# Pool Stars — Realistic 3D Pool Simulation

> Realistic 3D pool simulation with career and online multiplayer modes. (iPhone/iPad app by Giraffe Games Limited.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pool-stars/id1389805218 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Giraffe Games Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/796638100)
- Category: Games, Sports, Simulation, Sports
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.00/5 from 92 App Store ratings · 64 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 188 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2018-10-26
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pool-stars/id1389805218/reviews.md

## What is Pool Stars?

Pool Stars is a realistic 3D pool simulation with single player career and online multiplayer

3D Pool Game Mode 
- This mode will improve your pool billiards sports skills in real life! By playing 3D Perspective, like in real life, you learn to see the angles of the ball and improve the way you play billiards pool game!

2D Pool Game
- For those who like the birds eye view and are used to a more casual pool experience. Great to learn the tactics of pool and billiards game!

Play with Friends
- The best way to experience billiards is to play with your friends online. So go grab your friends and show them your billiards skills!

Single player career
- Play against AI players in 8 Ball, 9 Ball Pool games
- Practice your pool skills in trainings
- Practice on user created trainings online(new user created trainings every day)

Create Your Own Challenge
- The most creative way to enjoy this game! 
- Create your online challenge and let everyone compete
- Try to get more players to play your challenge
- Get likes for your challenge from other players
- 8-ball, 9-ball and Snooker tables
- It’s both competitive and creative, fun for all players!

Online Multiplayer
- If you like some sport action and if you are competitive, you will love this game mode!
- Weekly leaderboards
- Pool Hustling
- Lots of active online players 
- Many different tables and locations to visit

Download Pool Stars now and have fun!

## Key features

- Realistic 3D pool simulation
- Single player career mode
- Online multiplayer with friends
- 2D pool game mode
- Create custom challenges
- Weekly leaderboards

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 500 Coins | $1.99 | one-time |
| 2 000 Coins | $4.99 | one-time |
| 5 500 Coins | $9.99 | one-time |
| 15 000 Coins | $17.99 | one-time |
| 65 000 Coins | $35.99 | one-time |
| 40 Cash | $1.99 | one-time |
| 350 Cash | $8.99 | one-time |
| 800 Cash | $17.99 | one-time |
| 1 800 Cash | $35.99 | one-time |
| Infinite Training | $7.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Pool Stars?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Good graphics
- 👍 Realistic physics
- 👍 Good gameplay
- 👍 Best graphics ever seen
- 👍 Great mechanics
- 👍 Real pool physics

**Cons**

- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 💸 Pay to win
- ⏳ Long waiting times
- 😠 Unfair matchmaking
- 👎 Bad interface
- 💸 Expensive in-game items
- 📉 Unrealistic physics
- 🚫 No call shot
- 🚫 No chat feature
- 🚫 No tournaments
- 🚫 No rematch option
- 🚫 Charging for broken cues
- 🚫 Ads
- 🚫 Game crashes
- 🚫 Black screen bug
- 🚫 Lost coins
- 🚫 Account wiped clean
- 🚫 Unfair advantage for iOS users
- 🚫 Poor performance on iOS
- 🚫 Unrealistic gameplay
- 🚫 Hostile pop-ups
- 🚫 No music option
- 🚫 Game is rigged
- 🚫 Lame training
- 🚫 Bad user experience
- 🚫 Disappointing compared to Snooker Stars
- 🚫 Incorrect rule set
- 🚫 Aim rests during shot
- 🚫 Charging for something not ordered
- 🚫 Connection issues
- 🚫 Game doesn't connect to others
- 🚫 Leaderboard empty
- 🚫 Game freezes
- 🚫 Game is laggy
- 🚫 Game programmed to make higher rank win
- 🚫 Simple shots don't go in
- 🚫 Impossible shots go in for opponent
- 🚫 Ball glitches to another location
- 🚫 Opponent breaks and pockets ball without seeing it
- 🚫 Aiming is inaccurate
- 🚫 Game is geared towards paying
- 🚫 Unplayable
- 🚫 Ripoff
- 🚫 Lost game due to call
- 🚫 Screen goes black, counts as scratch
- 🚫 Balls in different spots after shot
- 🚫 Sunk balls back on table
- 🚫 No sound music
- 🚫 No large pay out
- 🚫 Weird sound
- 🚫 Bad interface and connection issues
- 🚫 Black screen of death
- 🚫 Expensive
- 🚫 Waiting to open chest
- 🚫 Crooks
- 🚫 Trash
- 🚫 Game is trash
- 🚫 Cues are trash
- 🚫 GUI is trash
- 🚫 Charging for a broken cue
- 🚫 Charging for something I didn't buy
- 🚫 No comms
- 🚫 No way to play with others
- 🚫 Too much waiting
- 🚫 No way to get rank
- 🚫 Bad app
- 🚫 Can't play online multiplayer
- 🚫 Doesn't connect to other people

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Can’t play online multiplayer
- Doesn’t connect to other people
- Leader board is empty
- Game freezes
- Screen goes black
- Lost turn and game
- Balls on table not exactly on location after break
- Declared wrong winner
- Black screen bug
- Screen goes black when it’s my turn
- Fatal flaw in game
- Game glitches
- Cues are trash
- Game is glitchy
- Game crashes
- Account wiped clean
- Connection issues
- Game can't reconnect
- Screen randomly goes black
- Counts as scratch
- Cannot shoot
- Display a black screen
- Shot was lost
- Balls in different spots after shot
- Sunk balls back on table
- Weird sound
- No music
- No comms
- Facebook login error
- Cannot connect to Facebook
- Nickname cannot be entered
- Game lags heavily
- App glitches
- Balls magically glitch to another location
- Opponent breaks and doesn't pocket a ball, shows they did
- Aiming is inaccurate
- Game is geared towards paying
- Charging for a broken cue
- Charging for something I didn't buy
- Lost coins
- Game doesn't connect to others
- System of aiming is terrible
- Cannot aim at a distant ball
- Unrealistic physics mechanics
- Too much waiting
- Cannot play with other people
- Black screen of death
- Opponent pauses, activates cheat
- Cannot get rank
- Unfair matchmaking
- iOS and Android have different conditions
- Android users have bounce lines, iOS users only have a dot
- Game is not fair
- Hostile pop-ups
- Repressed anger
- Little neighborhood bullies
- Screen goes blank when it’s my turn
- Fatal flaw
- Waste of time and coins
- Physics are terrible
- Game is alright
- Not really impressed
- Got bored really fast
- Not worth spending money on
- Facebook doesn't connect
- Nickname cannot be entered
- Idiots won't update their game
- Cannot rematch a player
- No tournaments
- No call shot game modes
- No chat feature
- 9 ball goes in on break too often
- Physics are great
- Losers won't update their game
- Could easily surpass Miniclip
- No comms
- Limited ability to acknowledge competitor
- Pay to play
- Common problem with most pool games
- Many bugs need to fix
- Screen play suddenly blackened
- Player lost the turn and loose the game
- Balls on the table are not exactly on the location after the first break
- Declare the wrong winner
- Black ball doesn't fall to the pocket but declared shooter won
- Full of lengthy ads
- iOS version horrible compared to Android version
- Charging me for something I didn't buy
- Won't give money back
- Facebook doesn't login
- Cannot recover account
- App will glitch and take coins you have won
- Lags heavily
- Nothing to do with the internet
- Programmed to let higher ranking player win
- Simple shots do not go in
- Impossible shots go in for opposition
- Lags and guy is rolling the black ball in
- Save your time and money
- Not worth it
- Glitches like crazy
- Balls will magically glitch to another location
- Opponent breaks and doesn't pocket a ball, shows they did
- Aiming you would have it dead on and when you shot it will go somewhere else
- Very frustrating
- Thinking about uninstalling
- Need more ways for players to earn coins
- Gameplay is trash
- Graphics are good
- Glitchy
- Cues are trash
- Glitchy game once you get higher in levels
- Makes no sense
- Better on android
- Still trash GUI
- Highly geared towards getting you to pay to advance
- Unplayable
- At least one black screen per play
- Had it a couple of days then had to delete it
- So disappointing
- Charging for a broken cue every few days BS
- Dumbest thing about this app
- Ripoff
- Don't bother
- Spend real money to play, they will give you what you pay for, for about a week and then remove it from your account
- Hoping you will pay again and again
- Build up coins on the game and one day there just gone
- No one to write or call about the problems
- Don't waste your time
- Like so many of the other apps that Apple and Google allows these days on there app stores that are a scam
- Bad interface and connection issues
- Shame for a game with the best engine ever in mobile pool games to have such bad issues in connection
- Lost a 50k match cause i receives a call
- Game couldn't reconect
- Same issues on Snooker Stars
- Black screen of death
- Loved this game at first
- Black screen thing has ruined the fun
- Such a shame
- Trash
- This game is trash just like all the other pool games
- Why is everything so expensive
- Have to wait a full 24 hour period to open a chest that you won fair and square
- B.s
- Many other factors that make this game $h!t
- Crooks
- Keep your $h!t game
- Uninstalling
- No large pay out
- Played first 500 coin game and won
- Opponent left
- Had to wait or wait to get paid
- All of a sudden lost
- Screen goes black, counts as scratch, costs me matches
- Ran the table only to lose on the 8 ball
- Cannot shoot
- Disappointing
- Started off good but now glitches
- Periodically when my shot would suddenly display a black screen
- Shot was lost
- Couldn't see the table
- Doing it either twice during a game or once every other game
- Had to delete as too frustrating to continue
- Weird sound
- Volume to five when you hit the ball it sounds like a pop instead of a bang
- Good game, big flaw
- Many games where out of nowhere all the balls will be in different spots after the shot/turn has ended
- Ball that have been sunk are now back in the table
- Great game, massive flaw
- Yeni ama güzel
- Oyun çok iyi fakat yeni çıktığı İçin ufak tefek hatalar var
- Супер
- Лучшая игра из всех
- 15 лет играл в 8 ballpool
- Эта по сравнению бомба
- Favorite game
- I have a not full game
- Some people sent me quick messages, but I haven’t it in my chat
- Game have not a sound music
- It’s okay
- I rly love this game so much, but I have little trouble with this
- 1,491$ wiped clean
- Unlocked every cue and progressed quite some ways
- Game crashed
- Upon restart had wiped my account clean
- Rallied up all of my in app purchases
- Giraffe games seems not to support this game anymore
- Would really appreciate some help
- Do not want to pursue a refund
- Just want my game back
- Disappointing compared to snooker stars
- Struggles with the issue most pool games have
- Use a rule set which isn’t used for recognised worldwide tournaments
- Instead we get this silly American bar rules
- Needs more options for online games earlier
- You need 5k to play a 9 ball game
- Have 4 different at each buy in
- Physics are “ok”
- Ball goes in no matter how hard you hit
- Sure with the huge American tables this can happen but it’s still off here
- Aim rests quite often just as you take a shot meanin misses because of the game and not you
- I love pool
- Rigged I say
- This pool just hustles you
- It’s unrealistic
- Pool is not as simple as the opponents make it seem
- Классс!
- Очень понравилась!
- Графика, физика - все на высоте!
- WoW
- Would be better if we could play 8 pool ball on 9ft table and 10ft table
- Currently the table for 8 ball pool is 7ft table
- Lame
- Training is lame
- Need money to continue
- Гавно
- Good game
- It is all about paying to advance
- Much prefer snooker stars
- The Best Of The Best...and All The Rest!!
- Big stickler for graphics quality
- Best graphics I’ve ever seen in any game
- Let alone pool games
- Especially on my iPad!
- A job well done!
- Das beste aus der Poolszene
- Physik und Graphik sind auf höchster Ebene
- Arcade Komponente ist auch gut umgesetzt
- Leider gibts ein Sternabzug wegen der Entwicklung beim Fortschritt Richtung „pay2win“
- Great mechanics - but pay to win
- Like Snooker Stars, physics are pretty spot on
- This is a firmly pay to win game
- Cue you’re given to start with is absolutely appalling
- Has no power
- Struggle to get around the table at all
- Also means playing positional is extremely difficult
- Can barely generate any spin
- Even simple screw shots are tough
- Shame really
- I’ll stick to snooker stars

**Most requested features**

- Add creation of clubs
- Add Russian language
- Add music option
- Add tournaments
- Add leaderboards
- Add leagues
- Cheaper option to play 9 ball
- Option to turn game chat off
- Offline games updates
- More options for online games earlier
- Official world rules
- Official 8 ball rules
- Official 9 ball rules
- 8 pool ball on 9ft table and 10ft table
- Daily spin for coins

## Recent user reviews (10 of 64)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pool-stars/id1389805218/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2026-08-06*

Can’t play online multiplayer anymore. Doesn’t connect to other people. Leader board is empty so that tells me it’s a wider issue. Snooker still works though, so I’m guessing it’s not a server issue either and they’ve just closed it down to most people.

### 1/5 — Выкидывает из игры

*2026-01-15*

В 30% случаев игра виснет и кроме как перезайти , ни чего не помогает. А это автоматически проигрыши . Самое дибильное приложение ! Не скачивайте ! Снукер работает лучше

### 3/5 — I can’t get rank anymore. I’m 26 rank. 100 games I won. Not showing rank

*2025-05-28*

I can’t get rank anymore

### 1/5 — Who writes this game

*2025-05-20, version 1.0*

They should be fired because matching a level 5 up with a level 10 who's played 10000 games more than me with like 25000 coins is a recipe for unfair matchup and it can't be satisfying for that guy to beat a beginner, this happens 5 out of 8 recent games and I feel ripped off and don't like how that feels to play someone I shouldn't be playing  middle of the afternoon. Do better!

### 3/5 — Sistema de mira

*2025-04-21, version 1.0*

O jogo em si é ótimo, porém o sistema de mira é péssimo, não dá pra mirar em uma bola que está longe. Horrível isso.

### 1/5 — No way

*2024-09-30*

Since reading reviews will not play this game must be in cahoots w other pool games all all rip off go back to gaming school

### 1/5 — Bad game

*2024-09-17, version 1.0*

Unrealistic physics mechanics.

### 4/5 — Good pool game

*2024-04-17*

It seems that Giraffe Games are concentrating on this rather than snooker stars, which is disappointing as I much prefer snooker as a sport. Still a good game though

### 1/5 — to much waiting

*2024-03-20*

one of the biggest problems with this game is that after only a few tries you have to wait to play it again and another thing is that you can’t play with other people the game if you could just play with others the game would be so much better

### 1/5 — Sort the black screen bug out!

*2024-03-06*

This is a brilliant game but I cannot play it anymore because every so often the screen goes black then gives the turn to the other player. I’ve lost so many games because of this that I can’t play it any more.

## Frequently asked questions about Pool Stars

### What is Pool Stars?

Pool Stars is a realistic 3D pool simulation game. It offers both single-player career modes and online multiplayer options, allowing players to improve their billiards skills and compete with others.

### What game modes are available in Pool Stars?

The app features a 3D Pool Game Mode for realistic angle play, a 2D Pool Game for a bird's-eye view, a single-player career mode with AI opponents in 8 Ball and 9 Ball, and an online multiplayer mode for competitive action.

### Can I play with my friends in Pool Stars?

Yes, you can play with your friends online in Pool Stars. The game encourages you to challenge your friends and showcase your billiards skills against them.

### Is Pool Stars free to play?

Pool Stars is free to download and play. However, it does offer in-app purchases, which may enhance the gaming experience.

### What types of pool games can I play?

You can play 8-ball, 9-ball, and Snooker games within Pool Stars. The game supports various table types and locations for a diverse playing experience.

## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-08-15

Fix for multiplayer matching

### 1.0 — 2018-10-26

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

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