# Orboot Earth AR by PlayShifu — user reviews > 238 indexed App Store user reviews of Orboot Earth AR by PlayShifu by mobilizAR, rated 4.40/5 from 2,132 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orboot-earth-ar-by-playshifu/id1273990359/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orboot-earth-ar-by-playshifu/id1273990359.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,551 · 4★ 245 · 3★ 102 · 2★ 59 · 1★ 175 ## What do users think of Orboot Earth AR by PlayShifu? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Fun and educational - 👍 Helps learn about animals, cultures, and countries - 👍 Great for homeschooling and learning - 👍 Engaging and interactive - 👍 Useful for geography and history lessons - 👍 Realistic animal and country models **Cons** - 🐛 Camera issues and trouble focusing on the globe - 🐛 Glitches, crashes, and syncing problems - 🐛 Inaccurate or incomplete information about some countries - 🐛 Oko Park missions can be too challenging - 🐛 Lack of sound or mute issues - 🐛 Compatibility problems with older devices **Commonly reported bugs** - App gets stuck on sync screen and won't progress - Camera doesn't focus properly on the globe - Sound doesn't work on some devices - App crashes or closes unexpectedly - Incompatible with certain iPad and iPhone models **Most requested features** - Add more countries, cultures, and mysteries - Improve Oko Park with easier difficulty levels - Add more interactive features like videos - Provide option to disable AR reminders - Add support for more languages like Italian and French - Improve accuracy of country and state information ## Newest reviews (16 of 238) ### 4/5 — Good *2026-06-03, version 20* Great for my children ### 2/5 — Recent update broke - bad AR library? *2026-05-03, version 20* The recent update appears to be using a non commercial AR library. This is causing the app to fail after a couple uses There displays a watermark regarding the AR library is not for commercial use, you may want to look into that. That appears to be the core failure after a few minutes of use We’ve had this working for a year and a half and it is now broken Giving 2 stars unless it’s resolved ### 2/5 — Good concept, content needs work. *2026-04-20, version 18* A lot of the information is misleading, incomplete, or just wrong. I have to supervise my daughter using this just so I can fact check. ### 3/5 — Fine app 😒 *2026-04-16, version 18* It was a great app for a few years but after like two years but now when I press the scan button it just goes back 🖤😡 ### 5/5 — So much far *2025-12-25, version 16* Love it ### 5/5 — Best *2025-12-22, version 16* It is the best game I’ve ever played ### 5/5 — Really interesting!! *2025-12-17, version 16* Okay, I am a graduate student, but I thought this device looked interesting, and it is!!!! I love that the globe has no country boundries. My main criticism is that I wish in the quiz part you could go back and review a wrong answer, but that’s fairly small. I would have really loved something like this when I was a kid!! Good job!! It’s fun and interesting without being too fancy or high tech—a great balance!! ### 5/5 — I love oroboot *2025-11-29, version 15* Hi there I am using Orboot now it’s so fun I got it when I was 6 now I am 8 and still play with it ### 5/5 — Fun and educational *2025-11-28, version 15* It’s fun and helps us learn about animals cultures and country’s ### 5/5 — I am interested in geography and this is an AMAZING app for me to explore. *2025-11-27, version 15* Amazing game, so many things to learn and enjoy. I was just wondering if you can add more countries that don’t have a description in tour and AR. Also, can you add more mysteries and other features! Thank you! ### 5/5 — It was great *2025-11-01, version 14* when I was seven years old, I got a new present orboot earth from my seventh birthday, so there’s the app of it so I played it and it felt so good even there is a grade for your child even it’s for every grade if you have that earth, you could play it!! ### 5/5 — Good orboot *2025-10-26, version 14* My kid is having the best time ever playing this game ### 5/5 — Please read *2025-10-18, version 14* This game is sooooo good. It helps in learning animals, cultures, inventions and states. The mystery games are fun,and if you want to test your knowledge you can take a quiz and it saves where you left off. There is a little game called Oko park. I give it a 3-4 it’s not that good it tells you the same problem. But other than that it’s a very good game no ads. Please use this game to help you increase your knowledge. And if you’re a parent use it to help your child’s knowledge. Peace out ✌🏽 ### 3/5 — Errors *2025-10-04, version 14* The game to balance the lands doesn’t work properly ### 5/5 — Orboot Earth Effects For Learning *2025-08-26, version 13* Orboot Earth Is Just So Much Fun For My Kid Ruthvik ### 4/5 — I LOVE ORBOOT *2025-08-20, version 12* My child is 6 and he says that without Orboot his life would never be the same again.👍🏻 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — STUPID APP *2026-06-08, version 20* DOES NOT LET ME PUT IN MY NAME IT JUST CUTS OFF BEFORE THE END AND I DONT KNOW WHAT A GRADE IS BUT IT MAKES ME PUT IT IN ### 1/5 — Why won’t it work 😠😠😠 *2026-03-27, version 17* I just got this app for my brother and I can’t open the app What should I do???? ### 1/5 — Where’s Israel *2026-02-17, version 16* No Israel or Jewish culture on map. ### 1/5 — Country info is wrong *2026-01-03, version 16* Palestine is not a country and should not be listed there. Also, why are there no animals or traditions shown for Israel? On one had you say Israel is center of four religions and on the other, you don’t show any traditions but show them for the Arab countries?? Who wrote this game, the French?? ### 1/5 — Bad app *2025-08-13, version 12* Bought it as birthday gift for my daughter but it did not get past verification. It just buffering there. ### 1/5 — Horrible App! *2025-06-24, version 11* This app has just gotten worse over time. It needs a ton of light but no reflections and it still is so finicky and doesn’t want to read the stars to work. We’ve tried multiple devices and nothing works. ### 1/5 — Pathetic *2025-06-21* I downloaded this app but it took an hour. Then when all features were synced, it shows I can’t access them or something. I have wasted so much data yet not 1 feature works. When I click on oko park, the app lags and closes. I don’t understand how this has 4.3 stars. Not worth the time, money or data. And if I try to call or email, no one responds. I don’t care for the developers response because before downloading this app, I read the reviews and I think that the developer is just sending a copy pasted email thing to complain **Developer response:** Dear User, We’re extremely sorry to hear that you’re having trouble accessing the Orboot Earth app on your device. We also regret that your interaction with our team so far hasn’t led to a satisfactory resolution. This is certainly not the experience we aim to offer, and we truly appreciate your patience. Please be assured that we’re here to make things right, and we’d like to address your concerns as swiftly as possible. To better assist you, we kindly request you to share your contact number with us at reachout@playshifu.com. Once we receive your details, a member of our team will get in touch with you for further support. We look forward to hearing from you, and thank you for allowing us to assist. Sincerely, Team PlayShifu ### 1/5 — No sound *2025-01-21, version 8* There is no button on the globe and the iPad doesn’t have a mute button. Volume all the way up. Yet no sound… Found a great deal as a homeschool family but sound would be very helpful… ### 1/5 — Garbage *2024-12-27, version 8* Garbage! Just learning the kids to play on cellphones! ### 1/5 — iPhones don't focus *2024-12-14, version 8* I bought this as a gift and wanted to try it to make sure it works and was worth giving as a gift. The last thing I want to do is give a 6-year-old something that turns out to be more frustrating than it's worth. The parents of the child have an Android and I have an iPhone. My iPhone won't focus on the Statue of Liberty because the macro on the camera won't come on or whatever is supposed to clear up objects near the camera lens. The outline of the statue puts the camera too close to the globe and an iPhone just won't focus clearly, so nothing happens. I'm probably going to return it because if the app is this unforgiving, I'm not passing a potential problem off to someone else as a gift. I also tried with an android tablet, but it must be too old because the Orboot app doesn't even show up for me in the Google Play Store. I'm not going to bother testing my iPad because the gift recipient doesn't have access to one. I'm sure it's fun and educational when it works, but it's failed my test in "Would you be happy or sad your kid got this gift and now you have to figure out how to make it work with your device?" ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good app for kids *2026-08-23, version 22* Super good ### 5/5 — Birthday good *2026-06-01, version 20* I got this for my birthday. When I tried it, I already liked it. This is so fun! Now I can do it on weekdays. I am Legend Now I am 7. Birthday good. ### 5/5 — fun for adults too *2026-03-19, version 16* set it to grade 12 and it's the best world knowledge trivia app i've found! the AR is so fun haha! 5/5 ### 5/5 — My kid loves it! *2026-03-15, version 16* My kid can focus on this game forever and she does gain a lot of information from it. ### 5/5 — it is awesome *2026-02-17, version 16* Good work it is awesome ### 5/5 — My kids love it *2026-02-05, version 16* It’s very informative and I feel like they are learning through it. It’s a little hard to take pictures and click on the icon at the same time so I do have to help my kids a little. ### 5/5 — Awesome!!!!! *2026-01-03, version 16* I love this app so much it’s so useful. I love learning about so many animals. I’ve learned so much since I’ve gotten this. It’s so freaking cool and I love how after you click out of a animal that you were researching about it tells you if you’re ever feeling sick or nauseous to not use the ball app anymore and to tell a parent and I just love that to be honest this is probably the best learning app I’ve ever had. I love all the cool facts it gives about animals. I love the explore mode. Whoever came up with this is a genius.🩷🩷🩷🩷 ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-12-31, version 16* My second grader has been playing with this for almost two hours and comes over to tell me all sorts of info on the different animals. He now wants to go to china to see the dragon for Chinese new year. 10/10 ### 5/5 — Best app *2025-12-29, version 16* I love this app it’s free 🆓 Just buy an Orboot globe and you get the free app It’s suitable for 3 years to 14 years Try it out I love it 🥰 ### 5/5 — Good for kids *2025-12-26, version 16* When I got my kids an Orboot globe they loved it and got the app. It is a very good learning 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 2026-09-06.*