Subway Surfers vs Pull The Pin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- Physics-based gameplay
- Strategic pin pulling
- Color spreading mechanics
- Obstacle avoidance (bombs, black holes)
- Daily and unlockable levels
- Ball skin customization
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Subway Surfers sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pull The Pin asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Subway Surfers | Pull The Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.8M ratings) — better | 3.8 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.5% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.8M — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #5 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 407 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sybo Games ApS | Bilal Ahmad |
Customer experience
Subway Surfers
Pull The Pin
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
Subway Surfers
- 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
Pull The Pin
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Subway Surfers free?
Is Pull The Pin free?
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Do Subway Surfers or Pull The Pin have ads?
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