# Pop the Lock — user reviews > 356 indexed App Store user reviews of Pop the Lock by Simple Machine, LLC, rated 4.10/5 from 3,408 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pop-the-lock/id979100082/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pop-the-lock/id979100082.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,057 · 4★ 496 · 3★ 301 · 2★ 169 · 1★ 385 ## What do users think of Pop the Lock? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Great game - 😊 Fun and addictive - 🎨 Charming minimalist design - ⏱️ Good time killer **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - 💢 Excessive and intrusive ads - 🕹️ Repetitive gameplay - 🔍 Lack of difficulty progression **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on launch - Unresponsive controls - Incorrect scoring/registration - Compatibility issues with newer devices **Most requested features** - Endless/high score mode - More customization options - Difficulty scaling - Improved ad implementation ## Newest reviews (17 of 356) ### 2/5 — Great game, but has bugs! *2026-08-09, version 2.0.11* I’ve played this game for years and love it, but there are several bugs that need to be fixed. There’s an issue at the “bottom” of the lock, whereby even when a user clicks it right on top of the dot, it still fails. I have multiple screenshots - always at the bottom of the lock. ### 3/5 — Review on Pop the Lock *2026-07-07, version 2.0.11* Overall it’s a good game but even if I land on the coin I can me directly on it if a little to the side and it will say I messed up and make me lose the game needs to be updated because the last it says it 7 years ago. ### 3/5 — Glitches *2026-03-09, version 2.0.11* Listen, I love the game, it’s one of my favorites, but the glitched are out of hand. First of all, theres a glitch where you’ll click at the right time but it says you missed it. Love the game, but the glitches suck. ### 3/5 — Glitched *2026-02-27, version 2.0.11* I was playing level 33 and I got to 11 and i had clicked the lock and it didnt work when i tapped it. Witnesses saw it. I had taken a screenshot thinking app store would let me add photos but it didnt. But the Red line was on the yellow dot. Thank you and fix your game please. ### 4/5 — Fix bug *2026-01-17, version 2.0.11* There’s a bug where if the dot is at the very bottom it sometimes makes u lose even if you were right on it. ### 3/5 — Laggy *2026-01-09, version 2.0.11* Game is fun when its not being laggy. ### 4/5 — Great *2025-11-29, version 2.0.11* I’m up to 233. Now, every time I get down to about 15 clicks or less, it makes me lose even tho I landed in circle. ### 2/5 — Great game, but what *2025-08-17, version 2.0.11* I love this game but can someone tell me why it keeps kicking me out every time I try to do anything ### 3/5 — SO GOOD BUT SO BUGGY *2025-08-05, version 2.0.11* There was an advert and I exited and reentered the game to skip it, but the game keeps crashing a few seconds after open. Did you ban me? Whenever I connect to WiFi it crashes. And another bug is where if you are in the skin shop, you can keep buying, and then you go negative stars, ad soon the game will bug out and you have to earn back the amount of stars to buy more. BUT ITS STILL A V E R Y GOOD GAME ### 2/5 — Constant crashing *2025-08-02, version 2.0.11* I got the game a while ago, but after a few minutes of playing, the game keeps crashing. I open the app, 20 seconds later, it crashes. I've updated the game, uninstalled and reinstalled, and still the problem remains. You literally cannot play the game because it just keeps crashing. ### 4/5 — Kicks me of *2025-07-26, version 2.0.11* Please fix this as it keeps kicking me off evrytime I go on it and this one my fave games to play n now all sudden kicks me of I’ve tried fixing it with redownload but nope nothing works ### 2/5 — Good game but keeps crashing *2025-07-19, version 2.0.11* I used to play this game a lot about 2 years back but now every time I try to play it after 2 minutes it acts weird, it freezes and then it crashes, I tried to see if I could update it but there’s no update, this game is a couple years old so it makes sense why it keeps crashing so honestly would not recommend playing anymore ### 4/5 — It crashes *2025-07-14, version 2.0.11* The game loves to crash on me it happens when I log in or I get an achievement. So now because it crashes I can’t play the game anymore Soo PLsS fix this glitch because this game is addictive. ### 2/5 — Reason why I don’t like this game *2025-06-27, version 2.0.11* It has too many clicks and makes people frustrated ### 3/5 — It crashes *2025-06-24, version 2.0.11* The game. Awesome. It’s addicting, I love it. Even the ads, they’re not that bad, I’ve only gotten like 4 since I got it. But when I was at level 21, the game crashes, I tried turning off my phone, and it didn’t work, I tried to delete it and reinstall it, but it doesn’t work. It crashes when I loose or pass a certain level. I already love this game but I can’t play it because it crashes, plz fix this, thank you!!! ### 3/5 — Game crashes *2025-06-16, version 2.0.11* When I’m playing mid game the game like crashes fix the game, please ### 2/5 — Good but always breaks *2025-06-05, version 2.0.11* First I would like to say it was fun until the ads popped up. Because once the ad pops up it broke. and when I went to reopen the app whenever I lost the app would close. So this is a step by step instruction manual to activate hardcore mode. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Fix the game *2026-07-21, version 2.0.11* I am having trouble because I’m click on the yellow ball and it keeps restarting me and it glitch and it showed the red line on the yellow ball from my last attempt so fix it and I’ll give 5 stars ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-07-13, version 2.0.11* I keep clicking it on the circle and it said I didn’t ### 1/5 — This is a scam *2026-06-23, version 2.0.11* I swear I tap it right on time and it shows it’s right above the point and it still says it’s wrong. You cannot be serious. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2025-08-13, version 2.0.11* I loved this game growing up and redownloaded it. Now before I can get past level six, it crashes once I start actually playing. It’s done this after uninstalling and reinstalling. Never stops crashing. ### 1/5 — The Crash Error *2025-08-09, version 2.0.11* Every single time, I open the game back up it always crashes on me making almost impossible to play. From one to forty-three, it was fine until it got to a ad it, crashes once the add is over. Please fix this issue right away, because I really want to continue playing this game again and I will not play this again until the bug is fixed, thank you for your patience. ### 1/5 — Game keeps crashing *2025-06-29, version 2.0.11* I have reinstalled the game and every time I try to play it for about 5-10 mins the game crashes and I’ve tried the game on my iPhone 16 and that crashes ### 1/5 — Too much crashing *2025-06-12, version 2.0.11* The moment I press two buttons it lags like crazy and either kills me, or crashes my game immediately. It keeps happening to my friend as well. Please fix this problem. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work *2025-06-04, version 2.0.11* I don’t know if this is just for my phone, but once I got to the higher levels like 30 to 40, it started just closing me out of the app right when I opened the app. But when it used to not do that it was very fun ### 1/5 — Very buggy *2025-05-25, version 2.0.11* So the game was fun a first but the lock pick thing kept staying in place and makes you lose the game and it’s also very frustrating because you can’t even put your finger up to what is presses when you don’t even touch it please fix you game ### 1/5 — Bugs *2025-05-16, version 2.0.11* Kicks me out of the game every few seconds. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game 😏😏😏 *2026-07-30, version 2.0.11* This game is awesome if you just want to sit down and play a game without the endless ads… The levels are always challenging but not unbeatable. Overall very fun game and good way to pass time ### 5/5 — One of my favorite arcade machines into an app?!? *2025-12-30, version 2.0.11* Amazing. Thats all i could say. ### 5/5 — Simple and fun *2025-12-03, version 2.0.11* What more is there to say. ### 5/5 — Great *2025-11-23, version 2.0.11* Great game, addictive. I’m at 231, in the top 10. Colossal Seaker . Sometimes I stop it in circle and game stops as if I did not. ### 5/5 — Great *2025-11-02, version 2.0.11* Great game, addictive. I’m at 180 and many times I stop the bar on the circle but the game stops as if it was not in the circle which cost me. ### 5/5 — nice game 🙂👍 *2025-09-24, version 2.0.11* An absolute torture sometimes, but overall, a pretty good game. ### 5/5 — It keep crashing *2025-03-02, version 2.0.11* When i play when i get to the end it keep crashing and kicks me out of the game ### 5/5 — Crashing *2025-01-13, version 2.0.11* The app keeps crashing randomly but it’s very fun when it works ### 5/5 — What's poppin, lockers? *2024-09-18, version 2.0.11* The game is great, but it crashes every time you open it so it's unplayable. I used to play this a lot and tried to play again today, but it crashed immediately. ### 5/5 — IM BACK! *2024-02-21* I downloaded this game years ago & forgot about it until scrolling through my Game Center. I’m killer at this game at DAVE & BUSTERS! Even when at D&B I realized the game had looked familiar & i was the only person able to hit the jack pot but it still never clicked until right now. Amazing, simple, fun game. Sad to see it hasn’t got much recognition. I feel as though it would be a hit if it was advertised more. People love simple games. Thanks for making me a natural at the arcade people think I got insane reflex’s haha. --- *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 2026-08-30.*