Comparison

Army Pop vs Tower Pinball

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

Head to head
About

Army Pop

Features
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How many balls can you pop? Launch balls on to pin to increase your crowd and capture all the base?

About

Tower Pinball

Experience pinball with a unique vertical twist. Each table is a multi-story tower where the ball ascends through skillful play, with different floors offering distinct challenges and mechanics. Enjoy a realistic arcade feel with haptic feedback and a classic dot-matrix display.

Highlights
  • Multi-story tower pinball tables
  • Unique ball climbing mechanic
  • Three distinct table personalities
  • Two-thumbed control scheme
  • Realistic arcade machine features
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • Offline play
Features
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Pinball where the table is a tower. Every table in Tower Pinball is three floors stacked on top of each other, and the ball climbs them. Play well on the ground floor and a lift carries the ball up; play well again and it goes higher. Drain, and it falls back down the tower to wherever the floor below can catch it. ROCKET RANGE, the first table, is a launch site at sunrise. The pad is fire and steel, the upper atmosphere is thin cold air, and the top floor is orbit — and gravity thins as you climb. The same flipper that barely clears a ramp on the pad will fling the ball across the sky in orbit. Learn the three floors and you learn a machine with three personalities. CLOCKWORK TOWER, the second table, is a clock seen from the inside. The workshop floor is oak boards and a brass movement you wind by hand, the gear train turns a great wheel that carries the ball across the floor, and at the top the dial collects the hours and a bell strikes them. The whole floor leans with the clock's beat and the escapements open on the tick, so the table has a tempo you can learn: many of its shots score double when they land on the tick. MADE FOR TWO THUMBS. There are no tiny buttons. The left half of the screen is the left flipper and the right half is the right one, edge to edge, so you play it the way you hold your phone. Nudge the table with a lean or a two-finger tap. A short tour shows you the tower the first time you open it, and a coach shows you where your hands go. A REAL MACHINE. A dot-matrix display calls the shots, bonuses count down at the end of every ball, modes stack, multiball lands on the top floor, and the neon over the flame trench flickers the way a tired tube does. Skill shots, kickbacks, a lock, a wizard mode — the machinery of a cabinet, on a phone, with haptics you can feel and music you can turn off. Every shot is named on the deck, so the display and the table speak the same words. CLIMB THE BOARD. Every finished game posts to a Game Center leaderboard, and your best score sits on the menu. Rocket Range is complete and free. Clockwork Tower is a one-time purchase in the menu, and you can play one game of it free before you decide. It is shareable with your family, with no subscription and no currency, and every table after it will be the same. More tables are coming to the tower: a deep-sea trench and a power grid. No ads. Plays offline. Made for iPhone and iPad, held in two hands.

Screenshots

Army Pop4 screens
Tower Pinball4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Army Pop at none against Tower Pinball's 1. Army Pop also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Tower Pinball's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Tower Pinball sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Army Pop asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Army Pop versus Tower Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArmy PopTower Pinball
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUNCOSOFTTim Mueller

In-app purchases

None

Army Pop

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tower Pinball

One-time1
  • Clockwork Tower$0.99

Questions

Is Army Pop free?
Army Pop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tower Pinball free?
Tower Pinball is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Army Pop or Tower Pinball have ads?
Army Pop shows ads; Tower Pinball does not.

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