# Ultimate Jewel — user reviews > 196 indexed App Store user reviews of Ultimate Jewel by Balloon Island Limited, rated 4.74/5 from 2,474 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ultimate-jewel/id680387756/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ultimate-jewel/id680387756.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,975 · 4★ 267 · 3★ 67 · 2★ 22 · 1★ 35 ## What do users think of Ultimate Jewel? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Enjoyable and addictive game - 🚀 No time limits or lives to recharge - 💡 Challenging yet relaxing gameplay - 🎨 Visually appealing graphics **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional freezing or crashing issues - 🔊 Inability to fully mute or disable sound effects - 📺 Intrusive or excessive advertisements - 🔄 Dislike for recent gameplay changes or updates **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezing or crashing at certain levels - Inability to mute or control sound effects - Advertisements causing device compatibility issues **Most requested features** - Option to disable or reduce advertisements - Ability to choose between original and updated versions - More level variety and progression challenges ## Newest reviews (12 of 196) ### 4/5 — Splashing Animation DISTRACTING *2024-06-15, version 2.20* All was great with the game, having played the night before. Today I decided to play for a while and now each time I score a hit, an animated splash appears and a numbers score that is highly annoying. Why did you add this to an otherwise perfectly executed and sophisticated game?!? This game’s design is too small to add anything else to the board. I can’t play anymore, it’s too juvenile now and no longer fun. This was my favorite game. Please remove the splashes and numbers when a score is made. It was a perfectly designed game and now it’s just plain annoying. Thank you. ### 4/5 — Sound! *2023-11-28, version 2.15* Sound keeps playing even though it’s completely off. ### 3/5 — Great game but! *2023-06-02, version 2.15* Since last update I can’t turn the irritating music off. ### 5/5 — ULTIMATE JEWEL *2023-05-22, version 2.15* This game so relaxes me and has got me through many sleepless nights! LOVE IT!! Excellent game!!!! ### 5/5 — Why are the sounds on when turned down *2023-03-22, version 2.15* I really enjoy this game! I’ve played it for decades! But …. Why are the drum sounds on when I have turned all sounds to their lowest settings? This limits the places and times and the other options where I can play this game, like while talking on my phone. While the person one my calls cannot hear the banging, it is distracting. Nor can I enjoy a show or movie while playing. Please fix! ### 5/5 — Nice time killer *2023-01-31, version 2.15* This is a perfect game to play for when you want to just play a little game, and in a little less than a year, I’m nearly at Stage 12… I play this a lot. This is a great game and I love how simple it is to understand and play ### 5/5 — Best game ever. *2022-12-18, version 2.15* No hurry goes on tricky and challenging no constant ads sales or stuffi love it. ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2022-11-02, version 2.14* Thanks!!!!💜👏👍🫶🏾 ### 5/5 — 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙 *2022-10-20, version 2.14* Good ### 5/5 — Love ❤️ the update! *2022-08-21, version 2.14* I have been playing this game for a few years now and absolutely love it. The graphics that this new update has implemented are 👌🏾 awesome! Thanks for keeping me interested! ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-07-12, version 2.12* My husband and Inhave been playing this game for a long time. We love it, and never get tired of this game. ### 4/5 — Long standing favorite *2022-07-11, version 2.12* I’ve been playing this for over 10 years and it’s my favorite. I try others from time to time but get tired of them. I always come back to Ultimate Jewel. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ad changes:( *2026-01-19, version 2.20* Played for years now there is no longer any way to close adds after each stage, the removed the close button. ### 1/5 — Publicité arnaque au deuxième niveau *2024-04-01, version 2.20* At the second bloc of difficulty after around 70 and some others, will appear seamingly unharmfull publicly. But after that, you will see your screen on your phone is blocking. Then they try to sell you an app to cancel this freeze. After that their publicity shows you a screen as if you had an active virus attack and then You Guess it well: they try to sell you an app for that as well!!! Beware!! Il y a plus de 70 stades au premier niveau. À partir du deuxième niveau apparaît de la publicité. Mais après ça ça s’empire! Ils essaient de te vendre un programme parce que effectivement depuis que ce jeu a été téléchargé, il y a un blocage anormal où t’es coincé à un endroit spécifique dans ton écran de téléphone. Ça ne s’arrête pas là! Ils essaient ensuite de te vendre une application d’antivirus en te faisant croire que ton smartphone est parasité par un virus! Aussitôt que j’ai vu ça, j’ai supprimée ce jeu et c’était la meilleure chose!!! Encore mieux pour moi ç’aurait été de ne jamais l’avoir téléchargé! ### 1/5 — Is there a way to end all the adds? *2023-08-10, version 2.15* I really enjoy this game but at the end of each level I get an add and have to find the x or close button to continue the game. I don’t see any thing that tells me how to end all the adds so may have to delete this game and find one with an option to play without adds. I really hate adds. ### 1/5 — Used to love it *2023-03-26, version 2.15* This was a great mindless game, but something happened and now it’s impossible to mute the music. Now when you turn it on you get blasted with a loud laser noise and then loud drumming plays. There’s no way to turn it off. If you raise the music volume, then different music plays. How do I turn off the drums? ### 1/5 — WTH!? unwanted percussion *2023-02-04, version 2.15* what the hell happened? I have playing this great game for years and suddenly I’ve got an unwanted percussion track running continuously - this is really bad - I usually play this game while listening to podcasts or music so the sudden emergence of this ridiculous drumming has guaranteed that I not only will never play this game again I cannot ever play this again - so sad, very bad 👎 ### 1/5 — Cannot mute sounds *2022-12-08, version 2.14* Last update resulted in the inability to completely mute game sounds. The constant monotonous droning sound makes it impossible to enjoy playing without setting device sound control to mute —a function that belongs in game not by device. ### 1/5 — No Longer Opens *2022-09-19, version 2.12* Since this last update of 8/21/22 the game no longer opens. I try to open it & the Balloon Island p screen appears, but it kicks out a second or two later & won't open the game for play. I tried removing it & reloading several times & it still won't work. Had enjoyed this game until now. They need to fix the update. ### 1/5 — Older version was my favorite *2022-08-28, version 2.14* Edit: After this recent update, I can barely get the tiles to respond.I use this game multiple times daily. Now it isn’t working without a lot of deliberate effort trying to move the jewels. Since the recent update, I’m having a hard time enjoying this game. The simple and no-frill nature is why I chose it and play it over every other match-3 game. I’m thinking about deleting it now, I’ve been playing it for years. Can I go back to the old version, please? ### 1/5 — Use to really like this *2021-07-03, version 2.11* Has anyone else noticed how quick the game closes out your floors? It’s like once you hit 10-12k, the game starts speeding up to help you finish. You also use to get 1-3k points when game finished. Now your lucky you get 200. Might delete and find new one. Or am I just imagining this? ### 1/5 — Ultimate Jewel: and Ultimate Jewel Tutankhamun *2021-06-18, version 2.11* I was waiting for this but to my disappointment both games show a blank arch so I can’t continue with these games I love playing. Please fix both of these. Thank you ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ultimate jewel *2026-06-25, version 2.20* I absolutely love this game. It’s so fun to play. I try out scoring each level but it depends on the position of the key. Love also there are no ads. ### 5/5 — Ultimate Jewel *2026-05-10, version 2.20* Great game I have played for years. ### 5/5 — Me *2024-10-10, version 2.20* Thuu I s is the second time that it has froze on me. I was expert level 45 # 95. ### 5/5 — Love this Game! *2024-08-18, version 2.20* Always a challenge, a test of strategy and luck of blocks falling. Love the explosions! ### 5/5 — EXCELLENT GAME TOTALLY ADDICTIVE ‼️🌟🌟🌟 *2024-08-08, version 2.20* Do glad I found this game ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT 🌟🌟🌟🌟 GREAT GAME ADDICTED ‼️✨✨✨✨ ### 5/5 — Ultimate Jewel, what is the highest score on the puzzle of this game.? *2024-01-21, version 2.19* My husbands puzzle score is # 152,575,734.. is there someone with a higher score? His name is Paul. ### 5/5 — Thoroughly enjoyable! *2023-10-20, version 2.15* Both fun and enjoyable. I like matching games, but find that most of them now just bombard you with adds and you eventually have to pay to win them. This one has a good level of adds along the bottom and is still fun to play. Great game! ### 5/5 — In 2023 is a blessing to have no adverts!! *2023-09-19, version 2.15* Game is great - and there are no constant adverts wasting my time!! Thank you.. love it! ### 5/5 — Enjoyable *2023-08-22, version 2.15* It’s so nice to finally find a game that you can actually play without a million ads and interruptions. I love to be able to win a game without paying to continue. This is so easy to play and I love it. I highly recommend it to everyone❣️ ### 5/5 — Ultimate jewel *2023-08-03, version 2.15* I love this game I play it constantly. Gloria Rolinson --- *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 2026-09-01.*