# TAPSONIC TOP - Music Game — user reviews > 109 indexed App Store user reviews of TAPSONIC TOP by NEOWIZ Corporation, rated 4.79/5 from 2,471 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tapsonic-top-music-game/id1071168534/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tapsonic-top-music-game/id1071168534.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,149 · 4★ 211 · 3★ 60 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 43 ## What do users think of TAPSONIC TOP? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Polished visuals and characters - 🎶 Enjoyable music selection - 🕹️ Challenging rhythm gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs - 🔋 Performance issues on older devices - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🤔 Unclear tutorial and game mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Game resets progress after updates - Notes not registering properly during gameplay - Illegal program detection on non-jailbroken devices **Most requested features** - Add more anime/Japanese songs - Improve character animations during gameplay - Implement a random song selection option - Add a way to restart/reset player progress ## Newest reviews (16 of 109) ### 4/5 — How to upload my data to game center *2022-03-10, version 1.23.20* I want to save my game progress, but I can't find this function in the settings，I hope the official can solve it，This problem really bothers me，Please solve it as soon as possible, thank you ### 2/5 — Unable to launch app. *2021-06-30, version 1.23.12* Attempting to launch this on a new unused iPad, says “illegal” app installed, I have no non apple apps installed, the app won’t launch due some invisible illegal app... why do this, it’s kinda dumb, yes I know jailbreakers can ruin a game but security against them with encryption can help, I have a non jailbroken iPad, and you believe it is. ### 4/5 — actually really good *2021-04-26* very unique, the playstyle was abithard trying to get into but if youre a fan of those circle lane games like lanota or my my then this game is for you. The only problem is with the game is that most really cool EDM songs are paid with super sonic credits, so a micro transaction. It's fair and actually quite commendable since developers still need to make money. It's not like a paywall or anything of that sort. This game deserves to be top 50 of the music games on this playstore. I suggest you play it. ### 5/5 — Good game, but IAPs are stupidly priced *2021-04-05* Hey guys, it’s a good game. However I haven’t paid ANYTHING because your IAPs are priced so unreasonably stupid. Paying 13.99 and waiting for 30 days for three gachas plus one single 4-star character that has a chance of being a duplicate? And you tell me it’s 92% off? Off what? Hell no ### 5/5 — Yeeeee *2021-03-16* Really like this game. The songs are good for a free rhythm game and the mechanics are great. Wish there was a way to move the lines more to the sides. Recently got a new phone and my thumbs aren’t long enough :( Love the game though. I’ve had it a long time :)) ### 4/5 — Just one problem *2021-03-15, version 1.23.11* Overall, there is much to be done and it is a very well balanced game. I do have one glaring problem, which is when using staff to put your stars on schedule, it seems like the staff are nonreusable entities, and I think that is just unreasonable that each time you want to have them train and level their skills the staff are disposable. As far as I know, this is either the only or best way to level up their skills, so I highly recommend either making the skills easier to level up, making the scouts easier to obtain, or just make them reusable. ### 4/5 — Purchases *2021-03-12, version 1.23.11* I love this game. But when I’m trying to buy a special package... specifically the Grand Prix package it says order cannot go through or something like that and it keeps saying that every time I try to do that. ### 5/5 — Funky game *2021-02-19* Yeah. Funky game . Makes me wish I had fingers ### 5/5 — A very relaxing game *2021-01-10, version 1.23.10* I didn’t know what I was expecting but this was more than what I expected. The music in the game is amazing. My favorite singer is Lena, I love her songs after playing solo mode a couple of times. Although this is my opinion, I do feel like everyone should be able to find their type of music in this game. The tutorials are extremely useful and I am looking forward to where this game could go. I highly recommend this to whoever loves music. Really great and well done. I feel like no one would regret trying it out. Besides, the musics are nice and overall very nice stories and gameplay. ### 5/5 — Mobile djmax with some twists *2021-01-10* Coming from djmax respect v, i was expecting this game to be an inferior version of the main series. Im really happy to be proven wrong, this game stands on its own and has many fun and new features. The free to play mechanics are not intrusive and you have many songs to enjoy from the main series and new tracks i hope get ported over to dj max respect v in the future! ### 3/5 — Disappointed but not dissatisfied. *2021-01-09, version 1.23.10* Overall, the game isn’t actually all that bad, the gameplay and art are great and it’s very friendly for beginners too. But I was kinda disappointed, in a lot of rhythm games they have music shops and when this one had a music shop I was super excited and then they didn’t have any ‘good’ per say,, music on it. And if your looking to unlock a bunch of characters, it takes a while in the game so you’d have to be patient especially since there’s no sort of Gacha system. I also have played on hard mode a lot and when I click the notes it wouldn’t register which really annoyed me a lot. But if you don’t really care about those things then honestly I’d recommend it to anyone. ### 3/5 — A bug *2020-12-26* Since the last update, it has been kicking me out of the game. ### 4/5 — Ngl pretty lit *2020-11-29, version 1.23.9* I started playing because I really didn’t see any rhythm games that really interested me. I read a Reddit post on how the game was wack. It was cap it’s really good tbh. The characters could use more flavor and the stories. Most of the characters have good character design unless you get the regular tickets. The gameplay is pretty good ngl. Would recommend ### 5/5 — Rhythm Gacha Game *2020-11-26* Animation is clean, and the music is good. Worth a try. ### 5/5 — Doesn’t matter! *2020-11-18, version 1.23.8* This reminds me of a BanG Dream rip-off but it’s more better!this app gave me lots of notes of fun for idols! This is why I would go to Tokyo next year! Thank you NEOWIZ for making my day ☺️ ### 3/5 — A glorified timesink *2020-11-06, version 1.23.7* I will never be able to reclain the 3 years I spent slogging through TAPSONIC TOP instead of doing something I actually find satisfying and fulfulling. The core gameplay is passable for a rhythm game and I would it prefer it to more mainstream idol games, however. Bottom line: do not worry about the stars. Put in enough effort to unlock the songs that interest you, have fun playing them, and do no more. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hasn’t aged well *2021-12-14, version 1.23.20* I put more time into this game than I’m willing to admit, possibly more than anyone but I’ll summarize this game. A grindy korean rhythm game with bad gacha rates that no longer receives new gameplay (updates that add any value). It wouldn’t hurt to play the game for a couple hours but you shouldn’t expect anything special. Just a huge wasted potential that’s dying slowly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the servers got shutdown soon. One thing for sure is that the developers are some of the laziest people and I have little to no respect for them. ### 1/5 — Annoying *2021-09-05* Game was good until it's too hard to get fun of it. Deleted after days couldn't pass the challenge ### 1/5 — Can’t Play *2020-03-18* “Says illegal program has been detected” Please fix ### 1/5 — After the latest update the game won’t work *2019-10-16* Latest update doesn’t work with ios13, instant quit every time. ### 1/5 — 불법프로그램감지? *2019-07-23* 오랜만에 텝소닉 생각나서 왔더만 입구컷은 너무한거 아닙니까? ### 1/5 — Fancy cover for crap *2019-02-07, version 1.15.0* On the outside, you see a slick interface and attractive characters. On the inside, you’re stuck in a traditional grind game. It wouldn’t be so bad if 90% the music wasn’t garbage (some of which seems to be free crap off the net). I mean “Bingo” the dog song? Really? There’s autoplay, but if a game needs that, you know it has grind. The story is worse than highschool quality, and that’s after you get past the crappy translation. The character build system is a near carbon copy of KC: collect characters, add them together, sacrifice others to boost xp or raise your special characters up a level. The tutorial is unnecessarily confusing. Too many screens. Actual gameplay is challenging but relatively forgiving, except for the weird part of having HP for a song. ### 1/5 — Finally deleted the app *2018-12-27, version 1.14.1* For too long this app has had too many issues with crashing. I had to delete it because I would spend more time waiting for the app to reboot after crashing then playing. The devs never did anything to fix the issues after numerous messages to them. If they knew how to fix it they would’ve easily done it long ago. They will put out more patches that won’t fix the crashing. Don’t waste your time with this app. There are others like it that are better. ### 1/5 — Wtf ? Updated and all my stuff are gone *2018-05-15* Updated the game everything disappeared. Contacted the customer support and no replied. Poor service. Very disappointed. ### 2/5 — Developer actually put effort into making this game bad *2022-04-21* Wow! Gameplay is awful. I used to play DJ max by Neowiz years ago and wanted to play it again just to find out this was then new version of the tap music games. The tapping system is horrible and can’t even play the game in public because it has freaking Lolis! So cringy ### 2/5 — Well... *2021-09-24, version 1.23.16* I got this game and I liked it but then the next day I tapped on it and it showed a grey screen and it didn’t matter how many times I got rid of the tab it kept putting the grey screen up . Idk if this is just something wrong with my tablet or something is wrong with the game- ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The End *2024-10-04* Tap sonic top was introduced to me by a friend who I’ve lost contact with in 8th grade. I was addicted to it for years and made a lot of memories. It was a extremely great rhythm game and I hate to see it go I really do. Thank you tap sonic top for always being my rock and being able to take me back to a simpler time and thank you Neowiz. ### 5/5 — It’s great *2023-05-26* Honestly it is one of the best games I have ever played I have so many memories and it’s pretty addicting. My only complaint is that I feel like it needs to have more songs and more events and such, because after a while it does get pretty boring. But that is my only complaint :-) I love this game!!🤯 ### 5/5 — wasted potential *2022-05-04, version 1.23.20* Everything about this game is beautiful. The graphics, the characters, the story. But the problem is that this game hasn’t been updated in years. There is so much to this game that could be fixed. From the boring music, to the little things like the bar that is still there after the concert. I hope they read this because I have faith in this game. ### 5/5 — I am addicted *2022-03-10* I love this game so much. it’s not too hard to level up and the songs are challenging but not impossible 10/10 recommend!!! ### 5/5 — BRING BACK TAPSONIC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PLS *2021-12-16* I didn’t like this one as much as TapSonic World Championship. I ended up being placed 8th in my country in the ranks and fear I have lost all of my progress because you mfs took the game off App Store and won’t let me connect to it online. Please put it back there are thousands of people wanting to play it every day but can’t cause you deleted it with no precaution. Playing Phigros so f888 you anyway lmao ### 5/5 — I can just say one thing. *2021-10-06* THIS. IS. UNDERRATED. ### 5/5 — So much potential wasted *2021-08-19, version 1.23.15* I hope neowiz will revive this game sooner or later I played the game for a while in 2017 it was full of contents and update and now look at it... wasted potential at least the servers are still open but it’s hard to see it still open in the next year or 2 it’s just sad really ### 5/5 — 9.7/10 *2021-06-18* i would recommend it’s easy to get the basics and very fun teaches you step by step lots of fun features to keep you playing every day but sometimes when you tap or tap and hold it does not detect but other then that it’s great! ### 5/5 — Very underrated beat game *2021-04-13* I love this game. Please try it and give it attention ### 5/5 — 😅 *2021-04-05* Hey, I really enjoy playing this game and I really have no issues with it whatsoever, but when you review and look at a star I thought it would be cool to add something like a full body image of them, like a “review character” button or something. To be completely honest thought, besides this game being one of my hobbies, I really enjoy drawing and I wanted to draw some of your characters, but is quite hard not having a full reference. You don’t have to, I just thought it would be cool and helpful to me and other players. Thank you for your time. :) --- *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 2026-06-10.*