# The Almanac — user reviews > 1,071 indexed App Store user reviews of The Almanac by Voodoo, rated 4.60/5 from 6,242 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-almanac/id6742649363/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-almanac/id6742649363.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,099 · 4★ 481 · 3★ 208 · 2★ 151 · 1★ 303 ## What do users think of The Almanac? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fun games - 👍 Good graphics - 👍 Challenging puzzles - 👍 Daily games **Cons** - 🐛 Coding issues - 🔍 Inconsistent game lineup across devices - 💰 Expensive subscription - 📽️ Too many ads - 🐛 Bugs with back button and streak tracking **Commonly reported bugs** - Unsolvable puzzles - Layered games on top of each other - Streak reset after updates **Most requested features** - Tablet optimization - Ability to access all past puzzles ## Newest reviews (13 of 1,071) ### 3/5 — Fun at first, then disappointing *2026-08-22, version 1.1.51* Not sure what happened with the last update, but it used to be that you could pick a level of difficulty and play the various games at that level. Now they all seem to be at the same mediocre level. Some are claimed to be “hard” (e.g., Hard Tower, Hard Sets), but in actuality they are no more difficult than any that are not labeled as “hard.” The puzzles are too easy and so are boring. Shame. ### 2/5 — Ads ruin game *2026-08-18, version 1.1.51* Game is really fun but unskippable ads make for an unpleasant experience ### 2/5 — No Option to Lifetime Purchase *2026-08-17, version 1.1.51* Fun puzzles. I immediately looked for option to buy and remove ads but only monetization options are for monthly or annual subscription plans. Without lifetime purchase option I uninstalled instead. Would have enjoyed buying this game outright to support the developers, but I don’t need another monthly subscription fee in my life ### 4/5 — Adds and games *2026-08-14, version 1.1.51* Has adds a little frequently but great game overall ### 2/5 — So far… *2026-08-11, version 1.1.51* Meh. ### 2/5 — Daily Puzzles Are Busted *2026-08-08, version 1.1.50* Some of the daily puzzles (at least Shikaku and Snap) have been exactly the same every day for a while. It seems crazy for that to not be fixed after this amount of time. ### 2/5 — Zen mode not available on iPad. *2026-08-07, version 1.1.50* I paid for a Zen mode subscription and have been using it on my phone but decided to move it to my iPad however this does not work. When I try to restore purchase nothing happens and none of the games are unlocked. I feel as if I have wasted my £9.99! Can anyone from the developers help? ### 4/5 — Issue i’ve had recently *2026-08-04, version 1.1.50* I love this app and i love playing the puzzles on the expert level because they make me think hard, but the last four days i’ve played the daily challenges on expert the shikaku and snap puzzles have been tiny boards that i’d see in the easy puzzles. Specifically with the snap puzzles it’s been the same easy board the last 4 days. ### 3/5 — Too many ads! *2026-08-03, version 1.1.50* Love the games but way too many ads. Also the ads are too long. Have deleted the app because too frustrating. I am not going to play Royal Match! ### 4/5 — Restore Purchases *2026-08-03, version 1.1.50* I am unable to get “restore purchases” to work to transfer my account from phone to ipad. ### 5/5 — current glitch *2026-08-03, version 1.1.50* ok so i absolutely adore this game. it's just the type of puzzles that really tickle my brain and make me feel smart haha. but there's currently a glitch where a couple of expert levels in the daily challenge are easy levels. snap has had the exact same level for 3 days now. this glitch also affected shikaku today. just thought i'd bring this up in case it's not been flagged yet!! ### 2/5 — Used to be a great app *2026-08-02, version 1.1.50* When are we getting another update? The fact I can’t compare scores to friends is so disappointing. We’ve waited long enough to have that back. It’s not even fun anymore not being able to compare stats. And not being able to play plates and sudoku for daily games either. ### 5/5 — Love Mambo *2026-08-01, version 1.1.50* I could play Mambo all day long. Please release a standalone app with infinite hard puzzles. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Atrocious Dev Behavior *2026-08-25, version 1.1.51* I’ve reached the point where I’m now absolutely appalled by the developers of this game. They started by changing the UI and features unnecessarily. The most significant being the removal of the leaderboard, where you could see what percentage of all players you performed better than. In their WhatsApp community, there’s a group that discusses scores and plays competitively. Honestly, the most dedicated and skilled users of the app. A conversation was had in this group discussing how we’re disappointed by the loss of the leaderboard feature. Some players mentioned that they still had the feature because they turned off automatic updates. And what do the devs do? They remove the ability for the old users of the app, literally the next day. How can you blatantly oppose the feedback of your most loyal users, and in such a brutal manner? I used to love this game. The devs made me hate it. I’ll continue to hate it, will not re-download, and will spread the word of how terrible the game and its devs are until things are fixed. But at this point, I have almost zero hope that they’d ever fix it. Genuinely a tragedy. ### 1/5 — Deeply disappointed by new update! *2026-08-22, version 1.1.51* Why change what isn’t broken?? The old version of the app was wonderful. Now it’s impossible to choose what game you want because they locked it behind a paywall, which was one of my favorite things about this app. You can’t choose the levels anymore either, so you’re stuck at very easy levels until you can rebuild all your progress which takes forever. Disappointed is an understatement and I will be finding something else to use instead. Don’t fix what ain’t broken and frustrate your entire audience. The app was perfect before. ### 1/5 — Too much *2026-08-15, version 1.1.51* Just wanted initial game this has too many varied things going on. Ads are major annoyance too! ### 1/5 — Ripoff *2026-08-11, version 1.1.51* Got this when it first came out and paid for the no Ad experience, but they keep changing all the games and setup, I now have to watch ads for everything ### 1/5 — Amazing game; update ruined it *2026-08-10, version 1.1.51* Lots of really fun puzzles. I love playing the water pipe one, especially the harder ones. But ever since they updated it that you can't choose which puzzle you play, I see no reason to continue with this app. Horrible change. Definitely 1 star until this is fixed. ### 1/5 — stop ai *2026-08-07, version 1.1.50* it is so obvious that you make these damn puzzles with ai and it is infuriating. ### 1/5 — Please! *2026-07-31, version 1.1.50* Please leave the game alone. Now all my days have crowns like they are complete but I haven’t completed them yet. I can’t even tell which days I need to do without clicking on each one to see if the puzzles have been done. Can you fix this? I like the game if it would quit updating, but please fix it and leave it alone. Other suggestion: Honestly, for me, 2 levels were enough. Three is hard to keep up with. Also, statistics, like players average time, is gone so I have no time to go fast and try to beat. It also no longer automatically goes to the next game so you have to tap each game to play. ### 1/5 — Abonnement qui ne marche pas *2026-07-26* J’adore le jeu, mais fixez vite l’abonnement… j’ai payé pour 1 an et n’y ai pas accès 👎 ### 1/5 — Terrible updates *2026-07-13, version 1.1.50* AGAIN I’m fuming over this app. I absolutely loved it when I first downloaded. I played religiously and loved tracking my performance against others. Then an update change the whole layout and I thought I lost the daily challenge entirely, and thus the ability to compare against other players. I wrote a scathing review, but then figured out that I had to beat a certain number of levels to unlock it (levels originally weren’t a thing). So updated my review, made my peace with the loss of the Plates game which hasn’t come back, and tried to get used to the changes. No sooner did I get used to it, there’s another update. Now I can’t see my score compared to other players, AGAIN. There’s a screenshot of the leaderboard in the app’s photos, but I can’t find that anywhere. Plates is still missing, they changed the Mambo colors for no reason which is messing with my focus, and to make it all worse, THEY CLEARED MY MONTHS-LONG STREAK OF HARD-LEVEL PUZZLES?! I get it if you want to make the hard puzzles harder. They were a bit too easy. But only change the future ones. Don’t wreck my progress and scores. I scored “better than 100% of players” on several of those hard levels, and now that’s gone forever! I tried joining the WhatsApp group for feedback, but it’s full. Otherwise, I’d be very vocal there too. In conclusion, if the leaderboard stuff gets fixed, and if possible my streak restored, I’ll give this app one last chance. If it gets ruined again, I’m deleting, never recommending it to friends again, and permanently etching my frustrations into history with a brutally honest review ### 1/5 — Ranking e Interface *2026-07-08* Por que tiraram os rankings mostrando seu desempenho vs outros jogadores? Nova interface ficou péssima. Muita ruim de acompanhar a progressão. Tem que sair clicando em todos os níveis, dia por dia ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Infinite *2026-08-25, version 1.1.51* I love this game so much to where I no want to get infinite. Only downside is that I can’t, I try to purchase it, yet it won’t let me. After pressing continue and selecting “individual”, I press continue once again, and then “start free trial”, but nothing happens. It shows a loading symbol for a split second, then goes away. No purchase, no free trial, nothing. Along side this, I feel that when I solve a puzzle, it lies about the percentage of people I’m faster than. Sometimes when I make an extremely fast solve, it tells me I’m only faster than 89% of people. On average I usually can get about ~92% faster than most people, many times I’ve also gotten 99+% faster than others, I just wish it would tell the truth, or at least I could know whether or not it’s lying. I play this game everyday and grind levels, and sometimes when I get fast solves, I want to know how much faster than i am compared to everyone else, but it doesn’t show me. I wish there was something where you could press a button to see it, or also have it show alongside the other messages. Another way to fix this problem, you can have a menu in which you can select which messages you get after each solve. I love this game so much, but it has small things to work on, not with the levels, but with the layout. ### 5/5 — Turuu *2026-08-25, version 1.1.51* Nice game ### 5/5 — Great *2026-08-21, version 1.1.51* Great game super fun and is very addictive ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-17, version 1.1.51* Great game, but you have to do a ton of levels to unlock all of the fun logic puzzles. ### 5/5 — Best brain-training ever *2026-08-15, version 1.1.51* Good job on the best brain-training games I've ever played. My favourites are Kings, Pipes, Shikaku, and Mambo. I was terrible when I started (I'm 70, and I struggled a bit), but I stuck at it. I look forward to these games every day. I love being able to play the different levels. It's nice to start off with something you have a fair chance of finishing, but then have to work a bit harder as you move through. Kings still stumps me sometimes. Thank goodness for the hints, and for the ego-boosting and encouraging in-game comments. My heartfelt thanks to your great team. x ### 5/5 — Havent seen a single ad! *2026-08-12, version 1.1.51* This game is fun and relaxing with no time limits or stress and the best part about it is that there are NO ADS! At least i havent seen any so far ### 5/5 — 🧏‍♀️🤫 *2026-08-10, version 1.1.51* I love how there are many different puzzles than just the one shown on the add! Yes there are adds, but they do not show up after every level, making it still playable! I would recommend if you are looking for a game to keep you busy! ### 5/5 — Shikaku Expert-Mode immer gleich und leicht *2026-08-06* Seit ein paar Tagen erscheint in Skikaku als Experte (348 Tage) immer die gleiche Aufgabe, die sehr einfach ist. Ich habe kein WhatsApp und melde mich daher hierüber. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-06, version 1.1.50* This is the ultimate brain challenge ### 5/5 — Very addicting *2026-08-06, version 1.1.50* I have an iq of 130 and it keeps me stimulated although I wish the levels were harder --- *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 2026-08-31.*