Comparison

Gecko Pet vs Simple Marble Run

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

Head to head
About

Gecko Pet

Raise a virtual gecko on your phone with simple care tasks like feeding and cleaning. Enjoy its smooth animations and relaxing music as it grows daily. This game is ideal for busy individuals or those new to gaming.

Highlights
  • Raise a virtual gecko
  • Simple feeding and cleaning mechanics
  • Real-time growth updates
  • Customizable pet name
  • Relaxing music and animations
  • Notifications for care tasks
Features
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Completely free! This is an application to make a gecko a pet. You can easily raise a cute gecko in your phone. The smooth animation of the gecko's cute movements will heal you. The music is also very relaxing. This game is an app to raise geckos in your phone. It's very easy to take care of them. All you have to do is feed it and clean it! It is recommended for people who are not good at playing games and busy people. Please enjoy watching the gecko grow day by day. The game's contents You can feed the gecko, clean it, and take care of it easily. The gecko grows a little bit every day. Touch the screen, and the gecko will come to that place. You can watch the gecko while listening to music. You can give the gecko a name of your choice. (The name can be changed at any time.) The size of the gecko is updated every second so that you can see its size in real time. When you start the app, it will report how much it has grown since the last time. Notifies you of the timing of feeding and cleaning.

About

Simple Marble Run

Experience a calming marble game with customizable courses. Manipulate the flow with stoppers, pins, and throwing mechanics. Watch marbles collect and depart in a delightful cycle, offering a unique ASMR-like experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable marble courses
  • Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
  • Marble throwing mechanic
  • Truck collection and departure cycle
  • Adjustable camera viewpoints
  • Soothing ASMR-like experience
Features
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A relaxing marble app where countless marbles roll and tumble across the course. Watching small marbles roll one after another is soothing and fun — you may even lose track of time just gazing at them. In this app, you can enjoy many different types of courses, from classic and simple layouts to unique and playful ones. The charm lies not only in watching the flow, but also in being able to add your own twists and enjoy different ways to play. The rolling marbles can be stopped, thrown, or redirected, allowing for all kinds of surprising moments. • With stoppers, you can hold back marbles and then release them all at once. It feels exciting to see a sudden rush of marbles flowing out together. • Place pins wherever you like to scatter the flow, split the marbles into unexpected paths, or even create small dead ends. Just a little change can transform the whole course. • With the throwing feature, you can tap the screen and toss a marble right to that spot. This lets you add marbles directly into the middle of the action. • At the goal, a truck waits to collect the marbles. Once enough marbles have piled up, a start button appears and the truck drives off, only for a new one to arrive. Watching the marbles leave together with the truck is a delightful part of the experience. • Along the course, you’ll also find camera buttons. Press them to switch the viewpoint and enjoy the marbles from a fresh angle. If you change the camera right before releasing a big group of marbles, the scene becomes even more thrilling to watch. There’s a special satisfaction in building up marbles and letting them flow all at once, in experimenting with setups that create surprising movements, or in simply enjoying the unexpected. Unlike real-life marble play, where preparing many marbles can be difficult, here you can easily enjoy “lots of marbles” and “special tricks” as many times as you like. The rolling sounds and movements are soothing and calming, almost like an ASMR experience that brings a sense of relaxation. You can play however you like — relax and watch quietly, or set up bold tricks and let the marbles rush in large numbers. A marble playground you can enjoy anytime, right on your phone. Roll them again and again, and find your own favorite way to play.

Screenshots

Gecko Pet1 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gecko Pet at 82% against Simple Marble Run's 0%. Gecko Pet also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Simple Marble Run's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 32 months) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gecko Pet holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 131 and 238 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Gecko Pet's written reviews are positive against 0% of Simple Marble Run's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gecko Pet ships an update every 32 months, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Gecko Pet versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGecko PetSimple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (131 ratings) — better4.4 (238 ratings)
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings131238 — better
Update frequencyEvery 32 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersio hondamonois Inc.

Customer experience

Gecko Pet

All ratings131 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral4.5%
Negative13.6%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings238 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative60.0%

In-app purchases

None

Gecko Pet

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gecko Pet free?
Gecko Pet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Marble Run free?
Simple Marble Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gecko Pet or Simple Marble Run?
Gecko Pet is rated higher. Gecko Pet averages 4.7 out of 5 from 131 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 238 ratings.
Do Gecko Pet or Simple Marble Run have ads?
Both Gecko Pet and Simple Marble Run show ads.
Which is updated more often, Gecko Pet or Simple Marble Run?
Gecko Pet ships an update every 32 months, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Gecko Pet was updated on September 21, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on September 20, 2026.

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