# Toca Lab: Elements — user reviews > 52 indexed App Store user reviews of Toca Lab by Toca Boca AB, rated 4.23/5 from 1,056 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toca-lab-elements/id748057890/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toca-lab-elements/id748057890.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 702 · 4★ 146 · 3★ 63 · 2★ 43 · 1★ 102 ## What do users think of Toca Lab? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎉 Fun and entertaining - 👍 Great for learning the periodic table - 🧪 Realistic element experimentation - 🤩 Cute and creative element characters **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and bugs - 🔁 Repetitive and short-lived gameplay - 🔍 Lack of element information and names - 🔢 Limited number of elements **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when using certain tools - Saved progress being lost or reset - Graphical glitches and visual bugs - Sound issues and missing audio **Most requested features** - Add more elements, including new discoveries - Introduce compound creation and reactions - Add customization and progression options - Provide more educational information about elements - Implement a restart or reset feature ## Newest reviews (13 of 52) ### 4/5 — Good but needs more *2021-05-30, version 2.0* Ok I love this game, when ever my friend comes over we would play it, but today we got all of them and hoping we get another pack with new elements but no me and my friend were so disappointed 😞 we clicked the update and it did nothing. To people. This is a good game for a serten amount of time it is definitely not worth that money but still good so if you want a game that is going to end get this one. To the creator listen up I love this game a lot but please just please give another pack of elements I am sad that my friend got are hopes up for nothing so please do what I ask. Well have a good night or day bye!! ### 4/5 — Good Game Just Needs An Update *2021-05-22, version 1.1.2* I bought this app a few years ago then I re-installed it. This game is really fun, but it’s too short. To start off I discovered all the elements in 1 day. There’s also this weird bug in the game, whenever I use the spinny thing it crashes the game. Then when I try it again it works? But that’s whatever cause yeah...anyways like I was saying. An update would be amazing :) ### 4/5 — Amazing, But... *2020-12-31, version 1.1.2* This game is awesome for teaching kids like me the periodic table but if you are going to teach someone the elements you have to include the names of them! And you also have to have the names of the things that unlocks other elements, like the Centrifuge and Liquid nitrogen spray; But anyways, I like how the different elements have a little character to represent them. I think your other Toca lab game (Toca Lab Plants) was better. This game lacks information. ### 4/5 — Nice! But one thing *2020-11-07, version 1.1.2* I just gotta say this app is amazing it’s fun and cool that you get to play around with the little blob things.I only have one flaw tho. So maybe add more machines I know there is like 6 but it gets kinda boring after you use all of them to try to make a new thingy. So I would appreciate if you added just like 3 or 2 more that would make me happy and probably others too. 🙂 ### 5/5 — Plushies!!! + a game *2020-07-28, version 1.1.1* I want you to produce and make Toca lab elements plush with tags that represent the atomic number and the symbol and profile.I want you to make another app called Toca explorer with fun shows ,games,and mini games such as Toca jump,Elements,Toca Tea Party™️etc. And also fix the bug/virus on radium,darmstadtium,etc. Also add a kid’s scratch. Also make an elementizer. ### 5/5 — Played it for forever *2020-06-10, version 1.1.1* So, first of all, I’ve always loved this game. My dad got it for me on my iPad when I was five, and I’ve been playing it ever since, but obviously less now lol. It could use some new additions and updates though, as this app allows young kids to experiment with different substances and chemicals, like little scientists, personally I find it pretty cute. But. And yes, there is a but. If there were names listed above or below the species, kids might learn a lot more! Five stars for this, and all the other Toca apps! ### 4/5 — Pretty Good App *2020-05-22, version 1.1.1* TB! I...and so many other parents really appreciate these educational applications aimed at....well...teaching. I downloaded this for my daughter and she loved it, we also happened to be doing experiments with bases and acids a day prior. As with previous reviews on this app, there are so many things you can do with this; but please provide the names of the elements and their breakdown, and...new things can be created as you experiment with altering or combining elements with elements and with non-elements. Additionally, it would be great to observe the temperature readings at which certain elements freeze, melt, boil, etc. From a learning standpoint this app can be made to teach so many on very different levels. It would also be great to incorporate a storage area so you pass on an understanding of storage requirements for our young scientists. You can take this App from good to awesome! You could also have various scientists provide short lessons on working with each element...just a thought. Thanks! ### 4/5 — READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING *2020-05-11, version 1.1.1* You must know that this game is a fun game for little ones to start their exploration of elements and science. This game is accurate with elements but not how they are made. This is not supposed to be material for exceptionally accurate facts and learning. If you download this and still are surprised, don’t be, cause the description should have warned you. I still think this is fun even though I’m not very young. Please download it for yourself if you want. I like it and I’m sure your kids would too. Thanks, Toca for this game. I’m just tired of the terrible AND good results that are dividing people on this game. Thanks, bye! :) ### 4/5 — Ok pretty good *2020-04-24, version 1.1.1* So me and my brother got this game and he finished in one day we were sort of hoping that you could win like a prize at the end in the game when you finish them all but no you pretty much just do it and then never play it again so 4 dollars for this was okay but maybe needs more at the end! Over all I loved all the sounds that they made and it is pretty fun so I gave to 4 stars! ### 5/5 — The best chemistry game ever *2020-04-01, version 1.1.1* This game is awesome and I unlocked all the elements. This game made me so interested in chemistry I literally want to do chemistry as a job when I grow up. Without this game I wouldn’t have a dream job. So big thanks to this game. Also people are making up these fake elements like “Ununennium” and so on. ### 4/5 — Great, but I have a few Suggestions *2020-03-24, version 1.1.1* First of all, this is a great game! Funny characters and noises.. It has multiple options for the game, like The Fan or The Freezer, most of the time, it transforms your character to a new one. And it’s free! It makes u laugh, and giggle as u watch what happens to each character! Then comes in my suggestions: 1. It would be AMAZING if they had more characters!(I went through the game in a day:() 2.Can you make the characters more cute? I seen cat ones but not dogs, not that I don’t like cats, but I’m more of a dog lover.... 3. Can you make more options for a potion? I love all the things that happen with regular potions but, more would make it more fun! 4. Can you make the characters stick to the walls? I think it would be fun! 5. There should be a custom made element guy, what I mean is I think we should make some hybrids, mixing a element with another element. I’ve seen the plant game do it, but why does it have to be money? U developers can do the same thing for FREE!! That’s all my suggestion I rate this game 9/10, great game, I recommend it!! ### 5/5 — Love it. But needs new additions *2019-11-09, version 1.1.1* I like the game and what you people at Toca Boca were very creative with making the Periodic Table. But there are a few things you need to add. Like a Restart. It would be great having a restart but you could pick the element you start with Instead of just Phosphorus. (P) Another thing you could add Is mini games. Like make Element here in a short amount of time. Another thing you could add is that the elements you put into the beakers with the colored water would make six smaller elements. Putting the small elements together would give you information about the element (Like putting small Americium(Am) together, Would show you it’s properties. If the element has a combination with it, There could be an option where you do something that won’t make an element, It would give it information about the element for free.) And I’ll recommend color coding every group from Alkali metals(Li,Na,K,Rb,Cs,Fr) being red, Alkali Earth Metals(Be,Mg,Ca,Sr,Ba,Ra)Being Orange, Transition Metals(Sc-Cn)being Yellow, Lanthanides(La-Lu) Being Yellow Orange,Actinides(Ac-Lr) Being Yellow Green. Metalloids(B,Si,Ge,As,Sb,Te,Po) being Blue, Halogens(F,Cl,Br,I,At, Ts)Being Indigo, And Noble Gasses(He,Ne,Ar,Kr,Xe,Rn,Og) Being Purple, And Nonmetals(C-Bi) Being Blue Green. ### 5/5 — Science easy!!! *2019-07-22, version 1.1.1* So I beat the game in 3 hours and there was confetti 🎉!!! & and the game was so cool 😎 but where are the superactinides and post elements and like everyone says where are the NAMES!!! No one wants elements by their symbol like I or bk or xe or la or lu not even fr okay okay but on the bright side it is a fun game!!!😉🤩🧐😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😁😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀 okay enough emojis juneboy6 the end jk don’t ya like copper and francium and indium and iodine and I made a song called its radioactive ☢️ now the end ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — stole my money! *2019-11-08, version 1.1.1* i used to have this app when i was younger and it was very fun and educational. i now am downloading it for my nephew. i paid $3.99 to get it. whenever i open the app, the intro keeps replaying over and over again! i’ve deleted the app and re-downloaded it, restarted my phone multiple times, and even downloaded other Toca Boca apps to see if they did the same thing. they all did the same thing! they each wouldn’t let me get to the app, but instead, they just kept restarting the intro over and over again. i paid a lot of money for these apps to work. it’s a shame they didn’t. ### 3/5 — Great, but one major issue. *2022-11-06, version 2.1* Okay, let’s get one thing straight. I love toca lab: elements, as I have played this game before, many years ago. I have played it again this year, and it’s still amazing. I love all of the elements’ sounds that they make. It was REALLY magical for me playing it the first time. Although, I can’t quite experience the game that way anymore, because the app. Keeps. Crashing. And every time it crashes, I lose all of my progress. So I have to start over and over and over again. It’s really annoying. And sometimes, I can’t even play it in general because the app crashes as soon as I press on it. That REALLY needs to be fixed. And also, a quick suggestion: under the elements’ symbols, there should be the element’s name. Just to make it less confusing. Anyways, that’s why I’m rating this 3 stars. I would’ve given it 5 if it weren’t for all of the crashes. ### 3/5 — Fun but … *2022-10-29, version 2.1* Subpar. Ok, first off... the game IS fun, it IS cute, and it ISN'T fully accurate. How it works You start out with the element Phosphorus ( or P for those wandering). You have six different "tools" you can use to "change" the element. You continue this and as you do you gan more elements- but that's the thing.... NERD ALLERT You can't change an element from one to another. I mean- why do you think medieval Alchemists failed at transforming Lead (Pb) to Gold (Au)! Don't get me wrong I love this game and played it when I was little, but I don't suggest it for your child. Therefore subpar... Again, I love the game, and it's really fun! But I do have a small suggestion. Maybe not having one element and building off of that; but having the tools to "discover" the elements! This would definitely make everything a little more accurate! Thanks for reading! ### 3/5 — Fun but could be more accurate *2020-07-06, version 1.1.1* I thought the game was really cute for my 4 year old who loves all the Toca games, but I was a little disappointed when the elements made sounds instead of saying the actually element name. I feel like that was a real miss with this game because I almost don’t want me son to play it because he’s repeating the sounds and that’s not what the elements are called. ### 3/5 — It depends on what kind of person You are *2020-07-02, version 1.1.1* If you are a person who tries to enjoy it and stopped every five minutes please games gonna take about three days and that’s the problem it’s not very long game it did take me and my friend a couple of minutes to find it because some of the elements were just hard to find but if you’re a speed runner who tries to get a leave the game under in a day it will take about an hour which would be a problem that’s the only reason why I give it three and not four stars ### 3/5 — No sound? *2019-06-02, version 1.1.1* I have tried everything I can think of to turn the sound on: turned on music for this app in my iphone settings, deleted and reinstalled the app, emailed support 2 weeks ago but never received a response. The app is really fascinating but I feel like we’re missing so much with zero sound. ### 3/5 — This is a great app but could use a few things... *2018-03-09, version 1.1.1* Don’t get me wrong this is another Toca Boca masterpiece, I even use it to study my periodic table! There’s only one major problem with this app. Once you get all the elements it’s gets pretty boring I mean the only thing you can do is change them to different elements. Maybe you could add like compounds or a different section like that?😋 ### 3/5 — 3/5 stars *2017-06-18, version 1.1.0* I gave this rate 3/5 stars because Toca Boca just made Toca lab: plants but of course I waited and ili saw that it wasn't free I GOT so MAD It even made me get into trouble for not BEHAVING because I pleased my parents and they say no so I asked again and I got in trouble, I had to go to bed early! Now here's the good part of this version: You made it free for a little while and I was able to play it and still have the app because I truly loved it. So those are my thoughts about the Toca lab series and about Toca lab: elements ### 4/5 — Goodbye need a few improvements from the new update *2022-05-26, version 2.1* Every time I go on my iPad it’s like starting me over the first time I went on it it didn’t start me over again andI got so mad that I decide to delete the app and then open it and it still didn’t work so I guess you can improve it on the next update. - Lay’La ### 4/5 — Love the game but it glitches *2021-12-05, version 2.0* We got through a lot of the game but when we got to Ne it won’t let us make the next element. As soon as we put it in the centrifuge it goes to the next element and closes the whole app. Is there any way this could be fixed???? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Going Outside Update *2023-10-30* The Door button I to go outside. The Door button Il to go inside. The Elements go out and Play. Elements play, ride cars, fly, and more! The elements are out of the laboratory, so they can play with S/19 (Sjw. Dear Toca Boca AB, Door Button 1 time to go outside Door Button 2 times to go inside Play: The items from the box will move outside Ride Cars: A road will appear if a car was spawned click the plus button to add cars from photo library or by taking a photo. Left and right buttons will appear to move the car. The horn button will appear to honk the horn. Fly: The fly button will appear if an Element was touched along with all other buttons including drive button. Record: Button will appear to record with microphone and video and save it to photos. Can you update this game with all these features and the erase saved progress will be removed from the settings Weather cycle will be enabled. No changing the time. Can you add them now? Thank you! From Billy Tan-Zhou ### 5/5 — Amazing Game, But Many Mistakes *2023-04-14* Tennessine is not a halogen. It is a Superheavy metal (I think). Also, all the lanthanides or rare earth metals are magnetic. The only magnetic lanthanide you made was Gadolinium. Also, Radium Promethium, and Astatine are luminous elements. So, their radioactive aura should be very bold green. Fluorine and Chlorine don’t have the halogen bubbles on them. Francium, Aluminum, Copper, and Zinc are not noble metals. Palladium is a noble metal. The noble metals with the sparks on them should have a hexagon with a picture of a star just like the radioactive elements have 3 circles on the hexagon (just an example). The poisonous elements like Arsenic and the heavy metals except for Bismuth, a nontoxic heavy metal should have a hexagon with poison symbols on them and green poison symbols surrounding the element. Please fix them. ### 5/5 — I found a bug! *2022-06-24, version 2.1* I love the game and I found a small bug. When a blob blows up and the middle right shelve when the murged it went though the shelve! It’s middle was stuck! Pls fix it pls! It pretty good! So five stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ### 5/5 — Add a restart button *2022-05-01, version 2.1* I like the game, but can you make it so you can change the element you start with and be able to restart the periodic table? If added I would greatly love it more. ### 5/5 — Intro to experimentation and unknowns *2021-12-17, version 2.0* This is a great app in which kids experiment to find new creatures. Sometimes they know what to do and other times they must experiment to fill in missing pieces of info. I get that they were mimicking the table of elements but I think progression really could have elevated this game. If the creatures slowly became more complex (ears, tails, arms, legs, etc) as you went across the chart it would add more incentive. ### 5/5 — MAKE A SECOND GAME *2021-05-30, version 2.0* Please please please please please make a second game I know that the first game already had all the elements in it but you can just make up fake elements in the next game or not even make it about elements just call it Toca blobs or something this game is amazing and I really really want you to make a second game I finish making every single element in one day and I’m bored deleting the app and re-downloading it just to make the same elements please please please make a second game!!!! ### 5/5 — It’s very fun and I love it *2021-04-05, version 1.1.2* Okay Amy you look like a big person but I’m actually eight years old first I like the part where you have to have that with acids and then boom you get to change the characters when you do when you find the questionmarks do you have to guess which one is? It So stupid you have to figure it out it’s just very stupid. I love you but why does it just have a table just useful words of the developers going to add a comment of mine and just can you tell me what the P one is ### 5/5 — Good but needs an update *2021-02-19, version 1.1.2* Ok this is one of the best apps I have seen! It’s so fun and cool! But there is one thing that is making me sad. There has never been a new update! I have ideas though! Maybe make a game where you could make a new element mini game and call it Make an Element! So you can smash elements together and make your own element! That would be cool! Or maybe be able to restart the game and start as a random element! I love this game so much and I wish Toca Boca to always keep it up! ### 5/5 — IF YOU DONT LIKE THIS GAME YOU ARE CRAZY!!!! *2020-09-09, version 1.1.1* This is a good game it ussaly takes a few days make a game fun for me but toca lab elements only got in a matter of probably 6 minutes! Well I mean you have to pay for I’m a kid and my aunt gave me a phone and her phone is connected to my phone so i can download this for freee!!!! ### 5/5 — Nice game! *2020-08-08, version 1.1.1* This taught me to remember the periodic table better, (I am a kid) And would totally recommend for adults to use with their kids. I was bored when it ended, and restarted a couple times, (if you want to know how to do that, just delete and reinstall) Cool 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 2026-06-10.*