Cube Solver

For iPhone · kids and grown-ups

Learn to solve the cube. Then solve your real one.

Short lessons on a 3D cube teach the Beginner method one step at a time. When a step clicks, you do it again on the cube in your hands. Stuck with a mixed-up cube? Scan it and the app shows you every move.

Coming soon to the App Store
  • No account
  • Works offline
  • No chat
  • Camera stays on your phone
    Mixed up and ready. Watch it solve itself.

    How it works

    From the first turn to a cube you solved yourself

    Cube Solver teaches the Beginner method, layer by layer: the daisy, the white cross, then up to the yellow side.

    1. Learn on the screen

      28 short lessons in 6 chapters, from "Meet the cube" to "Solve it all". Each one gives you a goal, a few moves to reach it, and a hint when you need one.

      Mistakes are fine. Undo is always one tap away.

    2. Do it on your real cube

      Every lesson ends with the same step on the cube in your hands. The moves play on screen, then the camera checks one side to see if you got it.

      Any 3x3 cube with the classic colours works.

    3. Scan and solve any cube

      Show the camera each side of a mixed-up cube. The app checks the colours, then guides you one move at a time, with arrows, until it is solved.

      Lost your place? Rescan one side and carry on.

    A look inside

    Big buttons, clear arrows, one step at a time

    • Welcome screen: a cube one turn from solved with the words Hi. Let's solve a cube.
      Your first win
    • Kid home screen with a fox buddy saying Hi Mia and a Let's go button
      Home, kid style
    • Kid lesson: the buddy says Turn the red side up, like the arrow, over a cube with an arrow
      A lesson step
    • Lesson task: Put this corner home in 8 moves or fewer, with move buttons
      A lesson, grown-up style
    • Scan screen reading face 3 of 6 of a real cube through the camera
      Scan a real cube
    • Guided solve: Turn the right side up, with an arrow on the cube and an I did it button
      Solve it move by move

    Screens from the app's design. The app may look a little different.

    Kid or grown-up

    The same app, in two styles

    Pick a style when you start, and change it any time. It only changes how things are shown. No age is asked.

    Kid style

    Turn the red side up, like the arrow.
    • A buddy who explains each step in one sentence
    • Arrows on the cube instead of letters
    • Big buttons for undo, hint and sound

    Grown-up style

    RUR′U′
    • Standard move notation alongside the arrows
    • A timer with your best and average of 5
    • More detail on why each step works

    Puzzles

    Eight puzzles to turn, scramble and time

    The lessons teach the classic 3x3. In Play you can pick up any of these, mix it up and race the clock.

    • 2×2PlayScan
    • 3×3PlayScanLearn
    • 4×4Play
    • 5×5Play
    • 6×6Play
    • 7×7Play
    • PyraminxPlayScan
    • SkewbPlayScan
    Play screen with the puzzle menu open: 2x2, 3x3, Pyraminx, Skewb, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 and 7x7
    Play
    All eight puzzlesTurn them with your finger or with move keys, get a fair scramble, and keep your times for each puzzle.
    Scan
    2×2, 3×3, Pyraminx and SkewbShow your puzzle to the camera and get guided back to solved, one move at a time.
    Learn
    The 3×328 lessons with the Beginner method, each with a step on your real cube.

    For parents

    Made for kids to use on their own

    • No chat, ever

      There is no way to message or talk to anyone in the app.

    • Nothing to upload

      Buddies, pictures and art are built into the app. Kids can't post anything.

    • No account

      Just a first name and a buddy. No email, no password, no age.

    • The camera stays local

      Pictures are read on the phone to find the colours, then thrown away. They are never saved or sent.

    • Works offline

      Lessons, scanning and solving all work without the internet.

    • Progress stays on the phone

      Stars, times and saved cubes live on the device. We can't see them.

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    Ready for your first turn?

    Cube Solver is in beta on iPhone and coming to the App Store.

    Coming soon to the App Store