NoobCube — learn to solve your Rubik's cube

How it works

📷 Show it your cube

Point the camera and give the cube a spin. A flat map of all six sides fills in as you go, then folds up into your cube on screen.

🔄 One move at a time

An arrow curls around the cube showing which way the side turns, and a voice says what to do. Tap I did it! and it moves on.

🙌 Or have a go yourself

Rather do a whole step on your own? Say so, and when you're done it takes another look at your cube to see how you got on.

🔊 It reads everything out loud

NoobCube was built for a five year old who can't read yet, so nothing important is ever text on its own. Every instruction is spoken, and the mute and say it again buttons sit on every screen — because the first thing a small child does is ask you to repeat it.

🌼 It starts with the daisy

The daisy method, the gentlest way in: make a flower of white petals on the top, drop them into a white cross, and build up a layer at a time. There are only seven short sequences to learn in the whole thing, and the app never shows a move it hasn't taught you.

1Daisy 2White cross 3White bottom 4Middle row 5Yellow cross 6Yellow face 7Corners home 8Finished!

Stuck halfway? Show it the cube again at any point. Steps you've already finished stay finished.

🧊 Smart cube support — nearly there

Got a GAN smart cube? Show your cube to the camera once, and from then on NoobCube follows every turn over Bluetooth — no tapping, steps ticking off as your hands move. A smart cube knows which way you turned it but not what colour anything is, which is why it still needs that first look. Written for all three GAN generations and tested as far as it can be without a cube on the desk, so treat it as nearly-there rather than finished.

Show it your cube 📷 … follow the ARROWS 🔄 … and the last piece CLICKS INTO PLACE! 🎉

See it in action

Let’s solve your cube togetherStart with the camera, or a smart cube if you have one.

The scanning screen: the six sides of the cube drawn as a flat net, the camera looking at a real cube below it, and a big green button reading “Yes, that’s my cube!” — **Does this look right?**Every side you have shown it, laid out flat.

The app showing a 3D cube and three coloured reminders: white on the bottom, yellow on the top, green facing you. — **Hold it like this**White on the bottom, yellow on the top.

Step 1 of 8. A green arrow arcs from one square over the top of the cube to where it is going, and the card underneath names the white and green edge. — **Make a daisy**The arrow shows the square, and where it is going.

Step 3 of 8. A row of move cards reading U, R’, U’, R with plain names underneath, and the current one spelled out as “Top right — turn the top row to the right.” — **Fill in the white corners**Every move named, in words instead of letters.

Step 4 of 8. A wide arrow sweeps right round the cube, and the card reads — **Finish the middle row**When the whole cube turns, the arrow goes round the whole cube.

Tap a picture to see it properly.

Get NoobCube

Not out yet. NoobCube is being built for iPhone, iOS 17 or newer. It needs the camera to look at your cube, and that's the only thing it asks for.

It'll land on the App Store when it's ready — and when a five year old has given it a proper going over.

🚧 Coming soon to the App Store