Comparison

Monorail Island™ vs Visual Pinball

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Monorail Island™

Build and manage a thriving island by connecting it to a monorail system. Grow flowers, transport the population, and expand your island to increase happiness and prosperity.

Highlights
  • Connect island to monorail
  • Transport island population
  • Grow and sell flowers
  • Expand island
  • Increase island happiness
Features
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Welcome to Monorail Island. Connect the island to the monorail, the population will be transported through the monorail. If there are many houses on the island, will the population increase? Make a happy island, grow flowers and sell them on an airplane. Railroad games, monorail games, railroad games, railway simulation

About

Visual Pinball

Experience the full virtual pinball simulator with realistic physics, lighting, and sound. This open-source app offers a redesigned interface, enhanced table management, and the complete desktop experience for mobile devices. Enjoy a vast library of tables without ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Realistic physics, lighting, and sound
  • Redesigned interface with Liquid Glass
  • Full in-game menu for graphics and controls
  • Support for various backglass and display types
  • Easy table import and management
  • Optimized memory usage
Features
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The official Visual Pinball app. Built by volunteers since 2000 and open source since 2010, Visual Pinball is the simulator the virtual pinball community has been playing for over two decades. More than 70 people have contributed to it, and this app runs the same engine as the desktop version, so every table plays with the physics, lighting and sound its creator intended. No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Made by volunteers. Two years of work from the Visual Pinball volunteers, in one update. Thank you for your patience, and for playing! A FRESH NEW LOOK • Redesigned for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass • Favorites and recently played tables at the top of your list • Search, sorting and three tile sizes • Light, Dark or System appearance • New loading screen that shows progress THE FULL DESKTOP EXPERIENCE • The complete Visual Pinball in-game menu for graphics, sound, controls and table options • Remap every button on keyboards and game controllers • Save settings for every table, or just the one you're playing MORE TABLES, LOOKING BETTER • Show the backglass and score display (DMD, alphanumeric or reels) on screen, right where you want them • Support for PUP packs, FlexDMD, B2S backglasses, video playback and VNI colorizations • All the latest physics and rendering improvements from the desktop version • Much lower memory use: textures are compressed on first load, then cached EASIER TABLE MANAGEMENT • Import .zip files, along with .vpx and .vpxz • Share any table as a single .vpxz file • The web file manager can now upload whole folders, extract archives, edit scripts and settings, and show the log live AND MORE • Many stability and memory fixes This version requires iOS 26.6 or later.

Screenshots

Monorail Island™4 screens
Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Pinball at 79% against Monorail Island™'s 0%. Visual Pinball also leads on price (Free vs $9.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Monorail Island™'s advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 26.6). On ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Visual Pinball is free to download; Monorail Island™ costs $9.99 up front. Monorail Island™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Visual Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monorail Island™ ships an update every 42 months, Visual Pinball fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Monorail Island™ versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonorail Island™Visual Pinball
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating—4.3 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews78.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—74 — better
Update frequencyEvery 42 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.3 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB134 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDomyung KimJason Millard

Customer experience

Monorail Island™

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Visual Pinball

All ratings74 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral12.5%
Negative8.9%

Bugs and requests

Monorail Island™

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Visual Pinball

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Tables don't load for some users
  • Certain complex/intensive tables error out or run at low FPS

Requested features

6 requests
  • 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
Show 1 more
  • iPad version with more screen space

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Monorail Island™

One-time1
  • Game money +500$4.99
None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monorail Island™ free?
Monorail Island™ costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Monorail Island™ or Visual Pinball have ads?
Neither Monorail Island™ nor Visual Pinball shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monorail Island™ or Visual Pinball?
Monorail Island™ ships an update every 42 months, and Visual Pinball fortnightly. Most recently, Monorail Island™ was updated on October 24, 2026 and Visual Pinball on October 30, 2026.

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