JELL-O Jiggle-It review

Do play with your food! Kraft Foods Inc. have released a fun little iPhone and iPad app called JELL-O Jiggle-It. The free application works on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and lets you watch virtual JELL-O characters dance to your iPod music or voice commands. The app is fairly simple to use. You just pick a color of JELL-O and pick a song from your iPod library. Then watch as the 3D JELL-O cube starts dancing to the beat. There are 5 colors/flavors available to choose from: Berry Blue, Lime, Lemon, Orange and Strawberry.

Once the track starts to play, the jiggling starts and it is pretty funny to watch. Pick a song with a good beat and watch as the cube starts shaking on the dance floor. The character has over 30 dance moves so you’ll probably be entertained for at least a few minutes. Sometimes the JELL-O will not “feel” your song and will ask you to pick a different song.

Jiggle-It uses BPM recognition and sends the cube signals so the level of the dance energy matches the song quite well. If you swipe your finger on the screen of the iPad or iPhone, you can send the JELL-O cube signals to do special dance moves. For example try drawing a spring on the screen and watch the cube spin in circles. There are also text messages written on the screen as you touch it like “Wobble On” and “Don’t Stop, Jiggle Jiggle.”

There is also a feature where you can use your iPhone microphone to control the cube, although I wasn’t as successful with this feature. It might be fun to use this feature if you’re having a party or doing a sing along at home.

Overall, a good simple fun app that can entertain you and bring out a few good laughs.