Comparison

Astro Zill vs Visual Pinball

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

Head to head
About

Astro Zill

A unique puzzle game where players match four colored balls by strategically sucking in and releasing one at a time. Embark on a cosmic adventure with Jill as she joins a space circus troupe, exploring various star worlds across 50 engaging levels.

Highlights
  • Unique ball-matching mechanic
  • Engaging space circus story
  • 50 challenging rounds
  • Vibrant particle rendering
  • Round select feature
  • Speedrun and logic modes
Features
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◇ What kind of game? A new concept puzzle game where you match four balls of the same color, by sucking in and letting out one ball at a time. ◇story Jill is a girl who longs for the world of the stars. A space circus troupe landed their spaceship on the star where Jill lives! I want to look inside the spaceship! Jill approached the circus troupe's spaceship. Inside the spaceship, the circus troupe is right in the middle of rehearsal. Seeing this, Jill came to love the circus as much as she loved space. Jill joined the space circus and set off into the world of the stars. ◇With a full tutorial, operation is simple. The tutorial is rounds 1 to 5. The operation procedure and the rules are easy to understand. ◇There are 50 rounds in all. The spaceship Jill rides goes around to various star worlds. ◇Variegated rendering makes the game heat up. The particle rendering of disappearing balls and the warp scenes when a round is cleared are thoroughly interesting. ◇It's filled with convenient functions and speedrun elements. The useful round select feature allows you to chose the next round or a cleared round. The speedrun element "speed" mode and "logic" mode appears after clearing round 50.

About

Visual Pinball

Experience the full virtual pinball simulator with realistic physics, lighting, and sound. This open-source app offers a redesigned interface, enhanced table management, and the complete desktop experience for mobile devices. Enjoy a vast library of tables without ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Realistic physics, lighting, and sound
  • Redesigned interface with Liquid Glass
  • Full in-game menu for graphics and controls
  • Support for various backglass and display types
  • Easy table import and management
  • Optimized memory usage
Features
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The official Visual Pinball app. Built by volunteers since 2000 and open source since 2010, Visual Pinball is the simulator the virtual pinball community has been playing for over two decades. More than 70 people have contributed to it, and this app runs the same engine as the desktop version, so every table plays with the physics, lighting and sound its creator intended. No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Made by volunteers. Two years of work from the Visual Pinball volunteers, in one update. Thank you for your patience, and for playing! A FRESH NEW LOOK • Redesigned for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass • Favorites and recently played tables at the top of your list • Search, sorting and three tile sizes • Light, Dark or System appearance • New loading screen that shows progress THE FULL DESKTOP EXPERIENCE • The complete Visual Pinball in-game menu for graphics, sound, controls and table options • Remap every button on keyboards and game controllers • Save settings for every table, or just the one you're playing MORE TABLES, LOOKING BETTER • Show the backglass and score display (DMD, alphanumeric or reels) on screen, right where you want them • Support for PUP packs, FlexDMD, B2S backglasses, video playback and VNI colorizations • All the latest physics and rendering improvements from the desktop version • Much lower memory use: textures are compressed on first load, then cached EASIER TABLE MANAGEMENT • Import .zip files, along with .vpx and .vpxz • Share any table as a single .vpxz file • The web file manager can now upload whole folders, extract archives, edit scripts and settings, and show the log live AND MORE • Many stability and memory fixes This version requires iOS 26.6 or later.

Screenshots

Astro Zill4 screens
Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Astro Zill at 5.0 against Visual Pinball's 4.3. Astro Zill also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.6). Visual Pinball's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (74 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Astro Zill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 74 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Astro Zill's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Astro Zill ships an update every 10 months, Visual Pinball fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Astro Zill versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstro ZillVisual Pinball
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.3 (74 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings274 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB134 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developerturu3netJason Millard

Customer experience

Astro Zill

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

Visual Pinball

All ratings74 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral12.5%
Negative8.9%

Bugs and requests

Astro Zill

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Visual Pinball

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Tables don't load for some users
  • Certain complex/intensive tables error out or run at low FPS

Requested features

6 requests
  • List of most played tables
  • Ability to reposition DMD
  • Option to skip startup checks for some tables
  • Ability to edit table scripts on the app
  • Direct link to table depository
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  • iPad version with more screen space

In-app purchases

None

Astro Zill

No in-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astro Zill free?
Astro Zill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Astro Zill or Visual Pinball?
Astro Zill is rated higher. Astro Zill averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Visual Pinball averages 4.3 from 74 ratings.
Do Astro Zill or Visual Pinball have ads?
Neither Astro Zill nor Visual Pinball shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Astro Zill or Visual Pinball?
Astro Zill ships an update every 10 months, and Visual Pinball fortnightly. Most recently, Astro Zill was updated on November 1, 2026 and Visual Pinball on October 30, 2026.

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