.

Ratings and reviews

I love sudoku and this is an amazing app for sudokus that require more pencil markings; however, I would love to see a way to make an account so I can save my solves from the computer on my phone. Also, I would love it if I could see the puzzle difficulty from Logic Masters Deutschland somewhere in the app. Lastly, fog of war works, but it doesn't light up squares unless I exist and reenter the puzzle but at least all the clues show up.

A good app for playing the variant sudoku puzzles from Cracking the Cryptic. Unfortunately, it's lagging so far behind the web version that it outright can't play some of the newer puzzles. As of this review, this app was last updated at the end of 2021, so it's missing over a year of updates. As a secondary thing, it would be cool to be able to construct (or enter) custom puzzles with some of the common variant features, rather than only pure classic sudoku.

EDIT(09-31-23): The latest update deleted ALL of my saved puzzles. What the heck! I wasn't even given an option. I'm glad fog of war is finally supported but I wish the update was handled better. Lowering to one star for now based on this. The past few CtC puzzles won't load in the app. Additionally, none of the fog of war puzzles work and the features are lagging far behind the web version. The sorting is also very glitchy, which makes it hard to find puzzles I was just importing or working on

What's new

The long-awaited update that brings in all the new features of the web app I've developed over the last two years! This is the "feature-parity" update you've all been asking about!