Sudoku Publisher (BETA)
Sudoku-Puzzle Generator
a.k.a. Number Place or 数独

Available for Macintosh (SOON)
Intel or Apple Silicon, MacOS 12 (Monterey) 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 - Summer 2026)
 

Overview: What is "Sudoku Publisher"?

Create your own customized Sudoku puzzles for your friends, classroom, web-site, or for selling in your own books/publications. Choose from many different puzzle types, sizes and difficulty levels. Add your own signature style with different fonts, colors and digit styles. Step ahead of the crowd, your game never looked this good!


Sudoku Publisher offers you these great features:

  • A large variety of puzzle sizes and shapes, spiced up with your own colors and fonts.
  • Every puzzle you make is newly created, having only one solution and tailored to the difficulty level you choose.
  • They are all yours! Distribute and sell them all royalty-free; No commercial license is needed.
  • One-time purchase, no ads, no subscription fees, ever.
 

More Features

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


Unique

  • Every puzzle is generated from scratch with its unique "Puzzle ID"; No re-used copies here.
  • Puzzles always have one unique solution.


Variety

  • Choose from many puzzle types and sizes, from 3x3 up to 15x15, and Twodoku, Flower, and Gattai-3.
  • Dial in the difficulty from very easy (100) up to very hard (399).
  • Use digits other than 1-9; Roman alpha (A,B,C,D…), Oriental/Kanji numbers (一,二,三,四…), Greek Letters (α,β,γ,δ…), even Elder Futhark runes (ᛞ,ᛪ,ᛟ,ᛠ…).
  • Add symmetrical patterning to the layout of givens to add artistry to your puzzles.
  • Make a "Daily Puzzle" that is the same around the world for that day… make your own international competitions.


Elegant

  • Add a title, with magic macros that can auto-fill the puzzle size, today's date, etc. for you.
  • Choose different fonts, sizes, colors for the digits, title, labels, candidates.
  • Pick your favorite cell grid line widths, colors, as well as color shading style of the grid cells.
  • Save your best puzzles as documents (just like a word processor) for easy re-opening later or sending to other users.
  • Create and save a "template" or "look" of your document settings, and apply it to other puzzles for a consistent layout style.


Helpful

  • A quick intro/tutorial is always available.
  • Every menu, field and control has its own tooltip help.
  • An illustrated 60+ page user guide is included, offering tips, suggestions, and detailed information about every part of the software.
  • See a detailed list of every step needed to solve the puzzle.


Ornamental

  • Add customizable labels around the puzzle, inside boxes, or inside each cell.
  • Add candidates inside empty cells.
  • Add a legend of digit symbols under the puzzle in case you are using unusual symbols (e.g. Greek letters.)


Export Duty

  • High quality puzzle and solution files can be exported as PDF, PNG, SVG, JPEG, IPUZ, in a large range of image sizes, allowing high-quality import to your book, classroom, or web projects.
  • Quickly print the puzzle and/or solution right to your printer.
  • Puzzle can be copied as text to the clipboard, for quick copy/paste into other software, with popular formats supported (.ss, .sadman2, etc.)


Solid/Secure/Private

  • Your work is safely yours and always stays locally on your computer. You are never required to create internet accounts, and none of your information is ever sent into the cloud.
  • All the puzzles you create are 100% yours to publish and sell; No copyright restrictions or restrictive "commercial use" clauses here.
  • This software was completely and carefully hand-designed and written by me, line by line. No A.I. toys were allowed anywhere near this software.

 

Pricing & Download

Lite Software

Full Software

Pro Software

User Guide

Free


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

$19.99 USD


Click the image below to purchase from the App Store:



All future updates are free.

+$59.99 USD Upgrade

*coming soon*


"In-app" Upgrade: Add this package to get professional publishing features, after purchasing the Full software:

(Purchase this from within the Full application)



All future updates are free.

Free


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.

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


Full/Lite Differences

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

 

What's New

1.0.0 - COMING IN Summer 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? For free?
A: Yes! 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. New updates will get published to the App Store for you to get for free.

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!

Contact Me

 
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