Detective Doodle! vs Brain Detective
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Detective Doodle!
Unleash your inner detective by listening to clues and sketching the culprit. Solve puzzles and arrest all the bad guys by carefully reading each clue. This game challenges your observation and drawing skills.
- Listen to audio clues
- Sketch the culprit
- Solve puzzles
- Arrest bad guys
- Read clues carefully
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Show off your sketching skills and puzzle mastery in this brand new detective game! Listen to clues, sketch the culprit, then lock him behind bars! Can you use your brain to arrest all the bad guys? Remember to be careful and make sure you read all the clues carefully!
Brain Detective
Engage in a reasoning game that blends brain challenges with logic puzzles. Test your observation and deductive skills as you uncover hidden truths and make critical decisions to identify culprits or protect the innocent.
- Brain challenges
- Logic puzzles
- Deductive reasoning
- Observation skills
- Decision-making
- Mystery solving
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It is a reasoning game that combines brain challenges with logic puzzles, designed to test your observation, deductive reasoning, and decision-making skills. Initially, you play as a gifted detective apprentice, and your daily task is to discern who is an innocent good-hearted individual and who is hiding their malicious deeds. Some clues may appear insignificant on the surface, but through meticulous analysis and connections, they can reveal critical truths. Every choice you make influences the outcome, potentially allowing the culprit to escape or causing an innocent person to be wrongfully accused. Through relentless reasoning, you gradually grow into a master detective.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brain Detective at 3.2 against Detective Doodle!'s 2.2. Brain Detective also leads on review sentiment (18% vs 0%) and ratings volume (54 vs 10). Detective Doodle!'s advantage is update cadence (daily vs monthly) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brain Detective holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Detective has 54 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Detective Doodle!'s written reviews are positive against 18% of Brain Detective's.
Detective Doodle! ships an update daily, Brain Detective monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Detective Doodle! | Brain Detective |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (10 ratings) | 3.2 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 17.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 271 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Recapp Studios | 志强 蔺 |
Customer experience
Detective Doodle!
Brain Detective
Bugs and requests
Detective Doodle!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Brain Detective
Reported bugs
4 issues- Clues mix up rows and columns
- Unrecognizable hair color descriptions
- Similar names cause confusion
- Game gets stuck in an ad loop
Requested features
3 requests- Improve translation and accuracy of clues
- Increase text size for better readability
- Reduce the number of ads
In-app purchases
Detective Doodle!
No in-app purchases
Brain Detective
No in-app purchases
Questions
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