# iDotMatrix — user reviews > 113 indexed App Store user reviews of iDotMatrix by Shenzhen Heaton Technology Co., Ltd., rated 2.90/5 from 79 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idotmatrix/id1662746768/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idotmatrix/id1662746768.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 17 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of iDotMatrix? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Affordable pixel display - 👍 Customizable animations and designs - 🎨 Variety of preset content - 👍 Easy to use app interface **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches after updates - 🔧 Limited color and editing options in the app - 🔍 Lack of search functionality in the content library - 🕰️ Inconsistent or limited clock/time display features **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on startup after updates - Issues with connecting the device to the app - Problems with saving and loading custom designs - Energy saving mode not working as expected **Most requested features** - Add more color options, including darker shades - Implement a search tool in the content library - Allow more customization of the clock and time display - Improve animation import and playback features - Add support for importing GIFs and videos directly ## Newest reviews (19 of 113) ### 2/5 — Need more functions, and the app doesn’t work after I update the version *2026-05-28, version 1.8.4* In this app, there is no plain white text on black background clock face, and you can’t mix text scrolling with animations and static photos. ### 4/5 — Not working on iPad OS 26. Missing delete functions *2026-04-20, version 1.8.2* Now not working on iPad OS 26. Opens with animation frozen then closes after a few seconds. On iPad Air and iPhone 16 it works but anything saved is gone next time the app is opened. Last update broke a few things. Formatting messes up on iPad OS 26 and none of the icons open anything. Some will cause a crash. Lost a lot of work and back to my Iphone for now. A lot of fun but no way to delete unwanted saved graffiti ### 3/5 — Kinda jankey *2026-04-19, version 1.8.2* It is good but I had some software issues, it’s hard to make an animation and you can’t look up anything in the animations or images ### 2/5 — Glitchy and limited in ability to import content - especially animation *2026-04-07* Basically it works but is very difficult to understand or to achieve consistency with. Certain operations (program) appear to be able to be set up, or alarms scheduled but any understanding about how they work or dependence on them working is not advised. It seems to only work when open and in some basic ways, anything extra is unpredictable. Ultimately I gave up trying to do anything that I bought the device for. It’s too frustrating to waste time setting it up and then have it crash or erase my work. ### 4/5 — Not working on iPad OS 26. Missing delete functions *2026-03-09, version 1.8.0* Formatting messes up on iPad OS 26 and none of the icons open anything. Some will cause a crash. Lost a lot of work and back to my Iphone for now. A lot of fun but no way to delete unwanted saved graffiti ### 2/5 — Need lot of fixes *2026-02-11* 1. Creating graffiti is hustle : you can not pick previous color 2. No IPad support. No full screen and overlapped button. It’s way easier to draw graphics on iPad. 3. No easy to way to set up images. 4. Can not directly upload from files. Only images ### 4/5 — Pesquisa de Artes *2026-01-29* Não tem como pesquisar as artes vc tem que ficar rolando uma lista grande para achar algo. ### 3/5 — It’s pretty good *2026-01-26, version 1.8.0* The app is actually okay the main thing that sucks for me is I was hoping that you could link multiple devices at once but unfortunately not ### 2/5 — MESSAGE TO THE DEVELEPORS *2026-01-24, version 1.8.0* Needs it to be abble to choose your own pictures from your photo library ### 4/5 — Missing delete functions *2026-01-01, version 1.7.9* A lot of fun but no way to delete unwanted saved graffiti ### 2/5 — Importing pixel art *2025-12-12* I noticed that when Importing pixel art to the app that the quality of the image is worse than the source image. Is there a way to fix this? Overall a nice app, but will change my rating if the image quality for importing is better. ### 4/5 — Really cool, but needs some bug fixes/new tools *2025-12-08* Ok so first off, I’ve only had this 16x16 board for less than a day, and it’s really cool! BUT! In my opinion the app is a bit limited, and I’ve noticed a few things that could be fixed/added/changed: 1. A color picker or eye dropper tool so you can choose a specific color you already used before. The 6 main colors plus white are already saved, but if you wanted to use dark green or cyan or a different shade of an existing color you have to do it all in one go and never change that color because it’s IMPOSSIBLE to find that exact color again. A tool to select a previously used color or the ability to save custom colors would be amazing. 2. A bug I’ve noticed is that the undo button sometimes doesn’t undo quickly enough (it freezes and looks like nothing happened) so I keep tapping the undo button and accidentally make the whole picture disappear. Then when I bring the picture back I can’t make any edits at all and have to close and reopen the app, which is kind of annoying, ESPECIALLY if you forget to save your progress. 3. All the text boxes that pop up for literally everything you do have no spaces between the words, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s a translation error or a coding bug? I don’t know, I can read most of it just fine, but it IS strange… Again, these are minor issues, but I’ve already started to notice these problems and I’ve only had the app for less than a day (as of writing this review). But like I said, this is SUPER cool for creating your own art and animations to display, so good job to the developers for making this! It just needs a little adjustment here and there to be REALLY perfect! I might even look into getting more of these if there are any larger board sizes… ### 2/5 — Great potential but updates should add more features and basic controls to make this display useful. *2025-11-22, version 1.7.9* The construction/build quality and the overall concept of this pixel display are pretty amazing but the app has some significant and limiting flaws which really make the display not useful for more than a couple of days. I would like to reach the developers for support questions and fix suggestions but I also can’t find a way. Firstly, I think the newer version of the app does not allow users to do a very basic thing, change the color of the Date screen. If that alone were fixed, I would give this app at least one more star because now I’m stuck with a date screen that has a really strange color combination that looks bad with my clock screen. The clock options are very limited and very specific or overly busy for my taste. Most of them use a lot of color which uses a lot more wattage of energy. The Christmas clock has lower energy consumption because it has a black background, however, it’s not usable for the rest of the year! The hourglass also has a black background but does not make sense because hourglasses are the international symbol of a countdown timer not a clock! Lol. There is no way to control the timing of either screen (the Date or time clock as well as the Text or pics/animations). This display could be so cool with some other minor changes that would make pictures and animations displaying on the Schedule screen easier to set up, as well as actually visible/enjoyable after they are scheduled. Currently, you do all this overly difficult work to make a timed schedule of cool images and animations (it is very difficult to edit or add new times) only to discover that your images show up for just a couple of seconds and never return in your rotation of screens (!) so you never see them unless you stand by and stare at the screen without blinking all day! Lol. If you set an alert buzz to see them you have no way of turning off the buzzer for nighttime changes. So yeah, your dreams of seeing rotation cool pixel animations on a cool screen are quickly squashed in less than of couple of hours learning how this thing works. I have more thoughts/notes that could make this app better to the point I would buy these displays for friends and family and if I hear back from the devs or see some of these basic fixes, I will update my review. Currently, my six-year-old niece got a little bored with the display in a day so I’ll just hope for updates (or for a third party to come out with a diy alternative firmware/app) in the meantime. ### 4/5 — Fix this *2025-11-11, version 1.7.9* Can you please fix this cause it keeps kicking me out of the app on my tablet ### 4/5 — Good app but could use more customization *2025-11-05, version 1.7.9* Could use more clock customization and a weather feature would be really nice ### 2/5 — PLEASE FIX. Could be a 5. *2025-10-25* Your app is probably the most confusing app I’ve ever used! There are soooo many things. Put the send button on viable page. Redesign the MyMaterial and cloud material galleries, functionality is so confusing. This app has billion percent potential. The capabilities that it looks like it has it could be awesome but it’s so confusing. Please fix it. ### 2/5 — I *2025-10-05, version 1.7.7* Is not letting me connect my MI matrix display ### 2/5 — Worked fine, until the app broke. *2025-08-07* The app seems to be broken at the moment, cloud data and device data are inaccessible and the font inside of the app itself it missing spaces. I hope they realize this and work on it ### 2/5 — Glitchy App, Needs Work *2025-07-16, version 1.7.4* The app is decent, but some features are glitchy. Please fix the Device Material for page 3. When adding pics or so, it erases boxes from page 2. When you erase page 3 it never deletes. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2026-05-30, version 1.8.4* When I have the app for long, it crashes. And I have to reinstall the app to fix it and the cycle begins again. Can you fix this please? ### 1/5 — Used to be cool, no longer connects *2026-03-16, version 1.8.0* This was very neat for a couple of months, now it will not connect and only the clock function works. I’ve uninstalled, unplugged… nothing works. ### 1/5 — Not working anymore *2026-01-26, version 1.8.0* was good now can’t see anything at all. ### 1/5 — They should add this *2025-12-27, version 1.7.9* I accidentally deleted my hard work and didn’t save it. There should be another was to restore your work once you accidentally delete your work. ### 1/5 — What the heck does this mean? *2025-11-01, version 1.7.9* “Thisdeviceisnotallowedtobeusedin- Taiwan. Pleasepurchasetheproduct-throughsaleschannelsinTai-wan. Thankyou!” But I’m in Australia! ### 1/5 — DO NOT UPDATE *2025-10-16, version 1.7.9* Updated app. Now doesn’t work. Now have product that is redundant ### 1/5 — Limited *2025-09-11, version 1.7.7* No search function to look for new gifs and no ability to import animations from camera roll means you have very limited options in what you can display on LED panels. ### 1/5 — new update broke the whole app *2025-09-08, version 1.7.7* i bought the minecraft version of this light. i created a lot of custom designs.. all lost with this new update. i cant even get the original minecraft designs to upload and display. totally broken after updating :( now my light is useless ### 1/5 — Only 6 animations at a time *2025-06-18, version 1.7.4* There seems to be no mode that connects to hundreds of animations displayed live and consecutively, like on Divoom, the best you can achieve is to load only 6 animations that repeat. A massive disappointment. I am Sad I bought it. ### 1/5 — Bring back the buzzer feature *2025-05-22, version 1.7.4* I need the buzzer feature back for the alarms why would you remove it in the first place people were using it I’m very disappointed ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — GREAT!! *2026-05-25* Really good APP! It does what it supposed to do. Very easy to use as well. ### 5/5 — I actually liked the app *2025-09-20* I really like the app how you can design so many things and all the ready. Contents comes with it so fun especially kids loves it. I don’t know why people left low review but it’s actually really good. Only one thing that could be done which will make it much better is you will have to always choose one individual animation to show on the screen. I wish there was like a playlist or something that you can rotate. That’s the only thing I saw about the other than that it’s perfect. ### 5/5 — 超棒 *2025-09-04, version 1.7.7* 希望能把時鐘也加入輪播功能裡面，我買這個主要是為了拿來當時鐘，如果可以和可愛的動畫一起輪播就更好了 ### 5/5 — Hey *2025-05-02, version 1.7.4* Actually it’s pretty good ### 5/5 — Good product I got *2024-12-26, version 1.7.0* I got this for 29$ not much money but it good as hell!!!! :D ### 5/5 — Nice *2024-12-25, version 1.7.0* It works amazing and brings a pop to my room ### 5/5 — Тёмный *2024-10-11* Я не понял🤬 Приложение делает рисунки, и можно выбрать цвет. Я не понял, как выбрать серый цвет? Ну, кроме фото? ### 5/5 — PERFECT 🕹️ *2024-09-10* Quadro perfeito!!! Lembra muito a época dos jogos em pixels. Não tinha jogos perfeitos em resolução na época, e o quadro trás a mesma nostalgia desses bons tempos! Quem reclama está acostumado com tudo em 4k e alta resoluções! PERFEITO PRODUTO ❤️ ### 5/5 — Me funcionó muy bien *2024-08-24* Esto es lo mejor está muy padre y muy útil muchas gracias ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2024-06-29, version 1.5.6* Maybe add an option to search for artwork via name --- *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 2026-09-03.*