Comparison

Subway Surfers vs Pull The Pin

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

Head to head
About

Subway Surfers

Embark on an exhilarating endless running adventure. Dash through vibrant environments, dodge obstacles, and outrun pursuers. Utilize power-ups like jetpacks and hoverboards to enhance your escape and achieve high scores.

Highlights
  • Endless running gameplay
  • Dodge oncoming trains
  • Grind trains
  • Colorful HD graphics
  • Hoverboard surfing
  • Paint powered jetpack
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DASH as fast as you can! DODGE the oncoming trains! Help Jake, Tricky & Fresh escape from the grumpy Guard and his dog. - Grind trains with your cool crew! - Colorful and vivid HD graphics! - Hoverboard Surfing! - Paint powered jetpack! - Lightning fast swipe acrobatics! - Challenge and help your friends! Join the App Store's most daring chase! A Universal App with HD optimized graphics for retina resolution. Originally co-developed by SYBO and Kiloo.

About

Pull The Pin

This physics-based puzzle game challenges you to strategically pull pins to guide colored balls into a pipe. Overcome obstacles like bombs and black holes, and ensure colorless balls pick up color before reaching their destination.

Highlights
  • Physics-based gameplay
  • Strategic pin pulling
  • Color spreading mechanics
  • Obstacle avoidance (bombs, black holes)
  • Daily and unlockable levels
  • Ball skin customization
Features
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In this game full of satisfying graphics and innovative levels, you can challenge yourself, your brain, and your friends! It’s you against physics and the tricky levels — WHO WILL WIN? All balls have to go into the pipe … can you remove the pins in the right order and make it happen? It should be simple: gravity pulls the balls down towards the pipe. But then pins are in the way! Can you help out and flip away the pins and get the balls to where they are supposed to be? But wait: there is another level of trickery! Sometimes some of the balls are colorless: before they go into the pipe, they need to touch a color ball, so the color spreads to them as well. So simple yet so tricky! Pin Puzzle - Pull & Solve Game Pin puzzle is a brand new pin-pull game. Play and have endless fun in multiple levels! Pull the pin to let all the balls fall into the bottom container. Also,you may notice that some balls are colorless. They need to touch at least one colored ball to get color. So simple yet so interesting! At the same time,three obstacles( bombs, pegboards and black holes)may get in your way,watch it!Get ready to train your brain and relax! Pull the pin players can't miss! pull the pin games need popcore players think before you pull and think about pin pull game ways to escape, and the pull the pin interface is simple. The popcore player needs to pull the pin puzzle game to make the pin pull game ball escape. The pull the pin games is simple. But beware of pull pin games bombs! The pull the pin free operation is simple to pull it down, but as the pull the pin free level increases, pin it, the pin popcore difficulty of the pull the pin free will increase. How do you play? Pull the pin, gravity will make the balls fall into the container. Colorless balls need to touch colored balls to be dyed. Beware of obstacles such as bombs,pegboards and black holes. Pin puzzle game features the game principle based on physical mechanics brings you great sense of reality . three different functions of pins and obstacles new game mode, daily level + unlock skin level, making it difficult to get bored. multiple ball skins are waiting for you to unlock. free, anytime, anywhere, a great choice to kill time.

Screenshots

Subway Surfers4 screens
Pull The Pin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Subway Surfers at 87% against Pull The Pin's 13%. Subway Surfers also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and update cadence (weekly vs every 10 months). Pull The Pin's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Subway Surfers sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pull The Pin asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Subway Surfers holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Subway Surfers has 3.8M ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Subway Surfers's written reviews are positive against 13% of Pull The Pin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Subway Surfers ships an update weekly, Pull The Pin every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Subway Surfers versus Pull The Pin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubway SurfersPull The Pin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.8M ratings) — better3.8 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews — better12.5% of reviews
Number of ratings3.8M — better27
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#5 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size407 MB82 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSybo Games ApSBilal Ahmad

Customer experience

Subway Surfers

All ratings3,837,286 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.5%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews10,325 reviews
Positive86.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative8.6%

Pull The Pin

All ratings26 ratings
Positive61.5%
Neutral23.1%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative62.5%

Bugs and requests

Subway Surfers

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game crashes after updates
  • Disappearing high scores and progress
  • Unresponsive controls during gameplay
  • Ads that redirect to App Store unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save progress across devices
  • More customization options for characters
  • Difficulty settings or modes
  • Multiplayer/competitive features
  • Reduced ad frequency or ad-free option

Pull The Pin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Subway Surfers

One-time10
  • 7,500 Coins$0.99
  • 12 500 Coins$0.99
  • Starter Pack$0.99
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  • Coin Pack 1$0.99
  • 45,000 Coins$4.99
  • Double Coins$4.99
  • 65 000 Coins$4.99
  • 25 Keys$4.99
  • 40 Keys$4.99
  • Key Pack 1$4.99
None

Pull The Pin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Subway Surfers free?
Subway Surfers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pull The Pin free?
Pull The Pin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Subway Surfers or Pull The Pin?
Subway Surfers is rated higher. Subway Surfers averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.8M ratings, while Pull The Pin averages 3.8 from 27 ratings.
Do Subway Surfers or Pull The Pin have ads?
Both Subway Surfers and Pull The Pin show ads.
Which is updated more often, Subway Surfers or Pull The Pin?
Subway Surfers ships an update weekly, and Pull The Pin every 10 months. Most recently, Subway Surfers was updated on September 25, 2026 and Pull The Pin on September 3, 2026.

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