# Mad Libs — user reviews > 216 indexed App Store user reviews of Mad Libs by Penguin Group USA, rated 4.10/5 from 2,887 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mad-libs/id326885152/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mad-libs/id326885152.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,723 · 4★ 483 · 3★ 261 · 2★ 160 · 1★ 260 ## What do users think of Mad Libs? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🤩 Fun and entertaining - 👍 Great learning tool - 🤗 Nostalgic and brings back memories - 😊 Keeps kids entertained **Cons** - 🤑 Too many paid books, not enough free content - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🙄 Formatting and display issues - 😤 Restore purchases not working **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when trying to read completed stories - Restore purchases feature not working properly - Formatting issues make stories hard to read - Keyboard covers up input fields **Most requested features** - More free books and stories - Add a back button to fix mistakes - Allow creating custom mad libs - Add text-to-speech for reading stories ## Newest reviews (12 of 216) ### 3/5 — Worst game to play with 42 year old dads *2026-08-16, version 3.4.1* When me and my dad were playing this game it crashed out 3 times!!!:( I like this game but please fix this!!!!!! I am so upset because we had good answers 😭😭😭😭😭😭 ### 2/5 — Couldn’t read the story *2026-08-03, version 3.4.1* Once I put in all the words they requested I couldn’t read the story because it was a black background with very dark gray text. Doesn’t make any sense to me why they would use that color scheme. ### 4/5 — It’s a good game but… *2026-07-21, version 3.4.1* It’s a great game it’s is but I just wish that there would be more stories for us to play!😄 But like I said it would be great if the game creators could add more stories to like the free book P.S. I really do recommend this game to anyone who likes funny little stories 😄 ### 4/5 — Always fun! *2026-05-26, version 3.4.1* Honestly lots of fun to play with friends to pass the time! Never seems like it’s gonna be much but can and will get unhinged FAST! There’s a few drawbacks in that sometime the app bugs out when you leave the app for a text or sumn but that’s forgiiveable! ### 4/5 — Fun app but please update it for the new OS. *2026-03-06* After updating to the latest OS Tahoe this App won’t work. Once it’s started, the Achievements window pops out on the right side of the screen and freezes any chance to navigate in the App itself. I have purchased multiple bundles and feel quite irritated about not being able to use them any more due to this glitch. Hope this message finds the creators and brings a result. Thanks! ### 4/5 — Great but *2025-12-01, version 3.4.1* Hello I love this app I play it all the time I just think you should add two more free books it would be awesome 🤩 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Another is more certifications the thing you get when you do something really hard ### 3/5 — Love it, except *2025-10-12, version 3.4.1* Great fun game for practicing English skills. One problem, there is no back button, which is incredibly frustrating when you accidentally bump to go to the next page and weren’t finished typing. And it’s incredibly easy to accidentally go to the next page. This has actually caused tears in my household on more than one occasion because he worked so hard on his story and insists on starting over again and again to redo it. Please add a back button!!!!! 🙏🙏 ### 4/5 — Love madlibs *2025-10-04, version 3.4.1* Hi madlibs love ur game but I accidentally deleted it and redownloaded it i restored my purchases and it only shows one number so plz fix it 😢 ### 4/5 — How? *2025-08-22, version 3.4.1* How do you se stories you already did? I love it, but wish there was a main home page to see everything. ### 5/5 — Great game 😁😁😁😁😁 *2025-08-06, version 3.4.1* This game is really great. very funny and interesting. I suggest your kids play it. It can help them learn the nouns and verbs and other things like that. Sometimes the storyline can be really funny. Let them not cheat. You can do on the paper copy. It really is a fun learning tool. 😂 ### 4/5 — Only wish that I could create mad libs *2025-05-27, version 3.4.1* It’s so fun. Kind of addicting, but I wish that I could create my own mad libs puzzles. But other than that, it’s so fun ### 3/5 — Okkkk *2025-05-25, version 3.4.1* It’s not the best thing ever ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — CRASHED!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 nightruined *2026-07-29, version 3.4.1* took us 29 minutes to think of the words and i was so excited bc i got the word playa achievement just for it to crash 💥 I curse tou ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-07-10, version 3.4.1* Waste of time. Every single time you type all of your words instead of giving you a story it exists out of the app and you have to re start. Do it on paper instead. 🫩 ### 1/5 — Game Center achievements crash the game *2026-07-08, version 3.4.1* The Game Center achievements glitch out the game and it doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Disappointment *2026-05-09, version 3.4.1* As of 5/8/2026, one of my books was removed and all my previous records of completed madlibs were removed. I had some from years ago that I loved to look back on as they brought me many good memories. The Game Center also pops up every 5 seconds and annoys me every time I try to use the app. Extremely disappointed in the direction this app seems to be going, I hope maybe they can fix it, as the “restore purchases” button only tells me that I can’t download anything. ### 1/5 — Bugged with latest Mac iOS *2026-02-05, version 3.4.1* As of 2/5/2026 the current Mad Libs app is bugged. It used to work just fine but now when you try to use it, it keeps opening the apple gaming achievements menu nonstop making the app unusable. Looking forwards to this getting fixed as Mad Libs was a favorite activity in my classroom. ### 1/5 — Bs *2026-01-25, version 3.4.1* Have to use game center to play. More invasive marketing ### 1/5 — DONT DOWNLOAD *2025-11-08, version 3.4.1* Virus virus malware trust me ### 1/5 — Glitchy and useless *2025-10-08, version 3.4.1* Competed my first set of words and the app shut off randomly. Tried to go back in and find my competed story and I never could figure out how to access it. What a disappointment. ### 1/5 — DOESNT FRICKING LOAD *2024-11-22, version 3.4.1* Mad libs is my life and when my mad libs is not LOADING I cry!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 ### 1/5 — format is messed up *2024-07-17, version 3.4.1* My family and i love this app and even spent money on buying the digital books. We thought it would be good for the environment to not recycle so much paper. But the format on the books is almost unreadable now. It displays each word that you enter as pale grey type on a separate line from the rest of the story. Reading it is difficult and the choppy flow makes it less funny in the end. There hasn’t been a fix for almost 5 years. We are so sad! And a little annoyed that we spent money on the app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Game!! *2026-07-11, version 3.4.1* Fantastic ### 5/5 — Educational and funny!! *2026-06-26, version 3.4.1* Love the game!!! Super fun and helps me with grammar too!!! Five stars!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Wonderful!!! *2026-06-01, version 3.4.1* I love mad libs! This is wonderful. ### 5/5 — Good *2026-05-27, version 3.4.1* Is is good ### 5/5 — Love it❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ *2026-05-02, version 3.4.1* So funny and fun ### 5/5 — I love haikus! 😀😀😃😃😃😄😄😁😆😸😺 *2026-02-21, version 3.4.1* ❤️ love It! Haikius! ### 5/5 — READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING *2026-01-17, version 3.4.1* so this game makes some super funny stories! get this appoppppp ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-11-01, version 3.4.1* Don’t listen to the other people this app is amazing!! It updated and is Better than ever! Def. Recommend ### 5/5 — The best game in the world *2025-10-19, version 3.4.1* Amazing game ### 5/5 — Love this game!!!! *2025-09-18, version 3.4.1* I Really love this game whenever I go on a road trip with my family this game is always a first pick!!!!!!! I Cannot wait to play it today when I go to the north shore in Minnesota! --- *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 2026-09-01.*