Comparison

Williams™ Pinball 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

Williams™ Pinball

Experience classic and remastered pinball tables with realistic physics and multiplayer competition. Compete head-to-head for real money and cash prizes in select countries.

Highlights
  • Classic and remastered pinball tables
  • Multiplayer matchups for real money prizes
  • Pro Physics simulation
  • Daily challenges and competitions
  • Global leaderboards
  • New tables added frequently
Features
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Williams™ Pinball ushers in a new era of mobile pinball excellence, uniting pinball players around the globe with new multiplayer features! Experience a dazzling collection of classic premium pinball tables such as Fish Tales™, Medieval Madness™, Attack from Mars™, Junk Yard™, The Party Zone™, Black Rose™ and The Getaway High Speed II™ with more tables on the way! Play head-to-head against players for real money and cash prizes, powered by Skillz! Each table is playable in its original form or in a remastered version featuring newly created 3D interactive characters, side wall art and more, bringing these classic tables to life like never before! Zen’s Pro Physics simulation provides the most authentic pinball experience available. From the makers of Zen Pinball, Marvel Pinball, Star Wars™ Pinball, Aliens vs. Pinball, Bethesda® Pinball and more! FEATURES: - Multiplayer matchups powered by Skillz provide endless competitive play and the chance to win real money and cash prizes in select countries - Daily challenges and competitions - Pro Physics delivers the most realistic mobile pinball experience available - New tables added frequently - Global leaderboards - Single-player challenges - Table customizations PRESS QUOTES Destructoid "The Bally/Williams licence and Zen Studios are truly a match made in heaven" The Sixth Axis "Each of the tables is perfectly recreated here and it’s simply astonishing the level of detail that Zen Studios have achieved" Digitally Downloaded "As with all Zen Studios titles, the physics are spot-on" ZTGD "Any fan of pinball of any skill level should add this to their collection" Universal Monsters © 1992-2019 Universal City Studios LLC. All Rights Reserved. Created and distributed under license from Williams Electronics Games Inc. Bally™ is a trademark of Caesar’s License Company, LLC. Monster Bash™ and Williams™ are trademarks of Williams Electronics Games Inc. Portions © 1992, 1998, 2019 Williams Electronics Games Inc. All rights reserved. Game code © 2018-2019 Zen Studios Ltd. All rights reserved.

About

Visual Pinball

Enjoy a realistic pinball simulation with hundreds of community-created tables. Experience immersive haptic feedback and customize your gameplay with intuitive settings and controller support. Advanced options are available for power users.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of community-developed tables
  • Haptic feedback for immersive gameplay
  • Customizable settings and POV adjustments
  • Game controller support
  • External DMD and AltColor/AltSound support
  • Touch overlay and instructions
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

Williams™ Pinball4 screens
Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Visual Pinball at none against Williams™ Pinball's 11. Visual Pinball also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (79% vs 51%). Williams™ Pinball's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (15K vs 74). On price, rating 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

Both are free to download. Williams™ Pinball sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Visual Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Williams™ Pinball against 4.3 for Visual Pinball. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Williams™ Pinball has 15K ratings behind it against 74, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 51% of Williams™ Pinball's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Williams™ Pinball ships an update every 5 weeks, Visual Pinball every 12 months. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Williams™ Pinball versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWilliams™ PinballVisual Pinball
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (15K ratings) — better4.3 (74 ratings)
Positive reviews51.1% of reviews78.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15K — better74
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 12 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB120 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperZEN StudiosJason Millard

Customer experience

Williams™ Pinball

All ratings15,114 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral5.7%
Negative9.2%
Written reviews1,013 reviews
Positive51.1%
Neutral12.3%
Negative36.5%

Visual Pinball

All ratings73 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral12.5%
Negative8.9%

User reviews

Williams™ Pinball

From 15K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Realistic pinball physics
  • 🎨 Excellent table graphics and visuals
  • 🕹️ Faithful recreation of classic pinball tables
  • 🏆 Enjoyable daily challenges
  • 👍 Smooth and responsive gameplay

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive microtransactions and pay-to-play model
  • 🕰️ Slow server connectivity and frequent loading issues
  • 🤯 Confusing and convoluted progression system
  • 🙄 Intrusive and unskippable advertisements
  • 🤖 Unreliable controls and flipper responsiveness

Visual Pinball

From 74 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 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

Room to improve

  • 🔧 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

Bugs and requests

Williams™ Pinball

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inconsistent ball physics and behavior
  • Rewards not registering due to server issues
  • Frequent crashes and freezes, especially after ads
  • Progression data randomly getting reset or lost

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to purchase individual tables outright
  • Option to disable distracting visual effects
  • Improved nudging and tilt controls
  • Landscape mode support on tablets
  • Offline play mode

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
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  • iPad version with more screen space

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Williams™ Pinball

One-time11
  • Fistful of Zen Coins$0.99
  • Pile of Zen Coins$4.99
  • Box of Zen Coins$9.99
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  • Universal Monsters™ Pack$9.99
  • Williams™ Pinball: Vol. 5$9.99
  • Indiana Jones(TM) Table$14.99
  • Case of Zen Coins$19.99
  • Legendary Pinball Pack$19.99
  • Legendary Pinball Pack$29.99
  • Set Of Zen Coins$49.99
  • Mountain of Zen Coins$99.99
None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Williams™ Pinball free?
Williams™ Pinball is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Williams™ Pinball or Visual Pinball?
Williams™ Pinball is rated higher. Williams™ Pinball averages 4.4 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while Visual Pinball averages 4.3 from 74 ratings.
Do Williams™ Pinball or Visual Pinball have ads?
Williams™ Pinball shows ads; Visual Pinball does not.
Which is updated more often, Williams™ Pinball or Visual Pinball?
Williams™ Pinball ships an update every 5 weeks, and Visual Pinball every 12 months. Most recently, Williams™ Pinball was updated on October 22, 2026 and Visual Pinball on October 22, 2026.

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