Comparison

Lunar 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

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.

Highlights
  • Classic pinball gameplay
  • Realistic physics engine
  • Intuitive touch controls
  • High score table
  • One or two player modes
  • High quality graphics and sounds
Features
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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.

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

Lunar Pinball4 screens
Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lunar Pinball versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLunar PinballVisual Pinball
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings) — better4.3 (74 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews78.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings574 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB134 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAnders GustavssonJason Millard

Customer experience

Lunar Pinball

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Visual Pinball

All ratings74 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral12.5%
Negative8.9%

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

None

Lunar Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lunar Pinball free?
Lunar Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lunar Pinball or Visual Pinball?
Lunar Pinball is rated higher. Lunar Pinball averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Visual Pinball averages 4.3 from 74 ratings.
Do Lunar Pinball or Visual Pinball have ads?
Neither Lunar Pinball nor Visual Pinball shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lunar Pinball or Visual Pinball?
Lunar Pinball ships an update every 2 weeks, and Visual Pinball fortnightly. Most recently, Lunar Pinball was updated on October 26, 2026 and Visual Pinball on October 30, 2026.

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