Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 11:29 pm
Doodle Jump – Entertainment Game Review
Doodle Jump is a Entertainment/Action/Adventure game from Lima Sky, first launched in 27th March 2009.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 815+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Doodle Jump Stand Out
BE WARNED: Insanely addictive!
"possibly the best iPhone game ever created" – Touch Arcade
From prime-time sitcoms (BIG BANG THEORY) to late night TV (JIMMY FALLON) to a fashion accessory for pop stars (LADY GAGA), Doodle Jump is EVERYWHERE! It's a cultural craze, a hot new trend!
iTunes reviews (US)
"I just got dumped cuz I wouldn't put this game down! And I just kept playing while she walked away… ITS THAT GOOD!"
"Somehow it's better than sleep for me. I am sick, sleep deprived, and achy, and yet I cannot put it down"
"Coming from someone who owns a PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360, I play this game more!! This game is amazing!!"
Media reviews:
"Doodle Jump is a perfect micro-game, insanely addictive, and deliciously replayable. Go get it." – MacWorld.com
"the most addicting iPhone game yet?" -GIZMODO
"…the king of casual games on the App Store …tons of updates and lots and lots of gameplay in a super simple and accessible package." – TUAW
So, what is it?
In Doodle Jump, you guide Doodle the Doodler—using some of the most subtle and accurate tilt controls in existence—on a springy journey up, up, up a sheet of graph paper, picking up jet packs, avoiding black holes, and blasting baddies with nose balls along the way.
Laugh with delight as Doodle™ blows past other players' actual score markers scribbled in the margins. And be warned: this game is insanely addictive.
FEATURES:
- 11 incredible worlds + 3 SECRET easter eggs
- broken, moving, disappearing, moveable, and EXPLODING platforms
- JET PACKs, PROPELLER HATS, ROCKETS, and springs that fly you higher
- UFOs, black holes, monsters, bear traps!
- jump on monsters to bring them down MARIO-style
- share your scores
- race agains friends!
- global leaderboards, achievements!
How to play:
Tilt to move left or right, tap the screen to shoot.
*Please don't Doodle Jump and drive, and BE WARNED: Doodle Jump is Insanely Addictive!
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Doodle Jump is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Support for the Games App and challenges in iOS 26
Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Doodle Jump 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:
We love doodle jump and all the fun we have had playing it.we can't imagine our we pod touch with out it don't get brusied by liz bruise.
Great game overall. They actually have an arcade version. We love this game and would recommend for ages 4-infinite. No, JK! But really, its awesome,please get it if you're considering it! Sincerely HarryPotter4Ever22.
We used to play doodle jump on our nokia for years and then we got a new phone. We wondered if it also had doodle jump as an app and it did. We play it every day, we just wish there was an update soon because it Does get boring after playing it every day for 4 months.
How can we remove ads every time we try we starts a new game.
Other people may not like it but its so simple and satisfying to watch we recommend getting the $2 ad free definitely worth it.
It is an amazing game to play you can play with friends and family so we love this game.
This game is just as fun now as it was all the way back in our childhood. Fun, whimsical, and dynamic, this is a perfect arcade for any smartphone.
Why does it say to shoot and miss 50 monsters? We thought we were supposed to shoot them without missing them.
We had this game for years and loved the simplicity of it, but now every time we die it takes us to a screen that says awesome you made it to the leaderboard; Sounds great but the thing pops up every time and its just another screen to get to the screen that lets you play again, it sounds dumb but it should take you one tap to play again. We went to the settings, but we cant change it :/.
We missed the first prize of the 24 days of prizes because the update just showed up on our phone today but the app shows that it was updated 14 hours ago. Is there any way for us to get the prize for the first day.
The game is fun, but they should add a diddy expansion to the game.
We have played this game for over a month, and we would like to say that it is very fun and it is a great game for when you need to kill a bit of time. The full version is worth it! We feel like this game has earned a sixth star (that was the sixth star we gave it).
This game is gold but please add more please.
We've loved this game for a long time and we just downloaded it again after a long time and we were so excited to play it again! When we opened the game, it all appeared to be normal until we tapped to play. The little doodle you're supposed to tap and guide kept flying across the screen repeatedly. We tried playing the game anyway but it just wasn't playable. We don't know if it's just us having this issue or not but we're super bummed that it's not working for us.
Im internationally ranked on Doodle Jump. Its a great game if you remember the patterns. We almost scored 1,000,000! Just have to remember the patterns.
We got it recommended to us 6mo ago and we love it so much we got add free and now its even better.
We love doodle jump. We would love to see a Mardi Gras game.
We love this game. We used to play it a lot and even has our scores saved from 2011. Its a simple fun game! But the amount of ads (and how long each ad is, at least 30 seconds or longer) after every single game is completely annoying. Maybe shorter ads inbetween and longer ones here and there but holy crap Ive never played a game with so many.
The game is good but we found this guy called inscho62 and he was moving down fast and shooting like really fast and we dont know if theres a report button or something and if there isnt could you add one.
The game is 5 stars. Mobile gaming classic. But the app gets free stars because we paid to have ads removed – and it doesnt always work. Sometimes it works and there are no ads in our play session. But just as often there are ads ruining our experience. This needs to be fixed.
We bought the ad removal a year ago and Im not able to restore our purchase to get them off again.
We love this game, and it is just a big thing of nostalgia. We are still playing this game in 2022 and we got this in 2017. In conclusion we love this game and it is nostalgic and we have been playing it for 5 years.
Ive been playing Doodle Jump since its release, well over a decade ago. It is still, easily our favorite game. Can sit and play a few rounds or sit there all day and play it. Lots of stuff to earn, beat your personal highscore or try to get on the leaderboards! We were hesitant to buy the second one, we thought itd be riddled with in-app purchases. The only thing for that game is $2.99 for no ads. (WORTH IT, BY THE WAY)! We cant recommend downloading both enough, for the price of $3.99 you get both games, no ads, and endless hours of fun. Thank you to the developers, who continue to keep this game going. We hope we can play it for many more years to come. Seriously, thank you.
We are so happy we remembered about this app and re downloaded it recently! We used to love playing it when we were a kid many years ago and we still enjoy it today! :).
Well we got this because we played it a lot but we mean your better off with the Christmas holiday for god sake its P2win no doubt about it u collect them one egg equals 1 dollar and the shop needs thousands so just dont buy the game but other than its great.
Why do we see ads when we paid for not seeing them?! We just do not want, and that includes ads for DJ2.
Its so hard our 8 year old brother is strong he lifts 100 pound whatets and he throw the iPad on the ground so hard it smashed in to1000000 pesos.
Why did you guys change the game from a perfect jumping platformer to a shooting game? Yes we sound like a self-entitled parent, but Im not trying to. Anyways just before when it was a shooting game, it was perfect, now its an uncontrollable shooter.
The game is great, but the developers think we also need ads for their other apps every time we launch. If you want ads even though youve paid for the app, then this ones for you.
As long as the add for DoodleJump 2 keeps popping up, 1 star. We already installed and deleted DoodleJump 2. We hate DoodleJump 2.
One of our favorite games. Started playing it a decade ago on BlackBerry. Incredibly impressed with the continued support and still being able to enjoy it and on our new iPhone.
We love doodle jump. We play it all the time at Chuck E. Cheese. The only problem with the mobile version is that we dont know how to move!! The guy seems to move by himself, but it says to avoid the holes and we dont know how to control.
We purchased the flutternutter outfit for our character and was using it for the longest time. We went to the store to check what else we could use and now we must repurchase the flutternutter with eggs again. Why? We had already purchased it using our eggs. Now we dont have enough eggs to get it again. This is ridiculous.
Want a simple game? Yahoo! Want to have a company with a simple game try and profit off of your every move to cash in on your privacy? Yahoo? Not so much.
Rather disappointing how the dev shoves Doodle Jump 2 everywhere they can, even in this, supposed to be ad free version.
Im fine with the ads, Im also fine with paying to turn them off. The thing Im NOT fine with is not having an option to turn off the sounds or change calibration like we had in the first Doodle Jump game. We frequently use our AirPods to listen to music while playing… And we cannot do this with all these sound effects on the game with no option to turn them off. Thats a glaring gap that needs to be fixed.
Perfect game. Never crashes. Update 12/2020: An update!!! Thank yall.
Awesome free game to play. Very addictive, we play about an hour a day. The ads are a bit annoying but if you stay up high in the Easter mode, ninja mode, Halloween mode, soccer mode and pirate mode you can buy skins. Great game if your for a game as a kid. You shoot monsters by tapping the screen, avoid the black holes and UFOs its a great game.
Multiplayer always says theres an error.
Been playing this since our iPhone four in 2011 still one of the greatest mobile games ever.
Very fun and insanely addictive.
We love the creativity and gameplay and think it is excellent for mobile device gaming. We purchased it a decade or so ago and appreciate that we are still able to play it after all of these years. Ive paid much more for so many apps over the years that were unapologetically not supported and disappeared from the App Store rather quickly. Also many where we were forced to either buy a different version of the app or be left with nothing. We think it speaks very highly of this team that they have found a way to keep DoodleJump functional for those of us that purchased it a decade ago. Thanks and keep up the great work.
We love this game with the variety of maps and how sastisfying it is to get a high score, just one thing. They need to add more updates! Maybe add some maps and some more skins! But overall its good! One more thing, the missions are glitched. So maybe update the game, but overall a awesome game.
Loved this game for ten years and here we still am! Hellloooo 2020.
So nice to see this game in full form, especially since Ive been playing since there was a free lite version and an HD version, and all the holidays were sold separately, good times. Keep up the good work guys.
Love the game but we paid to remove the adds and we still get adds.
… How do we remove ads? We want to give you money but when we click remove ads, it just takes us to the games page on the App Store. Also, when we click on the store in the app, we cant cancel out of it without playing a game in some theme we dont want.
Easy to get the hang of, very intuitive.
The missions actually make the game fun. However, the shoot and miss monsters 50x is very challenging and confusing. We make decent progress then it starts over?? Its so frustrating. Is it because we keep dying in the game? We dont appreciate the game not properly saving our progress for missions.
Its just annoying and makes no sense. You could have easily made a slider to move. At least add an option to turn it off. And also our phone is no Wii motion plus. The tilting is super inaccurate, and can also be super annoying when Im trying to relax in bed and play this. Great game, but this one mechanic drops two stars.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.31.2
- Size: 71.05 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Lima Sky
Last updated: 16th December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Action | Developer: Lima Sky