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The original was posted on /r/apple by /u/notevilsudoku on 2024-11-17 16:56:06+00:00.


Not Evil?

I started working on Not Evil Sudoku around two years ago after struggling to find a clean minimalist sudoku app that wasn’t bloated with ads and last month the app got some major updates with version 3.0, including: synced daily puzzles, multi-line view for statistics, speed demon, better iPad support and themes.

App Store Link

Here’s a quick round up of what’s new in the app since it was last here more than a year ago:

Daily Puzzles

New: Synced daily puzzles that are the same for all users of the app (one for each difficulty). Hopefully this makes things more fun when you’re sharing scores with friends!

There’s also a game center leaderboard (beta) that you can access through Settings → Game Center Bubble on the top right for daily scores. Note: For your score to be eligible for the leaderboard, move by move validation (Settings → Move by Move Validation) needs to be turned off to prevent people from brute forcing solutions.

Here’s how I did on today’s medium daily:

Not Evil Sudoku - Daily #016

🧇 ⬜️⬜️⬜️ 4 ⬜️ 8 ⬜️⬜️ 3

🟠 MEDIUM: Solved in 03:35

🛟 Assists: 🪄 ✨ 😈

You can generate this summary from “Share” on the puzzle solved alert.

Puzzle Tools:

[Some new features since the app was last here!]

Speed Demon: If you prefer to select a number and then tap the tiles where you think they should go, that setting is now available! Settings → Advanced → Speed Demon.

Fixed Notes: Notes can be fixed instead of being in the order that they were placed. A much requested feature that I finally got around to adding last year. Settings → Notes → Fixed Notes.

Clear All Notes: Long press on clear to clear the board of all notes.

Landscape iPad Support:

When the app was last posted here, it only worked in portrait on iPad but it now works in landscape mode too! A major goal was having the puzzle tools and numpad draggable and I think it turned out quite decent. Makes the experience on iPad a bit more ergonomic. I will need to look into adding support for Apple pencil…

Pro Feature Updates

Charts have been revamped to show a multiline view of your best times across difficulties and re-written in Apple’s Charts library. Unfortunately the new charts are iOS 16+ because of library limitations. Pretty snazzy, eh?

Also Board backgrounds! If you don’t like the color of the background (black in dark mode, white in light mode) you can now change that in Settings!

Not Evil Sudoku is free to play with a puzzle daily and has a single one-time purchase of 4.99 US for unlimited games, charts, themes and more. Pro also supports Apple family sharing with up to five family members.

App Store Link