Sphero Play

Sphero, Inc.

About this app

Are you having fun yet? Because that’s what this app is all about.

Drive and play games from ONE app with your Sphero Mini, Sphero 2.0, SPRK, SPRK+, BOLT, and BOLT+. Connect and control your robots with several exciting drive modes, use your robot as a controller to play games, or try out Block Drive for an intro to programming with colorful blocks.

Features include:

DRIVE MODES
Drive your robots several ways with the Sphero Play app. Use the joystick and slingshot controls, tilt your device, or use your voice. Our sports-themed drive modes keep things fun with the ability to swing your device to "golf"*, or flick to "kick" your robot.

BLOCK DRIVE PROGRAMMING
Learn programming basics by controlling your robot with colorful movement and light blocks.

GAMES
Use your robot as a controller to shoot your way through space, race your vehicle through a tunnel avoiding obstacles and scoring points, or rotate your ball to destroy a polygon of bricks.

Need robots? We know a guy. Visit sphero.com and order today.

*This drive mode is only available on devices with a gyroscope. This mode is not available on tablets.

Ratings and reviews

Alright app. You don't get many options, I believe because it's an Apple device. It is difficult to get to work on your Samsung, as I have read. You have to allow everything. Which means that you may have to "hunt" down the permissions in your BT program as well as some others, even nearby share. Anyhow, works alright for the device, once it gets "acclimated". Cute. Almost worth the purchase. Very fun for a bit too.

I absolutely love this app, but there are things that you should add. Firstly, please add Verbal Direction, where you can say code, or left or right or forward or display green. Secondly , please add a way to customise the matrix in Drive mode. Thirdly, add more games, or allow us to make our own. You can also throw it into the air and it can walk around.

This is nice. But I am having an "ALignment" issue. I aim the blue LED on the back of my Sphero PSRK+ to me, then when I try to make it roll forward, it goes backward or off to one side. The only way to fix it is to erase all app data. But after a day or 2 the alignment gets all messed up again. If I immediately load the EDU app it will steer my SPhero SPRK+ just fine. I have also done the charger button reset AND forced firmware update. Neither makes any difference.

What’s new

• Support for Sphero BOLT+