Universe in a Nutshell
by Kurzgesagt & Wait But Why
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| Germany | €2.99 |
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| France | €2.99 |
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| Spain | €2.99 |
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Universe in a Nutshell reviews
4.9 out of 5, based on 5,468 reviews.
What people like
- Beautiful visuals inspired by Kurzgesagt art style
- No ads, subscriptions, or extra purchases needed
- Great for learning and comparing object sizes
- Educational and inspiring for young space fans
What they complain about
- App crashes immediately on older phones
- No updates or new items added in years
- Uranus is completely missing from the list
- Only available in English for non-native speakers
Great But… Uranus
Why Is There No Uranus. And Absolutely No Updates With Objects. I Hope There Are Object Updates. 2: 5 Years Ago From 2026 Was 2020 When This App Was Released. There’s A Website By Wait But Why (Like The Fun House) That Has A Picture On It By Timurban Called Whoever Made This Must Be A Genius When Timurban Said: “I Don’t Know Who Made This, But They Must Be Geniuses To Have Made What Is Clearly The Best App In History.” I Thought It Wasn’t The First Review Until I Checked The Apple Store. And There It Was. The First Review. 5 Stars. Do You Remember That?
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The UI made me wanna not read
Would love audio
This is a really cool app that my kids have enjoyed exploring, and one I haven’t added a time limit for because it’s educational. I think a great and helpful addition would be to get the awesome narrator from the videos to read the descriptions for young kids and the visually impaired.
Okay but my 7 year pointed out that Uranus is missing from the app
Disappointing….. as my 7 year old was looking through the solar system section and Uranus is actually missing he’s not a happy little boy
Great, but a problem
I have to say I’m a big fan of your channel, but I realised there’s a part of misinformation a brown dwarf is not smaller than earth maybe you can fix that.
Mind-blowing
Beautiful, enthralling, informative and entertaining. And I love that there are no ads, subscriptions or inappropriate purchases.
Unlikely
You forgot Uranus.
Sound
I thought the sound option was for it to read to my toddler. Any chance we can get that option? My toddler likes to run off while using the app, but I wish he understood what he was looking at.
It gets boring
At first it was actually really interesting to see the size comparison and learn about new things. When I saw the video kurzgesagt made about this app made it out to be super cool. Which its pretty cool but not as cool as he said. He said they would update this app which is one reason why I was happy about it but the last update was four months ago and even when they do update it nothing gets improved no Addons it’s just a bug fixes. It would be really cool if they add a new item. Like maybe how big a Tesla cars or a solar panel or wind mill. Sadly at least right now they have added nothing new and it’s just gotten really boring it’s fun for a couple minutes until you read and look at everything and then it’s boring. PLEASE ADD NEW ITEMS AND UPDATE THE GAME MORE OFTEN!!! If you do that I will do 5 stars.
Nur Englisch
Schön gemachte App jedoch alles nur auf Englisch
German language option
It would be great to have German language option as I would love to learn about “Universe” in German as well
Keeps crashing
So excited to show this to my little boy, but on opening it keeps crashing. Can anyone help? I’ve updated iPad and just installed latest software. Still no luck.
Dear Kurzgesagt,
I really want to become an astronomer when I’m older as I’ve always wondered how big the universe really is and it’s crazy that there is so much off it I’m 12 years old I don’t know where to start but I was wondering if you could add tasks or something like that and mini quizzes or games about space it would be nice to add more because u absolutely love your designs you inspired me to create a book about astronomy at twelve and I will be publishing soon I really hope you can add more to the game your videos made me want to learn about space and it’s been one year now since then and I still watch ur videos usually I go through a phase where I like something for a week but since watching your channel I’ve been obsessed with space ever since and I am forever grateful for them!(thank you kurzgesagt I appreciate your videos and your game I am your no.1 fan!!!)
It wont let me in the app
It lets me in for a few seconds then it disappears? I don’t know why this is happening
Love this app, but it’s abandoned
Kurzgesagt promised to update this app for years, but it only got a handful of updates before being seemingly abandoned. Sad. It’s a great app worth getting. Just disappointed it hasn’t been updated for 2 years.
Wow. Just wow.
As the kurzgesagt kid I am, it’s time for my review and wow! This is absolutely incredible! I could look at each description for hours, look at the astonishing work, and sometimes question about why Italy is shaped like a boot. I would like to see more objects though. Here’s the list: Titania, Triton, IO, Callisto, Titan, Hyperion, Car tire, Enceladus, coliseum, and who could forget Uranus! I would also like to see some of your new art style on some objects. You know what earth looked like in your video, “you are not where you think you are”? That’s what I want. I’m not asking you if you could right away, but you can keep it in mind. Anyway that’s all I wanna say for now. Keep it up! And stay curious.
Game crashing
I just downloaded the app and every time I try to load on it, it just crashes. They don’t help at all, total waste of money
Umm…. 🤔
You Guys didn’t size 24 things correctly. Please correct those, Kurzgesaht & “Wait but why?”.
Einfach nur cool leider ...
Ich finde diese App mega hilfreich mit Infos vollgepackt aber doch übersichtlich und Kinder freundlich. 😊 Leider aber nur auf englisch sodass es nicht jeder versteht aber es ist trotzdem sehr gut gemacht
Good app but it could be better
Stop the forced reading add linked videos,audio listening and stories if available. Other faults that I would like you to fix will be listed below. 1.you should also mix the app with the channel so you can subscribe,get news when new come out we can discover things and or get merch. 2.Make accounts so we can all share discoveries. 3.In the app make it so we can suggest new videos 4. Finally and links in the app like A black hole it is showing us information currently but I would like to add links so we can see related videos to the subject. From random person who is a big fan
Amazing informational app
From the Planck Length to the Hubble Deep Field it has something to say. The music is also great. If you like Kurzgesagt Art and Physical Sciences this app is for you.
Crashing on iOS 12.4.8
Not working at all on iPad Air with iOS 12.4.8. It crashes while loading.😢
Update Please🙏🙏
I’ve been using this app as a space nerd and I love it! I’d definitely rate this app 5 stars. But … I’d love to see an update. The app should add a big update with more space stuff and maybe some more plants!
Needs way more.
It’s a extremely good foundation, but it needs more things, there are only a couple spices, of bacteria and animals. More stuff would make it very good. Also it would extraordinary if the would be a Mather mode where you can compare sizes of different things. That’s all I have to say.
Feedback review
This app is great! It puts Kurzgesagt videos into a giant encyclopedia of random things in the universe, full of fun facts and good défendrions to know if you love science, and a great size comparison app. Something that it would be nice for this app to add to become even better is if you could choose 2 or more objects to directly put next to each other, in their own sort of “sandbox”, so that you could directly see the size difference. Something else that would be cool to add is some kind of definitions page, where it gives all of the definitions of different science words people might not know, like “Quark” or even “Quantum Physics”. Other than those things. The app was perfect! Nice job Kurzgesagt at making another beautiful science project.
Help please
Every time I try to open the app it crashes. I have restarted my device multiple times but it keeps happening, please help PS I am on IOS 12.4.8
Incredible, but needs more
This is a fantastic app, but I feel like it needs something else to it! You could put a video under every explanation, or sideways not just in and out. Still-amazing, totally worth $3
Make another game
You should make a game about colonizing the universe
Other universe, comparison apps, and this is the best one
I’d love that this has no ads now. Why would you add a stick figure? I don’t know why you are working with a complete but this is the best I could have on my iPad. Thank you for making this. I love this YouTuber.
Program crashes on the iPad mini 2 on the latest OS 12.4.8
Please fix the crashing
Good, but
It’s a fun app to learn with and mess around with, but it needs something else to do. One way you could make it funner is by showing real life examples of the thing and what you can do with it.
Good concept, bad execution.
It’s an amazing app that works great on my iPad but it doesn’t work on my IPhone 6. With some updates it could be fixed however. Just needs to use less memory.
For Kurzgesagt and Wait but why.
I love the pictures and how It’s like a infinite zoom video best app ever!
Just crashes
Hugely disappointed that the app just crashes within 5 seconds. Can’t use it in any way. On an iPhone 6 Refund please?
Ya don't say?
Well thanks for the lengths but I still need you to add the planet Uranus
Problem mit älteren Smartphones
Ich würde liebend gern eine bessere Bewertung geben, da die App nicht nur im Preview top aussieht, sondern auch weil ich über die Jahre ein Vertrauen in die Qualität von Kurzgesagts Produkten aufgebaut habe. Jedoch stürzt die App nach wenigen Sekunden auf meinem Iphone 5S ab. Mir ist zwar bewusst, dass das Handy sehr alt ist, wäre trotzdem schön würde die App auch für ältere Geräte optimiert werden.
This really needs an update!
The app hasn’t been updated in three years. It says Voyager I is 21.2 billion km away, but is now 25.0 billion km. Who knows how many other interesting discoveries have been made that could be added?
It doesn’t work on iPad
It will crash in seconds. How can I figure out?
If you see this I'm a kid.
it's not animated on my iPad. But it's good.
It doesn’t work on my iPhone 6, it has about 2 FPS and then crashes after a couple of seconds
Still 3 stars because I appreciate what you guys are doing
Sososoososososoo funnnnnnn
Ok so awesome game,app or anything but please update!
Needs fixing
App crashes upon opening. iPhone 6. I hope they get it working soon.
science parts
i love this app so much and i absolutely love kurzgesagts work and animation as well, the visuals in this app are spectacular. the only improvement that me and im guessing a lot of others would like is that you add more of the science parts to you description. Like yes I understand this app is mainly comparing the sizes of most objects but it would be incredibly useful if you get more into the science of why something happened. Thats all, overlal an amazing app and an amazing team :)
Not perfect but cool.
The best part of the app was going small. Traveling from the size of a rice corn down to a Planck length was truly mesmerizing. But how close they put the Milky Way to the observable universe really put me off. It made the universe seem so small. Videos on YouTube zooming outward from earth, loosing track of the sun then the Milky Way to loose track of the Virgo supercluster is a weird feeling. But this app did not really have that aspect. One thing that always made me think the universe was too big to comprehend was thinking. “We live in a solar system” “in the Milky Way where there is millions of stars” “Thera are 100 billion galaxies like the Milky Way” “clusters of GALAXIES looks like small dots from the perspective of the observable universe”. I get tripped out every time. Here it’s like galaxy - clusters - observable universe.
Universe in a Nutshell FAQ
- Is Universe in a Nutshell free?
- No. Universe in a Nutshell costs $2.99 (US) to download.
- Does Universe in a Nutshell have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to Universe in a Nutshell?
- Solar Walk 2 - View Planets 3D (4.7 from 23,837 reviews, premium from $0.99), Exoplanet (4.7 from 3,058 reviews, premium from $0.99) and Universal Zoom - Science Guide (4.8 from 960 reviews).
Universe in a Nutshell download
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Universe in a Nutshell sells in 175 countries. It was released 6 years ago, on 14 Sept 2020. It holds a 4.9 rating from 5,468 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
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