Detective Notes vs My Clues Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
My Clues Notepad
This app provides an electronic clue sheet for a popular mystery board game. It offers customizable game versions, player name saving, and hidden clue functionality for a private gaming experience.
- Choice of game versions (2016/2020)
- Customizable game versions
- Selectable symbols for clues
- Highlight culprit, weapon, room
- Save player names and clues
- Hidden clue functionality
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Features: - choice between 2 versions of the game (2016 and 2020); - possibility to create customized game versions; - choice of symbol to insert on the card as desired; - possibility of highlighting the culprit, the weapon and the crime room; - saving the names of the players and the clues entered; - clues can be hidden so that other players cannot see them
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Clues Notepad at none against Detective Notes's 1. My Clues Notepad also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Detective Notes's advantage is ratings volume (217 vs 2). On price 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. My Clues Notepad asks for nothing beyond the download.
My Clues Notepad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Detective Notes has 217 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Detective Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of My Clues Notepad's.
Detective Notes ships an update every 2 weeks, My Clues Notepad every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on August 9, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Detective Notes | My Clues Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (217 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 217 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyeong Cheon Yang | Giorgio Sartore |
Customer experience
Detective Notes
My Clues Notepad
In-app purchases
Detective Notes
- No Ads$3.99
My Clues Notepad
No in-app purchases
