Best Sudoku App With Streaks: Daily Habits Compared

If a streak is what gets you to play every day, Sudoku Royale and Sudoku Puzzle World are the two strongest picks. Sudoku Royale keeps your current and best Daily Challenge streak and adds a weekly belt league where every solve counts, free and without ads. Sudoku Puzzle World turns its daily puzzle into a monthly streak track with bronze, silver and gold trophies, and its listing adds daily reminders. For streaks on ordinary practice games rather than a daily, Tripledot's listing tracks best times and streaks per difficulty level.

This page is about the habit, not the puzzle. If you want to know which app has the best daily grid, the best daily sudoku apps page compares the puzzles themselves. Here the question is what keeps you coming back on day 40, and what happens on the day you miss.

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.

Streak features compared

"Not stated" means the app's own App Store listing does not mention it. The app may still have it.

Two kinds of streak, and why it matters

Most apps count one of two things. A daily streak counts consecutive days you finished that day's puzzle. A play streak counts games in a row without a loss, whenever you play them. They reward different habits. A daily streak asks for five minutes every morning and punishes the day you forget. A play streak asks for nothing on any particular day but punishes a careless mistake.

Sudoku Royale, Sudoku Puzzle World and the Block Puzzle Games app count days. PeopleFun's Runs and Tripledot's per-level streaks count games. If you want a reason to open the app every day, pick a daily streak. If your play is irregular but you want something to protect while you play, a play streak suits you better.

Sudoku Royale: a daily streak plus a weekly league

Sudoku Royale's streak lives on the Daily Challenge: one new puzzle a day, with your current streak and your best streak shown side by side. A broken streak still leaves your record visible, which takes some of the sting out of a missed day. The daily gives you three lives and adds 30 seconds per mistake. After the third mistake the run becomes unranked but you keep playing, and the app's release notes say your streak survives that.

The second habit loop is weekly. Belts are a league that resets every week: every solve in the Daily, Practice or the Dojo earns shurikens, and the top of your league moves up a belt, from White to Black. That rewards showing up several times a week rather than every single day, which is a gentler goal than an unbroken chain. Your profile also keeps games played, win rate, accuracy, best score and streak in one place.

The limits are real. The Daily Challenge needs an internet connection, so a day on a plane with no Wi-Fi can cost you the streak. There is one daily puzzle, not a choice of difficulties. And there is no home screen widget or Apple Watch app; the release notes mention an optional reminder when the new puzzle drops. If you want offline play for those days, see the offline sudoku apps.

Sudoku Puzzle World: the best collection to look at

Sudoku Puzzle World's listing describes a daily puzzle with a monthly streak track that earns bronze, silver and gold trophies, an awards cabinet for every trophy and ribbon, a Path mode with milestone medallions, and daily reminders so you do not miss a puzzle. If collecting and a visible shelf of rewards motivates you, nothing else here goes as far. A monthly track also forgives more than an endless chain: each month is a fresh start. It shows ads; the listing sells Upgrade with Permanent Ad Removal for $9.99.

Tripledot and PeopleFun: streaks on regular play

Tripledot Sudoku's listing promises statistics with your best times and streaks for every difficulty level, and an optional three-mistake limit. Combined, that is a demanding streak: switch the limit on and a streak means a run of clean games at your chosen level. Our Sudoku Royale vs Tripledot page compares the rest. PeopleFun Sudoku calls its version Runs: "solving puzzle after puzzle without breaking your streak", with scores you compare on Game Center leaderboards.

Sudoku.com and Good Sudoku

Sudoku.com rewards the daily habit with unique trophies for Daily Challenges and medals for Seasonal Events, but its listing does not describe a streak counter. It shows ads, with Sudoku.com No Ads at $14.99. Good Sudoku's listing describes three daily modes that get harder through the week, and a version note says the developer restored everyone's best streaks for all modes after a bug, and plans a more forgiving daily system. That honesty is a good sign if you care about your streak being counted correctly.

Where another app is the better pick

• You are motivated by collecting. Sudoku Puzzle World's trophies, ribbons and awards cabinet give you more to look at than a streak counter and a belt.
• You want to keep a streak offline. Sudoku Royale's daily needs a connection. Apps whose daily plays offline suit travelers better.
• You want streaks per difficulty level. Tripledot's listing is the only one here that promises that.
• You play on Android. Sudoku Royale is iPhone and iPad only.

Our pick

For a streak with a weekly goal on top, no ads and nothing to buy, download Sudoku Royale and start today's Daily Challenge. If you would rather fill a trophy cabinet, Sudoku Puzzle World is the better fit; see our Sudoku Puzzle World alternatives for how it stacks up. If numbers motivate you more than streaks, read about the best sudoku apps with stats, and every other matchup is on the comparisons page.