# Smove — user reviews > 235 indexed App Store user reviews of Smove by Simple Machine, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 1,246 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smove/id968818637/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smove/id968818637.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 949 · 4★ 171 · 3★ 65 · 2★ 28 · 1★ 33 ## What do users think of Smove? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and intuitive gameplay - 🎨 Smooth color transitions - 🎶 Soothing background music - 🕹️ Addictive and challenging - 💯 Great for passing time **Cons** - 🐛 Unresponsive controls - 🔇 Sound/music cannot be muted - 📈 Difficulty spike at higher levels - 🛑 Forced to restart from level 1 - 📢 Intrusive ads **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes or lags on certain devices - Level 1 achievement not working - Inconsistent swipe registration **Most requested features** - Ability to start from last reached level - Option to customize ball color/shape - Endless/survival mode - Leaderboard/achievements - Power-ups or special abilities ## Newest reviews (15 of 235) ### 3/5 — I don’t like swiping *2026-05-06, version 1.3* Swiping is hard on a phone, so make the way to move the ball is useinng d-pad ### 2/5 — YOU CANT REMOVE THE SOUND *2026-02-04, version 1.3* When I turn off the sound it keeps playing music !!!!! ### 4/5 — Great Game!…… but can be better *2023-11-25, version 1.3* This game is one of my favourite things to play and is perfect for long trips and road trips. it has a sense of difficulty and it’s not like other mobile games and it can get really difficult at some points. But I do have some complaints to this game. Like for example, this game hasn’t updated in 8 YEARS. A bunch of features in your average mobile game are missing in this app. PLEASE don’t forget about this amazing game and abandon your small but devoted audience! This game has so much potential for a great mobile game all wasted because of your developers. Hope to see an update on this game soon. ### 4/5 — Great game *2023-10-12, version 1.3* The game is AMAZING but there is one flaw the only thing that I could find that is wrong with the game is that even if you turn the sound off it stays on no matter what you do please fix this. Otherwise it is the BEST game on my phone. ### 4/5 — Great game but level 8 has some issues *2022-11-20, version 1.3* Don’t get me wrong. I love this game. It’s one of the best offline games out there. But, on level 8, it puts you in situations when you are blocked off on both sides, and then another dot/ball goes to the spot you are in. There is no way to escape this, and it happens around 90% of the time. There is no skill to level 8 when you get put in those situations. If the devs could maybe try to patch this it will be much appreciated so you can actually play level 8 using skill. ### 4/5 — Good game with bad bug *2021-11-12, version 1.3* This game is truly incredible. It’s a lot of fun. There is one problem though. I reached a new high score of 135 and it hasn’t worked since. It just leaves me on the “swipe anywhere” screen and lets me swipe but no blue squares or black balls appear. I can’t play anymore but it’s a great game if you don’t get a high score of 135 ### 5/5 — Ayden (Aidin) *2021-10-20, version 1.3* You are the best I like it how do you can move anywhere ### 5/5 — I love it *2021-09-17, version 1.3* This is literally my favorite game ever. Thank you guys for making this awesome game. I do feel that the 4th level (the blue one) is really hard compared to the 5th level (the red one). I feel like they should be switched around because it’s supposed to increase in difficulty. Maybe I’m just too good at the diagonals and it’s hard for other people. I don’t know. Either way, I love your game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also I want to know what your guys best score is because mine is 70 and I think that’s pretty good. (Also you guys should add some kind of stats thing that includes total number of attempts, total number of points, total time played, maybe even a ranking of how high your score is compared to other players) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2021-08-26, version 1.3* Its a amazing game and its quite fun to play, there’s no video adds and can be played offline so me and my friends have loads of fan (I have the high score) ### 4/5 — Could be so much more *2020-12-10, version 1.3* Firstly, the disable sound button doesn’t work and it’s really annoying. Other than that it’s a good game. I just wish the developers put some more time into this one, as it’s such a good start. Small things like practice mode would be great, and I think there could be a better way to end the game than just speeding it up making it impossible. But there could be so much more... Picture a level creator where you could not only program in what should appear where and when, but also change the size of the grid. There could be portals you have to go through to get a diamond, or power ups to collect for a shield. You could change the background design to how you want it, or even put music in to time it with the action on screen. This could be like a geometry dash or Mario maker style game where the community keeps it alive and fun. ### 3/5 — Turning Off Music Broke *2020-11-10, version 1.3* Can no longer mute the ingame music, unless you mute your whole phone. Other than that, good simple game. ### 2/5 — Sound cannot be muted!!! *2020-08-07, version 1.3* The app is great fun. But it keeps having the same issue today 7th of August 2020 as it did over 2 years ago. The sound cannot be muted at all, the game soundtrack will playing in spite of you selecting the sound off in the game options. Extremely annoying mostly if you want to play your music for example while playing the game. Other than that really fun game, as I said. ### 3/5 — Great app but needs improvement *2019-08-31, version 1.3* This game is fantastic and addictive. I love to play it all the time. But it is really frustrating to not get started from where you lost. Starting from the beginning makes it really frustrating. ### 3/5 — Sigh *2019-05-01, version 1.3* Plz make the sound button actually work so if i Turn it off it turns off not if i turn it off it’s still on :/ ### 5/5 — Music *2019-03-25, version 1.3* I really love the game. I don’t have any big issues except the music. I sometimes play the game when I have my headphones on and I can’t turn off the music so the music from the game disrupts the music I’m actually trying to listen to. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — doesn't work at all anymore *2026-07-23, version 1.3* goated game but it just does not work now, probably 90-95% of the times i open it, it instantly crashes ### 1/5 — doesnt even run *2025-12-23, version 1.3* i dont know why anyone would get this game. it was fun when it worked but for me it doesnt even load past the starting screen on two separate phones. if im lucky itll get to the first level but i can’t move or anything. tragic this used to be my niche game and it’s all gone ### 1/5 — 26.1 breaks this game *2025-11-15, version 1.3* app freezes on launch only on 26.1. This is is getting consistently worse. ### 1/5 — sound problem *2021-02-26, version 1.3* the no music button does NOT WORK ### 1/5 — Ça m’énerve on peut même pas couper le son *2019-07-19, version 1.3* Le jeu BUG des fois cela ne fait pas la direction demander😡😡😡😡😡 ### 1/5 — Music and sound wont turn off *2018-05-08, version 1.3* It’s so annoying ### 1/5 — The ATROCIOUS ADS *2016-05-19, version 1.3* once I reach up to 60, an ad obstructs my view of what's coming up from the bottom it's very annoying and makes it nearly impossible to progress ### 1/5 — Player *2015-07-19, version 1.3* Poorly graded in difficulty at low level at about 10. ### 1/5 — NO *2015-05-29, version 1.3* This game is terrible -Full of ads -when you move the dot it delays so you lose. Not fun just frustrating ### 1/5 — Level 1 Achievement - Doesn't work *2015-04-29, version 1.3* Still doesn't work ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ *2026-07-27, version 1.3* ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ### 5/5 — AAAAAAAAA *2026-04-15, version 1.3* It’s fun :3 ### 5/5 — PLEASE UPDATE *2026-02-20, version 1.3* I have had this game for almost 10 years and it is the only game I play. Since the latest iPhone update, it barely works and keeps crashing. Please update and fix it. Long time players like me would really appreciate ### 5/5 — Please update! *2026-02-11, version 1.3* I’ve had this game for years, and with the recent Liquid Glass update, it finally broke. Please fix! ### 5/5 — sound *2025-01-23, version 1.3* plz remove sound. i wanna like chill and listen to music but the little background noise be really annoyin me😞iluvethegametho ### 5/5 — Love it!! *2024-12-20, version 1.3* I love this game!! It's absolutely perfect for car trips or having something to do after a long day!! It would be even better if more games like this were made so I can play them on my iPod touch!! ### 5/5 — Superb, zen like and great fun. Simple design but One more go always needed *2024-07-12, version 1.3* I Rediscovered this dear little game this week , having first downloaded it in 2015 ( likely when it was first released ). Worth paying for the ad removal as the ‘just one more go’ element of gameplay is rather strong. Simple premise of collecting coloured dots , by swiping your white dot from a 3x3 playing field ( yellow representing the 10th dot of each 10 level sequence ). Every 10 levels the enemy ( black dots which move across the playing field , and need to be avoided ) path and layout changes and gradually gets more difficult. It can be frustrating but the simplest of ideas works so well. I’ve just managed to clear level 60 for the first time today ( and got my 6th achievement ) and at 67 points am now in the top 1 % of players . Can you beat me ? Recommended as a cute, but challenging action game ( with planning elements, you can with practice learn the patterns of movement of the enemy dots ). I had a note come up in game to leave a review and am happy to do so. In this day and age, visual overload in games can be a major problem but this very simple game is soothing zen like and a joy to play ( despite those pesky black dots keeping catching me ). ### 5/5 — Great game *2023-02-06, version 1.3* Still playing, this could totally or should have totally gone viral. After years I keep breaking my own records. I wish the most points rank could be cleaned since all of the top ones are clearly cheaters ### 5/5 — I love this game *2023-01-22, version 1.3* I love this game but 1 suggestion is that maybe have a thing saying a daily high score like if I got 50 one day it would say 50 but if I got 49 the next it would say 49 because then it would be easier to say I want to get past 70 every day and you wouldn’t have to try to remember did I get 70 today? ### 5/5 — the only skill based mobile game *2021-12-23, version 1.3* except for crossy road --- *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 2026-08-28.*