Lunar Pinball vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lunar Pinball
Experience classic pinball with realistic physics and engaging graphics. Enjoy intuitive touch controls for smooth gameplay, challenging yourself or a friend to achieve high scores on the arcade table.
- Classic pinball gameplay
- Realistic physics engine
- Intuitive touch controls
- High score table
- One or two player modes
- High quality graphics and sounds
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A classic style and fun pinball game for one or two players. Challenge yourself or with a friend with this realistic and easy to learn pinball game. High Quality Graphics and great sounds that bring passion to the game. Smooth and easy touch controls. Fun & intuitive gameplay. KEY FEATURES: • Simple and intuitive control. Easy flipper control. • Awesome graphics. • Realistic physics. • Smooth camera following the ball. • Classic Arcade High Score Table. Get Lunar Pinball NOW! Created by ZombiSoft.
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.
- 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
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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: Lunar Pinball at 4.6 against Visual Pinball's 4.3. Lunar Pinball also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.6). Visual Pinball's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lunar Pinball holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 74 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Lunar Pinball's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lunar Pinball ships an update every 2 weeks, Visual Pinball fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lunar Pinball | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 4.3 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Anders Gustavsson | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Lunar Pinball
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Lunar 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
Lunar Pinball
No in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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