Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 08:20 pm
KPOP Story: Idol Manager – Roleplaying Game Review
KPOP Story: Idol Manager is a Roleplaying/Entertainment/Simulation game from William Zhuang, first launched in 20th August 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,971+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes KPOP Story: Idol Manager Stand Out
Welcome to the world of KPOP Story! Turn trainees into top level celebrities! Create all star groups and see your groups' music alongside parodies of BTS, Blackpink, and Twice on the music charts!*
Think you have what it takes to survive in the KPOP industry?
◉ RECRUIT idols from all over South Korea!
Travel to 16 unique locations in Korea in your search for the greatest idols. Each location has its own flavor, quirky characters, and varied clothing styles.
◉ Form star studded GROUPS!
Put your idols into groups and form a team that's balanced and appeals to all. Send your groups off to promote on radio shows, dramas, and more.
◉ Hold PERFORMANCES to make your group and company the most well known.
Perform on multiple stages to grow your idols, groups, and company's popularity!
◉ Create SINGLES, ALBUMS, and MUSIC VIDEOS to make money and grow your fame. Customize who helps to produce, choreograph, and shoot your songs, albums, and music videos.
◉ Take care of your IDOLS!
Train your idols in singing, dancing, and rapping. Unique events will happen to your idols and your decisions of how to handle them will have real consequences.
◉ Top the music CHARTS!
Create top songs by carefully choosing music producers, dance instructors, and lyricists. Promote them with anything from posters to blimps! Watch your songs rise up the charts as your groups fight for a place among real life group parodies in the top of the charts.
◉ Customize your HEADQUARTERS!
Customize your headquarters with furniture and make it the way you want it!
Join our discord at https://discord.gg/vZz5gR4
*Music charts are sourced from Billboard Music charts. Billboard, BTS, EXO, and Red Velvet are trademarks of their respective companies and are not affiliated with KPOP Story in any way.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, KPOP Story: Idol Manager is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th February 2021
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed bug where album awards weren't being given correctly
Download & Availability
KPOP Story: Idol Manager is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get KPOP Story: Idol Manager 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:
Cool experience! Look forward to the upgrades.
Its fun but we feel like it could have more.
Im not sure if im the only one whos having trouble on that part or not, but for with an horizontal screen trying to hit arrows in a small mount of time is hard. We know that theres also an option for a rapper but with that one you get less points we still do like this game though.
Maybe add more collaborations from other entertainment or idols along with variety show.
This is probably one of the best games Ive ever played, the only thing that should be added is more ways to earn diamond and coins.
This game is very fun. Totally recommend.
Ahhh we really really love this game. We love how its progressing, every single update is amazing, we honestly just freaking love it so much. Please dont stop updating.
The controls are confusing to use when you are preforming.. Can you make easier controls or at least slow down the arrows as they go by.
Hi we LOVE your game! Im basically addicted to it, but we have some problems. We tried to disband a group which was quite large and the game crashed on us and when we went back in the game and clicked on the group icon it crashed again we tried it with every icon and most of them just make the game crashed. We thought it was just our phone was acting up so we restarted it but it didnt help. Please help.
We think you guys should make it so we can produce music videos and make certain idols be able to produce music so we can select them to produce songs.Also, is there a way to increase your idols charm? If not, please make a feature to somehow increase the charm. Also, there are glitches where it makes a static sound when you click on a button and sometimes it crashes as well.
We love this game and it always gives you opportunities to keep growing in the game! There are some minor bugs, but its it very creative and fun.
Its fun hehe we like it no complaints.
This game is really fun and Im kinda addicted.
We downloaded this game today and we love IT.
Its such a good game, addictive. Though we did have a rough start trying to perform and stuff, but we quickly figured it out! No major problems.
We honestly love this game there is just one problem it keeps crashing every time Im on the idol and doing things the game crashes it bothers us sometimes but if there is a new update that fixes this we will absolutely love it even more then before because it crashes to many times as Im playing but other then that we love this game please fix the slight problem EDIT: also we just want to ask if its just iPhones because we have a 6s plus and we saw a comment saying it got fixed but it hasnt for us another thing we feel like there should be music playing and Im pretty sure there is supposed to be music but for some reason there is no music even when we silence it and play music from Spotify/pandora it sounds a little weird and the sound starts to crack when we exit the game it doesnt do that so it has to be something wrong with the app if you can would you mind replaying to us and if you can make a update to fix those bugs and glitches thank you for your time reading this love the game besides the point.
Im tired of having to wait for an icon to appear above someones head in order to feed our idol. Its super annoying. We think you guys should put food in the shop so that we dont constantly have to wait for someone to show up and buy food from them. Our idols happiness is low and we cant increase their happiness unless we wait for a food icon to appear above someones head.
Its super fun esp cause ive been doing something similar.
Overall we love this game! Its really excited when you get a new location we clicked or when you get on the charts.
This app has many features that we find really cool and we think its one of the best games for a Kpop fan.
All we wanted is our dream :Being a k-pop manger. We could have not been able to dream this big without this game. No other game is like this. We can travel perform do ads and have a HQ and make our own groups! This has brought our dream to life. All we wanna say is thank you.
We love this game and Im basically addicted but we have a suggestion why not make events into a mini game where popularity can be boosted. Another thing that would be cool is making your own idol, And customizable stats for it would be insane but to make it fair would be making all stats start at zero. Also tours would be dope and Global smaller training companies would be cool. Creating survival shows to build buzz for new groups and trainees would be really cool to boost popularity for upcoming groups. Adding a second form of publicity for your songs would also be cool and they could cost diamonds to also help developers. Allowing idols to act in dramas and movies would put more use in the acting skill. Adding fan meets as an event to boost popularity instead of making money. Creating a show (competition) like produce 101 between all players to send top trainees and the company with the most trainees in the final 7-12 dont know final number but this could help build the interaction of this games community. All Im going at is making it more like actual companies that have to make shows and adding stuff to boost the companies reputation in creating big groups like how jyp and yg do with there companies. Another cool thing would be adding vlive to boost popularity. Real players would know that popularity is more important than income. Edit: Back for more suggestions being able to produce, write, and choreograph your own music would be really cool and to make it hard an idol has to have their stats all over 115 to acquire all three skills but at least 110 in one are to unlock a single skill. Previously we mentioned sub labels and we stand by it because it will expand the HQ page and allow a place for more groups to debut. Our biggest idea is subunits and solo projects, having idols boost their popularity by themselves would be super cool and having subunits can let a smaller group of individuals shine. We cant code but you can add a button to the page of a group that leads you to another smaller group page that has a limit of only four subunits. Please add dorms it really makes no sense there isnt any. Being able to upgrade the dorms would be a neat feature that boost idol happiness. The lower level dorm the higher popularity idols lose happiness giving an incentive to keep upgrading the dorm. Our second to last suggestion that we really need is EPs that range from 4-8 songs to change up how many songs an idol can release at once because sometimes before a big comeback we would like to release four songs instead of six or nine. EPs would have no limits so the manager could release five or seven songs if wanted. The final and biggest suggestion is adding survival shows that help boost popularity and reputation of the group and company. Having survival shows can help managers create groups that the public want. Making this feature between companies can also boost the relationship of people in this gaming community. Sincerely, The rank 2 idol manager.
Its a really good app it works well and is really entertaining.
Great game! Just started playing today and we absolutely love it.
Its really fun and addictive!! The game is really thought out well.
Im just addicted to this game now.
Its a definitely fun simple game. We would love for it to be more advanced and actually have better quality. For there to be more to do and more categories you can develop in.
Its great Thats all we can say.
This is the first day Ive used the app, and Im already loving it! Its so fun to use and you get to (kinda) experience what its like to be a CEO of a KPOP industry! So far, our experience is going pretty well, and Im happy to say that this app is amazing! However, the game crashes. A lot. If we correctly counted, then Ive had over six crashes, all in under one hour! As we said, its a great app, it could get you hooked onto it within minutes! But, if you want to keep having people use it without any bugs, you need to fix the way the game suddenly crashes all the time! Now, we know a lot of games may crash, but six crashes all in one hour? Its to much! Also, a lot of our idols happiness goes down, and theres barely anyone bystanders with food icons! The main problem is the crashing, and we really hope you can fix it! Our experience with this app in just one day was really fun! We love it! But, you need to make sure that something clothing items arent to expensive. Id barely have enough money just to produce one song if we bought one pair of shoes! We hope you can stop the crashing of the game. Overall, this is a really great game! It may crash often, but when we actually get to play it, we could never leave the app! If your looking at this review just to see if you want to download it, you should! But, just watch out for the crashes (we dont know how thats possible…) Anyways, Im gonna go ahead and play more of this game! Its really fun! – Jenna.
It fun game we like how we can control music and the group formation. But we would like to make there only dance just like we make the song. Also the apps that pop up after the performance are annoying but good game.
All Around good but we wish it was easier to get started.
Its an alright game but we dont like the style of the people and how slow the trainees move when u try to recruit them.
Diamond prices are to high we and also just to trade diamonds and get money is way out of range we-.
Ive been obsessed with this game for quite some time here we are 2025.
We love it when we were little it used to be our favorite game the moment we found out about Nooo we were so infested into Koop we wanted every kpop game ever to feel like we were a loop idol and we found this game and we became obsessed we found it later when we grew up and its still our favorite till this day.
Ive been playing this game on and off since its come out and is one of our absolute favorites! We do have some minor things we would like to see, but other than that not many complaints! We do have trouble with the special talent of the artists and would like a way to search for trainees on the street with the special talent. Many times Ill want a group to focus on certain talents, and Ill search for real life days to find a trainee with the certain talents to boost the group. Like, if we want to create a group focused on vocal, itll take forever to find a trainee who specializes in vocal, or their skill as the tutorial calls it. That is our only request, is to make it easier to fine those trainees! Edit: we just thought of a cool feature while playing! It would be really fun if we could add friends, or brother/sister companies and trade trainees. Like you send a message to your brother company and say, hey, send us a trainee who has a skill in rapping, and if they have one they can send them over! You can either make your own subsidiary and create an empire (HYBE) or you can get a few people together and names the group a company name, and all of you can play as your own subsidiary under your group company.
We like the game and its concept Im currently working on our own K-pop Korean girl group named Cherry Rush and its going smoothly we would recommend you download it its a actual fun app game.
Awesome Game we love it and it pretty fun to play.
We wish we could pay even if it was hourly for someone to run the company as far as training and performing and fan stuff when Im not actively playing. Like being able to hire staff BUT we LOVW THIS GAME.
Its a good game Ive played for a while and we wish it had more although its still good.
Stan Ablume they will debut soon (original voices of Cupid) This game is fun and it keeps us happy as we wait for Ablume's debut.
What a good K-pop game. Recommend 10/10.
Please try to give us more updates! Its 2024.
Very good game love it so much its pretty challenging but in a good way.
The developer quit the game 2 years ago, we need to find someone to update the game.
This game is so much fun we love it and we also cant believe that it also doesnt need WiFi.
It can be a little boring but still awesome.
Good and fun game, but we have a question: can we debut idol solo and not in a group.
ONLY PLAYED FOR 20 MINS BUT we LOVE IT.
This game is so surprisingly addicting, we hope they make idols pursue side careers like acting and modeling.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.37
- Size: 178.10 MB
- iOS: 9.3 or later
- Languages: EN, KO
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [William Zhuang]()
Last updated: 26th February 2021 | Genre: Roleplaying, Entertainment | Developer: William Zhuang