# MUDBasher — user reviews > 29 indexed App Store user reviews of MUDBasher by Andrew Goldfinch, rated 2.90/5 from 26 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mudbasher/id6755510450/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mudbasher/id6755510450.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (9 of 29) ### 3/5 — Better layout, but still needs work *2026-02-17* From the voiceover perspective, MUDBasher has a much better layout than MUDRammer. Everything is more readable and I have had a much better time navigating. It does still need some improvements, in addition to the Wong bug I noticed from the little I've yet used it with the sound pop-up in triggers not working. Besides that, my main concern is the glitch which is carried over from MUDRammer with voiceover occasionally jumping around in the output when it is scrolling. This does not happen all the time, but often enough to be annoying. This app definitely has great potential and I hope it continues to improve. Issues with the interface that I've noticed (purely from a voiceover perspective): • When adding/editing triggers, there is a bug with the matching menu. I only tried two of the options, both of which gave different yet faulty results. If I tried to change the matching to regular expression, upon saving and going back in I found that it reset back to the default option. If I chose the option for matching at the beginning of the line, it would save correctly, but I tested the trigger on a line that contained but didn't start with the pattern I'd used and it still matched. • in settings, there is an item called "Text to speech using VoiceOver" which does not appear to be toggle or give any indication of doing anything. • the last issue I've noticed which also carried over from MUDRammer is the output when there is no scroll bar visible. As a voiceover user, I use the scroll bar to quickly navigate to the end of the output, which is not possible when it does not exist. If there is any way to add a widget that will mark the end of output for voiceover users, that would be extremely useful for me. ### 3/5 — Nice start, please add… *2026-01-10* I loved MudRammer. Please add (1) Hidden Worlds - hiddenworlds.com 4040 (2) autologin (3) formatting for vertical display on iPhone 17 (it clips off the left side and appears to have other issues) (4) if not already there, simple way to disable the look and direction radials. ### 2/5 — Potential *2026-01-09* Has potential, but even with the updates.. triggers, alias, nothing works. ### 2/5 — Promising but needs a lot of work *2025-12-26* App still disconnects from servers on app switch with the newest version (iPhone 15). Saving triggers throws an error and they do not save. Message entry area doesn't grow with text, making it near impossible to scroll back and modify text if you've written a lot and want to modify or check for typos before sending. ### 2/5 — Trigger *2025-12-23* Triggers say there is some core failure and won't set **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher! This should be fixed with the latest version ### 2/5 — Connection *2025-12-21* Won't stay connected if app is left. ### 2/5 — Ton of potential but needs work *2025-12-20* This is what we have been waiting for after MUDRammer was removed. I noticed a couple issues though. I cannot get the radial buttons to appear and cannot keep the command prompt from dropping behind the keyboard so you don’t have to keep hitting the button to bring it up. The triggers will not save. Triggers and radials are what made mudrammer great. Hold off on this till it gets some updates. **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher! This should be fixed with the latest version ### 2/5 — Needs a lot of improvement *2025-12-19* Not a lot of the features work. I have no radial controls. The output does not autoscroll to the bottom upon inputting a command. I cannot get any of the gags or triggers to save. I get disconnected quickly. I would love for this to be a decent replacement for MUDRammer but it’s just not there. **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher! This should be fixed with the latest version ### 2/5 — Text input area *2025-12-11* Seems to work alright, except the view area for inputing text is 6 to 9 characters long (before it scrolls out of view) (opposed to MUDRammer's four lines of 112 characters) I really can't use this. MUDRammer still functions on my phone running iOS 26.1 It just doesn't exist in the App store for downloads anymore ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Aliases do not work *2026-02-21* Update: It is now working on a standard phone. The text looks to be optimized for mobile now. Work wrap also works now However, Aliases are broken. Aliases do not work….at all….if someone can help me fix this it would be a 5 star review. Everything else is fine. There are even variables ($) with triggers! Did the last update bork the Aliases function? ### 1/5 — Even worse *2026-01-29* Unsure if the developer actually tests before updating. As of 2.8.3 it STILL disconnects if you switch apps, and now it cuts off text if it's wider than your device, meaning if someone sends you a long message it's impossible to read. **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher! This should be fixed with the latest version ### 1/5 — Promising but needs a lot of work *2026-01-11* App still disconnects from servers on app switch with the newest version as of 2.6. Message entry area grows horizontally with text, making the entire app expand past the sides of the screen, so you can't read any of the output until you send your message and it snaps back to screen width again. **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher! This should be fixed with the latest version ### 1/5 — Can't stay connected in background *2025-12-17* The whole point of having a mud client that can run on the phone is being able to play and use my phone, not be disconnected every time I use my phone as my phone. Please fix this. **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher - this should be fixed in version 2.3! More fixes coming ### 1/5 — Many many issues, looking forward to updating this review with 5 stars *2025-12-14* None of the advanced options change when changed. any time you send a command the whole keyboard flashes in a very off putting way. The display also frequently does not show the newest outputs unless you scroll manually. Needs a ton of work. I miss MUDRammer. **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher. Please check out the latest version. Lots of issues have been fixed. Hope to get that 5 star ### 1/5 — Disconnected *2025-12-04* You can't put the app in the background without it disconnecting. Mudrammer did not have this problem. How can someone stay in rp on their phone if any time they take a text message they are disconnected **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher - this should be fixed in version 2.3! More fixes coming ### 2/5 — Connections *2026-03-11* Can't make multiple connections to the same world, in the old one you could. Still crashes when put to background **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher! This should be fixed with the latest version ### 2/5 — Good Idea, Faulty Execution *2026-02-03* Very few of these features work or are functional at all. Most of them are purely cosmetic; the controls or settings affect nothing. How can this be using MUDRammer's backbone and have so many basic features that functioned just fine in MUDRammer turn out so broken here? • Word wrap does nothing. Client is still unreadable on a standard phone screen. Text still runs off the right side of the screen and is therefore illegible. • Connectivity still drops the instant the user switches focus out of the app, despite claims it's fixed in another review-comment. • Display features (font typeface, font size, colors/themes) intermittently fail to set or reset themselves. • Putting text in the input buffer causes the entirety of the output buffer to rearrange itself, making BOTH buffers illegible. • Dismissed radial controls still try to crowd back in. This is not a complete list of broken things; it's just a few features I know aren't working off the top of my head. I'll add any others I find later. Is there a better place to submit bug reports, or is this the most likely to have eyes on it? My dude. Please test your releases before you release them. Make sure your features are actually working before declaring them fixed. We all really want to support this client, we do, there are no alternatives; but it's really difficult to use it in its current state. Some folks can't even use it at all. :( ### 2/5 — Lots of potential *2026-01-28* Glad to see it back! Can’t wait to have themes working, connectivity sticking & a larger text input screen (please make the size customizable so I can actually RP) but I’m so so glad to have anything I can use to connect at all. ### 2/5 — Promising but needs a lot of work *2026-01-10* App still disconnects from servers on app switch with the newest version as of Jan 9th (iPhone 15). Message entry area grows horizontally with text, making the entire app expand past the sides of the screen, so you can't read any of the output until you send your message and it snaps back to screen width again. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Perhaps some improvements. *2026-04-15, version 3.0.1* Really the only thing it's missing is the ability to click links. Like email addresses or webpages, YouTube links so if you want to sign up for a mud you can touch to open it, or if someone whispers you a guide on the internet, etc.. Also auto-scroll on new text seems to be broken. It's often hidden under the text input bar so you have to manually scroll down, and sometimes that doesnt help either so you have to wait for a few more lines to hit the buffer so you can read it. Really awesome and on the right track tho. ### 5/5 — It seems great so far *2026-02-24, version 3.0* Took a bit to find word wrap though ### 5/5 — Happy to see it back *2025-12-11* Missed this app. Please let folks know how they can support future development. **Developer response:** Thanks for checking out MUDBasher. Still lots of fixes happening, please check the latest version out 2.4 when it releases. Best support now is to report any issues from the port - via https://mud.kingfrat.com/support.html ### 5/5 — Thanks so much for bringing this back! *2025-11-29* So good ### 4/5 — nearly flawless execution. *2026-03-02* i'll be honest, there are a few important bugs... then again the app is still young. voiceover isn't reading the screen automatically anymore, plus the world order when you add a world is screwed up, and to delete a world you have to delete it twice... but other than that, the layout is there. just try to get the bugs ironed out quickly (mostly when it comes to accessibility and the interface. ### 4/5 — Great improvement *2026-02-28, version 3.0* Better scripting etc. and a marked improvement from MUDrammer. Only issue is that word wrap cuts up words so it's a little awkward for wordier MUDs. ### 4/5 — Sound bug and triggers *2026-02-04* I like the app but I have discovered a sound bug in the trigger settings. When I click the pop-up button that says select sound, it doesn’t bring up a window with all the sounds and so the only sound you get is the sound that used to be used for announcements on some games. ### 4/5 — Yes yes yes! *2025-12-04* This is what we have been waiting for after MUDRammer was removed. It’s what I primarily use to play with, not from a pc and it does everything I need with the alias and trigger tools. I noticed a couple possible issues though. I cannot get the radial buttons to appear and cannot keep the command prompt from dropping behind the keyboard so you don’t have to keep hitting the button to bring it up. The app has been up a day or two so hopefully that’s in the update queue soon. Tried on both iPhone 15 and iPad mini both fully updated. ### 3/5 — Needs more work but happy to see it exists *2026-06-13* The character bar (the one that you can select to give easy access to frequently used characters) causes my app to freeze as soon as I try to use it. It would also be nice if the screen scrolled automatically to the bottom on login or that this could at least be an option. ### 3/5 — Only game in town *2026-02-27* Unfortunately, seems to be riddled with bugs. Aliases, for example, seem to just straight up not work at all. Editing the radial control requires an app restart to take effect. --- *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 2026-08-23.*