Dazzly: Color by Number Game Reviews

by IronRatRaja

As a game in general the concept isn’t too unique. Coloring games have been done to death, but this one’s mechanics definitely make it unique. Quite realistic gems, nice sparkles, the sparkly dragging make it stand out quite a bit from the last gem-coloring game I’ve played.
However, the ratio of premium:free drawings is absolutely ridiculous. The game is mostly premium drawings that you can only unlock by paying a frankly outrageous subscription fee— and if we’re already unlocking even the free drawings by watching ads upon ads, what’s the point? The developers are getting money anyway by forcing users to watch an ad every time they want to color. Putting more than half of the drawings as premium-only without another way to get them is just plain greed.
The game’s mechanics are good, and the game is fun for anyone who likes shiny things and colouring. But if you plan on playing this for a while.. Well, you can’t. There’s too few free drawings— Unless you break out your wallet— and, frankly, I’ve seen colouring games with many, many more options that are completely free. I’d go to those instead, until the developers of this one gain some sense and make some way for people to unlock the premium ones without having to pay an exorbitant amount of money.

by Rmm813

Dazzly has been so glitchy since I canceled my subscription and decided to watch the ads to color pictures. Have to watch 3-4 ads for one picture. It randomly freezes. It also randomly crashes. I have attempted to contact customer support multiple times. They never reply.

So I finally messaged through Facebook. They read my message but yet again did not reply. I asked why they read the message and didn’t reply and that finally got them to reply. This is what they said “ Hi. We’re working on the replies through Dazzly and you should get one as soon as possible. We’re going through some unintended troubles with the ads. We’re working on fixing it. We’ll come back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience. The this app team.”

I thought, yay they replied, so I asked approximately how long I should wait for a reply in Dazzly . Yet again, they read the message but did not reply. Every message has been me detailing problems and asking for them to be fix. So my point is, the customer support for Dazzly is absolutely horrible to the point where I’m not going to use Dazzly anymore. I just wanted to let people know if you try to contact them for anything, odds are you won’t ever get a reply.

by Ches Shire

Been playing for a while now and I’ve loved it. It’s had it’s up and downs but eventually it seemed everything was getting better. Then with the last update something broke. I can’t unlock anything. It just shows me a loading circle, like it’s trying to load an ad but nothing ever happens.... I tried to play with data and WiFi turned off and it just shows me the same load icon. :/ Really sad.... I’ve done hundreds of pictures and now I haven’t been able to get any new ones in days. That also means I’ve missed the last several days of the events. That’s another change that’s really no good.... If you don’t go unlock the new event pics within 24 hours then it locks behind the pay wall (which we all know is ridiculously expensive...). At the point Dazzly is worthless to me unless something is fixed. Sad to know all the time I put into it is useless. I can’t even get to the pics I’ve already done. Hope something is done....

by Nextbluemoon

The game is beautiful, the gems look great, it looks better than pretty much any gems I’ve seen in other games. But there are a lot of issues with Dazzly . When I get maybe halfway into the second picture the graphics will begin lagging more and more and my phone will heat up like crazy. Not a good sign considering this is the only app I have that will heat up my phone so much in such a short amount of time. On top of that, it’s hardly worth forcing through the lag considering pretty much every good picture is only available on premium. The fact that I have to pay $10 a week to access the majority of the pictures is absolutely ridiculous. The pictures that I do get to color only open after a full ad plays. These problems really override the maybe 10 minutes of relaxation I get to have before the game starts lagging and overheating my phone and causing more frustration than its worth. I can’t see anybody genuinely enjoying Dazzly unless they pay a ridiculous amount of money.

by Dollbones

This is a cute coloring app with a shiny twist. I like the designs and the fact that multiple shapes of gems are used in each picture. Another app I played that was similar required the user to choose what shape gem they wanted and every time they wanted a different shape gem they had to watch an ad for it. Even if they already watched the ad for that gem five times, it doesn’t matter if you wanted a new shape you had to watch an ad. It’s nice you don’t have to do that on this and it appears they’ve actually put some thought into the designs to make them look good. However, it’s massively annoying, so much so that I don’t want to play because of it, when every time I start a new image I’m forced to zoom in and showed a tutorial of how to play. I’m not stupid and I don’t like it when game designers treat me like I’m stupid. I don’t like the “magic gem” feature because I want to fill in the gems myself. I don’t want it auto-done for me. That’s not fun. Make it an option I can turn on and off. And stop showing me how to choose a new gem or play the game in any way after I’ve completed the tutorial. I hate when games do stuff like that.

by Only1Cecilia

For somebody who loves ASMR stimulation, I was soooo hoping Dazzly would fulfill my ASMR sounds cravings. UNfortunately all those beautiful “ting” noises that you hear in the advertisement for this app when they show all the gems gracefully falling into place do not happen, which I find misleading. Sure, I hear the pretty “ting” noise when I place a single diamond one-by-one, but who wants to do that for the entire puzzle? When I use my stylus/finger/Apple pencil to drag many gems at a time to fill a row of numbered spaces collectively, I do not hear the multiple, yet individual, beautiful “bling” sounds as they all nicely land into place. And, yes, I did go into Dazzly Settings to make sure I have “sound” turned on, and made sure my volume is turned up. Despite the void of said sounds mentioned above, this app App is aesthetically pleasing. The stone colors are rich in color and they sparkle wonderfully, and the gorgeous “dust” trail that follows the stunning jewels as you move them around is gorgeous and FUN! Even so, with everything that I do love about this app App I still stand by my low star rating for their false advertisement of constant sounds (that do not exist) being misleading.

by Jazmin Shelly

Love this game. My main complaint is the adds. They are generally pretty standard. Anywhere between 10 seconds to about a minute. BUT some adds take waaay to long to unlock pictures or collect gems. It’s taken upwards to 5 minutes or maybe longer. Sometimes these long adds are back to back and we can’t exit out of the add until it’s completely finished. It doesn’t matter if the you pass the white dot on the video of the add and try to exit out of it, it doesn’t work. Even when it says collect reward in X amount of seconds. You literally have to sit and wait and it’s annoying. Also it says to subscribe you have to pay 7.49 WEEKLY and it’s auto renewing. That’s almost $400 for an entire year subscription. Of course you have the option of opting out of an out renewal. On top of that you have an option of paying $14 a month or $80 a year. That is an outrageous amount of money for a game. That’s WAY too much money. But aside from that it’s a fun addicting game.

by SparkLynn31

In this game you make color by number artwork. You can use colors by choice if you buy it, but it’s great without buying, too (I didn’t buy it). There are new ones every day. There are SO many different gems so you are always getting new ones. There are categories of dazzlys , and there are sooo many different ones to choose from! I have only had Dazzly for two weeks and I’ve done like 200! Only problem: So. Many. Ads. They are usually before and after each this app. Not always, but like at least 60% of the time. If you can outlast the ads, this is the best game, no cap. I love it, especially after school and being a teen. Side Note: Listen to Why Don’t We ‘s music!!!! Lol ♥️♥️♥️

I’m sorry but I just had to take off a star because it gave me a like 30 second ad that I couldn’t silence and I went out of Dazzly and kept going back in but it gave me the same add over and over again!!!! I’m sorry!!! I love the game and it doesn’t usually do that, so that really surprised me!!!

by Violet24

this app is a gorgeous and fun take on the color-by-number genre. Seriously, there are some beautiful designs in this game and I love seeing how they’ll turn out. There are a couple of issues for me though, the biggest being performance problems. Lots of people have mentioned these in other reviews and it seems like the developers just brush them off. On my iPhone XS with a fine battery and only the game running and nothing else, I lost 10% battery in 13 minutes. My phone gets very hot while playing, and the game graphics lag more and more until I close the game and let it cool down. It’s not a good experience to have to close the game for a couple minutes between pictures.

Second issue is cost. I’m just not really a fan of the subscription model (I’d rather just pay for the game once and be good to go), and this subscription in particular seems pretty expensive; $14 a month unless you pay for a whole year at a time. I can’t justify paying as much for a coloring app as I do for fully featured computer or console games. The free version has way too many ads, but I could deal with that if the performance issues were dealt with. Still a stunning game though and I hope these things improve because I really want to keep playing.

by Wavyavey

This is really unlike the other coloring games, and in a good way. It’s really great, and I love how you can actually collect the gems! But one very big thing: the rotation. I’m not talking about the zooming in & out, in my opinion that’s a necessary thing. You can rotate or “roll” as it’s called in the instructions. It’s so so sensitive and any time you zoom in or out it rotates the picture and that drives me nuts. There’s no need for this. Why would you need the picture to be anything but upright? You can never get it to be straight which is terrible, especially when you’re trying to see the finished thing. It’s always crooked and there’s nothing you can do to fix it. It even tilts the picture all by itself at the beginning.

This is so infuriating and distracting, ruins the experience. Please please please make it so we can turn this “feature” off, or better yet take it out entirely. I’d give five stars if something like that was implemented. I’m really not trying to be mean here, it’s a super cool concept outside of this!

by Calleigh Harrison

Okay, so I gave this a four star because I downloaded Dazzly on my iPad, and it glitched a bit at first. But I didn’t mind because some of my other games glitch too. But it got to the point when it crashed every few minutes. And if I went back in to finish my picture, it made me watch an ad to finish it. I don’t like ads, but I get why they’re there. People are complaining that the ads are super bad, which they are annoying, I agree with you on that. But it’s not that terrible, how are people going to get people to download their games and make money on it if they don’t advertise? Anyways, this game kept crashing so I had to unfortunately delete it. But I do have it on my phone so I play it a few times. I just wanted to write a review on that so people know that it sometimes crashes. And since it crashed, therefore I gave it four stars. And the gems you color with are awesome! So sparkly! If your a fan of sparkly stuff then I suggest this game. And some pages you have to have VIP for. I get it, that’s how they get money. But maybe make a few hundred more free pages? Also there isn’t that much category’s. I just wanted to suggest these things to make the game better and deserve five stars! Thank you for reading.

by Cicideismyname

When I first played this game, it seemed really good. I get stressed a lot and this game could help me when that happened. Well I was right, but sometimes, it literally shuts down my iPad pencil for no reason even when it’s connected.

Another bug is if you play this game long enough, it can start getting a little laggy. Especially if you color in the gems really fast. It’s like it’s following your pencil instead of going along with it. The only was to solve this is to stop coloring and wait until it finally catches up. It’s a pain so I would really like that to be fixed if possible.

So, I think this is a great game for relaxing and definitely helps you to be calm but the bugs are the only things about the game I don’t really like. I heard some reviews about bugs so I was a little worried that it would be really bad but those few bugs are the only things I spotted. There might be more but I only had Dazzly for a day so I probably missed some. But that’s my review. This is a five star if not for bugs.

by Missy147121

I love this game. I’ve been playing it for more than a few months and I’m obsessed. I’m so obsessed with the game that I bought the subscription to get new pages to color every day. My only issues are the glitches. I start 1 or 2 coloring pages and finish them both. Once I finish them I get busy doing something else, so I have to get off my game. Before the new update I would get off the game and come back an hour or two later to see that my pictures that I just finished were still fine, and they were saved. Now after the update, the pictures that I just finished hours ago are somehow not done. I still have to finish them and they didn’t save. I find it weird that even when I go back in the second time to finish the picture. Usually I don’t have to go back in to finish the same picture a third time but, this morning I had to because the game didn’t save it. It’s very frustrating and annoying to redo the unfinished coloring page over and over again. Another issue is the game freezing or just glitching out so bad that it kicks me off the game. Making me restart the game and try to go back on. One more thing, I’d love to get new gems! Ive basically used all of them so far. I’m loving the game but, I'm starting to get annoyed. Everything else in the game is great! I would really appreciate it if you could please fix these glitches in the next update. Thank you for taking the time to listen to me. ❤️❤️

by Rakkarinna

This is a very unique and relaxing app. Instead of coloring with colors, you color with gems. The pictures aren’t so big that you feel tired, bored, or overwhelmed. There are over a hundred choices in the free category. I work in the mental health field so am big on finding something to unwind on other than booze or action items. Now here is the downside: first is if you miss a gem or start looking for the next gem, the hand at the top appears and starts flashing to remind you that if you hit the gem it will show you where one is. I already know this and would like to take a minute to look around, so the flashing makes me feel pressured and there goes some peace and calm I just established. Here is the big one: ads! I have no issue with ads, and fortunately they do not pop up in the middle of an art piece, but recently I have been forced to watch 3-4 thirty second ads just to do one art piece. I go beyond raised blood pressure and think about throwing my iPad. Maybe I should take up martial arts ;0) ...

by Mamie55449

When I first subscribed I was able to share with friends my finished pictures as a video withe sparkling moving and even got to put how long it would last for so many seconds and then it would change to jpeg. The option was there with sharing. Now it is gone. I loved that feature and so did my friends. Not there anymore. That alone made it worth the cost. It is very relaxing and do like how you earn the gems. But the short clip video feature I really miss. It truly was unique. I paid the $79 for the premium for the year. Sharing was the reason I did that. And customer service is worthless My family loved getting my finished gem pictures. I would like to get the remainder of my money back for the next two months.

by Annabellejo9

I love Dazzly so much it is so satisfying I would read this 1 million stars if I could the only thing I don’t like is the premium because I am only 10 and do not have a kind of money to buy that kind of stuff but overall it is amazing you did a great job on this game anyone who does not like this is crazy thank you for reading my review and pat yourself on the back because this is the best game or at least coloring game I have ever in my life played I am so glad that I downloaded this game and sure it has a lot of ads but I get that you have to make money off of the ads seeing as this is a free game I am so surprised that you’re readings are 4.7 and not 5.0 I read some of the critical reviews which said they had problems with being kicked out of the game but I have not experienced that in so I am reading this five stars but I wish I could’ve read it 1 million although this is just the first day of playing it the second I download it I haven’t stopped playing it so I just want to say again this was an amazing game I’m so glad you made it and there are so many pictures to color it is impossible to run out💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

by Lingling Magicrp

This game is amazing bc the noise it makes it’s satisfying to hear and my mom thinks I’m to old for this game but still I’m only 9 but still who cares it’s just a game this game is my fave bc it has gems sapphires amethyst and lots more it’s pretty cool it makes me want to use my Collection of gems to make one of these arts
maybe my mom will think its bad but I think it’s amazing the new arts that I find and the weird paintings too I just can’t get enough of this game though I play this game all day long maybe not all day I have school on some days but I play this game most of the time I just love it 😍 it’s my fave game of all I mite not play it all all da time but it’s good for my imagination~ it makes me speechless 😶 my mom will tell me to get off it that’s the time I’m not on
It but it’s fine it’s not like I will die or something 😰when I’m mad I go on this game and play it till I fill better 😌

by Crystallinediva

Edit: thank you SO MUCH for adding the option to work with a specific gem or birthstone and find all of the pictures that include it. I have finally collected all of the gems, and come back every day to see what new pretties I can make.

This might be the first time I’ve left a review for an app, but I wanted to express my enjoyment of the most recent updates. Now in the My Gallery section, there’s a breakdown of completed pictures, ones still in progress, and ones I’ve designed (chosen different gems to complete). That makes things easier when I need to go back and find one I didn’t get to finish, which is much appreciated. The other really great change came a little earlier- there are 3 different color schemes for most of the new pictures that are released daily. I’m not a huge fan of pink and pastel colors, so it’s great to still be able to work on a picture with different color options that I enjoy more.

I do have two pieces of feedback for consideration in future updates: 1) I’m close to collecting all of the different gems, and it would be cool to be able to tap the gems I’m missing and see what pictures they’re in, so I can get them. 2) Some of my “incomplete” pictures are actually complete, and there are no more gems to place, but the game froze or closed (before the update), so they’re showing incomplete with no way to finish them.

Overall, extremely relaxing and enjoyable! Thank you so much!

by Cuteadorablekitten

I have to say, I’ve seen many coloring-style games on Dazzly store. I’ve never seen a game, however, where you color with dozens of little gems (I mean this in a good way)!! The way the gems fall onto the picture is just so satisfying to me. There are lots of beautiful pictures to choose from—plus brand new ones every day—so I’ve never really gotten bored with Dazzly . I also love the gem collection! I enjoy looking at all my gems in the organizer. My favorite thing just might be this: there aren’t too many ads! Plus, when you turn on airplane-mode, it still shows ads—BUT, they’re all for the this app game, so no kid-unfriendly pop-ups! If I had one teeny request, may you please make less of the art premium, and/or make the premium way less expensive? The picture selection isn’t a huge problem, but $10 a week is far too expensive for a mobile game. Maybe I’d pay $2 a month—that’s just me though. Other than that, I love this game!! Keep up the amazing work!

by Annabeth H

I am a color-by-number mobile game connoisseur and I never leave reviews but I felt obligated to make this bc this game is just a little ray of sunshine. You can do these cute lil pictures of dresses and mandalas and things. The different colors of the little gemstones are all unique, they have different shapes and textures and opacity, and they’re so detailed and beautiful and i just wanna take em and make a necklace out of them and give it to my mother. The animations when you’re placing them is so cute and sparkly and just enhances the experience. And you can zoom in a lot which I like. ANF THE BEST PART IS IT DOESNT STOP YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF IT TO GIVE YOU AN AD LIKE SOME OF THESE OTHER APPS 🥰 it gives you like one ad before you start a thing, but I respect bc you gotta get that bag somehow. Anyways i love this game and I have one of these diamond painting kits irl but why would I do that if I could just play this game instead? 🤔 THIS GAME IS FOR TJE GIRLS ONLY. 💅💋

by Nee169542

I don’t know why Dazzly has so many good reviews. Yes the concept is good but there are so many glitches. I’ve also noticed that Dazzly changes the brightness of my phone and drains my battery extortionately fast, I’m talking like 20% in about 10 mins. Also the ads are very long. I often have to close and restart Dazzly in the middle of doing a picture because it will freeze and even then after closing it out completely it sometimes still isn’t back to normal. Some pictures after you unlock them and go to play them just go blank so you can’t ever play them. It seems they had an update recently but none of these issues have been fixed! Seems the only thing the new update did was make it so you can watch a very slow video of the diamonds you just filled in. Very annoying and I wish they would fix all this as I do love this game.

by Shine4362

The only reason I'm giving this 3 stars is because the design is a tad new with the sparkly gems... which I enjoyed. 👍🏼 As far as the concept itself, there are many color by numbers apps and plenty of apps with drawing and coloring in general. Some are free and some are not but there is no way I'm waiting 24 hours to receive 5 minutes of entertainment with the next design installment which I don't even get to choose my own colors. Oh, wait a minute.. I do have that option. For a mere $7.50 a week! Really??? And are you charging extra to get rid of the adverts too? I'm not trying to burst anyone’s bubble here but the concept just isn't special enough (my opinion of course) for such a high weekly charge. I could see paying a one time fee but not a weekly charge just for some sparkle.

by Recy💅

I wish the subscription wasn’t so expensive. I paid for a week because I really enjoy this game however I refuse to pay $7.50 a week or $15 every month it’s not worth it. I also feel like there should be some sort of sharing aspect to this as well. When your subscribed you have the option to freely color meaning choosing your own color rather than color by number. With this feature it would be nice to see what people have come up with. Be able to visit their page to see what artwork they’ve shared to their profile. I’m just saying that if the subscription is gonna cost that much there should be more features added. Also when filling in the gems it tends to freeze up and doesn’t register till after I’ve stopped moving my finger across the screen.

by Katara2011

I don't understand this. Why have this amazing game and require a subscription to do the majority of the pictures? Why can't I still just have the option between watching a video and paying for a subscription? Its a fun game, but I don't have the money to pay for subscriptions, and others may want to play but not have the money either. I would give this game 5 stars, but I just can't because I can't do anything now. Everything that I have the option to do now requires a subscription. The game would be a 5 star game to me if you could add the ability to play everything by watching a video for everything that's normally gotten through a subscription. Don't you get money for that as well?

by Elanor_Niphedril

I downloaded Dazzly after seeing an ad and getting curious. Something about coloring with gemstones helps to separate it from all the other coloring apps on the market. this app is super fun and I’ve enjoyed every piece I’ve colored or am in the process of coloring. My one thing (and the reason this is a 4 star review and not a 5) is that over a period of several days last week I would get notifications on my device - which is brand new, for the record - that Dazzly had released new pictures. Only to see nothing when I would go and check Dazzly . Then all of a sudden today I had a slew of new pictures, but the window when they are all free had passed and several of them were marked for those who’ve plaid for the premium version of Dazzly . On the whole Dazzly is great, though.

by Vadise_TWD

As an art lover and gem fanatic I really like Dazzly, but I hate that I feel like I have to check it every day or else I’m going to miss out on some of the pictures that I might want. I would definitely purchase the premium version if the cost was reasonable, especially because I can tell that there are some good designers putting a lot of work into the pictures and gems, but a subscription for a coloring app is ridiculous. Normally when I see something like this in an app, where the creators try to keep you roped into coming back every day à la Candy Crush I would just uninstall it, but besides this issue I don’t really have any serious problems with it. It’s also very unique; the only other app like this on Dazzly Store just doesn’t compare. Please make the premium cost more feasible so I don’t have to give up this great app.

by Designergrrl

The interface for Dazzly is a joy. It’s beautiful to look at. It’s easy to find missed spots (unlike many other coloring apps). I love that you can paint strokes instead of individually tapping each and every spot. And the final images are pleasing.

However... the ads are insanely long and there are far more of them than on similar apps. Also, unlike similar apps, the MAJORITY of images are only available to subscribed players. As others have mentioned, the subscription is prohibitively expensive.

I’ll enjoy Dazzly for a few weeks, but then I’ll probably delete it because of those issues. It’s not worth the ads or the cash.

by Coachthrasher

It’s just the most relaxing game and I’ve never played one more relaxing than this one. There is only one thing I want to change, when you miss a gem and wait there is a finger pointing at the gem color that you’re using and that just distracts me from actually playing the game. One other thing, I also wish for you to take off all the adds they also make you distracted from the game and make you want to play another game. Last thing, I wish that all of the pics where free and you didn’t need to buy anything you could just play for free. But overall this was and still is, the most relaxing game. :)

by PJC67

This really is one of my favorite coloring apps, love the bling. But I agree with everyone else, it’s a little pricey for the Unlimited Access, otherwise I would purchase. And there was a feature that I really loved and now it’s gone, could you please consider bringing it back. It was the video option as well as the still photo option and the background option that allowed you to use photos from your photo gallery on your device, besides just the black or white choice. I loved the way the gems twinkled in the video save option, very realistic. And I really liked having the option to bling up my own background photos. Please please please consider bringing them back.

by Applescrapple12

Hi, This is a great App, but I’m upset that in order to do the vast majority of the pictures you have to pay a monthly fee!!! Too bad because I’ll probably be deleting Dazzly soon!! What a shame, because I really enjoy doing the pictures that are free. I have other coloring apps, although none with gems, that are absolutely free. The only thing you pay for is stopping the ads from popping up. I love the colors, the sparkle, the music, and the free pictures I’ve done. I happen to LOVE BUTTERFLIES, but you have to pay a monthly subscription fee to do it!!! Needless to say that I’m not happy and will probably delete it soon! Too Bad😡

by Amlester85

I really enjoy Dazzly because I love puzzles and coloring apps and this one is unique in that you use gems, which appeals to my love of sparkly things. My only issue is that it’s not updated nearly enough and I’ve already run out of art to do and so many of the same gems get used over and over. If you’re going to include an index feature that lets you collect the gems, a better variety should be made available (so over all the red/pink/gold combos). I actually signed up for the subscription but I’m considering canceling if things don’t improve soon.