Comparison

Infinite 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

Infinite Pinball™

Experience an addictive pinball game where you tap to launch the ball and score bonus points based on its trajectory. Navigate breakable flippers and aim for the Golden Star to temporarily become invincible and break through obstacles. Challenge yourself to reach higher levels and achieve top scores.

Highlights
  • Tap to hit and shoot the ball
  • Score bonus points for ball distance
  • Avoid breakable glass flippers
  • Golden Star for temporary invincibility
  • Progress through multiple levels
Features
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An addictive pinball game that could make you play forever. Tap to hit the ball and shoot it up. The farther your ball goes, the more bonus scores you get. Be careful with the breakable glass flipper and try not to be bounced down. Get the Golden Star to become the unbeatable ball, which can break all the flippers on the way for a few seconds. Now, let’s see how high you can go and how many levels you can pass!

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

Infinite Pinball™4 screens
Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Pinball at 78% against Infinite Pinball™'s 18%. Visual Pinball also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.4). Infinite Pinball™'s advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visual Pinball holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 75 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Infinite Pinball™'s written reviews are positive against 78% of Visual Pinball's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Infinite Pinball™ ships an update every 2 weeks, Visual Pinball fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Infinite Pinball™ versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInfinite Pinball™Visual Pinball
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (37 ratings)4.3 (75 ratings) — better
Positive reviews18.2% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3775 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB134 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperOlivia AshleyJason Millard

Customer experience

Infinite Pinball™

All ratings37 ratings
Positive35.1%
Neutral2.7%
Negative62.2%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative81.8%

Visual Pinball

All ratings74 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral11.9%
Negative10.2%

Bugs and requests

Infinite Pinball™

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
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  • iPad version with more screen space

In-app purchases

None

Infinite Pinball™

No in-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Infinite Pinball™ free?
Infinite Pinball™ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Infinite Pinball™ or Visual Pinball?
Visual Pinball is rated higher. Infinite Pinball™ averages 2.4 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Visual Pinball averages 4.3 from 75 ratings.
Do Infinite Pinball™ or Visual Pinball have ads?
Neither Infinite Pinball™ nor Visual Pinball shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Infinite Pinball™ or Visual Pinball?
Infinite Pinball™ ships an update every 2 weeks, and Visual Pinball fortnightly. Most recently, Infinite Pinball™ was updated on November 2, 2026 and Visual Pinball on November 5, 2026.

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