Comparison

Solver vs Clued Up

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

Head to head
About

Solver

This app acts as a digital assistant for the classic board game Clue. It helps players track suggestions and deductions to quickly solve the mystery, offering a fun and graphical way to manage game information.

Highlights
  • Track suggestions
  • Solve mysteries faster
  • Graphical assistant
  • Manage game information
  • Digital Clue helper
Features
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THIS IS NOT A GAME! Tired of that annoying sibling who always wins the classic board game Clue from Hasbro? Clue Solver helps you track of every suggestion to quickly solve the crime. The fun, graphical “assistant” helps you speed through solving the mystery. Clue is a trademark of Hasbro.

About

Clued Up

This app acts as an unofficial companion for the classic deduction game. It transforms your notes into a clear table, showing card ownership, suggestions, and likelihood of cards being in the envelope. It can also automatically deduce card locations, helping you win.

Highlights
  • Smart scorecard for Clue
  • Automatic card deduction
  • Supports numerous Clue editions
  • Customizable card sets
  • Cloud storage for custom editions
  • Visual card status indicators
Features
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Throw away your pads and pencils, Clued Up will make you a Clue champion. Clued Up transforms your messy notes into a crisp table, showing you for each card, at a glance: who’s holding it, who’s not holding it, who’s suggested it, who’s seen it and the likelihood of it being the card in the envelope. All you have to do is enter the details of each turn. If you don’t want to give your opponents a chance Clued Up can go beyond just a smart scorecard. If you enable automatic deductions the app will cross-reference all of the turns in the game and locate cards for you, going way beyond what a human could achieve. Clued Up works with pretty much any edition of Clue. Including: Alfred Hitchcock Alien Vs. Predator The Big Bang Theory Doctor Who Downton Abbey Dungeons and Dragons Family Guy Firefly Five Nights at Freddy’s Game of Thrones Golden Girls Harry Potter The Haunted Mansion Juicy Couture Legend of Zelda The Office Penny Dreadful Rick and Morty Back in Blackout Scooby-Doo! Seinfeld Sherlock Simpsons Star Wars Supernatural The Twilight Zone The Walking Dead If you don’t see your edition listed you can use the card set editing feature to create any edition you like and store it in the cloud for others to use. Instructions Game Setup: Enter your name then the names of your opponents in the order they are sitting, starting with the player on your left. Select if you want the game to automatically locate cards for you. If you select to use this feature, as you record the turns in the game the app will cross-reference the location of cards from all of the player's responses and deduce for you what cards must have been shown in each go. Be sure that your opponents don’t mind you winning if you leave this switch on (or don’t tell them). Once you’ve entered the names of the players in the game you’ll be given the option to select which edition of the game you are playing. If you don’t see your edition listed then you can create a new edition. Any edition you create will be stored in the cloud for yourself and other players to use. After selecting your card set you then have to enter in all of the cards you have been dealt. Enter every card you are holding and then press finish. Playing the Game: On the main screen, you have a list of all of the items. Eliminated items are shown in blue, items held by you in green and solved items are shown in red. Underneath the item name, you will see additional information such as who does or does not hold the card, who has suggested a card and who has seen a card. You will also see stats indicating how likely each card is to be the final item as a percentage and with the progress bar under each card. To eliminate items you need to make suggestions and enter in the suggestions that your opponents make. The app will automatically eliminate a card if it is shown to you and, if you’ve selected to have the game located cards for you, when entering another player’s suggestion, if a card is shown and it’s known that the other two cards in the suggestion are elsewhere or not held by that player the game will automatically eliminate these. To enter your suggestion you pick the items from the table and press the ‘Your Suggestion’ button. You will ask the player to your left, if they don’t show a card to you press ‘No Cards Shown’ and move on to the next player, if they show a card you select the card from the wheel and press ‘Card Shown’. To enter an opponent’s suggestion you do the same thing except you select ‘Other’s Suggestion’ and, on the next screen, select the player making the suggestion. You can manually enter that a player holds or doesn’t hold a particular card by swiping the cell to the left a pressing the Eliminate/Uneliminate button. The app will tell you when cards locations are deduced and categories are solved. You can undo your last move if you make a mistake by pressing the menu button and selecting Undo. Full Terms and Conditions: http://bit.ly/2KylV0Y

Screenshots

Solver4 screens
Clued Up4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clued Up at Free against Solver's $1.99. Clued Up also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 1) and review sentiment (39% vs 17%). Solver's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Clued Up is free to download; Solver costs $1.99 up front. Clued Up sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per year. Solver asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Solver holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clued Up has 1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Solver's written reviews are positive against 39% of Clued Up's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Solver ships an update every 2 weeks, Clued Up every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Solver versus Clued Up: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolverClued Up
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (1K ratings)
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews38.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB29 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperiStuffBRIDGETECH SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Customer experience

Solver

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral50.0%
Negative33.3%

Clued Up

All ratings1,023 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews157 reviews
Positive38.9%
Neutral13.4%
Negative47.8%

Bugs and requests

Solver

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Clued Up

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Incorrect card counts for 2-player mode
  • Inability to undo mistakes
  • Glitches with card selection and display
  • Inconsistencies between iPad and iPhone versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to edit/override app's deductions
  • Option to take notes separately from the app
  • Mechanism to change player questioning order
  • Feature to mark revealed cards from other players
  • Support for custom card sets

In-app purchases

None

Solver

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Clued Up

Subscriptions1
  • View Located Cards$3.491 Year
One-time1
  • Solve Cards For This Game$0.99

Questions

Is Solver free?
Solver costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clued Up free?
Clued Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Solver or Clued Up?
Solver is rated higher. Solver averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Clued Up averages 4.6 from 1K ratings.
Do Solver or Clued Up have ads?
Clued Up shows ads; Solver does not.
Which is updated more often, Solver or Clued Up?
Solver ships an update every 2 weeks, and Clued Up every 5 months. Most recently, Solver was updated on October 22, 2026 and Clued Up on November 1, 2026.

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