Swift as the Wind vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swift as the Wind
Navigate a boat through challenging levels, collecting coins and boosts while avoiding obstacles. Master intuitive controls to steer your vessel and adjust sails for the ultimate sailing experience.
- 3 challenging levels
- Collect coins and boost items
- Avoid dangerous swirls
- Intuitive finger controls
- Rotate boat and sails
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Swift as the Wind is inspired by my WWDC19 scholarship winner playground. It features 3 challenging levels with coins and boost items to be collected by the player as well a dangerous swirl to be avoided. Controls: To guide the boat, move your fingers around the ship’s wheels. The left wheel rotates the boat, the right one rotates the sail. This game is dedicated to my mother. Happy mothers day, mõe! Credits: The soundtrack was composed by me with GarageBand. The graphic elements, including maps, boat, ship’s wheels, coins, buttons and animations were also designed by me. The fish and lightning inside the coins were downloaded from freepik.com. The sound effects were obtained from zapsplat.com.
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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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Swift as the Wind at 5.0 against Visual Pinball's 4.3. Swift as the Wind also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 12 months). Visual Pinball's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Swift as the Wind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Swift as the Wind's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's.
Swift as the Wind ships an update every 5 months, Visual Pinball every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swift as the Wind | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Hugo Lispector | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Swift as the Wind
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Swift as the Wind
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
Swift as the Wind
No in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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