Games Like Stalkie: Mobile Detective Alternatives
Games like Stalkie · Mobile Detective for Android and iPhone: fake-phone stories where the case belongs to a couple, not to the police.
ByAlonso·
The closest games to Stalkie · Mobile Detective are Leaked · Mobile Detective on Android, Peek a Phone - Detective Game, Cheaters | Infidelity Mystery and Not Your Phone: Mystery on iOS, plus Secreta, which is built for both systems. All of them hand you a fictional phone and ask you to read it carefully; what changes is whose story sits inside it and who asked you to look.
Why Stalkie gets recommended
Stalkie · Mobile Detective is a narrative investigation game from a small independent studio, published on Google Play and the App Store. You open a fake phone — fake apps, deleted photos, locked content, notes and calendar entries — and work through a case until the details line up. The Google Play listing shows more than a million installs and a 4.1 rating; on the App Store the same game sits at 4.6 across 2.8K ratings. The format clearly works, and the audience is not small.
Two things explain why it shows up in almost every recommendation thread. The first is the interface: instead of reading a wall of text, you move between apps the way you would on a real phone, and the evidence lives in ordinary places — a locked album, an entry in a calendar, a conversation nobody deleted. The second is the premise: someone suspects the person they live with, and the phone is the only witness.
The friction is the payment model. The store text itself says that only some questions are free and that the full experience is unlocked with an in-app purchase, and the point where the free part ends lands early enough to be the most repeated complaint in the reviews. If you want the same shape of game without that wall, the six entries below are the honest alternatives — including one that is not a crime story at all.
The 6 alternatives, one by one
Leaked · Mobile Detective
Android only, by Hapiga Studio. Same idea: a fictional phone, hidden chats, deleted photos and a relationship that is not what it looks like. It is the most Spanish-friendly of the direct competitors — the Play listing is written in Spanish and its own description already talks about infidelity — but it carries ads and in-app purchases, and it is rated for 17+. Reviews disagree about the translation quality and about how quickly the paywall arrives. If you only have Android and you want to read a couple’s phone tonight, it is the first thing to try.
Peek a Phone - Detective Game
Android and the Windows store, by FaintLines, Inc. This one is bigger and more varied: 5M+ downloads and a 4.8 rating across 114K reviews on Google Play, with a new mission every week. The structure is the same fake-phone investigation, but the stories range much wider — a missing husband, a phone found on the ground, cases that belong to the police and occasionally a criminal investigation. It carries ads and in-app purchases and is rated for teens. Spanish is not listed among its languages.
Cheaters | Infidelity Mystery
iPhone only, by appful Inc. A single straight line: someone suspects their partner, you read a fictional phone — chats, photos, payments, location records, a social feed — and answer deduction questions until the case closes. The first case is free from start to finish; the rest is unlocked with in-app purchases, and ads may appear. It is fiction and says so on its own page, including a line stating that it is not an app for watching a real phone. English plus a few more languages; Spanish is not one of them.
Not Your Phone: Mystery
iPhone for now, with Android marked as coming. The strongest writing of the group: 21 cases, each one 15 to 40 minutes with around 15 questions, and a real mechanic behind them — the “recently deleted” folder, where the moment something was removed matters more than the message itself. A partner, a mother, a best friend, a grandmother. It is free with ads, plus a Pro option sold as a yearly plan or a one-time purchase. Playable in Japanese and Traditional Chinese, so it is out of reach for most Spanish-speaking players.
Suspects: Mobile Detective
Worth naming because older recommendation lists still include it, but its store page has been retired: the link no longer resolves and you cannot install it fresh. If it is already on your device it will still open, and it followed the same formula — a fake phone, messages, a case to close. There is no honest way to recommend something a new player cannot download, so treat it as a museum piece.
Secreta
The one that changes the subject. In Secreta the case belongs to a couple: someone suspects their partner is lying and hands you a copy of that partner’s phone. You read the chats, the photos, the map history and the bank app, and you answer the 15 questions the client cannot stop thinking about. There are four self-contained cases, questions 1 to 9 are free in every one of them, each case includes 3 free hints, and it plays offline with no account. It ships in ten languages, Spanish among them, and it is coming to the App Store and Google Play.
Comparison table: platforms, price, Spanish
| Game | Platform | Price | Spanish | Offline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stalkie · Mobile Detective | Android, iOS | Free with in-app purchases | Not listed | Not stated |
| Leaked · Mobile Detective | Android | Free with ads and in-app purchases | Yes | Not stated |
| Peek a Phone - Detective Game | Android, Windows | Free with ads and in-app purchases | Not listed | Not stated |
| Cheaters | Infidelity Mystery | iOS | Free with in-app purchases (ads may appear) | Not listed | Not stated |
| Not Your Phone: Mystery | iOS (Android coming soon) | Free with ads; Pro as a yearly plan or one-time purchase | No | Not stated |
| Suspects: Mobile Detective | iOS | Delisted | No | Not stated |
| Secreta | iOS, Android | Free up to question 9; Pro with in-app purchase | Yes | Yes |
“Not stated” means the store page does not say either way; it is not a no. Every game in the table works with a fictional phone, and none of them reads data from a real device.
If Stalkie is not available on your phone
Stalkie ships on both stores, so the usual problem is not the store itself but the gaps around it: platform and language.
If you play on Android only, Leaked · Mobile Detective and Peek a Phone - Detective Game are the direct swaps; Cheaters and Not Your Phone are out until Not Your Phone finishes its Android version. If you play on iPhone only, it is the reverse: Cheaters and Not Your Phone are ready today, and Leaked is not an option at all.
If Spanish matters more than anything else, the field narrows quickly. The Apple and Google listings for Stalkie, Peek a Phone, Cheaters and Not Your Phone do not list Spanish among their languages; Leaked’s Play page is written in Spanish; Secreta ships in Spanish along with nine other languages. That is worth checking before you spend an evening on a game you will end up reading in a second language.
The last thing to check is what you actually get for free. Several of these titles open a few questions, or one case, and then stop — and the free limit usually arrives before the case does. Every store page says something about it, and most review sections talk about little else. If you want a wider view of the whole category first, phone investigation games explains how this format works, and cheating detective games compares the games that deal directly with a couple’s suspicion.
How Secreta fits in
Secreta is fiction about a couple: suspicion, secrets and lies, and questions answered from a fictional phone that a client hands you. It is not a crime or police story — nobody is investigating a death and there is no case file — and it is not a phone-monitoring app: Secreta never reads, copies or monitors a real device, and the cases were written for the game. Every chapter is free up to question 9, you get 3 free hints per case, and the four cases play offline on iOS and Android. Secreta is coming to the App Store and Google Play.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free alternative to Stalkie?
Leaked · Mobile Detective is free to download with ads and in-app purchases, and Peek a Phone - Detective Game lets you open several missions before you pay. Secreta keeps questions 1 to 9 of every case free, with 3 free hints per case. Stalkie itself says on its store page that only some questions are free.
Which of these games are in Spanish?
Leaked · Mobile Detective lists a Spanish store page, and Secreta ships in ten languages including Spanish. The listings for Stalkie, Peek a Phone, Cheaters | Infidelity Mystery and Not Your Phone: Mystery do not list Spanish among their languages.
Do these games work offline?
Most of them do not state it on their store pages, so check before a long trip. Secreta stores every case on your device: it plays with no connection and no account.
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