Comparison

Pin Puzzle vs Popup Panic

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pin Puzzle

Engage your mind with a physics-based puzzle game where strategic pin removal guides balls to a truck. Avoid bombs and color gray balls by touching colored ones to succeed. Personalize your game with unlockable styles and backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Strategic pin removal
  • Physics-based ball guidance
  • Ball coloring mechanics
  • Bomb avoidance
  • Customizable game elements
  • Unlimited levels
Features
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Find yourself the king of puzzle games? Looking for a game that combines relaxation, decompression, brainstorming, visual enjoyment and achievement? Congratulations! You've found Pin Puzzle: Pull Pins Out! Pin Puzzle: Pull Pins Out has a simple but addictive gameplay that requires a certain amount of skills and experience which can at the same time test your IQ. The game starts out simple enough with just a few pins need to pull, but as you level up and gain experience, you'll need to think more. Be careful! If you are not strategic enough, with a "boom", you lose the game and shall restart it. In addition to the simple level passing mechanics, Pin Puzzle: Pull Pins Out also offers you a personalized gaming experience. Players will unlock various styles of balls, pins, tracks, trucks, as well as beautiful game backgrounds, dazzling game animation effects and so on. Each player is allowed to design your own personalized game page. Game Features: - Gameplay: Smartly arrange the move order of pins. Then, the ball will fall along the track under the feature of gravity and finally be collected in the truck. Truck with full balls can make a successful drive. Or else, the game will be over. So think before you pull! - There are both colored balls and gray balls in the game. It should be noted that the gray balls should be colored before falling into the truck. Gray balls can be successfully dyed when they touch colored balls. Take colored balls in your journey instead of gray ones. - Attention! There will be bombs scattered on the track. Bomb explosions will destroy tracks or trucks, which may cause you to lose balls and finally cannot finish the journey successfully. You can keep challenging yourself, we will not set limits for you, cuz we've prepared surely enough levels for you to challenge! Join Pin Puzzle: Pull Pins Out now, spend time with players all over the world and enrich your leisure time!

About

Popup Panic

Navigate the chaotic early internet by finding the single real close button among deceptive pop-up ads and fake links. Race against the clock and avoid risky windows to achieve high scores and climb global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Find the real close button
  • Beat the clock
  • 12 parody internet sites
  • Global leaderboard
  • Combo and speed bonuses
  • Risky pop-up avoidance
Features
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ARE YOU AN INTERNET VETERAN? Before broadband. Before ad blockers. Before you knew better. Popup Panic drops you back into the internet's most dangerous era — a world of pop-up ads, fake close buttons, and "You are the 1,000,000th visitor!" banners screaming for your click. Somewhere in the wreckage is the one real close button. Everything else is a trap. FIND THE REAL X Every ad hides exactly one genuine close button. The rest are decoys — fake corners, flashy clones, buttons that only reveal themselves if you hover first, and windows with two identical X's where only one actually works. Guess wrong and it costs you. BEAT THE CLOCK, NOT JUST THE AD Some close buttons are locked behind a countdown, exactly like the real thing. Others disguise themselves as "Skip Ad" buttons or hide inside fake video players stacked three ads deep — close one and another loads right behind it. Speed and accuracy both feed your score, so the faster and cleaner you clear a level, the higher you climb. 12 SITES, 12 ERAS OF INTERNET HISTORY Every level drops you into a different rebuilt-from-memory site parody: a homepage permanently "under construction," a profile page with a Top 8, a file-sharing client full of suspicious downloads, an early video-sharing grid, an inbox buried in spam, a search engine that actually tries to help, and more. Twelve total, rotating every level. REAL RISK, REAL STAKES Click the wrong ad, and a new window might pop up that you really don't want on screen when someone walks by. You'll have seconds to close it before the run ends. CLIMB THE RANKS AND CHASE PERFECTION Chain combos, clear levels without a single mistake for bonus points, and race the clock for a speed bonus on top. Work your way up from "Newbie" to "Internet Sensei," and compete on a real, live global leaderboard against everyone else who thinks they remember what the early internet was actually like. Popup Panic is a love letter to — and a little bit of revenge against — the worst UX decade in internet history. Nobody who survived it will ever forget. Question is: did you actually survive it, or did you just get lucky?

Screenshots

Pin Puzzle4 screens
Popup Panic4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pin Puzzle and Popup Panic both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Popup Panic's written reviews are positive against 32% of Pin Puzzle's. Pin Puzzle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (5.3K vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Popup Panic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pin Puzzle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Pin Puzzle against 5.0 for Popup Panic. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pin Puzzle has 5.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 32% of Pin Puzzle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Popup Panic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pin Puzzle ships an update fortnightly, Popup Panic every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pin Puzzle versus Popup Panic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPin PuzzlePopup Panic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (5.3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.3K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size196 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOrange One LimitedChadrick Dizon

Customer experience

Pin Puzzle

All ratings5,246 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews179 reviews
Positive31.8%
Neutral12.3%
Negative55.9%

Popup Panic

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pin Puzzle

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Balls escaping enclosed areas after bomb explosions
  • Levels freezing or becoming unresponsive

Requested features

3 requests
  • Option to remove ads by paying a one-time fee
  • Landscape mode support
  • More challenging levels for experienced players

Popup Panic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pin Puzzle

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Popup Panic

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Pin Puzzle free?
Pin Puzzle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Popup Panic free?
Popup Panic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pin Puzzle or Popup Panic?
Popup Panic is rated higher. Pin Puzzle averages 4.9 out of 5 from 5.3K ratings, while Popup Panic averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pin Puzzle or Popup Panic have ads?
Both Pin Puzzle and Popup Panic show ads.
Which is updated more often, Pin Puzzle or Popup Panic?
Pin Puzzle ships an update fortnightly, and Popup Panic every 8 days. Most recently, Pin Puzzle was updated on October 23, 2026 and Popup Panic on October 14, 2026.

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