# Boom Dots — user reviews > 337 indexed App Store user reviews of Boom Dots by Umbrella Games LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 97 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boom-dots/id975047985/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boom-dots/id975047985.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 75 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Boom Dots? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and fun gameplay - 🎨 Attractive visual themes - 📊 Detailed stats and leaderboards - ⏱️ Challenging but not too frustrating - 🕹️ Addictive one-tap mechanics **Cons** - 📢 Excessive and intrusive ads - 🐛 Occasional freezing and performance issues - 🔍 Leaderboard issues with fake scores - 🔄 Repetitive mission structure **Commonly reported bugs** - Missions leaderboard not working properly after 200 levels - Freezing and lag when missing a shot **Most requested features** - Cumulative high score leaderboard - Option to disable flashing effects - Cloud save functionality - More varied and challenging missions ## Newest reviews (19 of 337) ### 3/5 — Great game, one downside. *2016-07-23, version 1.3.6* There are WAYYY to many ADS. Please just make the adds shorter or less often, you can only get an average of 10 plays before an ad pops up! 😩 ### 3/5 — Too many ads *2016-07-22, version 1.3.6* This game is easily addicting and always makes you want to play more after each level. But something else that happens after each level is that you get video ads and these can be anywhere from 15-20 seconds long with very few times being able to skip. Please fix the ad problem and just keep making good games ### 3/5 — Oi *2016-07-21, version 1.3.6* Way too many adverts for a free game 😠 not happy. Love the game but the ads are too often ### 3/5 — Fun game but needs an update. *2016-06-07, version 1.3.3* Was disappointed to see with this last update there were no new goals or levels. It's a fun game but once completed gets monotonous. Yet another update with nothing new... ### 5/5 — Fun! *2016-05-10, version 1.3.0* A good game for wasting time ### 5/5 — Addictive *2016-05-01, version 1.3.0* A real simple yet an addictive game ! ### 5/5 — So much fun *2016-04-28, version 1.3.0* The gave us so simple but so entertaining! ### 2/5 — Ads *2016-04-26, version 1.3.0* F*** these ads are annoying they open up all these different applications. Good game though. ### 5/5 — A+ *2016-04-24, version 1.3.0* Cool fun game. Only complaint is the lack of music. The reason I got it was the music in the trailer. I was looking for music and didn't find any. What I did find, however, was a dope game with a unique idea that has missions that keep you wanting more. ### 4/5 — Frustrating and Fun *2016-04-23, version 1.3.0* Frustrating, but I keep coming back! So simple yet I never get as far as I feel I should! And I keep trying. Quite addicting! ### 4/5 — Guter Zeitvertreib ... *2016-04-02, version 1.3.0* ... In der S-Bahn ### 5/5 — AWESOME GAME! *2016-03-26, version 1.3.0* This game is fun and addicting, it's a a great game but I do not like the adds. There are too much. Sometimes I crash but it's okay. I would give it 5 stars.Its great 😱😱😱👍👍👍 ### 2/5 — Ads *2016-03-20, version 1.3.0* Awesome gameplay, super annoying ads. ### 5/5 — Hit the ballllllll👊🏻 *2016-03-20, version 1.3.0* Nice game Need concentrate Quick in play ### 5/5 — Fun indie game *2016-03-16, version 1.3.0* Really fun indie game, better story than destiny ### 5/5 — Mindlessly fun *2016-03-14, version 1.3.0* Need I say more? ### 5/5 — Buen juego *2016-02-28, version 1.3.0* Juego de contenido liviano y fácil de jugar!!!! ### 5/5 — Fun and addicting *2016-01-28, version 1.3.0* Buy the ads free option. It only costs 99 cents. It's so worth it and you can put it on all your apple products for no additional cost. I play at least one hour per day. ### 5/5 — Great time killer *2016-01-23, version 1.3.0* Simple game but lots of fun and great sounds. Bought the 79p remove ads version. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not fun and to hard *2016-09-05, version 1.3.6* I liked the game a little bit but it was way to hard for anyone to play. My friend even said it was torture!!(and I agree) I got the game and five minutes later I deleted it. So overall rating is: ITS HORRIBLE DONT GET IT ### 1/5 — Too many fullscreen AD *2015-07-18, version 1.3.0* Too many AD and video AD is so slow，good game but bad AD experience ### 1/5 — Frequently opens spam sites *2015-07-11, version 1.3.0* Sick of randomly being taken to safari and having it open random spam sites on me. This game is getting removed immediately ### 1/5 — Viel zu viel Werbung *2015-05-22, version 1.3.0* Traurig. Könnte eigentlich ein ganz nettes Spiel für zwischendurch sein, aber es enthält viel zu viel Werbung. Banner, selbst laufende Videos, ganzseitige Einblendungen, Zeitsperren, Links in den AppStore und so weiter. Schade, das ist stark übertrieben. Man ist andauernd mit Wegtappen von Werbung beschäftigt. ### 1/5 — РЕКЛАМА *2015-04-25, version 1.2.1* Огрооооомное количество рекламы! Просто нереальное!! Буквально заставляют смотреть видеорекламу каждую минуту без возможности её выключить! Либо смотри либо перезагружал приложение... ### 1/5 — troppa pubblicità *2015-04-18, version 1.1.1* Troppa troppa troppa ### 1/5 — Werbung *2015-04-09, version 1.1.1* Die taucht wirklich jede Sekunde auf -.- ### 1/5 — Major ad placement mistake *2015-04-09, version 1.1.1* The developer got greedy here, always a banner ad appearing on the menu screen, which is fine, but the second I saw the full screen ad which completely interrupted my gameplay, clicked the 'x' button, then a new full screen ad appeared and started playing again - instant delete and 1/5 star review. ### 1/5 — Well u asked me for a review *2015-04-09, version 1.1.1* Annoying pop-up asked me to make a review within the first 4 minutes of playing...which is pretty annoying to start with. As for the game, the adverts kept popping up in English, French and Spanish every 45 seconds or so... Quite annoying when you click them by accident and you're whisked away to the App Store. Pretty dumb game - alright if your personal brain cell count is in single digits... ### 1/5 — Werbemüll *2015-04-08, version 1.1.1* Sonst nichts. Vor lauter schrottwegklicken kommt man kaum zum Spielen. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent 1 tap arcade shooter needs some updated love from Umbrella *2020-12-28, version 1.4.0* I originally played Boom Dots when it came out back in 2015 and came back to it at the start of the pandemic through an old Game Center challenge (Thanks AKD!!) One thing I love about BD is the pages of statistical analyses and the different leaderboards. It's the main thing that has kept me playing for months on end during Co-vid19's reign. Being able to look at my perfect hits statistics or follow the average score leaderboard has been motivational and fun. My favorite skin is the "bacteria" (somewhat appropriate given the current global situation). I've done some serious climbing of the leaderboards, but one thing I have noticed are the obvious fake scores on the average score, and perfect hits leaderboards. Devs: if you are reading this, please wipe the top 8/9 scores on both of these boards. Many have been clogging the top 10 of these leaderboards since 2015 and in fairness to players who play hard (without cheating) should be removed. While I know this is an older Umbrella game, I would also love to see the 200 missions bug on the missions leaderboard resolved. It would make crawling through the 200-300 mission zone more fun. Another game wish would be a cumulative high score leaderboard, which would encourage players to play more of the skins and not settle into a favorite, like I have with "bacteria". This might also make the "play 25 games with Star" type missions a little easier to adapt to. Thanks and congrats on a fun, 1 tap, innovative arcade shooter! ### 5/5 — Rate *2019-06-19, version 1.4.0* Game khó vl :V ### 5/5 — Excellent jeu *2018-07-20, version 1.3.6* Un jeu léger, fluide, élégant, simple, avec une difficulté bien jaugée, des graphismes nets, évolutifs, épurés, colorés... Gameplay facile a prendre en main, tout est bien pensé... Seul amélioration qui me vient à l’esprit serait l’affichage, directement pendant la partie, de l’avancée de la mission en cours ... mais c’est un détail. En résumé, belle réussite, toute en finesse et en simplicité, programmée intelligemment dans ses moindres détails, en anticipant à la perfection les attentes des utilisateurs, Un grand bravo ! ### 5/5 — Simple, fun game *2017-11-05, version 1.3.6* This game is simple and fun and well worth the 99 cents to remove the ads. There is a bug with the missions completed leaderboard, after going above 200 missions it says not ranked :/ please fix this so 201-300 mission scores are ranked! ### 5/5 — So Simple, So Hard, So Fun *2017-06-24, version 1.3.6* This is a great little shooter game—one that is so simple to play and so challenging to master. What more need be said? ### 5/5 — Lieblingsspiel *2017-05-15, version 1.3.6* 👌🏼👍🏼♥️ ### 5/5 — Too darn addictive *2017-02-03, version 1.3.6* Considering all you do is shoot one dot to another, it is really amazing how addictive this game is, the missions spice things up as well as the stats, which give you impetus to 'have one more go'. The only annoying thing for me was that I only 'found' this game when apple had very 'kindly' put the prices up in the App Store, though saying that still very worth .99p Really, really good and very addictive! ### 5/5 — 😀😀😀 *2016-09-01, version 1.3.6* Superb games ### 5/5 — Addictive *2016-08-13, version 1.3.6* I spend hours trying to beat my high score! An addicting game is a great game! ### 5/5 — Hyper facile et des misions à résoudre *2016-07-08, version 1.3.5* Trop facile et plein de misions à résoudre . J'aime bien , tout est parfait sauf la language !! Le language français n'y est pas alors les misions sont un peu dificile à comprendre . À part ça tout est parfait . --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-20.*