# Memory King – The Memory Cards Matching Game — user reviews > 109 indexed App Store user reviews of Memory King by Innovative Mobile Apps, rated 4.40/5 from 332 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/memory-king-the-memory-cards-matching-game/id457508586/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/memory-king-the-memory-cards-matching-game/id457508586.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 225 · 4★ 58 · 3★ 22 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of Memory King? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great memory game - 🎨 Customizable cards and sounds - 🤖 Supports up to 4 players - 🏫 Useful for therapy and education - 🎉 Fun and engaging for all ages **Cons** - 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions - 📏 Small card size for higher card counts - 💰 Expensive to unlock all features **Commonly reported bugs** - Cards not always opening when tapped - Scores not always accurate due to tapping issues **Most requested features** - Add more card categories (e.g. sight words, rhyming, numbers) - Improve layout and card size for larger screens - Provide a free version with fewer features ## Newest reviews (12 of 109) ### 4/5 — Great game but needs update! *2019-06-20, version 1.1* This is our favorite memory game. We love the clear photos, spoken labels, options. But we cannot use it on newer iOS. Please update!! ### 5/5 — Great game so far! *2014-04-25* Very easy for my almost 4 year old to learn to use. He even learned how to select multiple players. I love that feature, especially the way the background changes its color according to whose turn it is. It helps the kids understand that it is now someone else's turn, though that does not stop my boy from taking my turn right after his! He likes the game that much. In future I will buy the new card packs (with new pictures) which is very affordable at $0.99 per pack. ### 5/5 — All other Memory apps pale in comparison *2013-12-14* My daughter loves memory, and I like it well enough, too. This version has some nice twists in the two special cards, one of which turns over every card in the game suddenly, the other of which turns over every card that has been previously exposed during the game. You can disable those if you like, as, with all Alligator Apps, everything in the game is fully customizable. I haven't played around much at all with customizing it but the options are extensive, including adding your own pictures. I recall that there is even a rather intriguing option to use audio and video together or even turn off the pictures so that you have to remember which word was spoken when each card was turned over. I've downloaded other Memory apps since and deleted them quite quickly because this one makes them all quite blah in comparison. ### 5/5 — Love it for Turn Taking and personalizing! *2013-09-27* I'm a special education teacher for 3-5 year olds. They LOVE this app. The screen lights up a different color for each kid while it's his/her turn. There is no question whose turn it is. That's so concrete for these early learners. I've also been able to take their pictures and put them in the game. :) They get excited to see their friends. It's also helping them learn their friends' names. This is huge since some of my little guys are barely acknowledging peers around them. I plan on making a new category for items around our room. All in all, this is an incredible app. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2013-07-14* Loving this app it's great fun and educational my daughter's favourite game by far ### 4/5 — Teacher *2013-06-14, version 1.1* Great game! A variety of skills would be even better. For example, sight words, rhyming, numerals, etc. ### 4/5 — Almost perfect *2013-05-19, version 1.1* This game would be even better if you could match picture to word or maybe lowercase letter to capital letter, but overall a great app. ### 5/5 — Love it!! *2013-05-18, version 1.1* Our whole family loves to play! It's Memory without the mess of clean-up and reshuffling. My 4yo will sit and play forever if I'd let her!! Great app. ### 5/5 — The lion *2013-05-14, version 1.1* I enjoy the game and looking forward to more like, I have also told my friends about it as well ### 4/5 — Memory King *2013-05-07, version 1.1* Fun App! My family plays with me. ### 5/5 — Great *2013-05-06, version 1.1* Saves a lot of time setting up cards. Muti-player works great or classroom. Suggest adding cvc words to pictures, eg. cat to pic of cat. Teachers would go nuts. ### 5/5 — Great game *2013-04-11* My kids love it, and it's great for learning! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Needs an update *2018-08-11* Great app but won’t work with newest iOS ### 1/5 — Update *2018-03-16, version 1.1* Please, update this app!!! ### 1/5 — No purchase restore *2016-11-01* No restore from within the app. Sent the developer an email, they sent me a link of a new app(???). Really bad customer experience. ### 1/5 — Update ruined fun game! *2015-08-09, version 1.1* This game WAS fun, addictive, challenging. A recent update (on or before 07.31.2015) has removed the choice to have more pairs of cards to play than 12 pairs!! Too simple now and much more childish!! Boooo Hissss!!!! ### 1/5 — Teeny Tiny Cards *2014-02-13, version 1.1* Choosing higher card count makes cards so tiny you can barely see them. Frustrating! Deleted. ### 2/5 — Ms *2012-02-03* Highly recommend, my 2 yr old enjoys it very much ### 3/5 — Please update to ios11 *2018-06-02, version 1.1* Please update this app to work with ios11. Thanks! ### 3/5 — Please update to make it work with iOS 11 *2017-11-05* I bought the extras in the game but I cannot access the game after upgrading iOS! please update game to be compatible. ### 3/5 — Its okay *2014-06-01, version 1.1* Game would be better if there were more options for items. Toys and animals are getting old. ### 3/5 — Good memory game but.... *2012-03-19* This invigorates and inspires my poor old brain to action even though it is made for kids. I find my mind is increasingly lively. We love the primary colors and sweet voice. The cards don't always open when tapped therefore the scores are not accurate as we are graded by number of taps. Still we love the game. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Memory king *2018-05-02* My students loved this app. However, when I updated my iPad to ios11 it would no longer. My students and I would truly appreciate the update as I’ve found nothing else to compare to it. ### 5/5 — Memory King! *2016-10-23* This is a great app. I think that the ability to customize your own cards and sounds is a cool feature! I also love the layout and how polished it looks versus a bunch of other memory apps. For example the background turns the active player's color and the score on the corners are a nice size. I Am giving this 4 stars because when playing on an iPad, there are a few hiccups in the layout, the start screen is small and looks scaled for an iPod and the background is too. The cards also look small with a lot of dead space. Thanks for the nice app that whole family can enjoy! I by all means think this is not a kids only app' teens and adults can enjoy it too! ### 5/5 — Supports up to 4 players *2016-07-16, version 1.1* I use this app in speech therapy and really like that it can be played by the whole speech group at one time! ### 5/5 — Great fun *2016-06-21, version 1.1* Lot of fun to play this app, highly addictive. Ads are at a minimum. ### 5/5 — Very Helpful and Fun! *2015-12-06* My dad had dementia, lived with us for 8 years. We customized this game for him with old family photos. He enjoyed playing this, and it helped us all! Using the " make your own" feature is very cool. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — great memory game *2015-10-14* For some reason, I had a hard time finding a basic memory game app. Then I found this one, and it is perfect! I use it with my aunt, who has developmental disabilities, and it is her favorite app. It times your performance, gives a percentage of correct matches, and has customizable cards. There are two drawbacks-the score takes up a lot of the room so the cards are not as big as they could be (which makes it harder for someone with poor coordination to tap), and some of the cards it comes with are similar colors (some animals like the cat and gorilla look very similar to my poor weary brain!) But it is an incredible app, and I'm going to buy some of the extra cards to support the devs cuz this app rocks! ### 5/5 — Maewest1959 *2015-07-17, version 1.1* Awesome game my 5yr old granddaughter loves it. ### 5/5 — Great for the mind & pass the time! *2015-03-29, version 1.1* I'm almost 40 and enjoy this game. My memory has improved just by playing it often. ### 5/5 — Addictive! *2014-12-29, version 1.1* Thought this would be fun for my kids while we are. visiting family for holidays, but I can't put it down!! ### 5/5 — Really fun! *2014-06-21, version 1.1* I originally downloaded this for my daughter, but I love to play it! My "mommy brain" is still terrible, but this Memory Game is helping me to get it together! I love that so much of it is customizable. A really cute, fun game. --- *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 2026-08-29.*