Clue Notepad vs Detective Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clue Notepad
This app helps board game enthusiasts track deductions, player actions, and guess history to solve mysteries faster. It offers pre-made templates for popular editions and allows custom creation, with privacy features to keep your strategy hidden.
- Smart note-taking for card elimination and theories
- Player tracking for 2-10 players
- Guess history recording
- Statistics dashboard for solution spotting
- 100+ ready-to-play game templates
- Custom template creation and sharing
- Privacy features like grayscale mode and face-down detection
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The ultimate companion app for Clue and Cluedo board game fans! Never lose track of your deductions again. Clue Notepad helps you organize your notes, track players, and solve the mystery faster than ever. KEY FEATURES Smart Note-Taking - Mark cards as eliminated, in your hand, or suspicious - Cycle through states with a single tap - Write free-form notes for your theories Player Tracking - Configure 2 to 10 players - Track who showed which cards - Visual badges show card ownership at a glance Guess History - Record every guess made during the game - See who showed a card for each guess - Identify critical guesses where nobody showed Statistics Dashboard - View remaining possibilities per category - Spot the possible solution quickly - Find critical guesses that might crack the case 100+ Ready-to-Play Templates - Classic Clue and international editions - Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars - Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Office - Stranger Things, Scooby-Doo, and many more - Search and download with one tap Create Your Own - Build custom templates for any edition - Share templates with friends - Import templates from other players Privacy Features - Discrete grayscale mode hides your colorful notes - Face-down detection hides the screen automatically - Keep your strategy secret from prying eyes Perfect for game nights, family gatherings, and competitive play. Download now and become the ultimate detective!
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 review sentiment: Detective Notes at 72% against Clue Notepad's 0%. Detective Notes also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.7 vs 3.0). Clue Notepad's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Detective Notes is free to download; Clue Notepad costs $0.99 up front. Clue Notepad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Detective Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Detective Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Detective Notes has 218 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Clue Notepad's written reviews are positive against 72% of Detective Notes's.
Clue Notepad ships an update every 2 days, Detective Notes every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Clue Notepad | Detective Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (218 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 72.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 218 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruno Goncalves | Kyeong Cheon Yang |
Customer experience
Clue Notepad
Detective Notes
Bugs and requests
Clue Notepad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Clue Notepad
- Remove ads$0.99
Detective Notes
- No Ads$3.99
