Comparison

Same Same vs Clue are you?

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Same Same

This educational app helps children aged 1.5 and up develop visual perception, language, and fine motor skills through matching identical items. It offers a fun, simple, and safe learning environment with progressively challenging levels.

Highlights
  • Matching identical items
  • Develops visual perception
  • Enhances language skills
  • Improves fine motor skills
  • Progressively challenging levels
  • Safe for children
  • Progress tracking for teachers/therapists
Features
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- Full version. - No in-app purchases. - No ads. - Safe for kids. Welcome to “Same Same”. This educational app is designed for children aged 1.5 and above. Here children can learn to match identical items. It is fun, and it helps them develop visual perception skills, language skills, and fine motor skills. STEP BY STEP is a professional EdTech studio that focuses on developing educational apps for children aged 1 to 5 years old. During these critical years, children enter a new learning stage every few months. Our apps support and strengthen the development of crucial skills for each learning stage. This way we guide your children, step by step, throughout this entire age range. Our key values are perfection and simplicity. We believe that small details make a big difference, so we give great attention to every detail — both in content and design. Most importantly, we keep our apps simple — simple to understand and simple to use. While playing our games, children will engage in simple activities, such as matching, pairing, ordering, grouping, and sorting. This allows them to practice essential skills, such as: categorization, conceptualization, generalization, abstraction, memory, language, math, visual perception, fine motor, accuracy, attention, and focus. They will learn about shapes, colors, animals, fruit, vegetables, clothing, tools, vehicles, furniture, professions, toys, etc., — all while playing. The levels are generally arranged by difficulty. The first levels are usually quite simple — their main objective is to teach players critical thinking and problem solving. However, the exercises become increasingly challenging as the child advances within the game. Our applications avoid distractions such as popups, unnecessary animation, and noisy feedback. We keep our applications safe for children — no advertisements, no unsafe links to external content, no popups, etc. Furthermore, our experience indicates that our apps can be very helpful for children with special-needs¹, and that they can function as useful tools in both speech-language therapy² and in occupational therapy³. In addition, our apps have been found useful for adults with disabilities or dementia⁴. For this reason, we added two important features: the first one was designed for teachers, therapists, and speech pathologists, which allows them to track the progress of their students; the second feature makes our apps also accessible for users with disabilities, and on this matter we would like to thank the Technology Consulting Center at “Beit Issie Shapiro”⁵ for their professional guidance and consultation regarding accessibility. ________ ¹ Special needs - Learning difficulties due to learning disabilities, communication disabilities, emotional or behavioural disorders, physical disabilities and/or developmental disabilities, which may be caused by Autism (Autistic Spectrum Disorders), Down Syndrome, Dyslexia, Tourette Syndrome, etc. ² Speech-language therapy - Treatment of communication disorders by speech-language pathologists (SLP). ³ Occupational therapy (OT) - Treatment meant to develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills for people with a physical, mental or developmental condition. ⁴ Dementia -  A condition caused by brain injury (BI), brain damage or brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Lewy bodies (DLB), Vascular dementia, etc. ⁵ "Beit Issie Shapiro" is a leading non-profit organization that develops therapies for people with disabilities, and also acts as a ‘Special Consultant’ to the United Nations.

About

Clue are you?

This app helps children build reading comprehension and inference abilities by solving mysteries. Users read clues within texts to identify hidden characters across four difficulty levels. It supports bilingual play in English and French and offers text-to-speech functionality.

Highlights
  • Develop reading comprehension
  • Enhance inference skills
  • Mystery character identification
  • Four difficulty levels
  • Bilingual support (English/French)
  • Text-to-speech option
Features
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Clue are you? is a quick and easy-to-use application designed to help children develop reading comprehension and inference skills. The child must use the clues found in the texts to discover mystery characters. Four difficulty levels are available: • Level 1: Sentences are simple and short. Clues are specific. • Level 2: Sentence structures are complex. Clues are specific. • Level 3: Sentence structures are complex. Simple inference skills are needed in order to understand the clues. • Level 4: Clues are presented in short texts containing distractors (misleading elements or incorrect options). Sentence structures are complex. Simple inferences need to be made in order to understand the clues. Sentences can be read by the child or through text-to-speech. The app is bilingual. You can work in English or French. Available on iPad.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Same Same at none against Clue are you?'s 10. Same Same also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Clue are you?'s advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clue are you? sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Same Same asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clue are you? holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Same Same has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Same Same ships an update every 2 months, Clue are you? every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Same Same versus Clue are you?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSame SameClue are you?
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB260 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTEP BY STEPDomino (apps)

Customer experience

Same Same

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Clue are you?

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Same Same

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Clue are you?

One-time10
  • Aliens Board$4.99
  • Monsters Board$4.99
  • Knights Board$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Witches Board$4.99
  • Pirates Board$4.99
  • Clowns Board$4.99
  • Snowmen Board$4.99
  • Aliens+Robots+Monsters+Knights$17.99
  • Pirates+Clowns+Witches+Snowmen$17.99
  • Complete Board Set$24.99

Questions

Is Same Same free?
Same Same is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clue are you? free?
Clue are you? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Same Same or Clue are you??
Clue are you? is rated higher. Same Same averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Clue are you? averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Same Same or Clue are you? have ads?
Neither Same Same nor Clue are you? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Same Same or Clue are you??
Same Same ships an update every 2 months, and Clue are you? every 5 months. Most recently, Same Same was updated on November 2, 2026 and Clue are you? on November 2, 2026.

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