Best Daily Sudoku Apps: Streaks, Archives and Leaderboards

For a free daily sudoku you can replay and compare, Sudoku Royale is our pick: one Daily Challenge a day with a streak, a friends and world leaderboard, and an archive of past days, with no ads and no subscription. If you want more than one daily puzzle, NYT Games posts easy, medium and hard sudokus every day and Good Sudoku has three daily modes that get harder through the week. For trophies and collecting, Sudoku Puzzle World and Sudoku.com build their dailies around rewards.

A daily puzzle sounds like a simple feature, but apps handle it very differently. Some give you one grid and a checkmark. Others add streaks, monthly trophy tracks, leaderboards or a calendar of old puzzles. Below, every claim about another app comes from its own App Store listing; where a listing says nothing, we say so instead of guessing.

The App Store facts

From each app's US App Store listing, checked October 26, 2026. Prices and paid items change, so check the listing before you buy.

Daily features compared

What makes a good daily sudoku app

Four things decide whether a daily habit sticks. A streak gives you a reason to come back tomorrow. A leaderboard tells you whether your time was good, which a lone timer cannot. An archive means a missed day is not lost, and a busy week can be caught up on Sunday. And the price decides whether the habit costs you money or ads every morning. Our guide to the daily sudoku challenge covers how to get the most from one.

1. Sudoku Royale: the daily with an archive, free

Sudoku Royale's Daily Challenge is one fresh puzzle a day. You get three lives: each mistake adds 30 seconds, and after the third the run becomes unranked, but you can still finish it. Your time goes on a leaderboard against friends and the world, your streak and best streak are kept, and every past day back to January 2026 is in the archive to play. It costs nothing: there are no ads, no purchases and no subscription, and you do not need an account.

The daily is one part of the app, not all of it. When you want more, Practice has unlimited puzzles at six levels, and the weekly belt league turns every solve into progress against friends. The honest limits: there is one daily, not a choice of difficulties, and the Daily Challenge needs an internet connection. If you play on a plane, see the offline sudoku apps.

2. NYT Games: three dailies, inside a subscription app

The NYT Games listing promises a new sudoku every day in easy, medium or hard mode, which is the most choice of any app here. Sudoku sits inside a larger games app, and the app sells monthly Games plans. Its listing names other games, not Sudoku, for its stats, badges, friends leaderboard and subscriber archive. If you play Wordle and the Crossword anyway, it is a natural place for sudoku. We compare the two in detail in Sudoku Royale vs NYT Sudoku.

3. Good Sudoku: three daily modes with global rankings

Good Sudoku's listing describes three daily puzzle modes that get harder through the week, with global leaderboards, and its developer points out that most daily modes elsewhere lack those. A version note mentions best streaks for all modes. The app is free to download with a Full Game Unlock purchase at $4.99. Because the dailies ramp up through the week and its hardest puzzles call for techniques like Swordfish, it suits experienced solvers best. See how it compares with Sudoku Royale.

4. Sudoku Puzzle World: the best trophy track

Sudoku Puzzle World's daily comes with a monthly streak track that earns bronze, silver and gold trophies, an awards cabinet to show them, and daily reminders so you do not miss a day. It also runs tournaments and limited-time events with global leaderboards. It shows ads; its listing sells Upgrade with Permanent Ad Removal for $9.99.

5. Sudoku.com: trophies for every daily

Sudoku.com's listing says completing Daily Challenges earns unique trophies, and Seasonal Events add medals on top. It is the most rated sudoku app on the US App Store, with plenty to play beyond the daily. It is free with ads, removable with Sudoku.com No Ads at $14.99. The listing does not mention a daily leaderboard or a way to replay past days.

6. Brainium Sudoku: points and gold checkmarks

Brainium Sudoku's Daily Puzzle Challenges earn points and gold checkmarks, and the app has global and friend leaderboards along with statistics and achievements. It is a calm app with plenty of board settings. It shows ads until you buy Remove Ads at $11.99.

7. Sudoku by Staple Games: a plain Daily Challenge

Staple Games' Sudoku lists a Daily Challenge among a short set of features, with four levels and statistics. Its listing says nothing about streaks, rewards or leaderboards for the daily, and it shows ads with no purchase listed to remove them. It suits players who want a daily grid and nothing more.

Which daily sudoku app is right for you?

• You want the most daily puzzles: NYT Games (three levels) or Good Sudoku (three modes).
• You collect trophies: Sudoku Puzzle World or Sudoku.com.
• You want to replay missed days and compare times, free and without ads: Sudoku Royale.
• You want to play offline or on Android: not Sudoku Royale, whose daily needs a connection and which is iPhone and iPad only.

If a daily puzzle with a streak and an archive is what you are after, download Sudoku Royale and play today's. For more matchups, see the best sudoku apps with no ads, the apps without a subscription and the full comparisons page.