Killer Sudoku CTC Downloads & RevenueKiller Sudoku CTC · App Store & Google Play
Killer Sudoku CTC by Nick Carney is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
📈iOSEntered the top 100📈iOSEntered the top 100⭐iOSPassed 100 ratings⭐iOSPassed 100 ratings🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider📦AndroidVersion 1.4.2🆕iOSReleased on the App Store🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play
Full timeline · 24 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC entered the top 100iOSTop Paid · Board · BR
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC entered the top 100iOSTop Paid · Puzzle · BR
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC charting in a new countryiOSBrazil
- 🆕Killer Sudoku CTC first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited States (found via similar)
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Board · AU
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC entered the top 100 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · Board · AU · Top Paid · Puzzle · AU
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC entered the top 100 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · Board · JP · Top Paid · Puzzle · JP
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC charting in a new countryiOSJapan
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC entered the top 100 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · Board · CA · Top Paid · Puzzle · CA
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC charting in a new countryiOSNetherlands
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC charting in a new countryiOSUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC charting in a new country in 2 chartsiOSCanada · India
- 📈Killer Sudoku CTC entered the top 100iOSTop Paid · Puzzle · GB
- 🆕Killer Sudoku CTC first spotted by AppInsideriOS#95 in Top Paid · Board · Saudi Arabia
- 📦Killer Sudoku CTC version 1.4.2AndroidCompatibility updates
- 🆕Killer Sudoku CTC released on the App StoreiOS
- 🆕Killer Sudoku CTC released on Google PlayAndroid
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.5 ★
463 ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#41
App Store · 
Games › Board Paid
Games › Board PaidMeasured
Killer Sudoku CTC at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Puzzle Minimalist Abstract medium sessions Premium
#sudoku #logic #brain-teaser #single-player #educational #offline
App Store
App details
App ID
1544165118
Publisher
Nick Carney
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Dec 2020
5 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 11.0+
iPhone 5s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
51 MB
Also listed in
Puzzle, Board
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.StudioGoya.KillerSudoku
Publisher
Studio Goya LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Killer Sudoku CTC downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | – | 5k+ |
| Google Play | – | 10k+ Measured |
| Total | – | 10k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Killer Sudoku CTC's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #41 Games › Board Paid | 6 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | – | 0 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Games apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 79 |
| Google Play | 4.5 ★ | 384 62 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.5 ★ weighted by ratings | 463 |
What users say about Killer Sudoku CTC
From the 33 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (76% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and being useful. The main complaints are about recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Fun: “Mostly Fun, few rough edges”
- Useful: “I’d mostly recommend this”
- Ease of use: “Easy to use and lots of options to customize the gameplay”
- Features & content: “Easy to use and lots of options to customize the gameplay”
Common complaints
- Updates: “Unusable after last update”
About Killer Sudoku CTC
***** APRIL UPDATE *****
40 new standard puzzles + 15 bonus beginner puzzles
-------------------------------------
Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our most requested variant: Killer Sudoku.
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's YouTube channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). Anyone familiar with their YouTube channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
40 new standard puzzles + 15 bonus beginner puzzles
-------------------------------------
Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our most requested variant: Killer Sudoku.
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's YouTube channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). Anyone familiar with their YouTube channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
Killer Sudoku CTC App Store
Killer Sudoku CTC is #41 in Games › Board Paid in Australia and charting in 6 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNick Carney
CategoryGames
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (79)
Version1.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)5k+ worldwide
Rating
4.6 ★
79 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#41
Games › Board PaidMeasured
Killer Sudoku CTC at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Puzzle Minimalist Abstract medium sessions Premium
#sudoku #logic #brain-teaser #single-player #educational #offline
Killer Sudoku CTC on the App Store
App details
App ID
1544165118
Publisher
Nick Carney
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Dec 2020
5 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 11.0+
iPhone 5s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
51 MB
Also listed in
Puzzle, Board
Killer Sudoku CTC downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Killer Sudoku CTC's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Games › BoardPaid | #41 |
 United Kingdom | Games › BoardPaid | #176 |
| Australia | Games › PuzzlePaid | #141 |
 India | Games › BoardPaid | #142 |
 Sweden | GamesPaid | #145 |
 Canada | Games › BoardPaid | #187 |
 United Arab Emirates | Games › BoardPaid | #152 |
Apps near Killer Sudoku CTC on the chart
Games › Board Paid, around #41.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
79 ratings
Measured
Ratings
79
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Games apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Killer Sudoku CTC
From the 33 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (76% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and being useful. The main complaints are about recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Fun: “Mostly Fun, few rough edges”
- Useful: “I’d mostly recommend this”
- Ease of use: “Easy to use and lots of options to customize the gameplay”
- Features & content: “Easy to use and lots of options to customize the gameplay”
Common complaints
- Updates: “Unusable after last update”
About Killer Sudoku CTC
***** APRIL UPDATE *****
40 new standard puzzles + 15 bonus beginner puzzles
-------------------------------------
Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our most requested variant: Killer Sudoku.
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's YouTube channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). Anyone familiar with their YouTube channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
40 new standard puzzles + 15 bonus beginner puzzles
-------------------------------------
Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, YouTube’s most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our most requested variant: Killer Sudoku.
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's YouTube channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). Anyone familiar with their YouTube channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
Latest updates
1.2
- 40 new puzzles
- 15 bonus beginner puzzles
All 100(+) puzzles are out now, thank you for playing Killer Sudoku!
More from Nick Carney
Killer Sudoku Android
Not in a tracked Google Play top chart right now.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperStudio Goya LLC
CategoryGames › Puzzle
Price4.99 USD
Released
Installs10k+
Rating★ 4.5 (384)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.5 ★
384 ratings
Measured
Killer Sudoku on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.StudioGoya.KillerSudoku
Publisher
Studio Goya LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Killer Sudoku downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Killer Sudoku's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not in a Google Play top chart right now. | ||
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.5 ★
384 ratings
Measured
Ratings
384
Measured
Written reviews
62
Measured
About Killer Sudoku
Presented by Cracking The Cryptic, the most popular Sudoku channel, comes a new game based on our most requested variant: Killer Sudoku.
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). Anyone familiar with their channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
In Killer Sudoku, every puzzle features cages that tell you the sum of the numbers inside. This extra information leads to beautiful logic that you will master as you progress through our handmade puzzles. The puzzles in Killer Sudoku are created by Simon and Mark as well as a large number of guest creators. Fans of Cracking the Cryptic's channel will recognize many of these authors as some of the most talented creators working today!
As with our other games (‘Classic Sudoku’, ‘Sandwich Sudoku’, ‘Chess Sudoku’, 'Thermo Sudoku' and 'Miracle Sudoku'), Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe (the hosts of Cracking The Cryptic) have written all the hints for the puzzles. So you know that every puzzle has been play-tested by a human being to ensure that each sudoku is interesting and fun to solve.
In Cracking The Cryptic’s games, players start with zero stars and earn stars by solving puzzles. The more puzzles you solve, the more stars you earn and the more puzzles you get to play. Only the most dedicated (and cleverest) sudoku players will finish all the puzzles. Of course the difficulty is carefully calibrated to ensure lots of puzzles at every level (from easy through to extreme). Anyone familiar with their channel will know that Simon and Mark take pride in teaching viewers to be better solvers and, in these games, they always craft the puzzles with the mindset of trying to help solvers improve their skills.
Mark and Simon have both represented the UK many times at the World Sudoku Championship and you can find more of their puzzles (and lots of others) on the internet’s biggest sudoku channel Cracking The Cryptic.
Features:
100 beautiful puzzles
15 bonus beginner puzzles
Hints crafted by Simon and Mark!
What's new in 1.4.2
Compatibility updates