Sudoku Solver: Hint or Solve 4+

Name: Sudoku Solver: Hint or Solve
Rating: 4.6 (1643 reviews)
Author: Daniel Anderson

with Camera / Photo Import

Daniel Anderson

Designed for iPad

- 4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases

Description

A free Sudoku solver with a clean, quick, and easy user interface
Input the puzzle from a picture or the popup keypad.
Also, create and print puzzles

Press solve to complete either the whole puzzle or select one number at a time.

Open puzzles that you enter from a paper in Vivid Sudoku.

Shake to erase the last entry.

Icon by http://twitter.com/rylgh

Sep 29, 2017

Version 5.0

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Now you can import a puzzle with the camera or from a photo

4.6 out of 5

1.6K Ratings

Not the App I thought it would be

I thought this app would allow me to load the numbers at the start of the puzzle and then provide all the options in all squares, not just one or all.
I like to complete puzzles on paper and it would be helpful to have an app that will take away the time needed to fill out all possible solutions in the empty squares, so I can improve my solving skills.

Horrible photo import

Photo import is a horrible experience. You are supposed to drag dots to corners of the puzzle and much of the time the image it scans is sideways or upside down. After a lot of trial and error and wasted time you get it right side up.

Then it guesses the numbers and gets almost every one wrong. I am importing a picture from another app and maybe it’s OCR model can’t deal with light colors on darker backgrounds? Anyway, you can tap to change incorrect number. But they’re almost all incorrect so that’s a lot of work. And if it guesses a number for a blank square? You literally cannot remove a number. Just change it. But it’s an unknown number so you don’t know what it is.

I don’t know how this app passed review. It’s unusable.