Virtual Pool vs Pool Stars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Virtual Pool
Experience realistic pool gameplay across multiple game modes, including career modes where you can compete in professional tours or hustle your way through various rooms. Customize your cues and challenge AI opponents of all skill levels.
- Multiple pool game types (8Ball, 9Ball, Snooker, 6 Ball)
- Pro Tour Career mode with rankings and achievements
- Hustler Career mode with gambling and room bosses
- 128 AI opponents with varying skill levels
- Customizable cues (break, jump, low deflection)
- 8 different playing locations
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Be a Pro, play a season on the Pro Tour and finish high in the ranking to move up to a more prestigious tour! Or hustle your way through 8 pool rooms to the ultimate money match with Curly. Play 8Ball, 9Ball, Snooker and more games. “So realistic it will make your real pool game better!” Virtual Pool 4 features free play of 6 Ball, a game similar to 9 Ball. There are 8 different locations to play in and 128 AI Opponents of varying skills levels to play against. There are 26 additional games in 5 Game Packs available as In App Purchases Compete for a season in Pro Tour Career. Play against AI opponents based on real pros and top amateurs. Start on the Local tour and work up through the Regional, National, and finally the World tour. See tour rankings and player statistics. Try to earn all 50 achievements for each season on Tour. Each season includes several tournaments with different formats including single elimination, double elimination, and special invitational. Pro Tour Career is available with purchase of any Game Pack. Start in the Garage and gamble your virtual bankroll through six locations and hundreds of opponents in Hustler Career play. Beat the room boss to advance to the next location. Opponents become more challenging in later locations and the betting stakes go up! Some locations occasionally have tournaments for a change of pace in this pressure packed gambling odyssey. Use some hard earned virtual cash to buy break cues, jump cues and low deflections cue shafts. Careers setup includes seventeen different game choices and five skill levels. Hustler Career player is available with purchase of any Game Pack. Use a custom Play Cue to show some style and change the shaft to a lower deflection model for better aiming accuracy. Get a Break Cue to smash the rack harder and make more balls. Jump Cues can be used to jump over obstructing balls.
Pool Stars
Experience realistic 3D pool with single-player career modes and online multiplayer. Improve your skills with 3D and 2D perspectives, challenge friends, and create your own games. Compete on leaderboards and explore various tables and locations.
- Realistic 3D pool simulation
- Single player career mode
- Online multiplayer with friends
- 2D pool game mode
- Create custom challenges
- Weekly leaderboards
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Virtual Pool at 3.8 against Pool Stars's 3.0. Virtual Pool also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 95 months) and review sentiment (42% vs 25%). Pool Stars's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Virtual Pool sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Pool Stars sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Virtual Pool holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 93 and 92 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Virtual Pool's written reviews are positive against 25% of Pool Stars's.
Virtual Pool ships an update every 2 weeks, Pool Stars every 95 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virtual Pool | Pool Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (93 ratings) — better | 3.0 (92 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.5% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 92 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 95 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 388 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Celeris, Inc. | Giraffe Games Limited |
Customer experience
Virtual Pool
Pool Stars
Bugs and requests
Virtual Pool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pool Stars
Reported bugs
240 issues- Can’t play online multiplayer
- Doesn’t connect to other people
- Leader board is empty
- Game freezes
- Screen goes black
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- 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
Requested features
15 requests- Add creation of clubs
- Add Russian language
- Add music option
- Add tournaments
- Add leaderboards
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- 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
In-app purchases
Virtual Pool
- $1500 Career Cash$0.99
- 25 Online Credits$0.99
- 9-Ball Pack$1.99
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- 8-Ball Pack$1.99
- Straight-Pool Pack$1.99
- Snooker Pack$1.99
- Carom Pack$1.99
- $5000 Career Cash$1.99
- 60 Online Credits$1.99
- $15000 Career Cash$2.99
- 100 Online Credits$2.99
- All Game Packs$4.99
Pool Stars
- 500 Coins$1.99
- 40 Cash$1.99
- 2 000 Coins$4.99
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- Infinite Training$7.99
- 350 Cash$8.99
- 5 500 Coins$9.99
- 15 000 Coins$17.99
- 800 Cash$17.99
- 65 000 Coins$35.99
- 1 800 Cash$35.99
Questions
Is Virtual Pool free?
Is Pool Stars free?
Which has better reviews, Virtual Pool or Pool Stars?
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