Box Brain Sudoku
Read aloud
No screen reader needed: the app speaks the selected cell and each move with your phone's voice. Hold a cell to hear its row, column and box.
Accessibility
Sudoku you can play by ear, by touch or at any size.
Box Brain Sudoku works with VoiceOver from the first screen to the last digit. There is help for low vision, colour blindness, hearing loss and motion sensitivity too, and every bit of it is free.
Quick setup
Set the app up for how you see and hear it. You can change any of this later in Settings.
I am blind or have low visionTurns on Read aloud, sounds, haptics and large digits.
I am colour blindAdds shapes to the board, so nothing depends on telling colours apart.
Offered on the very first screen of the app, on Home, and in Settings › Accessibility.
- Free for everyoneEvery accessibility feature, Read aloud and braille sheets are in the free app. Never behind a paywall.
- Easy to findOne tap on the first screen sets it all up. No digging through menus.
- In your languageEvery label and reading in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Korean.
VoiceOver
Hear the board
With VoiceOver, every cell says where it is, what it holds and the clues around it, like a Killer cage's total and how much it still needs. Swipe up or down on a cell for its actions: read its row, column or box, or enter, note and erase a digit, without seeing the board.
Try it here. Tap a cell or move with the arrow keys, then read a row, column or box. The words are the ones the app speaks.
| Swipe left or right | Moves from cell to cell and reads each one |
|---|---|
| Swipe up or down | Picks an action: Read row, Read column, Read box, a digit, or Erase |
| Double-tap | Does the action |
Hearing and seeing the board
Settings for every way you play
Turn on just what helps. Each one works on its own or with the others.
Large digits
Bigger numbers in the grid
Larger text and bold text
The app follows the text size, bold text and contrast set on your phone.
High Contrast skin
Black on white with bold lines and big digits. Free for everyone.
Shapes for colour blindness
A ring on the selected cell, dashed rings on hint cells and a symbol on each colour mark
Flash for sounds
The screen edge flashes on a mistake and when you finish a row, column, box or puzzle, with or without sound
Haptics
A light tap on each entry, a firmer one on a mistake, a double tap when you finish a row, column or box
Sound effects
Soft sounds for entries, mistakes and solves. Quiet when your phone is on silent.
Reduce Motion
Turn on Reduce Motion on your iPhone or iPad and the board stops sliding and bouncing. Everything still works the same.
Colour blindness
Shapes, not just colours
Nothing in the game depends on telling colours apart. Turn on shapes and the selected cell gets a ring, hint cells get dashed rings, and each colour mark carries its own symbol.
- A ring on the selected cell, not only a tint.
- Dashed rings show where a hint is pointing.
- A symbol on each colour mark, so marks read in any light.
Braille
Braille sheets, free for everyone
Make puzzles as a .brf file for a braille embosser or a braille display, or a PDF of raised dots for swell paper. Classic, Diagonal, Hyper and Anti-Knight, from easy to hard, each with its answer. In the app, or right here on the website.
Questions
Do I need Box Brain Pro for any of this?
No. Every accessibility feature, Read aloud and braille sheets are in the free version, and always will be.
Which modes work with VoiceOver?
All twelve. Each cell reads its own clues too: a Killer cage's total, arrows, thermometers, dots, greater-than signs, even and odd cells, and Sandwich sums.
Should I use Read aloud or VoiceOver?
Either. Read aloud is for when you want the board spoken but not the whole phone. When VoiceOver is on, Read aloud stays quiet so the two never talk over each other.
Where are the settings?
On the first screen when you open the app, on Home, and any time in Settings › Accessibility.
Is this website accessible too?
We build it to work with a keyboard and a screen reader, at any text size and with Reduce Motion. If anything gets in your way, please tell us.
Tell us what would help
Accessibility is never finished. If something is hard to use, or a feature would make the game better for you, we want to hear it.