# Visual Pinball — user reviews > 53 indexed App Store user reviews of Visual Pinball by Jason Millard, rated 4.56/5 from 45 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/visual-pinball/id6547859926/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/visual-pinball/id6547859926.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 35 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Visual Pinball? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Awesome way to play virtual pinball on the go - 👍 Super easy to set up with minimal file prep time - 👍 Insane that I can play favorite pins on just my phone - 👍 Fantastic portable implementation of VPX - 👍 Fun and exciting to archive the history of pinball - 👍 Incredible work of the community and developers **Cons** - 🔧 More ability to adjust table settings needed - 🔧 Struggling to manage camera angle - 🔧 No fullscreen on iPad, plunger and outlanes cropped - 🔧 Some tables don't work or have issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Tables don't load for some users - Certain complex/intensive tables error out or run at low FPS **Most requested features** - List of most played tables - Ability to reposition DMD - Option to skip startup checks for some tables - Ability to edit table scripts on the app - Direct link to table depository - iPad version with more screen space ## Newest reviews (13 of 53) ### 4/5 — Potential *2025-09-16, version 10.8.1* Very excited to find this on the App Store. But !! Every table I import is frozen or just doesn’t work. Hopefully some updates will fix this. Has huge potential ### 4/5 — Not bad *2025-07-27, version 10.8.1* Any chance of a setting to slow the plunger speed? The slightest touch yanks it all the way back . It’s hard to make precision shots with the plunger so twitchy. ### 4/5 — Awesome, but needs a tad bit more polish *2025-03-15, version 10.8.1* I’ve been into pinball for a while, and seeing this pop up on the App Store was amazing, so of course, I tried it! I downloaded it for both my iPhone XS & my iPad 9, and when I got a couple tables working, I found some limits for this. 1) It depends on what device you’re using, and if you use an older device, some tables won’t load because too much memory is being used. This means that most games I have on there are old electromechanicals or solid-states. 2) I usually play on my iPad, because I have a keyboard attached to it and it works well, but I wish it had separate UI for iPad. The way it works is that it still loads, but it gives me the iPhone resolution of 9:16. Seeing it in the iPad resolution would be much better because then I would be able to see more of the table, say the backglass, or the layout. Also, as a side note, why do operator menus only work on some EMs but not on all machines? I’m still new to how VPX works, but having SS games on 5-ball mode would be nice. Anyways, I still really like it, and when I have my iPad on me, I always get a couple games on it. Good job, but the issues I have above would be something nice to add to the app. ### 5/5 — Amazing!!! *2025-02-07, version 10.8.1* Never thought it’d happen but I am playing visual pinball on my iOS device! Pinch me. All my favourite tables work flawlessly. Just make sure to read the setup instructions under App Support. Please update for iOS 16 if you are able to do so. ### 5/5 — 5 stars at the core *2025-02-07, version 10.8.1* This is an amazing portable implementation of VPX that is even easier to use and setup than the full Windows release. That said, there are a few things that would be nice to see, such as a virtual dip switch panel (right now I need to connect a BT keyboard). I am also struggling to manage the camera angle. A couple of additional camera presets would be great. Lastly to help peek new player interest, maybe partner with a community table designer to include a higher quality sample table. ### 5/5 — Thank you *2025-01-27, version 10.8.1* Not having fullscreen on the iPad is the only issue the plunger and outlanes have to be cropped off screen to be able to see however enabling display zoom > larger text in settings is a good workaround Id love a list of most played tables to help make a top 10, and to sort the tables by file size since the share feature is great, saving graphics setting for each table would be helpful since some of them can be maxed out Big bang bar, theatre of magic, CFTBL, monster bash, Bride of Pinbot, Blue Note, Super Spin, Balls a poppin, the shadow, No Fear, Radical and all the late 90s SEGA tables, in that order would be my top atm but I think most played list could prove otherwise The ability to reposition the DMD can be done on vpx edit for the pc, adding some lines in the script and a text box to the backdrop, re-saving the file on google drive. I changed the songs and drew some custom art on the procreate app on the iPad for a table, I’ll probably make a custom one soon I like making cheat versions of tables horse kick center nudge for death saves etc. operator settings to enable curse words on sopranos for example or adjust volume can be done with a Bluetooth keyboard. I used a keyboard app on the phone Its great solutions are there to be found. It’s a lot of fun archiving the history of pinball on the iPhone, from ballyhoo 1932 to now, I downloaded like 100 tables so far I’ve been discovering alot of gems, recreations and originals thanks to incredible work of the community and the developers of this app. ### 5/5 — Flipper2Go *2025-01-16, version 10.8.1* Unglaublich was alles möglich ist. Ja, es ist kein vollwertiger Ersatz für 'nen virtuellen Flipper auf dem PC und schon gar nicht für nen echten Flipper. Dafür hat man diesen in der Hosentasche. Die Community, die hinter diesem Projekt steht hat eine tolle Arbeit geleistet und ruht sich auf dem erreichten nicht aus. Ständig werden Aktualisierungen aus allen Bereichen eingepflegt. Auswahl an verschiedenen Tischen gibt es genug. Dabei ist das Ganze noch kostenlos und nicht wie bei manch kommerziellen Produkt, wo man einen Tisch als Lockangebot bekommt und für weitere dann zur Kasse gebeten wird. Selbst die Ansteuerung einer externen Punktanzeige (ZeDMD) wurde implementiert. Vielen Dank, an alle die an dem Projekt beteiligt sind. ### 5/5 — Thank you *2025-01-06* Not having fullscreen on the iPad is the only issue the plunger and outlanes have to be cropped off screen to be able to see however enabling display zoom > larger text in settings is a good workaround Id love a list of most played tables to help make a top 10 Big bang bar, theatre of magic, CFTBL, monster bash, Bride of Pinbot, Blue Note, Super Spin, Balls a poppin, the shadow, No Fear, Radical would be my top atm but I think most played could prove otherwise The ability to reposition the DMD can be done on vpx edit for the pc, adding some lines in the script and a text box to the backdrop, re-saving the file on google drive. I changed the songs and drew some custom art on the procreate app on the iPad for a table, I’ll probably make a custom one soon. theatre of magic can be played by changing rom path in the script to tom_13. operator settings to enable curse words on sopranos for example or adjust volume can be done with a Bluetooth keyboard. Its great solutions are there to be found. It’s a lot of fun archiving the history of pinball on the iPhone, from ballyhoo 1932 to now, I’ve been discovering alot of gems, recreations and originals thanks to incredible work of the community and the developers of this app. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for feedback. iPad and moveable DMD will be coming soon! For TOM, just add cheat=1 to the ini file in the pinmame folder, and you should be all set! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2025-01-05* Not having fullscreen on the iPad is the only issue the plunger and outlanes have to be cropped off screen to be able to see however enabling display zoom > larger text in settings is a decent workaround Id love a list of most played tables to help make a top 10 Big bang bar, theatre of magic, CFTBL, monster bash, Bride of Pinbot, Blue Note, Balls a poppin, the shadow, No Fear, Radical would be my top atm but I think most played could prove otherwise The ability to reposition the DMD can be done on vpx edit for the pc, re-saving the file on google drive for example to be used on the phone. I changed the songs and drew some custom art on the iPad for a table I’ll probably make a custom one soon. theatre of magic can be played by changing rom path in the script to tom_13, being able to edit script on the app would be nice. operator settings to enable curse words on sopranos for example or adjust volume can be done with a Bluetooth keyboard. Its great solutions are there to be found. It’s a lot of fun archiving the history of pinball on the iPhone, from ballyhoo1932 to now, I’ve been discovering alot of gems, recreations and originals thanks to incredible work of the community and the developers of this app. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for feedback. iPad and moveable DMD will be coming soon! For TOM, just add cheat=1 to the ini file in the pinmame folder, and you should be all set! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2025-01-02* Not having fullscreen on the iPad is the only issue the plunger and outlanes have to be cropped off screen to be able to see Id love a list of most played tables to help make a top 10 list Big bang bar, theatre of magic, CFTBL, monster bash, Bride of Pinbot, Blue Note, Balls a poppin, no fear, radical would be my top atm but I think most played could prove otherwise The ability to reposition the DMD can be done on vpx edit for the pc, re-saving the file on google drive for example to be used on the phone. I changed the songs and drew some custom art on the iPad for a table I’ll probably make a custom one soon. theatre of magic can be played by changing rom path in the script to tom_13, being able to edit script on the app would be nice. operator settings to enable curse words on sopranos for example or adjust volume can be done with a Bluetooth keyboard. Its great solutions are there to be found. It’s a lot of fun archiving the history of pinball on the iPhone, from ballyhoo1932 to now, I’ve been discovering alot of gems, recreations and originals thanks to incredible work of the community and the developers of this app. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for feedback. iPad and moveable DMD will be coming soon! For TOM, just add cheat=1 to the ini file in the pinmame folder, and you should be all set! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2024-12-29* Additional screen space on the iPad is the only issue the plunger and outlines have to be cropped off screen to be able to see.. The ability to reposition the DMD can be done on vpx edit for the pc, re-saving the file on google drive for example to be used on the phone. Games like theater of magic can be played by changing rom path in the script, operator settings to enable curse words on sopranos for example or adjust volume can be done with a Bluetooth keyboard. It’s a lot of fun archiving the history of pinball on the iPhone, from ballyhoo1932 to now and everything in between, been discovering slot of gems, recreations and originals thanks to incredible work of the community and the developers of this app. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for feedback. iPad and moveable DMD will be coming soon! For TOM, just add cheat=1 to the ini file in the pinmame folder, and you should be all set! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2024-12-26* 1. The ability to reposition the DMD can be done on vpx edit for the pc, re-saving the file on google drive for example to be used on the phone. 2. Additional screen space on the iPad. the outlanes,wide body pins and plunger skill shots are cut off with the iPhone ratio. 3. Skipping startup checks option for the roms to play some theater of magic, operator settings to enable curse words on sopranos etc. still figuring this out Having the ability to play older vp9 creations and donate would be good It’s a lot of fun archiving the history of pinball on the iPhone with the incredible work of the community and thanks to the developers of this app. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for feedback. iPad and moveable DMD will be coming soon! For TOM, just add cheat=1 to the ini file in the pinmame folder, and you should be all set! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2024-12-22* 1. The ability to reposition the DMD can be done on vpx edit for the pc, re-saving the file on google drive for example to be used on the phone. 2. Additional screen space on the iPad. the outlanes,wide body pins and plunger skill shots are cut off with the iPhone ratio. 3. Skipping startup checks option for the roms to play some theater of magic, operator settings to enable curse words on sopranos etc. still figuring this out These are the only noticeable issues that could make this app perfect a donate option would be cool. It’s a lot of fun archiving the history of pinball on the iPhone with the incredible work of the community and thanks to the developers of this app. **Developer response:** Hello! Thanks for feedback. iPad and moveable DMD will be coming soon! For TOM, just add cheat=1 to the ini file in the pinmame folder, and you should be all set! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — HORRIBLE *2026-06-20, version 10.8.1* Crashes on every table loaded. What a waste of time. AVOID unless you want to be overwhelmed with continual frustration. ### 1/5 — Nul *2025-04-09, version 10.8.1* Ce jeu est injouable complètement nul ### 1/5 — Tables don’t load *2024-11-27, version 10.8.1* Spent 6 hours trying to load tables. Does not work. Have up but tried hard. At this point someone would have to send me a zip file to load into the app. I bet it still would not work. ### 3/5 — How????? *2026-07-13, version 10.8.1* How do u upload machines ### 3/5 — 3 stars *2026-06-08, version 10.8.1* I’m giving this 3 stars now because I hear there’s a discord server That would be great. What is it? ### 3/5 — Nice, but needs polish *2025-12-25, version 10.8.1* Coming from PC VPX, getting this set up wasn't too annoying but still requires a bit of know how. Past that, playing VPX tables on a phone is very nice, however in both tables I tried I couldn't see the DMD whatsoever, and a few of the other reviews mentioned even if they could see the DMD, there's no option to move or resize it from within the app, which makes the wide majority of tables pretty difficult to play. Overall this is still a very respectable effort, as most of the app itself is well made and polished, its just missing vital features. With a few more updates, I could easily see this app stealing dozens of hours. ### 3/5 — Tables dont work *2025-07-27, version 10.8.1* In have downloaded a few tables from vpforums and vpuniverse. Nothing works. What have I to do now ? ### 3/5 — Please link to table depository *2025-01-07, version 10.8.1* Your countless hours of work are not getting the response it should get because it is too complex to get the tables to work. Works well but there should a direct link to tables in the proper format. Table creators don’t make money but do it for the hobby. The audience for the app would be huge if you simplified the ability to load and play tables. ### 3/5 — Need table depository *2024-11-12* Works well but there should a direct link to tables in the proper format. Otherwise this will remain a very niche app. ### 3/5 — Takes work to set up. Amazing once you got it. *2024-10-31, version 10.8.1* Currently iPhone only which makes it a bit hard to use on iPads. Once you see all the lights and reflections of your favourite table rendered properly, all that initial frustration of finding all the right parts goes out the window and it’s just so cool. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A nice surprise! *2026-07-18, version 10.8.1* Edit: paying it forward for anyone else looking at the reviews for insight or suggestions. Go to their Discord, this app is alive and well. How I found out from the developer responses here. Deserves more than five stars in my opinion. I think back in the day it started as pinmame? I didn’t know this existed here until now. My loss. I don’t mind the extra steps to get this working. This is how it should be, really. All about the nostalgia. This appears abandoned, which is a shame. But for now, living the dream. Thanks for porting this over. ### 5/5 — The best game ever *2026-05-01, version 10.8.1* I like pinball like this app that I’m rating, I can play for minutes. ### 5/5 — Need a answer *2026-04-16, version 10.8.1* I’m trying to play South Park pinball for vpx but it’s not working. Can someone help me? ### 5/5 — Amazing! … but with one big ask IPad Resolution Support *2026-03-10, version 10.8.1* This is so great, and how can I give anything but 5 stars since it’s free and I’m sure has taken a ton of effort to get it where it’s at. The tables when they work on an M-whatever iPad work so well! Might be the smaller screen, but I can’t believe how well they look on the OLED iPad screen. Even on my phone they work well and look great. iPad is just a bummer to not get a full window experience. Would be forever grateful to have that enabled. Thanks for all the great work! ### 5/5 — A nice surprise! *2025-10-20, version 10.8.1* I think back in the day it started as pinmame? I didn’t know this existed here until now. My loss. I don’t mind the extra steps to get this working. This is how it should be, really. All about the nostalgia. This appears abandoned, which is a shame. But for now, living the dream. Thanks for porting this over. ### 5/5 — Nice game! *2025-09-16, version 10.8.1* Really nice porting of visual pinball but please add landscape modeee ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-09-07, version 10.8.1* Just need it to be easier to use. ### 5/5 — Come giocare *2025-05-21, version 10.8.1* Da dove si scaricano i giochi ? ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-04-19, version 10.8.1* This is a game changer, So fed up of zen releasing new versions of the same game, over and over and over! This will be my new pinball app. Thank you ### 5/5 — VPX in your pocket *2025-02-12, version 10.8.1* Really awesome way to play virtual pinball on the go. Super easy to set up with minimal file prep time on PC. Insane that I can play my favorite pins on just my phone. Like others have said, more ability to adjust typical table settings (e.g., opening the cabinet to adjust table volume) would be useful versus having to connect an external keyboard, but even that’s not too big of a hassle anyways. Excited to see how this is further developed. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-24.*