Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 05:46 pm
Bejeweled Classic – Puzzle Game Review
Bejeweled Classic is a Puzzle/Family/Entertainment game from PopCap, first launched in 8th December 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 134,495+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bejeweled Classic Stand Out
“Bejeweled — perhaps the most insanely addictive puzzle game ever.” — Games Magazine
Discover your perfect match with 6 breathtaking modes in this classic gem-matching game, from the fast-paced, time-based Lightning, to the gem-driven Flushes and Full Houses of Poker Mode. Create electrifying special gems like Flame gems, Star gems, Hypercubes, and Supernova gems, collect flashy Bejeweled badges and achievements, and soar to dazzling heights in the Game Center leaderboards – all while enjoying fantastic Retina-display graphics! This is the Bejeweled you’ve loved for years, and it’s still delivering amazing high-carat excitement!
This app offers in-app purchases. You may disable in-app purchasing using your device settings.
CLASSIC GEM-MATCHING
Play the most popular puzzle game of the century with powerful new gems. You’ll find cascades of fun as you test your gem-swapping ability!
MODES FOR EVERY MOOD
Enjoy the original in Classic, race against time in Lightning, dig deep for treasure in Diamond Mine, discover your own relaxing retreat in Zen, match gems to save Butterflies from a hungry spider in Butterfly, keep the cold out in Ice Storm, and make top hands with gems in Poker.
BOOST YOUR WAY TO BIG SCORES
Each mode has two Boosts, one regular and one Super Boost, which help you make even more matches and set even higher scores. Whether it’s pulling all the Butterflies to the bottom row with Reset in Butterfly mode or shuffling the board in Classic mode, Boosts take your game to a whole new level!
PROVE YOUR SKILLS, CLIMB THE RANKS
Earn flashy Bejeweled badges and Game Center achievements to prove your multifaceted skills, and compete against the world and your friends in Game Center leaderboards for the top score! Gloat over your scores for total matched gems, all-time best moves, and top 10 personal bests in Classic and Diamond Mine.
HINTS ON DEMAND
Can't quite spot the next match? Use the "Hint" button for a quick tip.
Stars mode will open a separate, free Bejeweled Stars App.
Important Consumer Information. This app requires acceptance of EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy, TOS and EULA; includes in-game advertising; contains direct links to the Internet and social networking sites and the Internet intended for an audience over 13.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bejeweled Classic is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th October 2024
Recent improvements include:
Hey, gems! We’ve made some sparkling enhancements to keep your game shining like new. Update now for the best experience and thanks for playing.
Download & Availability
Bejeweled Classic is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Bejeweled Classic 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:
We love this game!!! Im always outbidding ourselves and anyone who dares to challenge us.
Classic is the best relaxing and enjoyable game ever for kids by mishlany Ubri.
Ive been playing bejeweled for about 10 years now and Ive never had any complaints. Thank you PopCap.
This is the only bejeweled we wantthe minimal animations, the deep-voiced man praising us, and those BUTTERFLIES making us sweat with anxiety (lost at 41 mil. Points today in butterflies). WAYYY better than any new bejeweled game.
This game is a winner. We really enjoy playing it. Helps us relax.
Help!! Let us out! Make it stop.
Opened the game to a notification saying thank you and giving free boosts. Found that all profile stats had been reset to zero. Our rank is now 1 Novice. Our top scores still show, and we see achievements in Apple Game Center, but everything else is gone. All our badges are gone. Addictive game, but can't bring ourselves to play after this.
We Enjoy This Game! It Relaxes us!!! This is our Favorite Game.
Easy game hate the ads bought no ads way better 10/10.
This game occupies all us free time , its so consuming.
We love this game already and we already cant stop playing it.
Every time when we play the game, then return to the main menu, the app warns of losing progress. This is regardless of the mode being played and must be fixed.
Please provide an upgrade we can buy so we can play without all the ads. It ruins the experience for us, yet we know the developers worked hard to create these beautiful games. Also whatever happened to the old Pop cap games we used to love? Thanks for listening.
Youre going to love playing this game our entire family plays this game we heard about the game from our grandfather.
Our faith has been restored in this game. We were able to locate the Restore Purchase button to get rid of ads again. This is still one of the best games that came out in the 2000s.
Our game keeps resetting in a way where the thanks for playing message keeps popping up and giving us 20+ free moves for every mode within the game but doesnt reset our progress! #POPCAPHATESHIM.
Deleted the app due to still getting ads! This game has a $2.99 one time charge option to take out the ads! Do not pay for this! You still get ads, its a scam to take your money! Ive now reported this to our bank and Apple Pay! We HATE SCAMMERS!!! Update 5/7/25 the fact that they do not respond to this comment is proof they know they are scamming people! We HAVE DELETED YOUR GAME STOP SCAMMING PEOPLE YOU JERKS.
Can be fun and and not difficult to learn. Not intense but a challenge to get alot of points. You just try to stay in the groove and concentrate. Our highest score was over 10 million last week in one game. Alot of fun! All you have to do is continue on without the black widow getting you! See, we said it was easy;). Ive been playing for 14 years.
But wish developers would fix the moment when you pass levels in the Classic mode, after passing the level the animation where the world starts spinning shows a glitch which it isnt still fixed, can you please fix that, oh and also the moment when levels start the Jewels shot start falling from the top of the square board but, it falls from the outside the box and gets than into the box, also when you swipe jewels they start falling from up the box, this is also a glitch which wasnt in the earlier game versions, if you please could read this message and decide to watch this things id really appreciate it! GREAT GAME KEEP IT UP! LOVE POPCAP CLASSIC GAMES.
This game is, was, and forever will be the OG Candy Crush and the best matching game of them all. Different gamemodes to cater different moods or playstyles, and overall a great thing to do while bored, especially with no cell or wifi. A special thanks to the devs for removing most of the paywalls and adding cool features into Zen Mode for when Im trying to calm our anxiety down. Literally our first ever Apple review but it was worth it lol :).
This game is by far our favorite out there! We are addicted! It has been a great way to keep us from going crazy after a recent surgery. Hours fly by while playing Bejeweled! *we still feel this way in 2025.
Oonly game "we PLAY"! What's that TELL YA.
Game is great,false ads we can do without.
Immensely fun game. We love to play just as Im about ready to fall asleep. Relaxes us and helps us ease quickly into a deep sleep. (we always play with sound off.).
Since the update to 3.1.3, we cant open this game. Ill keep trying and update our review if things improve. 4 days later and lots of negative reviews, nothing has changed. PopCap has really ruined a good thing. 2 weeks later: 3.1.2 is on our iPhone and opens just fine. 3.1.3 on our iPad still doesnt open. The circle almost closes, and doesnt. We see other reviewers having the same issues and wonder if this will be resolved. About 3 weeks now: we actually opened the game a couple of nights ago but, the success was short lived. It only opened that once and now were back to the same issue. The circle that goes around the PopCap logo doesnt quite make it all the way around. The game doesnt launch. We opened a case with EA, but honestly, the techies there are useless and we dont think they understand when we explain the issue. Does anyone read these reviews? Todays update: if we turn off our WiFi, we can launch this game. So, we go to cellular, launch the game, then turn the WiFi back on. Why is that? New issue: Poker will not open. Other games will open, but all we get is a blank green screen on the poker game. And, yet another issue update: AGAIN, THE POKER GAME STOPPED WORKING. ALL THE OTHER GAMES WORK FINE BUT POKER IS JUST A BLANK GREEN SCREEN. Emailing the developer is not working. Sure hope someone reads this.
Say you wahn smoke tha five come witit.
$3 seems to get rid of ads for life, well worth it for a great game.
Very well made app. Simple and enjoyable when our brain won't shut up.
Love the game but hate the ads. Especially the stupid King one.
Before Candy Crush there was Bejeweled – glad to still have it.
Been using Bejeweled since our Treo > 20 years. We dont mind buying tokens, YET THEY are different for every game. Never know which game.
We might be the only one thats playing this game Its nostalgia. Still presently fun.
This is a fun matching game which also has a lot of fun abilities and game modes that are challenging and we like it ourselves, it also provides endless mode to practice.
We've loved it our whole life and we love that we can play it anywhere :).
This game is so fun and Ive been playing it back when the Nintendo DS was a thing. We miss Bejeweled 3 so much and this is the original Match 3. Candy Crush could never compete to the best that is Bejeweled. Please make Bejeweled 3 or Classic for Mac. This game is timeless.
It's awe inspiring to think that this game has been around for so long and continues to be do popular.
IF YOU CHOOSE VIEW AD AT THE END OF THE GAME, and THEN RETURN-THAT SPIDER GRABS THAT EXACT SAME BUTTERFLY THAT YOU HAD LOST THE GAME TO.
We love this game so much and it gives us the nostalgia vibes we have had this on every phone Ive ever owned that allowed download games since our Motorola flip phone in 2005.
It keeps us busy when we have nothing to do. We scored 4,179,100 points in Classic. Amazing.
The game is fun and we do not have adds.
The portal effect has missing textures and for some reason, Im unable to control the music volume. All we get is silence. We really love the music, but the option to control the music isnt working! Please fix this.
Could you bring back Bejeweled 2? Thats definitely the best one.
Paid for no ads last week and the ads are back and it wants another 2.99.
Great game with a variety of different variations to play. But for the past few months there is a frequent need to restore the original purchase. This restarts all of the badges expertise levels. Not sure what that is all about, and it detracts from the experience.
Is there a way to get it without the ads.
Would it be possible to do away with the feature that flips a coin to decide if the game continues or its over? All it does is kill 4 sec of our life that Ill never get back.
One of our go to games- classic with no stupid boost ups or gimmicks or slot machine esque energy. Straightforward and relaxing. BUT we purchased the no ads version and every month or so the game updates and reverts to show ads again and we have to go into settings and click restore purchases which feels like a total scam. It also resets our progress towards our trophies which is really irritating.
Love this game obviously, but wish there was a dark mode for nighttime as we use it to go to sleep. Would be easier on the eyes.
We love that there's an app that can play Bejeweled because we used to play Bejeweled Deluxe all the time. Thank you very much. We wish this app had the old songs from that game though, although they match the feel of the old soundtrack a little bit at least.
Im sad that the music is gone Ive played Zen for years with our score over 2,075,000. And we miss the relaxing music. We have deleted and reinstalled multiple times, will you please bring it back or help us figure it out? Thank you.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.7.0
- Size: 169.61 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: PopCap
Last updated: 14th October 2024 | Genre: Puzzle, Family | Developer: PopCap