Scorbit vs The Loop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scorbit
Connect with pinball enthusiasts worldwide. Track scores, earn achievements, and challenge friends. Machine owners can connect their devices to a global network for real-time monitoring and leaderboards.
- Track scores and achievements
- Connect pinball machines remotely
- Follow friends and players
- Participate in machine leaderboards
- Share live games and scores
- Find pinball venues and machines
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Scorbit is the ultimate companion to make pinball even more fun! Follow your friends, track scores, earn achievements, challenge others, receive notifications and find your favorite games and locations. Scorbit is compatible with all games from all eras, so machine owners can connect their machines to the Scorbit network! Engage with millions of players around the world. Share and stream live games and scores, earn achievements, challenge others, and participate in machine leaderboards – for any machine in any location! Follow your favorite pinball players and track what games they play and how they are playing. Streamers and collectors can use Scorbit to add real-time scores or leaderboards to their streams and game rooms for big displays! Operators can use Scorbit to monitor their machines remotely, reducing downtime, and earning more revenue. Scorbit is connected pinball! • Find Games Scorbit’s platform allows owners of pinball machines to create venues and machines so other players can find and play them. There are tens of thousands of pinball machines from all over the world, and you can choose any one or create one to start building a leaderboard. You can view these high score lists at any time, with no limit to the number of entries! • Play Games in New Ways While not required, on machines equipped with Scorbit’s hardware - in public or private locations - your games are connected to Scorbit’s cloud platform. Other users of the app or viewers of the ScorbitVision web tools can view your games as they happen, in real-time. The Scorbit app allows you to tap Scorbit Tap Pads located under the glass of the game. You and other players near you can claim player slots, automatically placing your chosen display names next to those player numbers in the system for others to see. When the platform knows who you are, you can earn achievements! When your game is complete, adding your score to the leaderboard or sharing with your friends is as easy as pressing a button! For games not equipped with Scorbit’s hardware, when your game is finished, you can take a photo of your score and submit it to the same leaderboard and share your experience with others. • Pinball Community Scorbit not only creates a record for your own profile personal bests and achievements, but also allows you to take any game, at any time, and share it with people you choose on the platform. Using the community features of the app, you can curate a list of people you like to follow, either in advance or after a game. After you play, you can choose from that list with who you want to share with or challenge to play – or throw the score away, it’s up to you! When the people you follow also save scores to leaderboards or challenge you, those scores appear in your self-curated community feed. You can also visit other player’s profiles and see what games they are playing, and how they are doing. • Improve Your Game Along with watching others play, Scorbit allows you to view games you have finished with post-game analytics, to help you improve your game! • Monitor Your Machines Collectors and operators have access to their list of games that others can engage with. For games equipped with Scorbit’s hardware, the Scorbitron, collectors and operators who subscribe to the platform can monitor the health of their games remotely, tracking when they are online. The goal is to get more people playing pinball, which means more revenue, and more people enjoying the experience.
The Loop
A private neighborhood app for adults in Bouldin Creek, Austin, offering chronological posts and personalized feed controls. Share local information, connect with neighbors, and manage community groups.
- Chronological feed
- Personalized feed controls
- Neighborhood information sharing
- Committee creation and management
- Private by design verification
- Account data export
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The Loop is a private neighborhood app for adults who live in Bouldin Creek, Austin. It keeps the useful local information and gives each neighbor control over what reaches their feed. EVERYTHING STAYS CHRONOLOGICAL Posts appear newest first after your personal controls apply. There is no engagement ranking and no promoted content. SET YOUR OWN VOLUME Turn political posts off. Quiet threads classified as contentious. Mute a member when you do not want their posts in your feed. Your controls affect only what you see. HANDLE THE USEFUL NEIGHBORHOOD STUFF Ask for help, offer something, share a street update, find a lost item or pet, post an event, recommend a local service, or discuss a civic issue. Reply in a thread, mark a post resolved, report a problem, and keep up with nearby neighbors. MAKE A COMMITTEE Create or join a public or private committee. Committee owners can manage membership, appoint moderators, and keep committee posts focused on the work. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The Loop asks for your Bouldin Creek home address and your statement that you live there. Your address is encrypted, is not shown to other members, and is not sent to the AI classifier. You can add an optional profile photo, edit your profile, export your account data, or delete your account in the app. Posts and replies are processed by an automated classifier after a sensitive-data scrub. Topic labels power personal feed controls. Private safety signals help a human administrator prioritize review. AI labels do not impose account penalties. The Bouldin Creek app is free. It has no ads and does not sell personal information. The Loop is not an emergency service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Loop at 100% against Scorbit's 44%. The Loop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Scorbit's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
The Loop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scorbit has 45 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Scorbit's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Loop's.
Scorbit ships an update fortnightly, The Loop every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scorbit | The Loop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Scorbit | Samuel Gaddis |
Customer experience
Scorbit
The Loop
In-app purchases
Scorbit
No in-app purchases
The Loop
No in-app purchases









