Sudoku Publisher (BETA)
Sudoku-Puzzle Generator
aka Number Place or 数独

Available for Macintosh (SOON)
Intel or Apple Silicon, macos 10.14 or newer


Overview Video Pricing & Download Features What's New Screen Shots Testimonials/Publications Help/FAQ/More... Future Press Kit More Software Contact
 

Sudoku Publisher is in Beta Testing

This software is being built, and should be available soon...
"how soon? Very soon"* (Romancing the Stone)

(ETA - Q1 2026)
 

Overview: What is "Sudoku Publisher"?

Quickly build and export unlimited numbers of unique high-quality Sudoku puzzles and their solutions, customized for your classroom, web-site, or for selling in your publications. Sudoku Publisher offers you many different puzzle types, sizes and difficulty levels. Add your own signature style with different fonts, colors and digit styles.

Easily publish your puzzles to a newsletter, web site, or your own books. All your puzzles are yours to distribute and sell royalty-free; No commercial license is needed. Your puzzles and information stay on your computer. All of this with no ads, no subscription fees, no internet log-ins, no sudden updating costs. Ever.

Each puzzle created by Sudoku Publisher is guaranteed to have only one correct solution. Many other Sudoku software applications have limited ways to make their puzzles for you. With Sudoku Publisher there are no repeated or recycled puzzles—a uniquely different puzzle is generated every time. Each puzzle comes with its own unique serial number, guaranteeing that each puzzle is different. Sudoku Publisher is delightfully easy to use, and your audience will appreciate the craft and care designed into your puzzles.

This software has been carefully researched and hand-crafted by me to help you create professional-looking Sudoku puzzles.


Fully Featured - The Full version offers many board styles like Standard Square, Flower, Twodoku, and many sizes from 3x3 up to 15x15 (Click here for pricing and download link)


Try it First - There is a "Lite" version of this software that you can download and use for free before you buy it. (Click here for free download link)

 

Pricing & Download

Lite Software

Full Software

User Guide

Free

Click the image below to download free from the App Store:



or, click the image below to download free directly from my web site:


Do you wish to try it first before you buy it? You can download and use this "Lite" version of the application for free.

$19.99 USD

Click the image below to purchase from the App Store:



All future updates are free.

Free

Click the image below to download the free 60+ page User Guide:


If you want to look over the complete user guide that comes with the software, it is separately and freely available here too, as a PDF document.


Full/Lite Differences

Here are the differences between the Full and Lite software applications:

 

Features

Sudoku Publisher is a rather impressive puzzle-generator. Compare these features against any sudoku building software you are using now...

  • Easily create one, or dozens, or hundreds of wildly unique sudoku puzzles.
  • Each puzzle is randomly generated for you so every one will be unique. The puzzles are not re-copied from some other source.
  • Puzzles can range from 3x3 up to 15x15 cells.
  • You can choose different symbols for the cell digits: 1-9 (Arabic), Alphabetic (A-Z), Asian numbers (Kanji), Greek, Elder Futhark.
  • Choose different cell shading options and different line widths and colors for cells and boxes.
  • "Daily Puzzle" feature lets you create a random-synchronized puzzle. It will be the same as everyone else's Sudoku Publisher "Daily Puzzle" around the world on that day.
  • Add puzzle labels for rows and columns, or a legend under the puzzle to list the available symbols (digits) used.
  • Easily change the puzzle difficulty. Simply move a slider from "very easy" to "very hard", without worrying about all the details of how it works.
  • Turn on "Advanced" mode to gain extra features, like choosing how many givens to use, and whether to make beautifully mirrored patterns with the givens.
  • Turn on "Progress Animation" to watch the puzzle get built, step by step.
  • Easy printing of the puzzle and/or solution right to your printer.
  • Export high-quality images of your puzzles and solutions for layout/publishing in your own books, newsletters, social media/web/blog, games, classroom handouts, etc. Supports PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG file formats.
  • Save a "snapshot" your custom layout settings so you can instantly build other puzzles with the same "look".
  • Sudoku puzzles will always be built with only one guaranteed solution and a unique serial number.
  • Supports Dark Mode and Full-Screen mode.
  • Save your puzzles files and share them with other Sudoku Publisher users, or open them again later to edit them to create whole new puzzles.
  • Comprehensive built-in 60+ page User Guide, containing tutorials and tips and describing every option, getting you up-to-speed right away. Advanced features are explained, helping you create high-quality and uniquely personalized sudoku puzzles.


Freedom to Publish, Transparency, Craftsmanship, Security, Privacy

  • All the puzzles you create are 100% yours to publish and sell; no copyright restrictions or restrictive "commercial use" clauses here.
  • Buy this software once and it is yours forever. You get all future new features and updates free. No upgrade costs or "subscription/rental" fees. Ever.
  • No ads to distract you from enjoying the software.
  • This software was completely and carefully hand-designed and written by me. No A.I. toys were allowed anywhere near this software.
  • Your work is safely yours and always stays on your computer. You are never required to create internet accounts, and none of your information is ever stored in the cloud.

 

What's New

1.0.0 - COMING IN Q1 2026

It's 1.0, so everything is new!

 

Screen Shots

 

Testimonials

People are quite excited about what they can make with this software:

  • saved my bacon -- Porky

Publications using Sudoku Publisher

(Please contact me if you want to have your product/book/site added to this list!)

 

Help & FAQ & More Info


Q: Do you offer a free version of this software, so I can try it out first?
A: Yes! Please see the link
Pricing & Download above.
Q: Can I make my own commercial puzzle book with these mazes and sell my book without royalty or copyright issues?
A: Yes you can... Any puzzles you create using my software are completely yours to give away or sell. I don't require royalty payments or "commercial rights" forms, you don't even need to mention my software in your product.
Q: Can I save the puzzles as PDF (or SVG or PNG) files instead of printing them?
A: Yes you can... Open your puzzle in Sudoku Publisher and choose the "File:Export:" menu and choose to export just the puzzle and solution key as your favorite file format.
Q: If I save a puzzle document, then later re-open it, will it keep the same solution?
A: Yes, if you open a saved document, it will be laid out exactly the same way that you saved it.
Q: Do you embed ads in your software?
A: Never. None of my software will ever have ads.
Q: Do you limit how many puzzles can be created in your software?
A: Never. My software will always allow you to make as many as you need, forever.
Q: Does your software run on Windows, Linux/Android, iPad/iPhone?
A: No. As just one person I focus on delivering the best 'native' product on one platform.
Q: Is this an interactive game I play on the computer?
A: Not really, this is designed to print puzzles and their solutions, or export them as image files. However, you can generate a puzzle and display the candidates and the steps to solve on-screen.
Q: Will this software get new features and bug fixes?
A: Yes, for free. People will sometimes e-mail me with a suggestion, feature, or bug report, and I do my best to update the software as quickly as I can.

Read the Software Privacy Policy Here

 

What is next?

Well, what would YOU like? If you let me know what things you would like to see next, and I will add them to my to-do list for the next update!

 

Contact Me

Although I am always working on interesting projects "in the lab", I love sharing knowledge and comparing notes too.

If you have any questions, feedback, requests, or just want to say hi, please do!

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