# Murder Phone: Text Detective

> A text detective game. Interrogate the suspects on a dead woman's phone.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.crystllabs.murderphone](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.crystllabs.murderphone)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.crystllabs.murderphone`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Crystl Labs
- **Category:** GAME\_SIMULATION
- **Downloads:** 67
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-27
- **First published:** 2026-08-19
- **Publisher country:** KR
- **Size:** 25 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crystllabs.murderphone)
- **Website:** [https://crystllabs.com/](https://crystllabs.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://crystllabs.com/privacy.html](https://crystllabs.com/privacy.html)

## Description

You found a phone in the gutter outside a bar. Its owner never came back for it. Murder Phone is a text detective game: everything that happened that night is still on this phone, and you are the one holding it.<br><br>Open the message threads. Text the people in the contact list. They lie, they deflect, they get defensive, and every lie is checkable against something else on the phone: a photo with the wrong thing in the reflection, a payment that should not exist, a voicemail she never got to hear.<br><br>🔎 Interrogate by text. Suspects answer back, dodge, and eventually crack.<br>🧾 Accuse with proof. Naming the killer is not enough - you pick the evidence that convicts them.<br>📱 Search a whole phone. Messages, photos, banking, notes, voicemail, browser history.<br>🔐 Locked apps are puzzles. The passcode is always somewhere in the story.<br>📉 Watch their trust. Push a suspect the wrong way and they stop answering.<br>🗂 Seven cases, ten to twenty-three minutes each, each with a different killer.<br>✈️ Plays fully offline. No account, no login, no connection needed.<br>🌏 Written in English, Korean and Japanese.<br><br>The cases get harder as you go. The first one hands you the method. By the last you are holding a bank transfer against a timestamp against a photo somebody forgot to delete. Every case closes with a Detective Score: how much evidence you actually found, and how many innocent people you accused on the way.<br><br>Free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. No timers, no lives, nothing to wait for.<br><br>Every case is fiction. Cases are inspired by true events, with names, places and details changed.<br><br>Somebody&#39;s phone is unlocked in your hand. Start reading.

## Rankings

- #2,167,129 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE`
- `com.crystllabs.murderphone.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

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