Comparison

ClueKeeper vs Escape Team

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

Head to head
About

ClueKeeper

Design and participate in interactive clue hunts that guide players through locations with puzzles and challenges. Explore your surroundings in new ways, even offline, with augmented reality features.

Highlights
  • Create custom clue hunts
  • Solve puzzles and riddles
  • Augmented reality clues
  • Offline play support
  • Explore surroundings
  • Play sample hunts
Features
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ClueKeeper is a powerful platform for creating and playing clue hunts! What's a clue hunt? A clue hunt is a game in which the players solve clues that lead them from one to the next. The clues can be straightforward questions, physical challenges, clever puzzles or riddles, or whatever else the hunt creator can imagine. With the help of our friends from Zappar, we even support augmented reality clues! A hunt might send players searching around their local park, through the best-kept secret spots of their city, or even across state lines. ClueKeeper hunts provide a great way to have fun and explore your surroundings in a new and exciting way! Our app even works offline, allowing you to explore off-the-beaten path areas without a consistent cell connection. To get started, try out the sample hunt "Welcome to ClueKeeper"!

About

Escape Team

Transform your home into an escape room with printable missions and an interactive app. Solve puzzles, defuse bombs, and rescue friends in exciting scenarios. Perfect for team building, date nights, or family fun.

Highlights
  • Printable escape room missions
  • Interactive app integration
  • Collaborative puzzle solving
  • Team building activities
  • Custom mission editor
  • Immersive audio narration
Features
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Looking to create an escape room at home? With Escape Team, you‘ll be ready in minutes! 1. Print your mission. 2. Get the app. 3. Gather your friends - you‘re going to need them! Escape Team is a printable adventure, ready to take place in your living room. With Escape Team, the room will become the center stage of bomb defusals, elevator rescues and plenty of other exciting missions. It’s great for team building: exit the game and you‘ll be right where you left off - but you will have been brought a bit closer together. Do you enjoy co-op play? As a date night game or family activity, it provides a rich and immersive, collaborative experience. Work together to solve the puzzles in time. An adventure game to turn screen time into meaningful play together - with friends, family, and coworkers. Are you planning to make your own DIY escape room at home? Enter the Escape Team Mission Editor: The free Escape Team Mission Editor allows you to make Escape Team the game master of your own, custom escape room - use our free, pre-made DIY kit as a starting point, define the time limit of your room, along puzzle solutions and hints. To increase the immersion, you can even include your own MP3 recordings to be played upon the mission‘s beginning, finish, and after solving each phase. —————— • A live escape game experience • Designed for 2-4 players • Fast-paced audio narration and a thrilling soundtrack • FREE: Training Mission and Mission 1: »Central Station« • Missions 2-9 are available as In-App Purchases • Includes a (forever free) mission editor to create your own missions – for fun, business or education. Are you ready? We've got no time to lose – download your missions here: https://www.escape-team.com Good luck. To all of us.

Screenshots

ClueKeeper4 screens
Escape Team4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ClueKeeper at none against Escape Team's 11. ClueKeeper also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Escape Team's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (259 vs 20). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Escape Team sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. ClueKeeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ClueKeeper against 4.7 for Escape Team. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Team has 259 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of ClueKeeper's written reviews are positive against 74% of Escape Team's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClueKeeper ships an update every 3 months, Escape Team every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ClueKeeper versus Escape Team: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClueKeeperEscape Team
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (20 ratings)4.7 (259 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews74.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20259 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB298 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperClueKeeper LLCHemmert UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Customer experience

ClueKeeper

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Escape Team

All ratings259 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative18.3%

Bugs and requests

ClueKeeper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Escape Team

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • No sound on iPhone (works on iPad/Android)
  • App crashes when entering answers
  • App crashes when requesting clues
  • Redemption codes not working properly
  • Training mission code accepted but progress stuck
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  • App persists on phone after uninstall
  • Website unreachable on multiple platforms
  • Double charging when using Groupon codes
  • Code only works once on some devices
  • Buttons unresponsive or slow to react

Requested features

9 requests
  • Option to disable or extend timer
  • More missions and scenarios
  • Improved hint system with faster unlocking
  • Better narrative integration with puzzles
  • More diverse themes beyond bomb defusal
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  • Ability to purchase hints with time sacrifice
  • Better story progression and thematic connection
  • Native English voice acting
  • More detailed beginner instructions

In-app purchases

None

ClueKeeper

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Escape Team

One-time11
  • Mission 2: Terminal$2.99
  • Mission 3: Elevator$2.99
  • Mission 4: Rollercoaster$2.99
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  • Mission 5: Subway$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 6$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 7$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 8$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 9$2.99
  • Escape Team Mission Pack I$8.99
  • Escape Team: Mission Pack II$8.99
  • Escape Team Mission Pack I+II$15.99

Questions

Is ClueKeeper free?
ClueKeeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Escape Team free?
Escape Team is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ClueKeeper or Escape Team?
Escape Team is rated higher. ClueKeeper averages 4.6 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Escape Team averages 4.7 from 259 ratings.
Do ClueKeeper or Escape Team have ads?
Neither ClueKeeper nor Escape Team shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClueKeeper or Escape Team?
ClueKeeper ships an update every 3 months, and Escape Team every 9 days. Most recently, ClueKeeper was updated on October 23, 2026 and Escape Team on October 24, 2026.

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