Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 03:57 pm
Heads Up! – Entertainment Game Review
Heads Up! is a Entertainment/Word/Card game from Warner Bros. Entertainment, first launched in 2nd May 2013.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 273,679+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Heads Up! Stand Out
It's the game The New York Times called a "Sensation!" and Cosmopolitan raved “Your existence is dull and meaningless without this life-changing app!”
Get ready for endless fun with Heads Up!, the exhilarating charades-style party game that's taking the world by storm. Guess the words on the screen as your friends and family shout out clues.
With diverse categories ranging from Celebrities to Movies and Hilarious Accents, Heads Up! guarantees hours of laughter for everyone involved.
Now available to play through Facetime – where you can play with friends and family all over the world!
How to Play:
- Select from over 100 themed decks or create your own custom category!
- Hold the phone to your forehead and let the word guessing commence!
- Tilt down for correct answers and up to pass on challenging words.
- Keep the fun rolling with an extensive library of engaging trivia cards!
Decks You’ll Get:
- Celebrity Quiz
- Blockbuster Movies
- Animals
- Accents
- Superheroes
- Famous Characters
- And lots more!
Features:
- Enjoy group play with friends, team, or even hundreds of players simultaneously.
- Draw new word cards with a simple tilt of your phone.
- Keep priceless memories by recording gameplay videos to keep for yourself or share on social media
- Entertain everyone from trivia buffs to casual players with various difficulty levels.
- Updated frequently with seasonal and topical fun, plus huge brands like Harry Potter, Marvel, Seinfeld, Friends, Star Wars, and much more!
Heads Up! is the ultimate party game that combines the best elements of charades, trivia, and light-hearted team competition. Whether you're looking to liven up a family gathering or a game night with friends, this app is your ticket to endless fun. It's your super-affordable way to bring joy and laughter to any occasion.
Download Heads Up! now and let the unforgettable guessing games begin!
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Heads Up! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
How do you throw an amazing winter party? Invite all the cool kids!
Updates
• This version includes content and cosmetic updates for our Winter event.
• 'Tis the season. Grab some hot cocoa and enjoy a round of laughter with "Act It Out", "Holiday Songs", "Holiday Movies", and more!
• Get a limited edition snowflake-themed card background with our holiday decks.
Please update your game for the latest content. Happy Playing!
Download & Availability
Heads Up! 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:
You pay two bucks to open an app of ads. It needs a better UI. Its hard to find new decks, we see no search function. Its just scroll through the hundreds of dollars of bundles.
Unable to turn off the stupid memory function and unable to delete the previous recorded ones and new games keep getting more and more expensive.
We love this game but why do you have to pay for EVERY deck, we love doing this with our family but it just ruins the fun being limited after paying for access for the game.
We downloaded this game pretty happy with it but we want to have a deck without a 1 countdown and make it adjustable to as long as you want. Along with allow the card to be skip faster and load faster rather than waiting.
It is a very fun game and we think nothing is bad about it and give it a five stars review because it is very fun and nice to play with friends and family,we would prefer down loading it,it is so much fun ,hope you enjoy playing it.
We bought multiple decks in a special sale and have everything from the "act it out deck" to "basketball classics". We always have this game handy for get togethers and it's a hit no matter the audience because there's a deck for every theme of interest.
We just got the app and it literally crashes whenever we open it. If it wont work at all we want our money back.
Se puede poner en espaol? Como hago.
The holiday update wont let you buy new decks or even access your owned decks. No tech support or way to contact the developers easier to try to fix. Otherwise normally a very fun games especially for the kiddos.
Love the game. Played it with grandkids and had a blast. We purchased one of the sale packages and they do not show up on the app. The purchase has cleared our bank already. We have reinstalled the app and hit restore purchases and its still not showing up on our app. We cant find a way to contact them. If we get the purchased games this would definitely be a 5 star.
This app is a lot of fun but it was not worth the $1.99 plus the $6.99 for the holiday edition. There is not a big enough selection. If you play with a big group, you end up getting repeats very quickly. Also there were a lot of spelling errors and some blanks, with no word to do.
Absolutely love this game! Our wife and we often play while waiting for take out, or when we dont want to stare at the tv anymore and its AWESOME for family get together as! However, the app randomly deletes certain categories even if you paid to unlock all the categories. More annoying than that, it used to give you a brief synopsis of the category you were interested in when you tapped it, and it gave you the rules of that particular category plus an extra tip to make it more challenging if you wanted to. Now it just takes you straight to the category. No rules, no suggestion. We hope they fix this glitch soon. Otherwise, fantastic game.
Love playing this game at gatherings. So much fun that we splurged and bought extra decks in the in-app purchases. Hey when you are drunk and having fun and see the prompts for buying more decks you do it. Super disappointing that the next time you open the app you revert to just the starter decks again with no way of recovering prior purchases. But oh so many advertisements urging you to buy and unlock more decks. Very annoying.
Yeah this game is good but meh. Would be better if you gave us money.
We remember that before selecting a deck youd be able to see a quick summary before playing the actual game. It helped us understand certain rules to decks played such as act it out. Im not sure if it was an option that was removed or just something that was changed. We would rate higher but that was QoL mechanic that was just too helpful to get rid of.
Stays stuck on the opening screen and will not let us past it until we buy Black Friday deals. SCREW YOU.
We play this game almost every family reunion and it is always the best thing to pass the holiday.we have bought almost every pack even the extra build your own. We do suggest to add more options in Spanish since our family bounces back and forth from only three options that sometimes get too repetitive.
This came changed our life. We found Jesus after purchasing this mobile application for $2.99.
Would be a 5 but for some reason the game isnt allowing categories to be described before starting. It just goes right to the game with no synopsis of the category.
Needs more language support (idk why they removed spanish toggle and instead made spanish decks a microtransaction), a new updated UI, and the make your own deck shouldve been a free feature.
We recently bought a pack of cards, we know we bought the pack because when we tried to buy it again it said Ive already purchased. We tried restoring purchase but no new decks were in our collection. We have the latest app version and using an iPhone 15. We tried reaching app support through the App Store but the link was to some website called ellenshop. Very disappointed.
Classic game but there are too many ads despite it being a paid app. Thanksgiving ad doesnt allow you to click past and play the game.
We wish the decks kept their description after purchasing. Ive purchased some, but we forget what most of them are and wish that they kept the description since some of them are similar and we would like to be able to differentiate between them.
While playing SharePlay it does not let us use custom decks but it lets us use decks that our friends dont own we just want to play with a custom deck.
We have all the decks because the game is fun. But we cant hand the app to our child when there are so many sex related ones. They need to add an ability to hide decks and only see them in the hidden place.
Fun for all. We'd love to see more effort in existing packs, and a broader variety of deck selections. Seriously make "the office" deck. There are tons more great tv shows to play this game with. If you won't pick up more tv shows, you should sell a blank editable deck that we could write our own answers on and play with our own categories. We'd buy that blank deck.
This is absolutely one of the great games, no questions asked, BUT, we wish that there was an album where it automatically saves your videos of the games because we ALWAYS forget to save them and its a bummer when we cant rewatch them. Thats the only thing keeping it from a 5 star review from us. Otherwise, amazing game and kept up the good work.
Spent too much money on a package deal – wasnt worth it .. Just think and check before you buy.. Of all the included packs in the deal 2-3 are okay the rest we will never use.
Pls add full screen support to iPad Pro 12 inch (3rd gen) in next update. Thanks.
Every category has about 10 options and they just cycle through, so if you play more than one round of a specific category youre just going to have the same things over and over again and its not fun. Needs to be more things in each category.
Worst game from a horrible KUNNTT.
Just purchased, downloaded and app does not open. Frustrating. Bait and switch.
We have enjoyed this game occasionally for many years. We are very frustrated that it kept crashing over the Christmas holiday and today it crashes every time we open it. We cannot use it. Help.
This game should be very fun. But what isnt fun is when youre sitting waiting for the place on forehead screen to change. Tried covering the rear camera, ensuring the phone is on the correct side, and even waiting for it while its on the forehead. This all seems like a big scam to get you to buy more decks.
Fun game were bad but its fun! :).
Love the game! We have several of the decks but Im craving a BOOKTOK collection.
Please update the categories!! Im tired of getting repeats all the time. Other than that, the game is enjoyable.
You game is a super skipidi rizzler.
Just great thats all we can say.
We just love the game we start jerking it as soon as we play.
This app needs a settings menu to be able to customize the time you get.
Purchased this on an old phone, when we got a new phone and transferred the app over, it didnt give us all of the previous games we purchased. Only option is to repurchase the missing ones. Other than that our kids love the game.
Its fun but they need new words in previous decks. Im SICK of the repeats. But we will say its a fun lil game regardless. We play all the time. Thats why Im over the repeats.
Its not hearing us anymore. Settings are all fine. It worked yesterday just fine. Also, many categories are very difficult for kids.
We Love You so Much Best Game mover.
It is just nice it is so fun our mom loves this game to and we tried it is nice and cool we play it every single day and its really good you should try this game out and you will love love it try it out.
We love this app, such an amazing idea and great time with the kids! Did start to stall a little and became less interesting but hopefully that can be easily fixed. Keep up the great work and thank you.
We love heads up because there are different kinds of ways you can play . We also like that it video tapes you on that round.
Put a vines card deck or like a meme one cuz that be sup fire.
Highly deceptive. You pay for the app upfront and then have to pay a LOT more in the app. This is not cool.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.1.123
- Size: 350.96 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Warner Bros. Entertainment
Last updated: 15th December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Word | Developer: Warner Bros. Entertainment