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Cut The Rope available on Android!

Cut the Rope screenshot taken on iPad. © ZeptoLab

Okay, I admit it. I’ve cheated on my Android phone with an iPad, of all things. I’ve been enchanted by the large amount of iPad apps and games which look absolutely stunning and work so well, and I’m a sucker for great graphics. A game app can be excellent, clever and well-designed, but if it’s got poor graphics I won’t find it worth playing. The Android Market has so far been a little disappointing in that area.

While devouring iPad games I came over Cut the Rope – and at the very first moment I met Om Nom and fed him a candy I was hooked. And my HTC Desire wept, laying jealous in a dark corner. Okay, actually it just lay on my desk.

But today, Friday 24th of June 2011, Cut the Rope became available on Android via the alternative Android Market called GetJar, for free! My HTC Desire quietly let out a little cheer, clinging on to the hope for me to pay attention to it again. Okay, okay, it still just lay on my desk.

The process of downloading Cut the Rope from GetJar when you don’t have the GetJar app from before is a bit clumsy. I couldn’t find the GetJar app in Android Market nor on their website, so this is how I did it. Remember to set the option to allow your phone to download apps from unknown sources.

  1. On your Android phone, open up your browser and navigate to m.getjar.com.
  2. Scroll to the very bottom, and click on “Quick download”.
  3. In the pop up, enter 75206. This is GetJar’s ID to Cut the Rope, but as for now you’ll just download the GetJar app.

Cut the Rope on my HTC Desire

Your phone will now download the GetJar app. When it’s installed, fire up the app. It will direct you back to the GetJar-website, showing a list of available apps. Cut the Rope should be one of the top apps in the list, or you could click “Quick download” and enter 75206 again. Either one will download and install Cut the Rope on your phone. Yay! I downloaded it today, on Cut the Rope’s launch day, so I had to try a few times before I got through.

Edit July 8, 2011: As of now Cut the Rope is available at the Market, but costs money.

On my HTC Desire running Android Froyo (2.2) it runs smoothly and works just like on iPad, it’s just smaller (duh). Mind you, since the app is free there are ads in the game. But you’ll barely notice them since they only appear in the menus, not while playing. (As opposed to the Android version of Angry Birds where the ads appears in-game blocking some of the game field. Grr!)

Edit January 13th, 2012: Cut the Rope is even available in a splendid HTML5 web version.

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