Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Simon's Cat – Pop Time – Puzzle Game Review
Simon's Cat – Pop Time is a Puzzle/Strategy/Entertainment game from Tactile Games Limited, first launched in 31st July 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 30,710+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Simon's Cat – Pop Time Stand Out
Mr. Potts is causing trouble again, trapping cute critters in a bubbly mess! Only you can help Simon’s Cat and his friends pop bubbles, clear puzzles, and save the day in this fun bubble shooter!
A Bubble-Popping Adventure Awaits!
Match bubbles to free adorable critters and complete exciting challenges.
Play through thousands of colorful levels with unique puzzles.
Reach new areas and discover magical surprises.
Use special power-ups to solve tricky puzzles and win rewards.
Fun & Addictive Gameplay!
Easy to start, but full of exciting challenges.
Enjoy vibrant animations and lovable characters.
Experience stunning visuals in a colorful world.
Play anytime, anywhere—no WiFi needed!
Join Simon’s Cat, Maisy, Chloe, Kitten, Jazz, and more in this purrfect puzzle adventure! Whether you love match puzzles or bubble shooters, this game will keep you entertained for hours.
Start playing now and enjoy a bubble-popping journey like never before!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Simon's Cat – Pop Time is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Simon's Cat – Pop Time is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Simon's Cat – Pop Time 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 played this game for many years, but recently when we try to open it we get a message that the game crashed and it closes itself out. Sad that we can no longer play it.
The game is advertised as having the slides & ladders game as well as find the differences. This is the 3rd time we get the slides & ladders but not the Find the Differences game. Its very annoying! We play everyday & do the challenges and we make in game purchases. We have complained about this twice before. Its very frustrating.
The new update remove the option to play video for three additional balls please fix.
We like the concept of the game and some of the optional games within the app. Playing tournaments feel manipulated, and limit repeated wins.
We love this game and felt so happy that we could earn advantagesI really admired that the developers designed the game that way. . The commercials were so frequent and REDUNDANT, we even bought the pass to get around them ~ except when we losewhich almost alwaysstill giving 5stars; its truly fun. Im hoping the developers see this.
No pressure to spend any money (we cave very easily to doing this so this is a big thing) and just does what it advertises! Honestly all we can ask for is.
Ive enjoyed this game for a while now, we play every day. But our granddaughters play too. The ads are absolutely disgusting. Theyre not as frequent as other games, but theyre always about older women rubbing their bodies up and down in seductive ways while fake bragging about their great new bras. Im older and extremely offended by age-centric ads. The way the actors caress themselves is offensive and not appropriate for children. They are clearly aimed at seniors, which Ive complained to developers about, but they tell us they have no control about the contents of their ads, which we dont believe. Sad because game itself is great.
Game is fun. Level Dash contest is nonsense. Ive always wondered if we were playing against real users of the game. Today that was answered when the number one person achieved well over 400 levels. That just is impossible.
Love the cartoon Simons cat. Ive played the Pop Time games for several years. We understand the need for commercials HOWEVER you need to be more careful with WHICH ones you run as children play these games. You may not see no big deal when painting by number commercial flipping the middle finger and dropping the F-bomb but we would advise you to rethink that and be more careful with those kinds of TASTELESS commercials. Thanks.
We would give this game 5 stars because its fun, challenging, and entertaining. Butit gets 3 stars because there have been times when Ive been down to our last 2 bubbles/moves, neither are a color we could use, and we spent the coins for an extra 10 bubbles/moves and we end up getting all 10 extra bubbles of the same color as our original last two. That doesnt even give us a fighting chance. Now, if we got the 10 extra, all different colors as they should be, and we still couldnt beat the level, thats due to us. It giving us all the same color, to us, thats sort of cheating. We know – its only game. But still.
Game crashed and we lost all of our progress. Years of progress. All from the new big update. We spent a couple bucks on the game, and Ive loved this game for years.
We have played this game for years. Lately, the amount of ads are ridiculous. Everything you do, theres an ad. Maybe this is a good time to take a break from this game. It was fun while it lasted but now its just like all the other games out there.
We used to enjoy the game occasionally; left it to sit for several months as it had gotten too repetitive. Ive tried launching it lately (before and after restarting our phone; with and without airplane mode turned on), but it crashes and closes. To the developer: Please dont tell us to contact you by the in-app help because THE GAME CRASHES EVERY TIME we TRY TO OPEN IT we cannot get into the game to open the in-app help.
Love this game. But the app isnt quite working. The option to watch an ad for 3 more balls is no longer there. Yes we have the newest update. And Ive been a fan for years. Whats up.
This game has become not worth it. They have added so many ads. So take so long we get angry and just stop playing. If you love ads that go on forever. This is the game for you. As there are now more and more games that are ad free. We play this game less and less.
Players have to watch ads after finishing a round even the daily puzzle. Argh.
Loved it but now the ads have become unbearable! Now theres ads as soon as you start the game on the bottom. While youre playing the game you have to watch ads then theres more ads after you win some points. Uninstalling due to this.
Used to play all of the time. Newest update though? Crashes the game before you even start. Shame.
Now theres an ad bar across the bottom, so we see fewer rows of bubbles. Im fine with the ads after every level, and spending a minute every time we open the app to say no thank you to all the offers. But now we have to deal with ads messing up our game play with EVERY LEVEL?!?!?! No thank you.
This game has all the others beat. It has personality.the developers nailed it. No adds so fare .Love the cats?we recommend this game . 5 plus. This game is addictive.good jod.
We really enjoy this game and have for a few years. However, If we have the game silenced, its because Im in an area that sound will disturb others. So why allow the ads to be at peak volume? And Royal Match ads are the worst with the moaning etc. Royal Match ads will be the reason we quit this game. They have one after the other and theres no stopping them.
Been trying to play it today, and it keeps crashing after hitting the Play button. Its up to date. Like the game a lot – when it works.
Too many ads, including their game deal offers, paying to get extra bonuses for play. So, when a screen pops up saying Any purchase removes ads, we made a purchase. However, we STILL HAVE ADS!! We contacted them earlier today (3/19/25), but havent heard back. Easily a 5 star game, IF they honor their offer. Yes, its a fun game. But, Id be wary of spending any money on it.
So here we are, months later & Im finally writing an updated review-This is a great time passer of a game, the artwork is super cool, & the gameplay is more than fair; we got frustrated before at having to spend $$ if we wanted to advance when the no ads available notification would come up-it was all just a matter of playing the game longer and learning some real basic strategies to make it as enjoyable as possible-this game is great and Im so glad we stuck with itI dont write reviews often but Ive about had it with this game, how come we keep getting the No Ads Available notice while playing? This just started happening and as we learned the hard way if you dont make a purchase for more bubbles you have to restart the level or the Endless Challenge from the beginning! Ive spent $30 on this game trying to beat the Endless Challenge levels and dang it unless we buy more bubbles we get booted! For a cute game thats supposed to be free to play, this is just wrong- If anything changes for the better Ill change this review but wow am we ever disappointed with the developers of this very cute game.
This is the best app on our iphone. It is so simple and so classic. It is stimulating but relaxing. This game is a masterpiece.
We just downloaded this yesterday and we love it! Its really fun to play. Kudos to the designers. Its a lot to learn, but Ill get the hang of it. The graphics are beautiful and really cute. Thanks again for creating it.
We gave it 4 stars. It would have gotten 5 and was so close but our issue is that you have to pay a coin to play a game. Even if you win the game super fast and you get 3 of 3 stars for your performance, you earn zero coins. Nothing. So the longer you play the more you watch your coins go away. He is super creative and we follow him on Instagram. This game is worthy of 5 stars if you didnt lose your coins so quickly. We would give it 4.5 if we could but we cant. Great job otherwise.
Very fun bubble game. Ads are not bad at all. Im up to level 480, but opened the game today to find Ive lost our Free boosters. Not sure what happened.
This is a 5-star game, has been our go-to daily game for a long time, and we love it. However, we are at level 3100, and for the last few days there has been No Video Available to watch an ad and get 3 free balls when Im within a ball or two of beating the level. We have tried restarting our iPad in hopes that would work, but it does not. And the bucket with an optional extra boost that always appears at the bottom of the screen no longer appears. Whats going on??? This is very frustrating.
Ill play the daily quest and accept everything. Then the next day it says we missed a day. In fact, yesterday, we played it and then paid to play the next one. Now it says we missed a day. How is that possible?! And this has happened to us multiple times now, that it says we miss a day when we didnt.
Love the game, but hate that it has ads now. We were at level 700+ when this started. Was our favorite game until it forced us to interact with another sponsored game that you have to completely exit out of the app to get back to playing.
Love the game, except when we get to level 20 or 21, the game crashes – every time – please help. We have an iPhone 14 Plus, iOS 17.6.1 (latest software update).
Game is good. There are ads about vaginal health which are VERY INAPPROPRIATE for a game children play !!! TAKE THEM OFF.
Currently, the game keeps crashing when we go in to play.
We have downloaded the game twice, and each time the Seasons Pass pops up, our game crashes and we cant play anymore. Ive closed the game and restarted, but it crashes every time. Its a fun game, but not if its gonna always end up crashing.
Like every other game this one is fun to start and soon get to the point where the levels are almost impossible win without resorting to paying money. Its a shame, because it was cute and kind of entertaining.
Its an alright game, but we just saw an add of someone loosing the game on purpose and we personally hate those kind of adds so now Im deleting the game. We do still like the YouTube series of Simons cat though. Developers: know that we hate watching people loose in games and will delete or not install said game if its advertised to us in this manner.
We like your game, but the horrible, violent ads for EVONY are incredibly offensive.
We love this game so much!! Its so entertaining and fun we could go for hours. We love the YouTube videos and when we found this game we downloaded it immediately, we have so much fun and there are no adds so many levels and rewards, so we highly recommend this game.
Our go-to game when listening to books. Love the cute antics of the cats. Keeps us entertained without requiring a lot of dedicated concentration while following the gist the book. Definitely a little jewel :).
We love the artwork and the animation. Sadly, the game play is a disappointment. The activities in the ad are appealing, the actual game is not. Too many different types of game play in one product.
We have loved this game for several years but not so much the past few months. It now seems rigged to get more money out of you. We are pretty good at making shots but it is many times impossible since they have more of the color changing balls that screw up the shot or the stupid dandelions that require extra shots. It is also stingy with rewards and constantly trying to sell you packages.
We enjoy (thus far) every Simon's Games, (even though some of, Simon's side puzzles, mini games, really kick our ).
Im happy to pay to get rid of ads.
At level 160 plus. Every time we turn around we need 10 balls to finish a level which takes 70 tokens. You need to watch the math in this game. The more tokens you purchase at any one time, the higher the cost per token! Also theres a package deal regularly $24.99 which you can get for 60% off at $7.99 . When it is advertised as 70% off it is still $7.99. So paying only 40% of $24.99 is roughly $10 and 30% is approximately $7.50. Whats up ? Do they think the players are math impaired? We love the game , but not the pricing structure.
Between games, the stuff that Mr. Potts does has gotten old and boring.
The new layout for tools is an improvement, but the actual game changes are terrible. Owl Vision is broken whenever it is supplied by Hot Streak and there is now an irritating exaggerated motion by the bubbles when a large group is stuck. This used to be our go-to game for relaxing, but instead we are now regularly annoyed instead.
This game is absolutely fantastic. It deserves lots of praise for being one of those fun puzzle games that people can enjoy. But there is just one annoying problem that we had been running into in this game: The scoring system It has been know to be so janky and inconsistent that it is pretty much impossible to get 3 stars on certain levels. Like level 16 for instance No matter what we did to try and get it to that point, it wouldnt let us get that third star. So its like even thought you did these big combos to pop all those bubbles and with the substantial amount of bubbles left over after completing the level, its like its saying meh you did okay, 2 stars which doesnt make sense. We mean cmon. We feel that its just unfair is what Im trying to get at. If you cant get 3 stars no matter what in a certain level, then what is the point in even trying? Just thought that we would get this out and explain our frustration on the matter.
Our only real complaint. About this game is that we declined to enable notifications, any every level we have to decline again. Please let us decline them for good.
The ads crash on new spring version, must start level from beginning.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.62.2
- Size: 647.46 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Tactile Games Limited
Last updated: 18th November 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Strategy | Developer: Tactile Games Limited