Salotto vs Railbird Pool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Salotto
Connect with pool players, find competitive matches, and track your ranking globally. Participate in tournaments and improve your FargoRating. Designed for all skill levels, from beginners to pros.
- Connect with local and global pool players
- Find and join competitive matches
- Track your global and regional ranking
- Compete for tournament invitations and prizes
- Optional FargoRating integration
- Real-time statistics
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Salotto is a free app connecting pool players. Meet up with new players, play competitive games and get ranked within your area, country and world. High ranking players can qualify for invitational tournaments and prizes all while affecting their FargoRating (optional). Salotto is for everyone that plays pool, from beginner to professional. Salotto takes away the uncertainty of finding a competitive pool match. Real-time statistics keep members up to date on where they rank in the app. Salotto is free to download allowing a user to create a pool match anywhere or join a match they find on the games map. You can even host a match once a month for free, then pay $0.99 per event to create more matches. If you plan to play more than 3 times per month or want unlimited access, you can sign up for Salotto Pro. Salotto Pro gives members unlimited hosting with no advertising for $4.99 per month or a discounted $49.99 per year. Salotto understands not all users like monthly subscriptions and therefore want to offer the Salotto Free platform with the "pay as you go" format so everyone can use it at their pace. Pool players deserve to play more pool. Terms of Use can be found at https://salotto.app/tc/
Railbird Pool
This AI-powered app helps billiards players record, analyze, and improve their game. It simplifies performance tracking for players of all levels.
- AI-enabled performance tracking
- Record game statistics
- Analyze gameplay
- Improve billiards skills
- Simplified process
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Railbird is performance tracking for pool. Set your phone up at the table, hit record, and Railbird automatically tracks your game — makes, misses, runs, players, and more. Stop guessing and start measuring. TRACK YOUR GAME AUTOMATICALLY • Every make and miss logged for you — no manual scorekeeping • Run tracking: longest runs, streaks, and trends over time • Player detection: multiplayer sessions with per-player stats • Full session history with video and stats TRAIN WITH PURPOSE • Structured drills with per-drill leaderboards • The X-Drill Challenge: see where you rank • Progress tracking that shows your game improving COMPETE WITH FRIENDS • Follow other players • Monthly leaderboards among the players you follow FREE TO USE Record and analyze your game free — no trial clock. Railbird Pro (Monthly or Yearly — save 25% with annual) unlocks the full experience. Also on the web: record with your webcam or OBS and upload video at railbird.ai. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://railbird.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Railbird Pool at free against Salotto's free with in-app purchases. Railbird Pool also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Salotto's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 56%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Salotto sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Railbird Pool sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Salotto against 4.2 for Railbird Pool. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 27 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Salotto's written reviews are positive against 56% of Railbird Pool's.
Salotto ships an update every 3 weeks, Railbird Pool weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salotto | Railbird Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (39 ratings) | 4.2 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Salotto LLC | Railbird LLC |
Customer experience
Salotto
Railbird Pool
In-app purchases
Salotto
- Salotto Monthly Discount$2.491 Month
- Pro Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Pro Annual Subscription$49.991 Year
- Pay as you Play$0.99
- Submit 1-10 Games$1.99
- Submit 1-10 Games To FargoRate$2.99
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- Submit 11-15 Games$3.99
- Submit 16-25 Games$4.99
- Submit 11-15 Games$4.99
- Submit 16-25 Games$5.99
- Golden Ticket$10.00
- Salotto Pro and MOB Hit List$24.99
Railbird Pool
- Railbird Plus Montly$10.991 Month
- Railbird Pro Monthly$16.991 Month
- Railbird Plus Yearly$80.001 Year
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- Railbird Pro Yearly$131.991 Year
