SmartFriends vs Unciphered
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartFriends
Engage in daily brain training challenges with friends to boost cognitive skills. Compete in IQ tests covering logic, spatial reasoning, and number sequences. Track progress and climb leaderboards in a fun, competitive environment.
- Daily IQ challenges
- Logic puzzles
- Spatial reasoning tests
- Number sequence problems
- Leaderboard competition
- Score sharing
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Tired of endless scrolling and mindless TV? Time to switch your brain back on. With SmartFriends, you train your brain every day — and more importantly, in a fun way. Why fun? Because you do it together with friends. That keeps you motivated. ••• Only for real smarties ••• One IQ challenge every day. The same for everyone. Logic, spatial reasoning, number sequences, and more. No excuses. No distractions. Just you versus the brainteaser. Beat your friends and climb the leaderboard. Solved it? Share your score and challenge them. That healthy competition keeps you coming back. Get smarter. Download SmartFriends. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Unciphered
Decode hidden proverbs by solving cryptograms where letters correspond to numbers. Solve crossword-style clues to reveal letters that fill in the entire puzzle. Enjoy daily puzzles, track your progress, and collect solved wisdom.
- Daily cryptogram puzzles
- Crossword-style clue solving
- Offline play
- Progress tracking
- Journal of solved proverbs
- Accessibility features
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A proverb is hiding on every board. Each letter became a number — the same number always hides the same letter — and the way in is through the clues: solve a small crossword-style clue, and every letter you prove fills in across the whole puzzle. Piece by piece, the hidden phrase comes back into the light. Unciphered is free to play from start to finish. Optional extras: coin packs, and The Wisdom Collection — four harder chapters, 80 more phrases — a one-time purchase, kept forever. ONE PUZZLE EVERY DAY A fresh cryptogram each day keeps your streak alive, and a two-week calendar lets you go back for days you missed. Filling in the past pays coins and completes the calendar — but the streak only counts the days you truly showed up. QUESTS THAT EARN SECRET LEVELS Finish the day's small quests — the daily plus a level you've never solved — and you earn one of the hidden levels, yours to keep forever. A JOURNAL OF DECODED WISDOM Every phrase you solve is saved with a short, true fact about where it came from. The journal becomes your own collection of proverbs, one solve at a time. MADE TO BE COMFORTABLE • Works completely offline — planes, trains, anywhere • No account, no sign-up, nothing to configure • Full VoiceOver support, large text sizes, Reduce Motion • Light and dark, on iPhone and iPad • Hints when you want them: reveal a letter or a whole word Unciphered is free to play from start to finish. Optional extras: coin packs, 4 harder bonus chapters, 80 new phrases, a one-time purchase kept forever).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Unciphered at none against SmartFriends's shown. Unciphered also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). SmartFriends's advantage is ratings volume (138 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. SmartFriends sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Unciphered sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Unciphered holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartFriends has 138 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of SmartFriends's written reviews are positive against 100% of Unciphered's.
SmartFriends ships an update every 2 weeks, Unciphered every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartFriends | Unciphered |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (138 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 138 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmartFriends B.V. | Ahmed ElGhoroury |
Customer experience
SmartFriends
Unciphered
Bugs and requests
SmartFriends
Reported bugs
5 issues- App not loading puzzles
- Diagrams not accessible with screen readers
- Glitchy when enlarging challenge images
- Issues with lifetime access purchases
- Landscape mode for larger images when app is portrait only
Requested features
7 requests- Fix advertisements interrupting gameplay
- Improve puzzle logic and presentation
- Enhance graphics clarity (e.g., yellow on white)
- Make puzzles more varied and adult-oriented
- Improve accessibility for visually impaired users (diagram descriptions)
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- Allow larger puzzle/choice display in portrait mode
- Make the app free or more accessible without constant purchases
Unciphered
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SmartFriends
- Premium Special Offer!3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Premium Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$4.491 Month
- Free Trial | Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.491 Month
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- Premium Special Offer!3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Premium Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Free Trial | Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- 3 x genius challenges$0.99
- 10 x genius challenges$2.49
- Tip 1$4.99
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- Tip 3$14.99
Unciphered
- Coins 100$0.99
- Coins 350$2.99
- Premium chapters$4.99
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- Coins 800$5.99









