Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 01:17 pm
Factory Balls – Family Game Review
Factory Balls is a Family/Puzzle game from Bart BONTE, first launched in 7th May 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 125+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Factory Balls Stand Out
You might think that working on the assembly line is tedious work, but not if you're manufacturing Factory Balls! Your job in this logic puzzle game is to custom craft each ball. You've got all the tools you need to fulfill each order… except the instruction manual.
In each level, you'll see the target design of your ball on the shipping box. Starting from a plain white ball, get to work by clicking the tools you want to use and try to manufacture the correct ball.
For example, the target ball might be orange with white eyes and black pupils, which means you need to use different spectacles to block the paint and create the different patterns. Need to make a beak? Maybe you have to pull a few times with a pair of pliers.
There is no time limit or punishment for making incorrect moves, so you can try several different configurations to reach your goal.
If you enjoy a cerebral challenge and are keen for a mental workout, you will enjoy Factory Balls and the 200 original levels!
This is the official Factory Balls game by Bart Bonte/bontegames.
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Factory Balls is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Technical update: performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Factory Balls is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Factory Balls 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 absolutely love this game. We remember playing it on cool math games and had to download on our devices. Ive completed all level and in NEED of more levels pleaseee! Much love for the game.
We remember playing this on cool math games, so glad that its on here. Its cheap and has no ads The levels are fun and not all to easy or to hard we love how it makes you think. 10/10.
We used to play this on our computer but since flash is no more we cant we found this and unfortunately finished the whole game in 2 days. We really hope they add more levels, or add a way we can design and make our own balls.
We've played thousands upon thousands of puzzles in our life, and despite the overwhelming variety of puzzles we've come across over the years… This is totally new. Wow.
Ive been playing this game since it was a flash game, and we have a cycle of beating all the levels, putting down the game for a few years, remembering about it, then getting sucked in all over again! This game has been with us thru quite a few chapters of our life. Thanks for the fun game that has entertained us for years and will entertain us for many more to come :).
As a sucker for patterns and puzzles, Ive been head over heels for Factory Balls since playing the online versions on Cool Math Games years ago. We intended to play for a bit of nostalgia, but was incredibly happy finding that it holds up as a fun and rewarding experience. Being stumped by a level of any game can stop being fun if theres no way to explore possible solutions. We think Factory Balls harnesses that balance of a simplistic puzzle system and tough levels that makes the effort actually fun. Definitely not a game to get TOO excited about while playing, only because we chewed through all 200+ levels in under a week. We gotta say, we guess Im still head over heels for Factory Balls, and for good reason! Im glad it wasnt simply mind blowing to us years ago because we were a fourth grader. Definitely a game made with thought and care. :).
This came straight from the manufacturing line!! Its so cool maybe just because Im an operations guy, the the discovery of the process is amazing. After about the first 100+ levels, it was so rewarding to know how to create every possible combination with the tools provided. Its a microcosm of acquiring mastery. At first, its all trial-and-error, but as we paid attention to the patterns, we quickly figured out exactly which color segment to begin coloring. Id love to see more flower levels those were too few and far between to flow through, mainly because it introduced a progressive mechanic. Id also love to see some new additional mechanics we also felt the creature creation mechanic was too little, there couldve been more with chopping out mouths, pulling out noses, ears, etc. But! Best paid puzzle app out there by a landslide.
Ok so its really good but how do we get past a34?? Edit: we got it before you responded- Thanks though.
This game is just as good as we remember. We loved playing this class, so fun and challenging. We see there is a bit of a difference but it is still the same.
Pro: great throwback to the flash game from our childhood Con: not great for even slight color blindness.
Ive played this game since we were a kid and we STILL love it! We remember being in school playing this game on our desktop computers! 10000/10! This game brings back so many memories and Im glad its still around! We feel like we grew up with this game so Ill gladly pay for this game now that Im old enough.
We use to play this game on cool math games back in school and it was the best! We were so excited to see that it was on here and we beat the game in less then two days. Helps make your brain think!f.
We got this game because we fell in love with the pumpkin version Boo! This is just as great but since Halloween is our favorite this cant really compare. Still a wonderfully fun puzzle game. Please keep them coming.
Im a fan of Barts other games so decided to pick this one up. At first we thought it was going to be kinda lame and silly, but we think its actually our favorite out of them all! Its a unique pattern matching type game. Its different than any other iOS game Ive played, and Ive played most every puzzle game that exists on iOS. Its the perfect level of challenge for us – not so easy that you immediately figure everything out with no challenge, but not so difficult or arbitrary that you end up guessing at things until you get it right. Its always logical and requires thinking through things to find the solution. Its really fantastic and kept us entertained until the very end. It did seem like the existing levels were about as far as he could take this idea – by the end we felt we had figured everything unique out and it was just a matter of finishing the levels. We would have appreciated some extra EXTRA difficult levels at the end to really challenge us since we were having so much fun with the game. If there was a sequel with some expanded puzzles Id buy it in a heartbeat (we buy all Barts games because theyre definitely all worth it for $2, havent run into a bad one yet, but this one is our surprise fave so far).
Very fun and challenging to a good extent, so its not so hard that you want to delete the game but still presents a good challenge.
Could you guys make a walkthrough on all of the levels because some of them are really hard.
We remember playing the flash version of this way back in the day. We were stoked to find it on the App Store with added levels! One of the best puzzle games out there our far.
We completely every level in less 5 days…would really love more levels.
Will definitely play through again, but hoping for an update or new batch of ball orders soon.
We always played bart bonte games with our dad, and it makes us so happy to play on our phone! It requires thinking and focus (wait thats the same thing oops) and we definitely recommend! The graphics are smoooth and its also such a minimalist/aesthetically pleasing game. Thank you.
We love this game! Its so fun and challenging but we finished all the levels. We hope they come out with more levels soon. Definitely recommend to anyone.
We loved this game so much. Would gladly pay for more.
Perfect puzzle game and completely devoid of IAP.
And every other game made by Bart you are puzzler gamers dream come true. Your games are challenging, fun, and intuitive. Never stop making games for us. We believe we have everyone except sugar. Black, Red, Yellow, and Blue Ive played many times. Your amazing. We love you, keep em coming.
Hello! Love this game. Purchased it three days ago and we have already finished all of the levels. When will new challenges be added? Thanks.
If youre the puzzle type and like to figure things out, then youll love this game. We have played it through twice. Boo! Is the Halloween version, same concept but on pumpkins, also very fun.
Im tempted to rate this game only one star but the core concept of the game is good enough that we can see past our UX frustration. It takes almost 20 seconds to load the game (To get to the point where you were actually playing) every time you play it. Several unnecessary touches/clicks, animations and other worthless-at-best fluff between you and the action. Contrary to the developers response, this almost-20-second wait happens WHEN you touch the fast forward icon. (The wait is even longer when you dont.) 1. Touch the app icon to start the app. Wait several seconds. 2. Touch fast forward icon. Wait a couple seconds for unnecessary animation. 3. Press play icon. Wait for more unnecessary animation. 4. Press letter icon. Wait for more unnecessary animation. 5. Press number icon. Wait for even more unnecessary animation. How about a continue button when you start the app to just play the next level? Or make a Settings toggle to turn all of that time wasting animation off. But more importantly, why does the app need so many steps (and lengthy animations) to get to the point where one plays a game. Its not normal. Its not good. Furthermore several of these unnecessary steps appear again every time you want to navigate menus. The crux of the game is to duplicate an example ball but the example ball is far smaller than it needs to be. The box in which it comes is larger than the ball itself. On small screens its sometimes hard to figure out whats on the bottom of the ball. Though on one hand it makes sense that you cant put the belt over the hat for example, its neither clever nor cute that we have to both put elements on and take them off in the correct order. This adds nothing to the game experience nor does it affect the difficulty. Its just annoying. Developers response clued us in to the notion of tapping on the ball to remove items, but this wasnt intuitive to us. If you dont value your time, user experience, and you think several easy-to-fix, needling elements wont bother you, this game is closer to four stars than the 1.5 we give it. Even more frustrating because after looking at other apps by this developer (like the Halloween version of this game, his game yellow) some of these UX-killing features arent there. Dear developer, If you fix these things or even most of them we will absolutely crank up the stars and edit this review. We think youll find that improving UX will improve your sales.
Actually enjoy replaying this. Except maybe for the grass and flowers… They are a bit difficult. Well, tricky anyway. Finally CONQUERED B30.
Please add more levels, we got this game yesterday and beat all the levels already. Plz add more.
We really like this game. The puzzles progress enough to keep us challenged and interested, but without being frustrated to the point of abandoning it. We like the look, game play is simple. They keep adding levels which is awesome.
After trying Boo, we were delighted to buy this game. Our granddaughters (ages 5 & 7) work together on the puzzles. Great grandma (86) has fun with it, too. We only get our turn after their bedtime. We would recommend any of the BB games.
Although some tools and levels from factory balls 2, 3, & 4 on cool math games would be nice. Like the thin up and down striping tool, the fish bowl effect, and other things like that.
We love this app sooo much!!! But, Im wondering how often updates come… We cant wait for the next update!!! Itll be so much fun.
Your games are are always bright and imaginative. Factory Balls is one of our faves. Thanks for all your hard work and willingness to share your talents.
Well we see our original review was 4 yrs ago and we still love this game. Thanks for the new levels!!! ————– If you like a good puzzle, this will exercise your brain in a captivating way. The concept is simple: on each level you start with a plain white ball and get different tools (paint, a scraper, etc) to use to make the ball duplicate the one in the picture. Experimenting with the creative tools is fun since the design is crisp, sleek and colorful. The difficulty increases at a good rate that builds on skills and techniques from previous levels. The background music is unobtrusive. We were completely hooked and never got bored or frustrated. We did get stuck a few times but was always able to come back later and solve them. We're guessing it took us 6-8 hours or so over several days to solve all 44 levels, and since we enjoyed every minute of it we absolutely felt we got our money's worth. Re-playability factor isn't huge, but we're guessing we'll come back to it now and again. Our 2 suggestions would be: a save feature – in the more complex levels, having to start from scratch if you have to stop mid-level is mildly annoying. Also, it would be cool to have a level generator so that once you finish the 44 puzzles you could continue to create, for instance, easy to medium randomly generated balls using the existing tools. Loved it.
Yippie!!! Thank you for adding new levels!! We've been waiting so long. Soon we will be wanting more though because this is a great puzzle game that we play often. Thx again.
Please more levels….. We have played this 100 times and can do it in our sleep now! This is a better brain trainer than the other subscription app.
We love this game perfect way to kill time and so satisfying.
Absolutely love this game! Please make more levels.
Great game. Now we know how factories make their balls.
We have been playing this game since we were a child on the internet. Glad to have it on our phone now.
We have loved this game since we first played it as a flash game! We beat every level and we just wanna play more! We hope more levels become available… We'd pay the price again for more levels! It's so much fun.
We saw our daughter playing this game on her iPad. It looked fun so we grounded her so we could use her iPad to play this game. At first it was hard on us because of her crying, all the tears. We couldn't even concentrate on the game so we quickly went to the bathroom where we were able to finally have some peace from all that noise. Anyways, once we were done we gave her back the iPad but of course then she started to cry again because we completed all of the levels. So yeah this game is fun. Really brings families closer.
We rounded up a bit but we still think this game is awesome! It requires logic and skill to complete this game. And we finally finished it! Factory Balls was so much fun! And sometimes it really mangled our brain, but we enjoyed the challenge. Good job.
Love this game! More levels please.
We. Loved. This. Game. Waiting anxiously for Factory Balls 2.
This game was a great challenge and we loved it all the the way to the last level! Thank you Bart Bonte! Can you make more levels please.
Finished it quickly! Waiting for more challenging levels.
We love the challenge of this game! We love to critically think, and love the challenge this game presents! Our kids love it too…make more levels! We wish that it wouldn't reset if you leave for a minute to read an email or text. That's our only negative comment.
It's a great game but it needs more levels.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.9
- Size: 25.95 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Bart BONTE
Last updated: 11th September 2025 | Genre: Family, Puzzle | Developer: Bart BONTE