Comparison

Manic Marble 3 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

Manic Marble 3

Navigate challenging 3D levels by tilting your device to dodge obstacles and make jumps. Beat the clock to unlock new stages and experience fast-paced gameplay with adjustable difficulty settings.

Highlights
  • Intuitive accelerometer controls
  • Optional touch controls
  • Four difficulty settings
  • Fast 3D graphics
  • Unlockable levels
Features
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Manic Marble is back with eight more insane 3D levels! Dodge moving obstacles and fly over jumps by tilting and turning your device. Finish the current level in under the goal time to unlock the next one. Features: -Intuitive accelerometer-based control system -Optional touch-based control system -Four difficulty settings - including slow motion and high speed options -Fast 3D graphics and physics engine created by SIO2 Interactive

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

Manic Marble 34 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Manic Marble 3 at 77% against Simple Marble Run's 17%. Manic Marble 3 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Simple Marble Run's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 11 months) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Marble Run holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Marble Run has 263 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Manic Marble 3'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

Manic Marble 3 ships an update every 11 months, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Manic Marble 3 versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManic Marble 3Simple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (9 ratings)4.4 (263 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings9263 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRich Olsonmonois Inc.

Customer experience

Manic Marble 3

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.1%

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

Manic Marble 3

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Manic Marble 3 free?
Manic Marble 3 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, Manic Marble 3 or Simple Marble Run?
Simple Marble Run is rated higher. Manic Marble 3 averages 4.1 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 263 ratings.
Do Manic Marble 3 or Simple Marble Run have ads?
Simple Marble Run shows ads; Manic Marble 3 does not.
Which is updated more often, Manic Marble 3 or Simple Marble Run?
Manic Marble 3 ships an update every 11 months, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Manic Marble 3 was updated on November 1, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on November 5, 2026.

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