MY LITTLE PONY
My Little Pony is a nostalgic and engaging game for fans of the franchise, but it is heavily criticized for its aggressive monetization, frequent bugs, and issues with account data saving and transfer.
My Little Pony offers a fun and interactive experience for building Equestria and collecting ponies, appealing to both long-time fans and new players. However, recent reviews highlight significant problems with in-game purchases, technical glitches, and the inability to save or transfer game progress across devices.
What users like
What users complain about
- Aggressive monetization and high prices for ponies and items, making it pay-to-winR5R10R18R19
- Ads for rewards frequently do not work, requiring multiple watches or app restartsR1R2R3R11
- Lack of account saving or transfer functionality across devices, leading to lost progressR8R9R14R15
- Frequent crashes, freezes, and general glitches, especially after updatesR23R41R44R72
- Repetitive events and slow progression without spending moneyR4R59R67R71
- Accidental gem spending due to sensitive UIR134R135
- Lack of new songs or content for the Equestria Girls mini-gameR13R29R47R61
- Unresponsive customer support for account issuesR9R14R50R62
Latest update · v11.2.0
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
New adventures await! • Call Me "CHOREOGRAPHY"!: Rainbow Dash must create a spectacular Wonderbolts routine for Pinkie Pie's party. Discover if she can pull it off in this all-new event! • Make a Wish Upon a Toy: A mysterious magic is transforming ponies into toys and toys into ponies! Join Spike and uncover the truth together. • Summer's Here: The sun is shining, the days are longer, and a stylish new group of groovy ponies has arrived in the shop. Stop by and see what's new this season!
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for nostalgic fans of My Little Pony who enjoy city-building and character collection games and are willing to tolerate significant monetization and technical issues R1R26. It is not recommended for young children or players with little patience due to its complicated progression and aggressive paywalls R20.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, focusing on monetization, bugs, and account issues. While there are positive reviews, they often acknowledge these problems, indicating a consensus on the cons. The lifetime rating is high, suggesting these issues might be more pronounced recently or for a subset of users.
Frequently asked
Can I transfer my My Little Pony game progress to a new device?
Is My Little Pony a pay-to-win game?
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] Yall need to update this: I had a problem today where instead of being able to just exited out of the game and reenter like i used to, i dont even get the ad rewards. I went to customer service and looked at the known issues and based on the evidence of whats written, this bug hasnt been fixed in 9 years. Yall seriously need to fix this it genuinely ruined my day. But its a really gun game and i l
- [R2] Honest take: I love this game so much and can play for hours at a time. My only current critique is that the ads don’t always work and it’s upsetting and frustrating. I’ll watch an ad and it wont give me the rewards I watch it for, it used to but it suddenly stopped. I’m not sure why. I’m connected to good WiFi and I have all updates. Please fix this!!
- [R17] My review: Hi my name is Lauren and I have been playing this for 13+ years and love it I play it with my good friend ray and we love it I play it so much.
- [R26] Long time player (10+ years): I played this game back when i was in middle school, i loved all things MLP, even dressed as Princess Twilight Sparkle for one halloween, yes i was made fun of but i didnt care. Safe to say this is still a great game, i love the EQG dancng mini game, love the minecart mini game, and love farming the ball bounce mini game too. I use this game to help me regress when i
- [R37] Amazing! (With minor glitches): I absolutely adore this game, it’s so fun and interactive. you get to build your own Equestria and save up your coins and gems to buy ships, decorations, or ponies! You can also play mini games to earn rewards. That’s where the problem comes in. You can watch an ad to get a higher XP bonus but whenever I watch one it doesn’t give me my reward and I have to end up wa
- [R40] Update Glitches: I love the campaigns and the consistency in monthly update alongside new campaigns. But whenever there are such updates, there are bugs in the add reward and more recently the weekly social events don’t give me my prizes despite winning them. Sometime the add rewears don’t give me the rewards nor do I receive rewards from the social events. I ask that you remedy this error.
- [R57] thanks: THANK YOU FOR ALL THE NEW UPDATES! I’m glad you’ve started adding necessary features and new characters
- [R5] i love this game but there are major flaws: i have a special connection to this game. tons of people do. it’s unfortunate that every aspect is rigged for you to spend money. i understand it’s a free game so it’s hard to make profit. but please for the sake of your loyal customers. make it less pay-to-win. i have no problem with the advertisements but please tone it down.
- [R10] Overpricing.: For this game to be 4+ it sure is expensive. The earning isn't great at all to keep up with the prices of ponies, shops and even decor. A normal side pony should not be 900 gems. How is a child even supposed to play this game? The ads you watch for rewards don't even give you the rewards, the ads you watch to play with the pony's (because that's also super expensive for some stupid r
- [R18] It’s okay: Very cute and fun. Also very buggy and greedy. Great for pony lovers, bad for reckless spenders.
- [R19] Bugs and Pay to win: I never really write reviews, but I love this game! It’s hard to get by how often you are expected to have to spend money on it just for it to be SO buggy! If you’re gonna hide most important items used to level up behind a paywall, at-least fix the bugs! I’ve watched countless ads just for it to say I didn’t watch any, forcing me to watch yet another. Not only that, but on to
- [R3] i love but having troubles 😞: i love this game sooo much and have had the app for so long now but every time i go to play mini games and watch ads the ads do not go through and i’ve watched 6 ads and then give up on the game due to not being able to level up new ponies or play the mine cart game. other than that so fun i love
- [R11] Good game: Everything is great, but the ads for rewards don't always work the first time; you have to watch them multiple times. · translated
- [R8] Data not being saved/restarting all the time after you redownload or switch devices.: I’ve always loved this game and still do but don’t get me wrong, but it’s the fact that’s it’s been literally 10+ years and you still cannot save your progress for the love of god unless you remember a user ID (or a friend ID, I think?) which is quite impossible considering the fact that most of the people who pl
- [R9] Account progress lost: 2 stars my account is lost with all my progress data on my old phone and gameloft wont answer me about getting it back
- [R14] My favorite game, but...: This is my favorite game, but I encountered a problem where I can't transfer my progress from Android to iOS, and customer support didn't provide proper service. They didn't help at all with resolving my issue. They always directed me to a bot, which of course can't do anything about my problem; a human administrator is needed for that. · translated
- [R15] Transfer: There isn’t a transfer method I need help to play this on my iPhone. It’s on my iPad already with same iCloud Game Center but it starts a new save when I download from my iPhone.. it’s really dumb because every new game since 2018 had login methods instead of relying on cloud saving….
- [R23] Constant crashes: Game crashes constantly, I have lost out in multiple rewards due to this, including event rewards. I used to spend money on this game, no longer do as it is a waste, Gameloft needs to fix these bugs.
- [R41] Lagging: I’ve been playing this game since I was 8 years old, but I just redownloaded it a week ago and I got to the point where I have to send thorax to scout for a secret entrance but the game keeps crashing when I send him to do it. BUTVI LOVE THE GAME, but I’d love to know how to fix it.
- [R44] Game froze: I watched an ad to get a free ball in one of the mini games and it froze with the bouncing horseshoe. I’ve tried closing it and reopening, moving stuff around, and a bunch of other things.
- [R72] Everything is mostly good, but there is a problem: Sometimes when you enter the game, there is an endless loading, as after watching ads, reinstalling does not help, last time I had to create a new account, but the problem appeared again. Please fix it!!!
- [R4] good game, just have some issues: okay so the game is great, loved it as a kid and i still play it to this day. however what bothers me so much about the game is that some of the prices are ridiculously high for certain ponies that shouldnt be that expensive, and its so time consuming to the point it gets boring after a while not knowing what to do and some tasks are just so complicated to achieve
- [R59] events are repetitive: i've been playing this game on and off for years, probably since back when there were no events. i love this game, but the events being the same every time is what bothers me. it's repetitive and almost boring at times. it's the same thing over and over. maybe come up with something new ? otherwise, i love this game <3
- [R67] Gets Old: I love the game and played a TON as a kid which is why I downloaded it again. After a while I’ve noticed that the quests slow down significantly and are almost unattainable to complete without purchasing gems. I’m at the point where there’s literally nothing I can do but wait to build up gems for these quests that will take years. The events are very repetitive and it’s just not fun anym
- [R71] Not All There, but it’s still fun.: Half of the events get offered extended durations to only select people, leading to very poor standings for some. Not to mention the obsessive amount of paywalled items. I know this is a mobile game, I like the idea, design, and more… but paying upwards $100 to get under half of the gem blocked content, not even including the bundles that give you 5 unique, only
- [R134] Gems are too easy to accidentally spend: I have enjoyed to game but after accidentally spending gems on purchasing land again, I think it’s time to stop! It’s way too hard to get gems and way too easy to spend them!
- [R135] Great but one problem...: Ok so in general the game is great, it’s fun and entertaining, but the thing that REALLY bothers me is that when I tap something really quickly I accidentally pay something with my gems, for example today I was tapping fast and I accidentally paid 60 gems, from 106 gems to 46, I was furious because I worked hard for those gems.
- [R13] Please diversify equestria girls: Hello, dear developers! I really love the game, but here's what I would like to see as a long-time player with 7 years of experience 1. New pony models - if I'm not mistaken, ponies haven't improved since coming to the game, and it's time to improve them so that they're really worth these crystals 2. Mini-game with music "Equestria Girls"- please add more tracks t
- [R29] Please add songs! Why is the Equestria Girls Minigame neglected?: There are so many songs in MLP and even equestria girls alone, but you’re telling me there’s only FIVE songs to play in the minigame..? The devs update this game all the time… so why can’t they add more songs to play? Theres SO many bangers that would be so fun to play. “Under Our Spell” & “Battle of The Bands”, & literally any Dazz
- [R47] PLEASE: Add more songs in equestria girls and add sunset shimmer because it's important there and it's very far away that you can't open your account and log in on another device
- [R61] Hey! I love the game but the Equestria Girls section could get some love.: I love, love, LOVE this game but the Equestria Girls rhythm game section could get some love. Why is only music from the first movie there? You could add the music from Rainbow Rocks, Equestria Games, The Legend of the Everfree and the Youtube continuation of Equestria Girls. Also what's going on with the Changeling Kingdom
- [R50] Banned for no reason: I used to play very often, then I changed phones and couldn't log in. Now I downloaded it, tried to log into my account, deleted the new one, tried to log into mine again, and I got banned. And support isn't responding. · translated
- [R62] Disappointed: I love this game, I’ve been playing it since I was 12. With that being said I’m 24 now and have invested a lot into this game. I recently got a new phone and ironically. The game was the only thing that did not transfer over. So I submitted 2 different emails and reports to the support page to try and restore my game. And I never got anything back. Or even any answer at all. Would no
- [R6] Fav: Best game
- [R21] I LOVE THIS GAME BUT I NEED HELP: Ok so I love everything about this game but I had it on my old phone that I don’t use anymore, and once I downloaded it on my new phone the data didn’t transfer and I have no idea how to transfer it so please help 😖
- [R20] Fun game, not for young children, such a money grab: This game is great and I’m in my late teens and so addicted to it. I however, do NOT recommend this game for young children. In spite of how it’s advertised, it’s very complicated the first few days and is not for people with little patience. I have been playing it for years and still can’t ponies that I want. It is extremely hard to succeed in
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store