# Universe in a Nutshell — user reviews > 447 indexed App Store user reviews of Universe in a Nutshell by in a nutshell - kurzgesagt GmbH, rated 4.90/5 from 2,507 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/universe-in-a-nutshell/id1526364758/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/universe-in-a-nutshell/id1526364758.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,385 · 4★ 62 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 32 ## What do users think of Universe in a Nutshell? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🤩 Fascinating and educational - 🎨 Beautiful artwork and animations - 🎶 Relaxing background music - 📚 Comprehensive information on a wide range of topics - 🔍 Intuitive and easy to navigate **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes on some devices, especially older iPhones - 🔍 Difficulty comparing sizes of objects due to positioning - 🕹️ Laggy animations and transitions on some devices - 🌐 Lack of offline functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on launch for some users - Overlapping hit boxes make it difficult to select certain objects **Most requested features** - Add more objects to explore (e.g. Uranus, Eris, more moons, etc.) - Implement a search function to quickly find specific objects - Add the ability to compare multiple objects side-by-side - Include more in-depth scientific information and facts - Provide an option to have the descriptions read aloud - Improve the smoothness of zooming and panning ## Newest reviews (18 of 447) ### 4/5 — Would love audio *2026-01-22, version 1.5.1* This is a really cool app that my kids have enjoyed exploring, and one I haven’t added a time limit for because it’s educational. I think a great and helpful addition would be to get the awesome narrator from the videos to read the descriptions for young kids and the visually impaired. ### 4/5 — Sound *2026-01-17, version 1.5.1* I thought the sound option was for it to read to my toddler. Any chance we can get that option? My toddler likes to run off while using the app, but I wish he understood what he was looking at. ### 4/5 — Dear Kurzgesagt, *2026-01-08* I really want to become an astronomer when I’m older as I’ve always wondered how big the universe really is and it’s crazy that there is so much off it I’m 12 years old I don’t know where to start but I was wondering if you could add tasks or something like that and mini quizzes or games about space it would be nice to add more because u absolutely love your designs you inspired me to create a book about astronomy at twelve and I will be publishing soon I really hope you can add more to the game your videos made me want to learn about space and it’s been one year now since then and I still watch ur videos usually I go through a phase where I like something for a week but since watching your channel I’ve been obsessed with space ever since and I am forever grateful for them!(thank you kurzgesagt I appreciate your videos and your game I am your no.1 fan!!!) ### 3/5 — 인터페이스에 한계가 있습니다 *2025-12-28* 앱의 의도는 좋았습니다. 안타깝게도 확대 축소만 가능하고 스크롤이나 특정대상끼리의 직접비교가 불가능하므로 직관적으로 체감이 불가능합니다. 예를들어 승용차 크기로 지구, 태양, 안드로메다까지의 거리비교가 된다면 더 체감하기 좋을것이라고 생각합니다. ### 5/5 — Feedback review *2025-12-22* This app is great! It puts Kurzgesagt videos into a giant encyclopedia of random things in the universe, full of fun facts and good défendrions to know if you love science, and a great size comparison app. Something that it would be nice for this app to add to become even better is if you could choose 2 or more objects to directly put next to each other, in their own sort of “sandbox”, so that you could directly see the size difference. Something else that would be cool to add is some kind of definitions page, where it gives all of the definitions of different science words people might not know, like “Quark” or even “Quantum Physics”. Other than those things. The app was perfect! Nice job Kurzgesagt at making another beautiful science project. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-12-16, version 1.5.1* Excellent,informative app but now needs updating to include more video and current ai power. The scrolling from Planck to near infinity and the backing music are all delightful. ### 5/5 — Good *2025-10-17* Absolutely amazing ### 5/5 — Other universe, comparison apps, and this is the best one *2025-09-06, version 1.2.0* I’d love that this has no ads now. Why would you add a stick figure? I don’t know why you are working with a complete but this is the best I could have on my iPad. Thank you for making this. I love this YouTuber. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-07-24, version 1.2.0* It’s kurzgesagt. Of course it’s going to be excellent. This was probably the first app I’ve ever spent money on, and personally I think it’s better than Minecraft. The sheer perspective of the universe this app gives us is simply beautiful. Just one tiny thing. Please could you add a soundtrack. It would be amazing. ### 4/5 — Umm…. 🤔 *2025-07-20, version 1.2.0* You Guys didn’t size 24 things correctly. Please correct those, Kurzgesaht & “Wait but why?”. ### 5/5 — Very good app - some recommendations *2025-07-03* I love the app and I like how you can zoom all the way in and out and press on each item to view more information. A suggestion though would be to add video links on items you have covered such as neutron stars, the different ant species etc. Overall very good app and highly recommended to any science lovers out there. ### 5/5 — This is a very good app *2025-07-01, version 1.2.0* This app is great but can you some more stuff in the future and I think it is very educational for both kids and adults 😎😀 ### 5/5 — For Kurzgesagt and Wait but why. *2025-04-28, version 1.2.0* I love the pictures and how It’s like a infinite zoom video best app ever! ### 5/5 — This really needs an update! *2025-04-21, version 1.2.0* The app hasn’t been updated in three years. It says Voyager I is 21.2 billion km away, but is now 25.0 billion km. Who knows how many other interesting discoveries have been made that could be added? ### 3/5 — Great, but a problem *2025-04-18, version 1.2.0* I have to say I’m a big fan of your channel, but I realised there’s a part of misinformation a brown dwarf is not smaller than earth maybe you can fix that. ### 4/5 — Update Please🙏🙏 *2025-03-25, version 1.2.0* I’ve been using this app as a space nerd and I love it! I’d definitely rate this app 5 stars. But … I’d love to see an update. The app should add a big update with more space stuff and maybe some more plants! ### 4/5 — Incredible, but needs more *2025-03-22, version 1.2.0* This is a fantastic app, but I feel like it needs something else to it! You could put a video under every explanation, or sideways not just in and out. Still-amazing, totally worth $3 ### 5/5 — Latest version was 3 years ago *2025-03-21* There are now 8.1 billion people so that should be updated ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — V *2026-07-04, version 1.5.1* The UI made me wanna not read ### 1/5 — Unlikely *2025-08-03* You forgot Uranus. ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2020-11-08, version v1.0.4* So excited to show this to my little boy, but on opening it keeps crashing. Can anyone help? I’ve updated iPad and just installed latest software. Still no luck. ### 1/5 — Game crashing *2020-11-01, version v1.0.4* I just downloaded the app and every time I try to load on it, it just crashes. They don’t help at all, total waste of money ### 1/5 — Keeps on crashing *2020-10-13, version v1.0.4* This app keeps on crashing on my phone. In the app description it says that it works on iOS 11.0 and my phone currently is on iOS 12.4.8 so it should work. This may be a bug but, every time I open the app about 5 seconds later the app crashes. ### 1/5 — Problème *2020-10-11* L’application ne s’ouvre pas ### 1/5 — Crashing on iOS 12.4.8 *2020-10-10, version v1.0.4* Not working at all on iPad Air with iOS 12.4.8. It crashes while loading.😢 ### 1/5 — iPad mini 3 *2020-10-08, version v1.0.4* Fails to run on an iPad mini 3. Just crashes at the loading screen. ### 1/5 — Help please *2020-10-07, version v1.0.4* Every time I try to open the app it crashes. I have restarted my device multiple times but it keeps happening, please help PS I am on IOS 12.4.8 ### 1/5 — It’s not working *2020-10-06, version v1.0.4* I just bought this app for my son and it would not work just keep switching off. Very disappointed ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great But… Uranus *2026-08-06, version 1.5.1* Why Is There No Uranus. And Absolutely No Updates With Objects. I Hope There Are Object Updates. 2: 5 Years Ago From 2026 Was 2020 When This App Was Released. There’s A Website By Wait But Why (Like The Fun House) That Has A Picture On It By Timurban Called Whoever Made This Must Be A Genius When Timurban Said: “I Don’t Know Who Made This, But They Must Be Geniuses To Have Made What Is Clearly The Best App In History.” I Thought It Wasn’t The First Review Until I Checked The Apple Store. And There It Was. The First Review. 5 Stars. Do You Remember That? ### 5/5 — Mind-blowing *2026-06-23, version 1.5.1* Beautiful, enthralling, informative and entertaining. And I love that there are no ads, subscriptions or inappropriate purchases. ### 5/5 — NICE *2026-06-19, version 1.5.1* great job on this game it’s amazing ### 5/5 — German language option *2026-05-01, version 1.5.1* It would be great to have German language option as I would love to learn about “Universe” in German as well ### 5/5 — This Game ROCKS! *2026-03-11, version 1.5.1* In this game you can see the universe from an atom to the obverbulle (sorry I can’t spell right) universe! So Cool! I’m Sick at the moment but you should check this out today! Beat that Duo! Ha! LegendLeo2025 ### 5/5 — Wow. Just wow. *2026-02-21* As the kurzgesagt kid I am, it’s time for my review and wow! This is absolutely incredible! I could look at each description for hours, look at the astonishing work, and sometimes question about why Italy is shaped like a boot. I would like to see more objects though. Here’s the list: Titania, Triton, IO, Callisto, Titan, Hyperion, Car tire, Enceladus, coliseum, and who could forget Uranus! I would also like to see some of your new art style on some objects. You know what earth looked like in your video, “you are not where you think you are”? That’s what I want. I’m not asking you if you could right away, but you can keep it in mind. Anyway that’s all I wanna say for now. Keep it up! And stay curious. ### 5/5 — Amazing informational app *2026-02-16, version 1.5.1* From the Planck Length to the Hubble Deep Field it has something to say. The music is also great. If you like Kurzgesagt Art and Physical Sciences this app is for you. ### 5/5 — Super App *2026-02-04* Ich dachte ich kenne mich mit dem Universum aus bis ich diese App gekauft hab. Die 2,99€ warem es absolut wert ### 5/5 — Awesome. *2026-01-10, version 1.5.1* It's awesome until you realize that it doesn't update? It gets a AC-130 out of ten ### 5/5 — plz at the 7th planet!!! *2025-12-31, version 1.5.1* It’s a good app, but you need to add the 7th planet Uranus (plz dont laugh!!!) I say it like yer-uh-nis so people don’t laugh. (btw Happy New Year) Can you also change the description for the colossal squid. There is some language there. Plz remove human $₽3ŘM cell and human egg plz it’s inappropriate. Otherwise, I recommend this app for people. --- *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.*