Comparison

Marble Run Building Blocks 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

Marble Run Building Blocks

Design and construct intricate marble runs with a variety of blocks and colors. Save your creations, undo mistakes easily, and enjoy explosive destruction. This game offers a free, ad-supported experience with no in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • 17 block types and 8 colors
  • Save up to 3 creations
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Stack up to 5 blocks
  • Rotate and zoom camera
  • Explosion destruction mode
Features
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App features - With 17 types and 8 colors of blocks and sliders, you can build blocks as you wish. - You can save up to 3 data automatically. - It's okay to break it accidentally. You can go back and start over. - If you want to stack a lot, you can stack up to 5 at once with the button. - You can easily rotate and zoom in / out the camera with a touch operation. - Finally, let's destroy it in explosion mode. - No in-app purchases. You can enjoy all the functions for free.

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

Marble Run Building Blocks3 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

Marble Run Building Blocks and Simple Marble Run both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Marble Run Building Blocks's written reviews are positive against 17% of Simple Marble Run's. Marble Run Building Blocks also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Simple Marble Run's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 16 months) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Marble Run Building Blocks against 4.4 for Simple Marble Run. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 156 and 266 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Marble Run Building Blocks's written reviews are positive against 17% of Simple Marble Run's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marble Run Building Blocks ships an update every 16 months, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Marble Run Building Blocks versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarble Run Building BlocksSimple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (156 ratings)4.4 (266 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings156266 — better
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developernobuhiro satakemonois Inc.

Customer experience

Marble Run Building Blocks

All ratings104 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral8.7%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings260 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Marble Run Building Blocks

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marble Run Building Blocks free?
Marble Run Building Blocks 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, Marble Run Building Blocks or Simple Marble Run?
Simple Marble Run is rated higher. Marble Run Building Blocks averages 4.4 out of 5 from 156 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 266 ratings.
Do Marble Run Building Blocks or Simple Marble Run have ads?
Both Marble Run Building Blocks and Simple Marble Run show ads.
Which is updated more often, Marble Run Building Blocks or Simple Marble Run?
Marble Run Building Blocks ships an update every 16 months, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Marble Run Building Blocks was updated on November 3, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on November 8, 2026.

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