Student Driver! vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Student Driver!
Master drifting skills in this challenging game with simple touch controls. Navigate 25 levels of increasing difficulty, focusing on precision and speed. It's free, ad-free, and designed for quick, engaging gameplay.
- Drift around corners
- Avoid cones
- Simple touch controls
- Always full speed
- 25 levels
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-Drift around corners and avoid the cones in this addicting and challenging game! -Simple touch controls turn the car left and right, but you won't be able to slow down and the car is always going full speed! -25 levels to complete in any order! -This app is free and ad-free so show your support the developer by sharing this game with your friends and downloading our other apps!
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.
- 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
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Experience the open source pinball simulator now on your iPhone! Features: - Play hundreds of community and hobbyist-developed tables. - Feel the action with haptic feedback for bumpers, targets, and flippers. - Customize your experience with a simple, intuitive interface for settings, table options, and POV adjustments. - Game controller support. - External DMD support for ZeDMD, ZeDMD-WiFi, and Pixelcade devices. - Serum AltColor support. - AltSound support. - Touch overlay shows touch areas. - Step-by-step touch instructions when playing a table. - Advanced options for power users, including script and log file exports. - Support for iOS 18 Game Mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Student Driver! at 4.9 against Visual Pinball's 4.6. Student Driver! also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Student Driver! holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 45 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Student Driver!'s written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's.
| Parameter | Student Driver! | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (24 ratings) — better | 4.6 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 45 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | James Newman | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Student Driver!
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Student Driver!
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
Student Driver!
No in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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