Five Minute Dungeon Timer vs Detective Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Five Minute Dungeon Timer
This app acts as a timer for the 5-Minute Dungeon board game. It visually displays the remaining time and provides audio cues at key intervals, allowing players to fully immerse themselves in gameplay without needing to constantly check a separate timer.
- Displays time remaining
- Announces timer milestones
- Focuses gameplay
- Audio cues
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The 5-Minute Dungeon Timer App is designed to be used with the 5-Minute Dungeon board game. It displays the time remaining in the round and announces when the timer hits certain milestones, leaving players free to focus on playing the game.
Detective Notes
Organize clues, suspects, and locations to solve mysteries. Customize your detective notebook for any game, adjust player counts, and keep your strategies private. Features include marker variety and multilingual support.
- Customizable setup for suspects, tools, and locations
- Flexible player count adjustment
- Private note customization
- Variety of marker tools
- Multilingual support
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The perfect companion for your mystery board games — the detective notebook! Are you ready to take your deduction skills to the next level? This app helps you track clues, organize suspects, and solve mysteries with ease. • Customizable Setup: Add or edit suspects, tools, and locations to create your own unique detective notebook and share it with friends. • Flexible Player Count: Easily adjust the notebook to match the number of participants so you can enjoy the game anytime, anywhere. • Private Strategy: Customize or hide your notes for each game to keep your deductions secret from other players. • Marker Variety: Use a range of markers to help with your deduction process, undo mistakes, or reset everything with one tap. • Multilingual Support: Play and share your detective fun in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Now is the time to level up your detective game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Detective Notes at 4.7 against Five Minute Dungeon Timer's 3.3. Detective Notes also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 38%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). Five Minute Dungeon Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Detective Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Five Minute Dungeon Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Detective Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 135 and 217 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Five Minute Dungeon Timer's written reviews are positive against 72% of Detective Notes's.
Five Minute Dungeon Timer ships an update every 5 months, Detective Notes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Minute Dungeon Timer | Detective Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (135 ratings) | 4.7 (217 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.3% of reviews | 72.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 135 | 217 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wiggles 3D | Kyeong Cheon Yang |
Customer experience
Five Minute Dungeon Timer
Detective Notes
User reviews
Five Minute Dungeon Timer
From 135 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎭 Multiple entertaining narrator voices
- 🎵 Atmospheric background music enhances gameplay
- ⏱️ Functional timer mechanism
- 👍 Simple and easy-to-use interface
- 🎮 Adds excitement and tension to board game
Room to improve
- 🔊 Audio/sound not working on iPhone (most critical issue)
- 📱 Inconsistent audio across different iOS devices
- 🔇 Sound only works when device mute switch is OFF (poorly documented)
- 🔋 High battery consumption during use
- 📐 Poor iPhone X/XS/XR display support and optimization
Detective Notes
From 217 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 All-in-one solution for Clue
- 🚀 Makes Clue game more efficient
- 😍 Fun for playing with friends
- 👍 Great alternative to paper
- 😊 Fun for family game nights
Room to improve
- 🐛 Reset button stopped working
- 🐛 App blocks for days
- 🐛 Custom settings don't work
- 🐛 Ads not closable
- 🐛 Error on start, unusable
Bugs and requests
Five Minute Dungeon Timer
Reported bugs
10 issues- No audio output on iPhone devices (widespread and persistent)
- Audio stops working after first game or extended inactivity
- Sound incompatible with iPhone silent/mute switch (design flaw)
- Audio only functions with Bluetooth speakers on some iPhones
- App doesn't appear in phone settings on some devices
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- Timer acts sporadic and unreliable after recent updates
- Incompatibility with iPhone 6, 6s, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 11, 13 Pro, 14, XR
- Audio works on iPad but not on iPhone (device-specific issue)
- Audio broken after iOS updates (iOS 17.4.1, iOS 18)
- No sound on Android version despite working on other platforms
Requested features
12 requests- Allow sound to play in silent/mute mode like other apps
- Add more narrator voices and character variety
- Multiple different lines per narrator instead of repetitive phrases
- Dynamic music that intensifies as time runs out
- Background music during pauses or between rounds
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- Different narration for different game bosses/stages
- Personal best time tracking and win/loss ratio statistics
- Custom recording feature for personalized narration
- Full screen support for iPhone X and newer models
- Landscape mode optimization
- French, German, and Spanish narrator options
- Apple TV app version
Detective Notes
Reported bugs
8 issues- Reset button stopped working after update
- Application blocked for 3 days
- Custom setting does not work
- Ads are not closable, requires force close
- Error on main screen, cannot use app
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- Weapons and rooms categories select 2 rows at a time
- App broke when adding more custom suspects, weapons, rooms
- Harry Potter version shows 8 rooms instead of 9
Requested features
5 requests- Add numbering system for cells
- Allow multiple numbers per cell
- Add Harry Potter version rooms (9 rooms)
- Fix custom settings functionality
- Fix weapons and rooms category selection
In-app purchases
Five Minute Dungeon Timer
No in-app purchases
Detective Notes
- No Ads$3.99
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