Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 1,019 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.6.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 1.6.1, updated 2026-02-28.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Sudoku : Daily Fun Puzzle Game, is a popular classic number game to train your brain. Solve daily Classic Sudoku Puzzles and have fun! Thousands of numbers of games to explore. Install Sudoku : Daily Fun Puzzle Game and start now!
Sudoku : Daily Fun Puzzle Game is the best choice for beginners and advanced sudoku players. Whether you want to relax or keep your mind active - use Sudoku : Daily Fun Puzzle Game to pass the time in a pleasant way! Get a little stimulating break or clear your mind! Take your favorite digital games with you wherever you go. Playing this free sudoku game on your phone is just as good as using a real pencil and paper.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 15 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 11 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:25d320e220b617c79d3ffbf7d7b079c333dc41db7a65b0fca0e07e84b7810997Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to earn a reward!"
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:25d320e220b617c79d3ffbf7d7b079c333dc41db7a65b0fca0e07e84b7810997Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
1,019 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
This used to be a great app, but then the minute long adverts every couple of minutes are getting ridiculous, so it will just end up becoming another one of those app you have that you don't bother using. What a shame. Don't bother with…
The ads for this app are insane. I was mildly irritated with an ad after every game, but sure. I wasn't paying so why not. To get an add in the middle of a game is absolutely foul which is unfortunate. The app itself is pretty great, I…
Game was ok, played many like it. The only downfall was that there were way too many ads. Right in the middle of a game, and then an ad pops up. Then, after some of the ads end and I go back to the game, it says "resume play" so I click…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.6.1, scanned 29 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.6.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 1.6.1, updated 2026-02-28.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Bug fixed
No release notes were provided for this version.
sudoku-apple-6450412432Assessed 2026-10-31 from 1,019 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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