Comparison

Adventure 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

Adventure Pinball

Embark on a fantasy quest where pinball mechanics meet RPG elements. Battle a dark queen across diverse fields and dungeons, collecting powerful equipment to aid your hero.

Highlights
  • Pinball, adventure, and RPG combination
  • Save a world from the Dark Queen
  • Explore 3 adventure fields and mini dungeons
  • Fight 7 bosses and a dark army
  • Collect 8 powerful equipment items
Features
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You play as a hero to fight the dark force in a fantasy pinball world. Features - A game combine pinball, adventure and role playing game. - 1 world ruled by Dark Queen to save. - 3 adventure field and lots mini dungeon to play. - 7 boss and dark army to fight! - 8 powerful equipment to collect.

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

Adventure Pinball4 screens
Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visual Pinball at Free against Adventure Pinball's $1.99. Visual Pinball also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). Adventure Pinball's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.6). On ratings volume, 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

Visual Pinball is free to download; Adventure Pinball costs $1.99 up front. Adventure Pinball sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Visual Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visual Pinball holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 75 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Adventure Pinball's written reviews are positive against 78% of Visual Pinball's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Adventure Pinball ships an update every 6 months, Visual Pinball fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Adventure Pinball versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdventure PinballVisual Pinball
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (34 ratings)4.3 (75 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3475 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB134 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGame StewJason Millard

Customer experience

Adventure Pinball

All ratings34 ratings
Positive76.5%
Neutral11.8%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral10.4%
Negative39.6%

Visual Pinball

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

Bugs and requests

Adventure 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

4 purchases

Adventure Pinball

One-time4
  • 1000 Gold$0.99
  • 3000 Gold$1.99
  • 10000 Gold$4.99
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  • 30000 Gold$9.99
None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Adventure Pinball free?
Adventure Pinball costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Adventure Pinball or Visual Pinball?
Visual Pinball is rated higher. Adventure Pinball averages 4.0 out of 5 from 34 ratings, while Visual Pinball averages 4.3 from 75 ratings.
Do Adventure Pinball or Visual Pinball have ads?
Neither Adventure Pinball nor Visual Pinball shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Adventure Pinball or Visual Pinball?
Adventure Pinball ships an update every 6 months, and Visual Pinball fortnightly. Most recently, Adventure Pinball was updated on November 3, 2026 and Visual Pinball on November 5, 2026.

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