Fruit Ninja®
Fruit Ninja remains a fun and nostalgic game for many, but recent updates have introduced significant issues with frequent crashes, excessive unskippable ads, and a shift towards a 'pay-to-win' model, negatively impacting the user experience.
Fruit Ninja is still enjoyed by many for its classic fruit-slicing gameplay and nostalgic appeal, providing a satisfying and stress-relieving experience. However, a significant number of recent reviews highlight critical problems including frequent app crashes, an overwhelming number of unskippable ads, and the removal of offline play, which detracts from the overall enjoyment and accessibility of the game.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent app crashes and inability to open the gameR7R13R23R26
- Excessive and unskippable ads, even after purchasing ad removalR4R25R62R66
- Requires internet connection, no offline playR4R6R40R154
- Issues with in-app purchases, including ads persisting and content disappearingR25R140R178R19
- Lagging and performance issuesR104R160R496R669
- Changes to blade/dojo collection system are disliked, perceived as 'pay-to-win'R44R122R178R341
Latest update · v3.97.0
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
New PAC-MAN Game Theme has arrived! He's back and chomping more fruit than ever before! This new Game Theme comes with four new PAC-MAN Blades with unique powers, including four new Dojos and a new collection system. Complete challenges and unlock unique PAC-MAN Avatars! Four new events are waiting, play through them to earn duplicates to level up your blades and unlock and increase these new powers! Find the new Game Theme in the Shop or Game Theme menu.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players seeking a nostalgic, simple, and satisfying fruit-slicing experience R36R47. It can be a good stress reliever R5. It is not for users who expect to play offline R4R6, are sensitive to frequent and unskippable ads R62, or are looking for a game with a fair progression system that doesn't push in-app purchases R341.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly regarding crashes and ads, which contrasts with the high lifetime rating. This suggests a significant decline in user experience with recent updates. Evidence for specific new features (like PAC-MAN) is limited but generally positive when mentioned.
Frequently asked
Can I play Fruit Ninja offline?
Does Fruit Ninja have a lot of ads?
Are there issues with the Fruit Ninja app crashing?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R1] It’s the best thing ever and it’s so much fun: Very fun I like when there’s the rewards
- [R3] Game: Good game. It is very fun
- [R5] I actually like this,: So I don’t want to add attention to myself or anything but I get stressed a lot and when I get stressed I cvt myself and this game helped me a lot throughout my stress and it help me feel better in life and keeps me clean,I’ve been playing this game for abt 8 months and that’s how long I’ve been clean,I’ve also struggled with depression so it helps a lot thank you for this g
- [R12] Fruit Ninja: Such a great game. So much fun to play.
- [R36] Sooo fun: I really like it how it reminds me of my childhood how I went to Chuck E. Cheese and played this
- [R44] Blades have become impossible to collect: I really like this game! It’s fun and I remember playing this game when I was little. So many blades to collect, but this is what I’m here to review. The blades have became impossible to collect, and the often way to collect them is from boxes. But all and literally every time I opened a box, I only get dojos and duplicates, hardly new blades. I don’t get
- [R47] Og and nostalgic: Haven’t played in years. Still hits
- [R262] Nostalgia Returns, But Game still inaccessible: Love the fact I have reunited with this game. Just happened so randomly. Still as good as I remember. The problem is - why all the flashes?! In certain modes like Events and Arcade, the stripy background is visually overloading. It’s distracting, it’s annoying and it can be very problematic for anyone with sensory issues and/or photosensitive. Plea
- [R19] Cool Fruittttttttt gameeeeeeeee: This is so fun! I love how the graphics of the fruit slice but the no ads thing got rid of all the ads, and it still gives me ads but best of all you guys have Pac-Man and Bluey Modesssss so you could play all you like this is so fun whoever made this is a legend 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍓🍇🍉🍌🍋🟩🫐🍈🍒🍑🥭
- [R42] It is awesome: Fruit ninja is so fun and I love how you slice the watermelon to begin the game. I got a high score and I think that this is a really cool game.
- [R50] og: hardly any ads, fun gameplay, and good 3d graphics. how could you not love this? (the other 196 losses sitting in the background) jokes aside, it’s a really good/fun game. play it. now.
- [R523] cool stuff: it sound sooo satisfying
- [R7] Keeps crashing: When I open the game, it takes me to a black screen, then crashes. Halfbrick please fix this
- [R13] Fix your app please: I downloaded it and I tried getting in but the app reseted its self so I tried 10 more times and nothing, what a peace of trash never downloading this app again! 😡
- [R23] Sucks: Whenever I click the app I have one second until it kicks me out of it
- [R26] Kill these bugs: Played before 10 out of 10 but when i join the game it kicks me out in a less than a planck second
- [R4] Good, but…: I love Fruit Ninja, but it has too many ads, and it doesn’t let you play offline, due to “servers.” This is why I’m rating it 3 stars, some pros in this game, others cons.
- [R25] Rip off?: The game is fun but it glitches sometimes I have to close the app and restart it (it’s not my device it only happens with this app). Ads are annoying and everytime I click to pay the $1.99 to remove Ads, it plays an Ad then the app crashes out. Sound comes in and out sometimes. Paid $10 for the Bluey theme thinking that would get rid of Ads all together but nope I still get the Ads.
- [R62] Unplayable: So many ads it’s unplayable my children can’t even play the game because it gives them an unskipable ad every 2 seconds
- [R66] Ads: To many ads and trying to make you buy ads is too much
- [R6] Fun: Fun game for when your bored to bad that you can’t play it with out internet other then that it would’ve been the perfect road trip game
- [R40] So cool: I love this game because there’s no adds. But the thing is you need internet to play the games so I will give 4 stars.
- [R154] Same game: Since I remember it is pretty cool only one problem we’re in 2026 now and the game stills not playable offline 🥺 please guys
- [R140] What… the heck.: I remember this game being free about two years ago. Now I have to pay for a subscription if I want to play just this game? What if I don’t want all those other games, except for fruit ninja? I love this game but I am NOT paying 2.99 a month for it. Bring back the ads, this is worse than that.
- [R178] Not great, but ok.: Ok, where should I start? This game was free and had no adds! And now, micro transactions, forced adds, loot bocces everywhere, after each run they shove a micro transaction in your face or just think you’ll say “I love adds!” It’s so (censored) annoying! But the games good.
- [R104] Very fun but excessive lag and crashes: I’m a long time player to this game, I have 41 ish blades and 20ish dojos and a good amount of them are maxed out. But the problem is is that there are moments during gameplay when the game randomly freezes for brief moments, which ruins my scores sometimes, and on top of that recently Zen mode keeps crashing every time I try to access it. Please fix.
- [R160] Ace: This game is very good. No lags No issues or problems with the game itself but the game overall is very fun to watch, play and enjoy with friends and by yourself
- [R496] It is kinda glitching on my iPad: Overall it is good but when I press the fruit it dosent act like I’ve pressed it and it’s not my iPad because I played other games and they don’t glitch like this when I press stuff. The game is good quality, but I can’t get a higher score because of my glitching So I would give this a three out of five hope this helps for people who have iPads
- [R669] Good: Good but they are ad’s and it slow’s down some time’s. Still good
- [R122] Where them dojo powers at?: Come on gimme them dojo powers it still says coming soon rahhhh
- [R341] Used to be fun: Re-downloaded this after having not played it for a few years because I wanted some good childhood fun but then I discovered that the method to unlocking new blades and dojos had been completely overhauled and turned into a cheap ploy to get you to buy boxes in order for a CHANCE to unlock anything you wanted in the first place (and not to mention duplicates?? Very user-unfriendly
- [R33] Options: Some options were removed, and the interface was changed. Then again, the game is still good. lol
- [R106] Blade powers not working: Some blade powers don’t work anymore such as extra points close to a bomb in the laser blade or bonus XP points for the crown jewel blade. It used to work but now that they don’t it makes the game less fun to play
- [R209] Doesn't work without internet: What's the point of this game if it doesn't work without internet? · translated
- [R108] Too many ads, can’t play: There’s so many ads and I have to click through a demo and videos and trailers, couldn’t play the game at all.
- [R111] Predatory ads: Add that appear to be like a game that force you to their websites. You’re unable to skip them and have to close out the game to get rid of them.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store