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Kakuro App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ No hard levelsPlease reinstate the harder levels !!! Better options out there if they are not re introduced.Version: 3.05
✓ Was pleased, now I’m a hostage to a crap updateI used to use this app pretty often, and I was really good at it. I purchased it when it was new in 2009. The latest update added ads, the “option” to update to pro; which I would assume is ad-free, but does nothing. So instead I’m forced to watch ads that i can’t click out of and mess with my timing on the app. Then there’s the lack of responsiveness on the app. It went from a fully functioning touch screen to smaller buttons and slow responses. For instance, when clicking a number triangle you see the options but you can’t click the done button because they decreased the size of clickable area and get stuck clicking it a few times until released. I used to enjoy this app but I won’t use it again until they fix this terrible update.Version: 3.03
✓ Doesn't work anymoreSince 2 updates ago, this app doesn't work. I paid for something that doesn't work and that it has advertising. Awful..Version: 2.66
✓ Only 8x8 available in master levelCan't figure out why the only board size in master level is 8x8. I've beat over 100 games in very hard and 48 in master. Maybe I need to hit 200 in each before they will unlock. Also my rating hasn't moved from '6' in almost a year. Yet I've beat about 125 games at least in the past year, avg of 16,000 per game..Version: 2.60
✓ InterestingNot played this game before. Found it a bit difficult to move initially. Prefer sudoko.Version: 0
✓ Not as good as his WM versionI played and played mastersofts WM version of Kakuro. So when I saw it on iTunes I was in without hesitation and I think I got burnt. Firstly, in the possible numbers the WM version would remember previous filters whilst you toggled back and forth between the grid and the list - this version does not. Secondly, again in WM, if you checked for wrong numbers and had none you were not penalised in your score - this version wipes out your score. Sorry, but until these are fixed I will not even be trying his Suduko implementation..Version: 0
✓ What the hell?I bought this app at full price and now I've got to put up with pop ups after the update. I'll have my money back then please. :(.Version: V2.62
✓ RubbishDon't buy it. Worked for an hour. Now I get thrown out after title screen. No updates. No response from reporting the problem twice!.Version: 0
✓ Update has blown itNow only get a black screen with numbers!.Version: 3.04
✓ KakuroDo not waste your money on this game. I have not even been able to play it once. I’ve tried several times to delete and download the game and nothing changes. I am very disappointed that I wasted my money and time on this..Version: 3.04
✓ Looks good but crashes and slow.The app looks good and overall, it's a good concept for the money, but the UI is slow to respond and after a game or two, the app starts to crash. eventually you cannot recover and end up having to reload it (losing all of your progress). I have gotten so frustrated with it that I'm beginning to look at other apps. Hopefully, the developers will improve in later versions. Too bad you can't get refunds..Version: 2.50
✓ Zero StarsAnother app gone bad. Great you decided to make this app free but then you go and add ADS! What about those of us that paid for this?? That's like a great big f you to your customers. Icon is not retina and neither are the buttons. Looks like trash. Stay clear of this garbage and this greedy developer. IT'S APPS LIKE THIS THAT MAKE ME HESITANT ON BUYING ANY APP FROM THE APP STORE..Version: V2.62
✓ Problem with IOS 8I have spent many happy hours playing this puzzle, sadly it no longer works under IOS 8. It won't allow me to create new games. Please fix..Version: V2.62
✓ Great, but with a bugI like this app, but if you are using and iOS interrupts it for anything (a call, an alert etc) it reverts back to the last time the app was started, losing all progress. As such, I have to regularly leave the app and go back in to act as a 'save point'. Frustrating..Version: 2.66
✓ Simply unworkableWhen it works it's fine, but mine lasted less than a month before it stopped opening. So rubbish. Don't buy it..Version: 2.50
✓ Too many crashesI love this game but this app has tons of crashes. Right now I can't even get back into the game after solving a puzzle. VERY FRUSTRATING!!.Version: 0
✓ Crash bigtime!I bought the game and played it a bit and enjoyed it. Now when I click on the game it brings it up for 2 seconds and kicks me out. I can't play at all. I'm very disappointed with it..Version: 2.50
✓ FrustratedEvery other button I pushed took me to an ad. Not a bad layout. Not intuitive..Version: 3.04
✓ Ruined by updatesThe previous update to this game has turned what was the best kakuro app for almost a decade into a borderline unplayable mess. And the latest update takes away features while changing nothing else. First, the new color scheme and “flat” look is hideously ugly. It’s also less usable—a touch interface with tons of fiddly little buttons crammed onto the screen really needs visible borders. (Imagine the iPhone keyboard without the white squares around the keys.) Second, there’s now a banner ad on the bottom, right where you want to click to unselect the current selection. For a game that I paid for (even if the paid version was merged with the free version a few years ago), this is especially unacceptable. Third, it now randomly pops up intrusive ads. Worst of all, it keeps trying to get me to pay for a “Pro” upgrade. (I have no idea what’s included in “Pro”, but whatever it is, I haven’t needed it for the past decade.) It sometimes even spontaneously triggers a payment confirmation that I have to cancel. Presumably the interface tricked me into clicking a “Upgrade” button that appears under my finger when I’m trying to click something else, or something like that. But however they’re doing it, it’s not just seriously unethical, and annoying, but also a serious violation of Apple’s rules. So, what improvements do we get to compensate for all these downgrades? Not a single one of the features people had requested over the past decade (like an easier way to mark the board and rewind to an earlier mark) has been added. They did finally fix the bug where, on any screen bigger than an iPhone 4, there’s a dead space on the top and bottom that can crash the game if you accidentally click it. But because they filled that dead space with a banner ad that pops open an ad page in Safari if you accidentally click it, this isn’t really an improvement. I wish I could go back to the previous version. A new version came out at some point, and I upgraded hoping it would solve some of the problems. But I’ll never find out, because it disabled enough features that it’s not worth even trying. You can’t even start a game above medium difficulty anymore. So now, it’s gone from a game I pick up every once in a while when I’m not too annoyed to deal with the frustrations to one that I will never even think about playing. Nice job ruining it for good..Version: 3.05
✓ Won’t work on my iPhoneIt used to work and now it won’t load so I can’t play anymore..Version: 3.04
✓ Mastersoft KakuroThis is not the game for you if you're a Kakuro beginner like me. I'll keep working with it knowing I will approve. If I known how frustrating it was before I paid money for it I would be rethinking it! Barbcarreras.Version: 0
✓ Waste of a downloadTerrible app. I downloaded, and could not even see what I was doing. Just saw numbers on a black screen and big ads at the bottom. Not user friendly at all..Version: 3.04
✓ Not goodTo many bugs, had to reload four deleting scores..Version: 0
✓ MrWhy have I started getting extremely annoying ads pop up. Excellent until this started happening!.Version: V2.62
✓ Crashes and doesn't save progress.Current version of the game is unplayable. It's had these problems before but not as frequently. When it works, it's great, but I can't recommend this at all until some critical fixes are made..Version: 2.12
✓ Poor choiceI have over 800 master puzzles solved and you lot cut me down to medium 8 - pathetic.Version: 3.05
✓ Not as good as the older versionThe # buttons are too small (especially the 1 & 9), so you easily hit the wrong # out miss the #’s which takes you to different field. I wish I never upgraded this or paid for the upgrade.Version: 3.00
✓ Not the bestCrashes frequently, wiping out game progress. The UI is unfriendly with unlabelled options that are not obvious and can be unresponsive. The calculator is fiddly to use and almost impossible to select the combination you want without it jumping to an adjacent one. Logic of the game is fine but the interface and reliability make it too annoying to persist with..Version: 2.12
✓ LevelsI have been playing this for some time choosing the hard or very hard levels. For some reason, the highest level I can now play is medium. How do you get to play the higher levels.Version: 3.05
✓ OopsYour recent update has resulted in disaster. It doesn’t fit screen and the grid is missing. None of the buttons respond.Version: 3.00
✓ Do Not BuyDon't waste your time and money on this app. It's not optimized for retina display so therefore it's extremely blurry. It's 2012 FFS, app developers need to optimize their apps for retina display. The only way they're going to stop being lazy and do this is if people STOP BUYING apps that aren't optimized..Version: 2.60
✓ Lots of Crashes. Slow.As many of the other reviews have said, this app crashes a lot. It started when iOS4 came out, and the release that supposedly "fixed" the app for iOS4 crashed a lot and the UI is really slow to respond. I haven't yet tried other Kakuro apps to recommend a better choice, but I'm downloading a couple now. If you can deal with the slow UI (it's sometimes a whole second between when you touch the screen and the corresponding action), there *is* a way to get around the crashes: Basically the game crashes at the end of any game if the app has gone into background mode any time during the game. So, if you have to background the game, before going back to the app double-click the home button to get at the task manager, then hold on the kakuro app until the minus sign appears, and click it to delete the running instance. The next time you open it, you will have lost your history, but it will also not crash if you get the end of the game. I'm rating this low for app brokenness and lack of responsiveness by the developer. If they cared, this game would be fixed by now. But I still play it, so I can't in good conscience give it only one star..Version: 2.50
✓ It worked great until . . .It worked great until this most recent update. Then it crashed often, frequently just at the last move. Then when the app was restarted, it lost most of the progress i'd made. now it just crashes right after the first animation screen. does anyone know how i can revert to the older version..Version: 0
✓ Game destroyedThe latest update adds adverts to a game that was previously paid for. I didn’t clone my old phone to this new one, & cannot start at master level on this new version, but would need to complete many games from the EASY level on. The old version allowed this. As such UNPLAYABLE! DON’T UPGRADE..Version: 3.00
✓ WAS good, now lousy with adsI'm a long time user, and really appreciate what you did with this app. But I paid for it, and your "now totally free" update gives me the unpaid treatment. I now won't use it on general principles. I also will be wary of any app produced by your studio. Thanks for treating your real customers with no respect - your actions will be remembered..Version: V2.62
✓ CrashesWould be great if it didn't crash all the time!.Version: 2.50
✓ Terrible presentation, decent gameKakuro itself is a fun game, and the implementation here would be fine, if less than great, if not for a truly awful navigation systems (setting preferences is in exercise in frustration) & occasional crashes. If you want to play kakuro, there are certainly better apps available..Version: 0
✓ Good game but unstableI enjoy cross sums and thought this app looked promising for the price. It's nice when it works, but seems unstable with random crashes (iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.1) which occasionally cause loss of work..Version: 2.50
✓ Just CrashesOn my iPhone for several months now. Started out ok, then crashes started to creep in, often on the last square which is highly frustrating. Now it just crashes every time I load the game.... opening screen... then dump. Needs to be removed from the App Store..Version: 2.50
✓ BrokenDoes not work.Version: 3.04
✓ ?Doesn't work anymore..Version: 2.66
✓ DisappointingI did not enjoy this app at all, the layout is horrible, there is no options to allow column and row numbers to be displayed, I could not work my way around the menus and all the buttons..Version: V2.62
✓ UI needs some workDisappointed by the UI - not very slick. Some of the options are impossible to change, e.g. turning the sound off. There is a button to turn the sound off but no visual clue - that you actually successfully have turned the sound off (e.g. like a checkmark). The buttons on the main screen are small and it is not obvious what they stand for..Version: 0
✓ Lots of crashesUpdate - finally working in iOS8, which is great, but back to being unstable. Crashes constantly. A great game if the developers would just keep it working and bug free. ------- My earlier review is below, but this has now stopped working in iOS8. None of the buttons in the Tools menu, including "Start a new game" is responsive. ------- I had regular crashes with earlier versions, as well as the occasional algorithm problem causing unsolvable puzzles (yes, I'm sure). Latter problem was solved in the previous release, and the former in v2.6. Stable & playable, finally. Great app..Version: 2.65
✓ Can’t even input numbers!And so clunky! Clumsy, badly thought out app. Pity as the game Kakuro is good on paper..Version: 3.04
✓ Difficult but not challenging (paradoxical but true)After using the Mensa book of Kakuro for many months, I thought this version would be a good challenge. What's interesting is that it is very difficult, but not in a logical way. There are very few clues within the sums themselves, which means you have to "guess" and see where it leads. Consequently, I stopped using it, because like some ubiquitous versions of Sudoku, I'd rather use logical reasoning than take guesses..Version: 0
✓ Things no longer work properly.I regularly get in game errors which immediately shut down game the game. When game is restarted numbers from previous games have been inserted into the puzzle and delete functions no longer work. You then have to start a new puzzle or individually delete numbers 1 by 1..Version: V2.62
✓ Well done but disappointingWell I played with it for a while and it's very enjoyable but now when I try to open it, it crashes instantly... I hope this gets fixed soon otherwise it's money down the drain....Version: 2.50
✓ Stopped workingI updated yesterday to the new system but now it doesn't work. Too bad, it's my fave game app..Version: V2.62
✓ Stuck in the help section...So, I just needed to check something in the 'help' section, and there is no button to get back to the game. Stuck here now... not cool. Help please!.Version: 0
✓ Worst updateActually hate them for updating this... was in my opinion one of the best kakuro games before via layout and design. Now the buttons are harder to hit, can’t visually see which are hit or not unless you strain your eyes, the timer isn’t working properly now either. So trying to improve to beat my time on master difficulty is basically null and void until they fix it. Also now the only way to not have the apparently 6 second win time on the difficulty is to reset my statistics beating the whole point of trying to improve my record....Version: 3.00
✓ RubbishDon't buy it - I've been doing Kakuro for a few years and buy books to do on holiday. These are not puzzles - they are totally impossible to solve other than trial and error so have no merit..Version: 0
✓ Update makes the game even harderSince the update the game is now even harder. Even the easy-level puzzles are now almost unsolvable for newer players. It was already very difficult but now it's just frustrating. While the layouts and help functions are very nice (this app is the closest to Dell Cross Sums puzzles that I've found in the app store) it has still become very annoying. Best Kakuro app but there aren't many out there. Easing-up the difficulty levels would be a big help!.Version: 0
✓ BAD Logic!The previous two reviewers have it just right, thank you to both of them! This is a subtle point, so stick with me a moment, its important to enjoyment. If I had only tried this one Kakuro app, I'd concluded that I do not like the game itself, which I know from Games Magazine as cross-sums. I loved the game in Games. The trouble is the puzzle constructed by this app are ambiguous. I suppose they have a unique solution, but somehow the game play requires too much investigation of alternative moves. When I first read this, I thought that the players were just not thinking ahead. Well, maybe, but I join them in saying this is not fun. I had lots of fun before on paper, in Games, and they publish challenging stuff... I realize now I love the game: I bought Kakuro Mania. Fewer features by far, but it has all I need, all on a single screen, very nice interface, and the puzzle play is entirely by logic. It's now fun again, even at the hard levels. If the developer here figures out how to construct true logic puzzles, then he already has some dynamite features, his calculator is very fine. But I'm discarding his app, I don't need frustration, I do love brain play. I'm not talking here about difficulty level, as I said this is a subtle point, it's about ambiguity and frustration. I'm happy now, just wanted to pass my discovery along to you..Version: 0
✓ Do not upgrade to V3!After happily playing V2 for years, I upgraded to V3 which was supposed to include unspecified improvements. Big mistake. V3 is now full of ads. To get rid of ads, you must upgrade to PRO version. I figured I can pay $3.99 for an app that I use almost daily and get rid of the bloody ads. So, I upgraded to V3 PRO. Another big mistake! I lost all the progress stats I had accrued over the years playing the regular version! Goodbye Level 4th Nanadan! Pro app even tells me that I cannot even select to play an Easy Kakuro because I have not reached that level yet! Very displeased. Will never download another Mastersoft app ever..Version: 3.00
✓ Kakuro v2Would be good if it didn't crash so often. I was hoping the authors would fix this as this has been happening for over a year now. Seems they don't realty care Very disappointing as it's a great game..Version: 2.50
✓ Bug found when using iOS 8 on iPhone 6I've been playing this game for many years and have loved it. It's the best kakuru app I've found. It has worked perfectly on every iPhone I've had and every software update. However since getting the new iPhone 6 with iOS 8, it's now unplayable. The app opens fine but when I click to start a new game it won't do it. Please update or provide a fix for loyal players. Thanks:).Version: V2.62
✓ Crashes bit I still like itI love the game anyway and this is a good version it's just a shame that it crashes a lot sometimes losing the game in play.Version: 2.50
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