Last updated on December 6th, 2025 at 08:26 pm
Cytoid – Action Game Review
Cytoid is a Action/Music/Music game from Man To Tang, first launched in 14th August 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,481+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cytoid Stand Out
"Let's shape the rhythm world… together!"
Welcome to Cytoid, an open-source rhythm game where you can create, share and play your own levels! Based on the classic scanner-style gameplay and powered by the community, Cytoid provides a huge variety of musical genres to enjoy and a diverse range of gameplay design.
In Cytoid 2.0, we overhauled EVERYTHING to provide you with better gameplay & graphics, diverse gamemodes, and a much smoother community-driven experience.
◆ NEW EXPERIENCE: The completely redesigned UI is more stylish than ever, and also much simpler to navigate
◆ BUILT-IN COMMUNITY: Browse and download 4000+ user levels without leaving the game
◆ RATING SYSTEM: A reworked rating system to test your sense of rhythm and compete against the best of the best
◆ EVENTS: Join seasonal and collaboration events and earn exclusive rewards
◆ TIERS: Get officially certified for your Cytoid skills by passing courses of various difficulties
◆ CHARACTERS: Introducing unlockable characters who will accompany you on your Cytoid journey
◆ MORE CREATOR FREEDOM: New storyboarding features open up exciting possibilities for transforming Cytoid's gameplay
◆ BETTER MUSIC/NOTE SYNC: Reduced audio latency, a calibration mode, and a one-time device setup to solve synchronization issues
◆ LOCALIZATION: Cytoid is now in 14 languages
…and much, much more!
Development of Cytoid would not be possible without a group of talented artists, our community members, and of course, our Patreon/Afdian supporters. View our special thank-you page at https://cytoid.io/credits.
◾ Links
Follow our Twitter for latest news:
https://twitter.com/cytoidio
Need help? Want to get started on charting (i.e. making your own level)? Join our Discord:
https://discord.gg/cytoid
If you speak C#, star our repo on GitHub:
https://github.com/TigerHix/Cytoid
◾ Copyright (DMCA) Policy
We respect the intellectual property rights of others just as we expect others to respect our rights. If you believe that content residing on or accessible through Cytoid's services infringes your copyright, pursuant to Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c), a copyright owner or their agent may submit a takedown notice to us via our DMCA Agent. For more info, please visit https://cytoid.io/pages/dmca.
◾ Disclaimer
Cytoid is not affiliated with Cytus, Cytus II or Rayark Inc.
◾ iOS Version Compatibility
If you are using iOS 10, 11 or 12, you should either update to iOS 13 or 14, or update to the latest subversion of iOS (i.e. 10.3.4, 11.4.1 or 12.4.8) before running Cytoid. We are sorry for any inconvenience!
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cytoid is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
New feature:
- Moved average rating to like / dislike feedback
- Qualified is now available in community
Download & Availability
Cytoid is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
To be honest this isnt that good and we cant even create levels yet like we could in osu.
We love this game but when is the next update.
You should please update the tutorial because PEOPLE MAKE STUFF WITH NEW NOTES also we dont like the glitch of the sign-in But otherwise enjoyable and we love it.
We really like Cytoid but it needs more songs and animations and stuff like that! Overall really fun love it.
With the effort of community, this game hold the most potential ability to provide gamer a ever-refreshed experience. As its composers from all-over the world, we can enjoy numerous different styles. The best part is that it encourages players to their own charts and share them with others.
Im a rhythm game fanatic. Among mobile games the quality, gameplay mechanics, graphics, and overall smooth running of the game has us addicted. Similar to a mobile version of osu but with its own twist. Its completely free and doesnt require you to pay or anything! Among the many mobile rhythm games out there this has to be the best one. 100% recommend you try.
Ive had this game for 2 days and we love the challenge. Its such an addictive game gameplay wise and visually as well. This game is definitely in our top 3 favorite rhythm games. One suggestion we have is to make the golden hold notes more distinct symbol wise so it can keep the color of the cycle its on. We get confused sometimes which cycle a golden hold note is supposed to be on because the color is the same for both cycles. Otherwise we look forward to sinking many hours into this game.
Love it, lets us play something similar to Osu! So we got the hang of it pretty quick.
We love this game and a lot of other people do too (btw people complaining about no sound try turning on your ringer as that is probably why there is no sound) also for some reason recently our game has been crashing after completing certain levels.
Cytoid, the community driven rythm game STOLE MY HEART. We are quite experienced with rythm games, we play Bang Dream, Project Sekai, Deemo, etc. But Cytoid.. It opened up a whole new rhythm game play style we never experienced before. Its honestly such a great game, and doesnt take up much storage either. Great game, and we hope someday, Cytoid will get the recognition it deserves.
Plays way better than the original games it's inspired by–and it's free what more can you ask for.
This game deserves much more recognition, its so challenging and detailed. Super smart thats its community based. Definitely not deleting anytime soon.
We gave you a review earlier about our game constantly crashing for the title scheme even comes up we need you to help us if you see the subway development team please Im desperate Ive tried everything.
Played this game for a while, got to rt 4.6 or something then lost our account, now at 8.7 rt so im a bit under ranked. Anyways we love this game we started about a year ago and fell in love with it and rhythm games as whole, so when cytus 2 became free, we imeeaditly started to play it, we had heard that cytoid had stricter timing windows but it took us playing cytus to see just how much more leaneant the timing windows are, so now its just a grind to get to freedom dive. See you in 3 years when we finally stop being under ranked and beat tonykrza.
We used to play Cytoid on our Android device, but recently it has been broken and our main device is an old iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 12 higher than 10 as promoted. The compatibility should be assured but it always shows us black screen with bizarre drum beats. Please save us that cannot afford a new device. The right of gameplay shall not be deprived! Thanks a lot.
Really fun, lets you download maps and can play offline. The offline mode is super helpful and we play the game all the time :D really grateful of this game.
This game we tell you has music made by kikuo. So when we first logged into the game, this game looked amazing. No adds as well! So we play games like bandG and ColorfulStage and they both have no songs that (our fave artist) kikuo made. So, when we got on the events page, and clicked start there was right there searching for our love and we recognized the title. And there it was. It was at our downloaded section! Thanks so much devs for giving us kikuo songs and a high quality game.
Its amazing,kinda difficult and challenging ,but we adore this game.
To be honest the game is really good and thats all we gotta say but for the people who think that the timing is horrible: please try configuring your device in the settings (the wrench in home menu) So that the timing is good Step 1 click wrench in home menu (middle right ) Step 2 go to general Step 3 scroll down until you see base note offset Step 4 mess around with the number until it suits your timing Hope it helped.
We Love this game but if it do not to you to.
We have an issue with the swipe notes where sometimes it doesnt register; if this gets fixed ill rate 5 star.
We cant get into the community market to get new songs even though we have full bars on Wi-Fi.Can the devs please fix this because it was not doing this before. The game is good but now we cant access a major part of the game. And when we checked it did say we were online.
We like how this game works, its the most different rhythm game Ive played. Only one issue. Not sure if its just our device or if this is a game issue, but most the time the notes do not match the songs beat and/or rhythm. The Kaede character in training advises you play while listening, but whenever we hit right on the beat the taps were noted as late. We would consider the fact that its just us with horrible rhythm and timing, but Im struggling to settle on that thought being a musican, disc jockey and a big fan of rhythm games. Setting the fast and slow mods depending on the song has helped, though. It hasnt completely ruined the game for us. The scanner playstyle has been a challenge since its new to us, which makes the game more fun, and makes full combos even more exciting.
Great game but it keeps on crashing.
Ive been having a blast with this game but one thing has felt off ever since we started playing. We came from Cytus II and have been able to S most songs with a relatively high tp, but when we transitioned to this game we seem to rarely hit perfect, even after adjusting our offset correctly. The only thing we could say is to allow players to adjust timing windows in practice mode to be more lenient or more strict to how they desire.
Im interested in making maps (or charts) for the game on our phone but you need a computer application to start. We have a computer, but we think it would be cool if we could do mapping to pass time on a plane or train ride on our phone to pass time. The game itself is pretty good though, and the UI and gameplay is clean and not buggy at all. If you could add just an in game editor Id happily rate 5 stars.
We enjoy this game a lot, Ive been playing it nonstop for about a year and a half, but what Ive noticed is that there is nobody talking about it on the internet. Its typically not a problem, until your game keeps crashing over and over again and you dont know what to do because nobodys spoke about it. We know its not the Games fault, more towards the community tho.
This game is so fun. We play it everyday when every we can but it crashes halfway through a song, and this is really sad when Im doing good on a song. PLEASE FIXXX THANK YOU.
Its it just us or when we try to sign up it says "captcha verification failed!".
The game itself is good, been playing for a while now, but recently we are unable to login to our account and access the community download tab.
Ive played this before on another device and its really fun but on this phone when we open the game it doesnt even work. You should fix this.
Its a good game for sure, and the gameplay is simple (even if timings are strict). But this game has been randomly crashing in the middle of songs for awhile now. Not to mention dropped inputs and lag.
As much as we want this game to be the next Cytus, it is not. No matter how much we fidget with the settings, the touch registry with the rhythm makes it unplayable. Imagine being able to play level 13+ on Cytus but on this game you cant even hit a note correctly on level 6. For some reason we have to press really hard , even on our iPad Pro m4. We went back onto Cytus to see if we were wrong to compare but nope. We can still hit on beat. Shame because we really love the high graphics on this game and the fact you can customize like osu. Everything is great but the basic function of a rhythm game.
We love this game but the past couple months Ive been unable to get our account online. We literally uninstalled and reinstalled the game and made a new account and it keeps giving us errors. Its super frustrating bc its a great game but its not working for some reason now.
When we first opened the app everything was amazing. It went fine. It was a really fun experience. We downloaded a lot of songs. But then it froze on us?? At first we paid no mind to it, cause maybe its just our internet. But we couldnt even get passed the unity screen it would just turn black?? Nothing is wrong with our internet. We tried to get passed that screen for a long time. So we guess this game isnt worth it. We guess Ill just go to Cytus 2 because it seems like its exactly the same :/.
First off Ill starts off with what we like about the game. We love how theres a variety of cool songs and how the levels can get really hard. We love a challenge, but the thing is, when we tap it it doesnt go away till a couple seconds later. This ready throws us off when Im playing. It makes it more difficult, and not in a fun way. The other thing is we cant tell when if we tapped it or not it. We would really like that part fixed. A little alert if you missed it, did a good, or a perfect. The only reason we kept the app is because the levels can be difficult, but with the tapping being wonky, cant tell if we clicked it or not, its making us question if this game is really worth it.
Its not letting us make an account or sign in and Im really frustrated help.
Trying to calibrate the game and it asks us to tap whenever we hear a strong beat, but there is no sound at all.
Might just be our phone, but when we open the app, its nothing but a black screen and some kicks and snares. We also see some sort of Lunar Programmer we cant even play this, sooooo. Quite sad, we were actually looking forward to this.
Literally just has no audio on iPad nice peice of trash game.
First of all cytoid is an amazing game worth amazing mechanics and songs but we have experienced an issue. We have had this issue for quite a while now but it is that numbers appear on our circle things that we click. The numbers tell us how many total notes there are which is great to see if we missed a combo but comparing to our friends screen we can see that the plain circles look way better when playing. Can you please fix this since we dont like the numbers on our notes. Thank you.
How do you even make a cytoid id? Like what.
Help we cant even sign up it either just tells us an error or doesnt do anything what do we do.
We were looking for Osu when we found this instead but is still a really good game.
We like being able to play different difficulties and that there are no ads bothering us while we try to play. Only wish there were more music choices, but we expect that to come at a later time.
We wont bother going into detail about the good, that would waste everyones time. Everything about this game is incredibly well done. (The timing window for perfect notes is quite strict though ) Give this game a go! Just like osu!(PC rhythm game), its very repulsive at the start with 0 practice but you can quickly build skill and find an experience only a top tier mobile game could offer. Amazing job, Devs.
We would like a feature where you can play random songs from your levels. We have too many songs that was being ignored. Plz plz plz plz plz.
This is a very good game we were looking for something like this we got better than expected u should try it too.
This game has lots of custom maps of songs that are really well done, its similar to Cytus in gameplay, and is still getting updated with new songs daily.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.3
- Size: 511.04 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Man To Tang
Last updated: 9th September 2025 | Genre: Action, Music | Developer: Man To Tang