Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 08:32 am
2048 by Gabriele Cirulli – Board Game Review
2048 by Gabriele Cirulli is a Board/Entertainment/Puzzle game from Solebon LLC, first launched in 5th May 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 29,579+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli Stand Out
This is the OFFICIAL and ORIGINAL 2048 game created by Gabrielle Cirulli. Join the numbers to reach the 2048 tile and beyond!
Simply swipe to move the tiles. When two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one. Reach the 2048 tile and keep playing to reach the 4092 and even higher value tiles!
Elegantly designed with undo, detailed statistics, silky-smooth play and key features including:
• Classic play or Time trial
• Swipe anywhere to move tiles
• Tap undo to reverse a swipe
• Beautiful high-resolution graphics
• Large, easy to read board
• Detailed statistics
• Personal best scores
• Sounds with on/off switch
• Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
• Official version of the original puzzle game
• Free to play
Published by the team responsible for award winning apps including Letterpress and Solebon Solitaire. This game is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices.
For support and answers to frequently asked questions, head over to http://www.2048original.com/support.html.
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Updates for new devices and version of iOS!
Download & Availability
2048 by Gabriele Cirulli is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Love the game. Hate the ads. We would pay for ad free version. Also, we miss the ability to undo unlimited moves going back as far as you want.
Good luck if youre not good enough to get past the 256 block.
We rated low because we had lost our progress but after updating we now am able to reload from highest tile. Great game.
Despite a wipeout of our previous levels, this game is fantastic. The ads are a little much but easily avoidable.
This game is a great game but if you play it for to long it gets boring.
LOVE this app but when we hit game over the game won,t let us reset the game.
Was good until the player account feature after the update.
Im sure youve all heard this if you read the other reviews but we just CANT stand the ads. They appear literally every game and you cant X it out. And with the amount of sensitivity the screen has, youre bound to blow the game. We swiped right and it went down, and everyone knows thats the worst thing to do. Furthermore, when we were told we could change sensitivity in the menu, there wasnt one. Im not sure if an iPhone 6s is too old to access the update, but we cant believe that just accidentally touching the screen with a bit of skin can count as a swipe. The game itself was glitchy and stopped working entirely for a whole 2 minutes in the first 10 minutes we got it. In the first round, we made it to 256 with 6 misinputs. The only thing stopping us from giving this 1 star is because we do like the game itself and dont really find it boring yet. Im deleting this app, it only lasted 15 minutes(including the time it took us to write this review). In short, Im extremely disappointed and recommend an online version with no ads. There are a few that are websites and dont have ads. Hope this helps.
Should not automatically be forced into tracking us.
This game is a classic. It only gives you ads after every game, Its relaxing, and you can start from any tile from 128-2048.
We are addicted to this game send help it has taken over our life.
This game is amazing we have it on our tv and now our phone! Best day ever! Game is so addicting but fun at the same time! It just gets your gears turning in your head witch gives us something to do when Im bored! Id definitely recommend this game if your one of those people who really like to think strategically.
This game is SO FUN its such a boredom buster and we cant stop playing it You HAVE to get it.
Its just really nice to play. We have severe ADHD and a handful of mental illnesses sprinkled in our brain. Lemme just say.. This helps stimulate us enough to where Im not bored. We have to think but not so hard we end up frustrated ONTOP OF THAT! This helps us ground ourselves if we have a bad episode and need to bring ourselves and emotions back to okay instead of sky high and uncontrollable. Its a 5 star for us.
We love this app so much no internet needed makes us happy Im loving it.
We really love 2048! It is, as our title says, a really fun game. It generates really easily, and the graphics and great, too! We encourage people to get this app.
Play when ur bored it takes your boredom away so fast its like you were never bored.
Our mom showed us this and it is SO fun 99% of our free time we play this game its just so fun! We love how it isnt just a game that rottens your brain, it helps your brain like Solitaire. Well we just wanna say this is a amazing game etc.
Im absolutely infatuated with this game!!! Ive been playing ever since its inception. We will continue to play this little game until we can longer play it any longer.
At times if you swipe one way it goes some other way. Otherwise its addictive learn tips and tricks to solve.
It is a great game but it has ads and it's confusing but Im ten yrs old so Im practically crazy.
We chose this version for the undo button, but Im using that button way more than we ever had to on our old Android phone. Downward swipes seem to be especially troublesome, as they frequently end up as left swipes which we never do on purpose. UPDATE: Developer responded quickly with suggestion. Switched to Normal Swipe Mode, which helped a lot.
This game needs digital keyboard directional controls. We cant tell you how many times Ive had a score over 350K and we swiped accidentally and then accidentally swiped while pressing the undo button and irreparably ruined our game. Swiping with an iPhone 13+ is horrible because its incredibly easy to swipe with the meat of your hand just by holding the phone. Please add digital keyboard directional controls.
Why is there an undo function and a start at a higher level function? These make us not want to try as hard. We find ourselves being more careless knowing we can either undo or start where we died. We think Ill stick to the website version. We do like the speed of this one better tho.
And it costs $10 to remove them. Way too much for a simple game like this.
We love this game it is sooooooo much funnn.
Love the app but we are playing on a tablet where it really needs landscape orientation.
Its one of the best games Ive ever played we like the number bonds.
Every time Im doing really good theres always a false swipe up and it ruins everything! Desensitize the Swiper.
We LOVE IT, NO ADDS MY FAVORITE GAME.
Does it have apple Gamecenter leaderboard option.
When we dont know what else to play, we can also turn to this for assured fun.
The game is fun, but we would be More than willing to pay to have the ads removed. Especially since they are aggressive and force you to visit the App Store as if you plan to download the game. When we try to close an ad it will launch the App Store over and over again. Charge us $6 to remove them and Ill gladly pay.
Nothing revolutionary, but its a well made app.
Wowee wow wow wow! Never before have we had this much fun sliding numbers into matching numbers to make one number that is a sum of the two! We would give it one bazillion stars if Apple didnt stop us (THANKS APPLE!) that was sarcasm if you couldnt tell because we love this game so much and even CRAPPLE cant ruin it for us.
This is overall a fantastic app and great for killing time between meetings. The reason we're giving 3/5 here is the undo button will randomly fail every once and a while. Today we were maybe 20 moves from the max possible score, but a poorly-timed 4 and the undo button failing threw away all that progress.
This game is so fun our dad tried he got 256 our mom played we forgot what she got our moms friend played she got 256 and we got 512.
We purchased this app in 2015. We paid for no ads. We even have the receipt where we paid for no ads. It has been a while since Ive played the game but why am we now seeing ads in our ad free game? UPDATE: we mustve had a momentary brain freeze because we forgot about going to the main menu tapping on remove ad and restore. This app is perfect.
Its so annoying when it gives a 4 instead of 2! Just why?? + we know we can tap undo but they pop up so frequently that we cant do it all the time! Ive been playing this game for years and it wasnt like this back then.
Im giving this game five stars because its a great game. The one thing we dont like is that its not the original. The original doesnt have all the new effects. The little sound effect every time we move tiles. The little bounce the tile does every time we combine two of them. The restart and undo buttons used to be much smaller. We dont like the new stuff. If it aint broke, dont fix it. Still a great game though.
We appreciate the care and effort that goes into this game. The creators' investment in the product shows. Great job not including a bunch of unnecessary features and updates.
This game is super fun . It doesnt have lots and lots of adds. Only a little bit of adds.
The best game in the world it help us that we be calm.
After the recent update the undo stopped working about 1% of the time. Please fix.
Forget block blast this game actually makes us smarter each time we play.
This is the best game ever download it play it try it out. It is so fun.
We love this game. We found it on cool math games when we went to school. Its just a nice distraction from everything around you and you use a bit of your brain but its not overwhelming or overly complex.. Yk.
We could play for hours and not get bored.
Its our go to boredom game and we love games with math and logic involved. Nothing wrong with the game. Just perfect.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.1.5
- Size: 65.19 MB
- iOS: 15 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Solebon LLC
Last updated: 18th September 2025 | Genre: Board, Entertainment | Developer: Solebon LLC