Comparison

Marbles Catch 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

Marbles Catch

Test your reflexes by catching falling marbles in the correct order. This fast-paced game offers varying difficulty levels and a daily challenge mode to keep you engaged. Aim for perfect clears and earn trophies for consistent play.

Highlights
  • Catch falling marbles in order
  • Avoid catching wrong colors
  • Three lives per game
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Daily Challenge mode
  • Earn Perfect marks and trophies
Features
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Catch the falling marbles in order! It looks easy, but it's difficult. This game is suitable for playing in a short time. You may need to have good kinetic eyesight. ■ Contents Catch the colorful marbles in order. If you catch a marbles of a different color, you miss. If you miss three times, the game is over. You can choose the difficulty level from "Easy", "Normal" and "Hard". Let's aim to clear every day in "Daily Challenge" ! Let's keep a record with the Daily Challenge. The difficulty level is randomized. If you get a no-miss clear, you will get a P (Perfect) mark. If you clear all the challenges in a month, you will receive a gold trophy. ■ How to play Swipe to move the wooden box left or right. ■ Trick When you are about to catch a different color, swipe fast to escape. If you want to catch the color you want, you may be able to catch it Even from the side.

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

Marbles Catch4 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Marbles Catch at every 4 days against Simple Marble Run's every 6 weeks. Marbles Catch also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Simple Marble Run's advantage is ratings volume (252 vs 4) and review sentiment (17% vs 0%). 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

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

Marbles Catch holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Marble Run has 252 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Marbles Catch's written reviews are positive against 17% of Simple Marble Run's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marbles Catch ships an update every 4 days, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Marbles Catch versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarbles CatchSimple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better4.4 (252 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews16.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4252 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB193 MB
Age rating+44+
Developerarakawa yuichiromonois Inc.

Customer experience

Marbles Catch

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings252 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Marbles Catch

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marbles Catch free?
Marbles Catch 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, Marbles Catch or Simple Marble Run?
Marbles Catch is rated higher. Marbles Catch averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 252 ratings.
Do Marbles Catch or Simple Marble Run have ads?
Both Marbles Catch and Simple Marble Run show ads.
Which is updated more often, Marbles Catch or Simple Marble Run?
Marbles Catch ships an update every 4 days, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Marbles Catch was updated on August 15, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on September 28, 2026.

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