Hoshi User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience60.0% of reviews
Neutral12.5% of reviews
Negative experience27.5% of reviews

~ Based on 40 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Hoshi Safe?

Hoshi: Star Battle Puzzles appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hoshi is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 258 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 258 App Store ratings for Hoshi.

Is Hoshi Legit?

Hoshi: Star Battle Puzzles appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hoshi is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Tips don’t reset

My tips don’t reset anymore and are permanently stuck on -1. I bought the full version and expect it to work properly.

Response from developer

Hey, hints should refill and never go negative, so that's a bug I definitely want to fix 😅 The review section isn't the best place to debug it though, so please shoot me a mail at help.hoshi@gmail.com with your debug information (About Hoshi → scroll to the bottom). Then I can take a look at your account directly.

Gutes Knobelspiel, aber …

Eigentlich ein super Denkspiel, leider wird das cheaten nicht unterbunden. Es ist unmöglich eine Aufgabe, wo 20 Sterne gesetzt werden sollen in 13 Sekunden ohne zu tricksen zu lösen.
Wenn das Schummeln unterbunden wird, gibt es den 5 Stern und das Abo zurück.

Scam ads in game

I really enjoyed the game until I finished a puzzle and got an ad that said “your account has been hacked!”. I can’t believe a company would allow that type of predatory scam ads on their app. I instantly deleted the app and came here to give the review.

So fun!

My only complaint is that you have to buy a lot of the puzzles. Other than that, great game, very relaxing.

Poor update

Edit: I have now cancelled my annual subscription.

I like this game so much I have a paid subscription but I really don’t like the new update. The placement of the “hint” button has lead me to click on it multiple times. Please move it to the right hand side instead of keeping it on the left! It makes me not want to play the game anymore due to frustration.
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Gutes Spiel!

Nachdem ich das Spiel über mein iphone für ein Jahr gekauft hatte, hatte ich zunächst Probleme, auf allen Geräten die
Packs kostenlos zu bekommen.
Nach zwei Tagen ging es plötzlich.
Die App gefällt mir sehr gut, lediglich die Farbaufteilung sollte so sein, dass benachbarte Bereiche nicht gleichfarbig sind.
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Response from developer

Hi Backofengemüse, natürlich kannst du deine Subscription auf mehreren Endgeräten gleichzeitig nutzen. Wenn du das selbe Profil auf beiden Geräten nutzt, wird die Subscription ohne Probleme geteilt. In meiner Mail an dich am 15.01.2026 habe ich dir auch eine ausführliche Anleitung geschickt, auf die ich nie eine Antwort bekommen habe. Woran scheitert es? Frust in den Reviews raus zu lassen, hat meistens noch nie geholfen :D

Poor update

I like this game so much I have a paid subscription but I really don’t like the new update. The placement of the “hint” button has lead me to click on it multiple times. Please move it to the right hand side instead of keeping it on the left! It makes me not want to play the game anymore due to frustration.
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Game great; ads are the WORST

The ads on this game are like 2 full minutes long. Can’t deal with it anymore.

Big Fan of the App Itself - Not the Subscription Model

This app is absolutely gorgeous, the graphics and UI design is very pleasing and being able to save a game mid-puzzle to come back to later is amazing. The variety of puzzle-modes is great as well. That being said, the fact that you can’t buy additional puzzle packs outright and need to subscribe to access them caused me to uninstall. To be fair, the fee is very reasonable, but I’ve done this with subscription games before and I dislike the fact that I will abruptly lose access to the additional packs I got if I step away from the game for a while and then pick it back up
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Good game. Buggy loading.

It’s a good game. I play it daily, and paid for ad removal. But for several weeks (or maybe months?), the load time is very long; you have to wait sometimes 30 seconds or more before any puzzles show up in the UI. Pull-to-refresh, switching tabs, restarting app… nothing helps.

Trade off

The puzzles are great but the ads are often longer than it takes to solve them. It is not a reasonable price to purchase the ad-free experience either

Addictive!

It is addictive but not worth the price. Still, I play it every day.

Anspruchsvolles Logikrätsel

Schön umgesetzte App, fairer Werbeeinsatz, fesselnd ohne zu viel Zeit zu fressen.

Nur wenn ein Daily ganz einfach ist (Level 1-2), bin ich etwas enttäuscht.

Response from developer

Hallo _henrik, vielen Dank für die 5 Sterne und das tolle Feedback! Es freut mich sehr, dass dir die Umsetzung und der faire Werbeeinsatz gefallen. 😊✌️ Deinen Punkt zu den leichten Dailys verstehe ich total. Die Schwierigkeit variiert bewusst, damit für jeden etwas dabei ist – aber klar, als Profi wartet man ungeduldig auf die nächste harte Nuss! Vielen Dank für deinen Support ❤️

Fun game

Love this game! Please add more Genius (3 Star) packs!!

Pleasantly Puzzling

I tried a couple of other apps for this type of puzzle but none had the same sort of elegance in design. The included packs have kept me busy for hours and I love the weekly challenges.

The real standout here is the clean user interface where you can mark your guesses and sub-guesses with a variety of colors. There’s even a relaxing music track which I put on when playing at night.

Great game, great app. Very happy with my purchase.
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Good colour

I loved that they did colours and how you can turn it off it really help I appreciate that you can do your own profile picture

The ads need to be fixed

Update to the developers comment - I just played it and had to wait 50 seconds then hit done and waited another 15 seconds. It is better but shouldn’t be more than 30 seconds. For that I’m changing this review from 2 to 3 thanks.

Original review: The developer responded to another review saying it’s out of their control but that’s not true. In the past the app had shorter ads and other similar apps have shorter ads. I paid full year for another of your apps and I don’t get ads now which is great. I also paid for a pack here and I still get insane ads. There also aren’t that many games to play to justify these ads. After awhile there’s nothing else to play.
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The ads need to be fixed

The developer responded to another review saying it’s out of their control but that’s not true. In the past the app had shorter ads and other similar apps have shorter ads. I paid full year for another of your apps and I don’t get ads now which is great. I also paid for a pack here and I still get insane ads. There also aren’t that many games to play to justify these ads. After awhile there’s nothing else to play.
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Response from developer

Hey Me94atany, thanks for the feedback! ❤️ I wouldn’t lie about ads—honestly, there was a misconfiguration that made some rewarded ads unskippable, but I’ve fixed that! Now, they’re skippable after 30 seconds. As for the puzzles, there are 356 daily puzzles per year, which should keep you busy for a while? 😊

Daily puzzles; ridiculous ads

First, the good: the puzzles are usually very good. I like the daily puzzles and the streak aspect. It is fun to play every day. The UI is good and easy to use.
The bad: the ads are frankly insane. The daily puzzles requires a token to play, one every day. Of course you can pay, or you can choose to watch ads. When you watch ads you get three tokens, meaning three puzzles. But that’s not the real problem. It’s that the ads are not 15, 20 or even 30 seconds, they are usually a minute long! For me this is a ridiculous amount of time for three puzzles which usually take less and a minute each to play. If the puzzles are really easy (which they sometimes are) the ads can be longer than the puzzles.

The daily puzzles are also often way too easy. They are often “one star” puzzles. These really take no thought.
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Way too many ads, not much depth

The ads are insane. I paid actual money for a pack and as soon as I finished a puzzle got a full screen ad. I couldn’t dismiss it either, was automatically pushed to the App Store page.

The weekly challenges have even more ads somehow. Full screen mini game ads that take over your phone for quite some time.

The difficulty levels don’t seem to be consistent. Some 5 star puzzles are easy and some 1 star puzzles require a lot of trial and error.

The puzzles are clearly stamped out automatically. After you get the hang of it they are all the same.

The idea that this is competitive is odd. It seems like engagement bait.

Uninstalled.
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