Comparison

Marble Wars! 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 Wars!

Engage in strategic territory battles with customizable marbles. Conquer tiles across various maps and modes, or design your own with the map editor. Earn coins to unlock new colors, countries, and maps.

Highlights
  • Territory wars simulator
  • Multiple game modes (classic, multiply, release)
  • Unlockable colors, countries, and maps
  • Map editor for custom maps
  • Coin-based progression system
Features
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Territory wars simulator, choose a mode (classic, multiply or release) and your favorite marbles. Get coins to unlock colors, countries and new maps. Will your team conquer all the tiles on the map? Now you can create your own maps in the map editor! My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BouncyMarble

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 Wars!4 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Marble Wars! at 74% against Simple Marble Run's 17%. Marble Wars! also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Simple Marble Run's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Marble Wars! sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Simple Marble Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Marble Run holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 90 and 258 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Marble Wars!'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

Marble Wars! ships an update every 3 months, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Marble Wars! versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarble Wars!Simple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (90 ratings)4.4 (258 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.8% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings90258 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMateo Garnica Castillomonois Inc.

Customer experience

Marble Wars!

All ratings90 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral4.4%
Negative28.9%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive73.8%
Neutral4.6%
Negative21.5%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings258 ratings
Positive83.7%
Neutral6.2%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Marble Wars!

One-time4
  • 10 coins$1.99
  • Marble Wars PRO$4.99
  • 70 coins$5.99
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  • 200 coins$9.99
None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marble Wars! free?
Marble Wars! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Marble Run free?
Simple Marble Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Marble Wars! or Simple Marble Run?
Simple Marble Run is rated higher. Marble Wars! averages 3.6 out of 5 from 90 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 258 ratings.
Do Marble Wars! or Simple Marble Run have ads?
Both Marble Wars! and Simple Marble Run show ads.
Which is updated more often, Marble Wars! or Simple Marble Run?
Marble Wars! ships an update every 3 months, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Marble Wars! was updated on October 17, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on October 19, 2026.

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