Comparison

3D Marble Tracks vs Idle Marble Run

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

Head to head
About

3D Marble Tracks

Compete in thrilling marble races against up to 100 players on a global leaderboard. Strategize your throws to complete tracks faster than your opponents. Customize your marble with a built-in texture editor and enjoy realistic 3D graphics and physics.

Highlights
  • 100 player leaderboard
  • Marble race challenges
  • Texture editor for marble customization
  • Realistic 3D physics
  • Smooth 3D graphics
Features
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Challenge opponents from a 100 player leaderboard in a marble race! The game rules are simple: complete each track with less throws than your opponents. The built-in texture editor allows you to paint your marble with your favorite colors and make it stand out among the other marbles. Smoothly rendered 3d graphics, realistic 3d physics. Truly free: not a demo, no paid features.

About

Idle Marble Run

Experience a relaxing toy marble machine with idle mechanics. Watch marbles merge, hit bumpers, and inject special types like fireballs and snowballs into an infinite run.

Highlights
  • Infinite marble machine
  • Idle mechanics
  • Marble merging
  • Bumper interactions
  • Special marble types (Fireballs, Snowballs, Plasma)
Features
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Drop a marble. Watch it fall through the pegs, light up every bumper it touches, and turn each bounce into gold. Two marbles of the same kind that meet become one bigger marble, worth far more than the two that made it. That single rule is the whole game, and it never stops paying off. MERGE YOUR WAY UP Every merge unlocks a richer marble. Grey, gold, ruby, sapphire, emerald: the ladder keeps going, and so do the numbers. THE BOARD KEEPS EARNING Close the app and the marbles keep working. Come back to a pile of gold waiting to be claimed, and double or triple it on the spot. FIVE SPECIAL MARBLES FIREBALL destroys bumpers in a single hit. SNOWBALL grows with every bounce. RAINBOW is pulled toward the pegs. SHADOW clones itself on impact. BUBBLEGUM sends bumpers flying. AND PLENTY MORE A cannon that fires marbles on its own. Bonus letters scattered across the board. A gallery to fill with every marble in the game. Achievements, levels, and a cloud save that carries progress from one device to the next. No energy bar, no lives, nothing to unlock with a timer. Just bouncing physics, gentle celebrations, and numbers that always go up. Idle Marble Run is free to play. It contains ads and optional in-app purchases, and any purchase removes the ads for good.

Screenshots

3D Marble Tracks4 screens
Idle Marble Run3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 3D Marble Tracks at none against Idle Marble Run's 7. 3D Marble Tracks also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (101 vs 23). Idle Marble Run's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, review sentiment, 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

Both are free to download. Idle Marble Run sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. 3D Marble Tracks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Marble Run holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 101 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of 3D Marble Tracks's written reviews are positive against 67% of Idle Marble Run's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

3D Marble Tracks ships an update every 11 days, Idle Marble Run every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
3D Marble Tracks versus Idle Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter3D Marble TracksIdle Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (101 ratings)4.5 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.9% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings101 — better23
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 10 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB162 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperA Trillion Games LtdKilosaurus

Customer experience

3D Marble Tracks

All ratings100 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative38.1%

Idle Marble Run

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

3D Marble Tracks

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Idle Marble Run

One-time7
  • Pack 30 Diamonds$0.99
  • Pack 66 Diamonds$1.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
Show 4 more
  • Pack 180 Diamonds$3.99
  • Pack 400 Diamonds$8.99
  • Pack 1125 Diamonds$22.99
  • Pack 2250 Diamonds$44.99

Questions

Is 3D Marble Tracks free?
3D Marble Tracks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Marble Run free?
Idle Marble Run is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 3D Marble Tracks or Idle Marble Run?
Idle Marble Run is rated higher. 3D Marble Tracks averages 4.2 out of 5 from 101 ratings, while Idle Marble Run averages 4.5 from 23 ratings.
Do 3D Marble Tracks or Idle Marble Run have ads?
Both 3D Marble Tracks and Idle Marble Run show ads.
Which is updated more often, 3D Marble Tracks or Idle Marble Run?
3D Marble Tracks ships an update every 11 days, and Idle Marble Run every 10 months. Most recently, 3D Marble Tracks was updated on November 2, 2026 and Idle Marble Run on November 11, 2026.

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