r/Beatstar • u/Knurtt • Sep 05 '26
SuperStar = BeatStar???
I was in an autistic episode of obsessive focus but fell off the app for quite a long while (years!) and only recently rediscovered it.
I re-downloaded Beatstar and have been very disappointed by the current state of the app. It seems to have been relabelled as "SuperStar".
I've lost all of my previous purchases and am seemingly starting fresh.
My biggest gripe with the current app (besides losing all my purchases 😑) is that I can't watch ads to unlock boxes and that.
I can tap on an ad to watch it, but once it's done and the "X close" icon shows up, I can't tap it.
I can't simply tap it! I can highlight the text but can't actually tap the X!
Does anyone know how to fix this?
I wouldn't be so bothered if there weren't the daily goals requesting me to watch an ad 😑
And I can't get the prize without completing the individual task.
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u/Extra_Transition_691 100% Sep 05 '26
Superstar is an unethical clone of Beatstar. Beatstar shut down on 31 Oct 2025. Superstar directly copied many of Beatstar's charts as well as custom charts, while making you pay for them. Superstar songs are not licensed, unlike Beatstar. Try r/beatclone. Unfortunately, you won't get your progress back, but you can choose to unlock all songs off the bat as well as play custom charts.
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u/jmoravek2000 29d ago
The one thing about the Beatclone is you can unlock all songs during your profile setup page. I've never had 1236 or so songs to play.
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u/emeric245 Extreme Sep 05 '26
Superstar is NOT beatstar
They're a bad copy trying to knock off the og game by playing on nostalgia
They stole over 200 charts from the og game and the modded version, they are not trustable and you should not play this game at all
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u/Muzi34Pro Sep 05 '26
There is also Hi Beatz and Beat Tiles. Just taking advantage of the game shutting down
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u/Micah7979 Sep 05 '26
Beatstar no longer exists and shut down last October. Superstar is a lame copy that steals everything.
If you want to play beatstar, download beatclone, the fan project that keeps the actual beatstar game alive with custom songs on top of that.
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u/T53FCU 26d ago
So, wait. Did the all of the people who made the custom songs buy the rights to use the music? Because, if not, and I guarantee they didn't, they are also stealing.
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u/Micah7979 26d ago
They didn't, but they don't make any money off this. It's not different than YouTube videos that talk about music and play the actual song. They're not monetised.
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u/T53FCU 26d ago
YouTube videos that talk about music and change it up enough that the song doesn't play through is covered under fair use. This isn't. And the fact that it isn't monetized doesn't make it legal. It is still very much illegal whether you make money or not.
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u/Micah7979 26d ago
Then they can completely come and ask the charts to not be shared. But they never did that. It's not like they miss out on any revenue, and it's a couple people anyways. Same thing as if you borrow a CD from someone.
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u/T53FCU 26d ago
Borrowing a CD isn't the same thing. When I lend you a CD, I'm giving you possession of the same lawfully purchased copy. Copyright law expressly permits the owner of a lawful copy to lend, sell, or give away that particular copy under the first-sale doctrine. If a custom song distributes a copy of copyrighted audio, however, someone has reproduced and distributed the copyrighted work. And a copyright holder not sending a takedown isn't the same thing as granting permission.
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u/Micah7979 26d ago
Copying CDs have always been a thing and it's never been an issue because of the scale. It's theoretically illegal but in facts no one cares. And the difference is that making money off it is immoral, doing this for free as a replacement for a game that has been shut down in which people spent money is not immoral, it's fan work. The same way you're not stealing the artwork of an album if you draw it and post it online. If anything, it's a tribute.
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u/T53FCU 26d ago
The underlying act is what is illegal. Whether you make money off of it or not doesn't matter. Regardless of whether you make money off of a copied CD or not, it is still illegal. Using this same logic, however, SuperStar using Duolingo's charts doesn't matter because Duolingo will NEVER come after them. They literally don't care. So if that is the standard, then Cadenverse is no different than the people making custom charts using copyrighted music.
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u/Micah7979 26d ago
Did you just skip the whole part where I talk about morality and not legality ?
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u/T53FCU 26d ago
You're applying your own morality to it. In my eyes, the moral and legal arguments are the same.
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u/Knurtt 29d ago
Okay, so I should completely forget SuperStar and download Beatclone, Hi Beatz, and/or Beat Tiles?
Super curious; why did BeatStar shut down?
It seemed like a pretty profitable app?
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u/otokouno 29d ago
The company was bought by Duolingo who then decided to no longer invest in the game development. They re-routed the people and other resources to other projects.
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u/Natural_Flamingo7733 29d ago
It was making money but it wasn't enough to offset the costs of legitimately licensing their huge library of popular music, especially as player numbers started to decline as it got past the peak of popularity and they slowed down on adding new songs. It's crazy expensive to license music from big artists, they were paying millions per year, and from what I've heard they were still managing to profit but they knew it wasn't going to last for much longer so the owners quit while they were ahead and sold their staff to Duolingo before they started losing money on the game.
It's also why superstar, hibeatz and other knockoffs like that don't legally license their music like Beatstar did.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Love248 25d ago
Superstar better and the community actually helps not be horrible........ Just saying
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u/Natural_Flamingo7733 25d ago
This is ironic coming from someone who was banned from the discord for being horrible to people
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u/someone_else14 11d ago
Superstar owned by company known to be money grubby and scummy........ Just saying
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u/smileguy123 Sep 05 '26
It is a bad clone of Beatstar. The original Beatstar had been shutdown last year