Comparison

Pocket Detective vs Cacaboom

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Detective

A logic puzzle game where you deduce criminals by analyzing statements and role-based rules. Progress through cases, compete on leaderboards, and play offline.

Highlights
  • Logic puzzle gameplay
  • Interrogate suspects
  • Role-based deduction
  • Multiple game modes
  • Offline play
  • Detailed statistics
  • Game Center integration
Features
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Pocket Detective is a single-player logic game about catching liars. Study the case file, interrogate suspects, test their statements against the rules of their claimed roles, and arrest every criminal. Witnesses tell the truth. Criminals lie while posing as witnesses. Bystanders are not criminals, but they can still disrupt the investigation. Each of 40 roles brings its own information, passive effect, or ability. The answer is on the board. You just have to prove it. • Academy: Learn the rules step by step across more than 30 handcrafted cases. New roles and mechanics are introduced as you progress. • Career: Solve as many cases as possible before your three lives run out. Build your score and compete on the Game Center leaderboard. • Daily Case: Everyone receives the same new investigation each day. • Custom Case: Choose the suspects, criminals, and role sets yourself, or enter a Case Number to replay a known investigation. • Track your record: Review detailed statistics, compare your performance across roles and modes, and earn Game Center achievements. • Play offline: Case generation and gameplay work without an internet connection. Pocket Detective is designed exclusively for iPhone and iPad. Download free and play Academy Tier 1. Complete it to unlock Career, Daily Case, and Custom Case with a starter set of roles. A small one-time Full Game purchase unlocks Academy Tiers 2 through 5, and all 40 roles. There are no subscriptions or consumable purchases.

About

Cacaboom

Features
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Cute little poops, one toilet bowl and one simple rule: two matching poops merge into a bigger one! Aim, drop, chain your merges… and blow up the Big Boom in a giant CACABOOM. 9 poops to grow: mouse poop, tiny turd, nugget, chubby poop, proper poop, big dung, mammoth poop, dino poop and The Big Boom. Daily Challenge: a new bowl and a surprise rule every day, 30 poops to win the Gold poop, and a leaderboard just for the day. Two players, one iPhone: turn it sideways, one bowl each, side by side or face to face. Your combos mess with your opponent, and the first to overflow loses. Challenge the Big Boom: a turn-by-turn duel where you pick his poop and he picks yours. Too tough? Poopsie is nicer. CACABOOM: two dino poops make the Big Boom. It charges up, shakes, then blows up and clears room in the bowl. Combos: chain your merges for up to triple points. Rescue flush: one swirl and the small poops are gone. Score points to earn it back. Fair game over: a poop resting above the line starts a big 3, 2, 1 countdown. You get time to react, and if it spills over, the culprit is highlighted. One finger: slide to aim, let go to drop. A quick tip guides your first game, and pause is always one tap away. Silly sounds made live by your iPhone, plus light vibrations on every merge (you can turn them off). Game Center: climb the global leaderboard, earn your nickname and unlock 10 achievements, from "It's a Match!" to "Double CACABOOM". Challenge friends: send your best score and dare them to beat it. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account. Your best score and settings are saved on your phone. A quick round or a throne marathon: how far will you go?

Screenshots

Pocket Detective4 screens
Cacaboom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cacaboom at none against Pocket Detective's 1. Cacaboom also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pocket Detective sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cacaboom asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Detective ships an update weekly, Cacaboom every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pocket Detective versus Cacaboom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket DetectiveCacaboom
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB7 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperCameron ShemiltGregory Messer

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pocket Detective

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99
None

Cacaboom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Detective free?
Pocket Detective is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cacaboom free?
Cacaboom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Detective or Cacaboom have ads?
Neither Pocket Detective nor Cacaboom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Detective or Cacaboom?
Pocket Detective ships an update weekly, and Cacaboom every 2 days. Most recently, Pocket Detective was updated on November 1, 2026 and Cacaboom on October 31, 2026.

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