Sven's SudokuPad
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User Reviews for Sven's SudokuPad
Not perfect, but unique
This app allows you to upload hand crafted puzzles from all over the internet, especially those from Cracking the Cryptic. It’s still evolving, though, so some older puzzles won’t check quite right, or the rules for variants won’t be complete. But the ability to load up and try truly unusual variant puzzles is great, and the interface is solid, with options for how to mark that should satisfy most solvers. A great supplement to Cracking the Cryptic’s other collections.
Great and getting better
I love the app. Since finding CtC I have been spoiled with solving Sudoku with their web browser app. This doesn’t have all the functionality (ability for non classic sudoku) much to many peoples chagrin, but it will soon. Even without it I’m loving it. I’m finally getting through my World of Sudoku book by Akash Doulani now that I have an app (that I like) to solve them in. I’m no good with pencil and the other puzzle site is not to my liking. Everyone should buy it just to put in classic puzzles from sudoku books.
Excellent, but outdated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!
Does not save progress
I was excited about this app, and liked the different notations available and the fact that you can add other sudokus to use the app’s functionalities to solve them. The main problem I had with it, which for me is a big one, is the fact that it did not save the progress I made in the sudoku. Short pauses were ok, but when I left a puzzle to continue the following day, I had to start from scratch. It had not saved neither the pencil markings nor the numbers I had found.
Missing many features in puzzle setting mode, no variants
Extremely disappointed with this app. I was hoping I could use it to build puzzles but this was clearly not designed for that purpose. In the puzzle setting mode you can’t add corner or center pencil marks or color cells different colors.The only think keeping this from a 1 star review is that it does have some good puzzles built in for you to solve, but there just aren’t enough of them.One other complaint - with this app being associated with Cracking the Cryptic, I expected some puzzles to feature sudoku variant rules, or the puzzle setting mode to allow adding custom rules and features to your puzzles (killer cages, thermos, etc.) but no, it’s classics only.Not worth the $5. It would be okay if it started free and featured only the classic puzzles, and the variants and additional classics would be locked behind a $5 paywall.If you’re looking for classic sudoku puzzles to solve, just watch the Cracking the Cryptic videos on classic puzzles and solve those. If you’re looking for a puzzle setting tool, just use f-puzzles or penpa.
Would recommend
The tools from cracking the cryptic are definitely available here. That is awesome. I would love to see two updates though. First I would love to see the ability to change the font-size of the corner pencil-marks. In my opinion being able to make them smaller would make it easier to differentiate center marks from pencil marks. Second I would like to see the ability to import puzzles via camera or an imported photo.
All My Puzzles are gone
After the new update which lets me share puzzles. I opened my app to find all the puzzles I entered and completed are gone leaving only the original puzzles. It’s a nice app and I enjoyed adding new puzzles and playing them but it sad I spent all that time adding the puzzles just for them to be gone like that. This and sometimes the app won’t let me scroll through my puzzles are the only complaints but they’re very annoying issues that led me to write this unsatisfied review.
Not as full features as the web version
There’s no question that Sven’s app is the best Sudoku app available to download. But unfortunately it’s not the best Sudoku app available. That would be Sven’s web version of the app. Over the past year, that app has consistently received more and more improvements, enhancements, and features, while those of us who downloaded the iOS version have been left behind. It’s gotten to the point where I no longer even bother opening the app any longer to play CTC puzzles, because playing on the web is such a better experience.
Almost everything you could want
**Strengths: This is easily the best way to solve a Sudoku puzzle whether it is one from CtC or one from another source. I had been hoping for something like it since I first used the CtC web app for the videos. Very easy to use and makes me want to solve more puzzles again after putting them down a few months ago. **Areas for improvement: It would be very helpful if it had the ability to use the phone camera to autodetect a puzzle that is on paper instead of having to manually enter each number in a custom puzzle. It would also help if the timer automatically paused if switching to another app or turning off the phone.
A Few Requests
I love CTC and I love the dual pencil notation idea of Sven’s solver. However, there are a few quirks I think could be improved. Double-tapping an empty cell deselects everything else, but the taps have to be spaced precisely for this to work. There is a little empty space in the bottom left corner of the screen, maybe tapping there could unselect everything.I would LOVE a way to select all pencil marks of a certain candidate. The other CTC apps do this and it’s very convenient.Double-tapping a filled cell highlights all cells of that number. This is helpful, but it would be great if selecting a digit in the number pad did this. Maybe each “version” of the number pad (number, corner marks, and center marks) could highlight all candidates of that type. This app is SO CLOSE to being the perfect solver, especially with the ability to enter puzzles. I agree with the other reviewer that an auto-detector would be amazing, but not necessary for a perfect app. The suggestions above (especially the ability to highlight all of a particular candidate) would make it a perfect solver.Thanks Sven!
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.
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