Comparison

Kickstarter vs Scorbit

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

Head to head
About

Kickstarter

Explore and support innovative projects across various creative fields. Discover groundbreaking ideas in games, technology, art, and more. Pledge to projects that inspire you and stay updated on their progress.

Highlights
  • Discover creative projects globally
  • Pledge to projects
  • Receive project updates
  • Track backings
  • Join a global creative community
Features
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Discover, back, and bring bold ideas to life. The Kickstarter app connects you with groundbreaking projects across games, publishing, technology, comics, and film. Whether you’re passionate about design, gadgets, stories, or innovation, there’s something for everyone. Use the app to: • Browse creative projects from around the world • Pledge to projects that align with your passions • Stay in the loop with updates and reminders • Follow your backings in one place • Join a global movement that fuels ideas worth sharing Start discovering today and help the next big idea take off.

About

Scorbit

Connect with pinball enthusiasts worldwide. Track scores, earn achievements, and challenge friends. Machine owners can connect their devices to a global network for real-time monitoring and leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Track scores and achievements
  • Connect pinball machines remotely
  • Follow friends and players
  • Participate in machine leaderboards
  • Share live games and scores
  • Find pinball venues and machines
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Scorbit is the ultimate companion to make pinball even more fun! Follow your friends, track scores, earn achievements, challenge others, receive notifications and find your favorite games and locations. Scorbit is compatible with all games from all eras, so machine owners can connect their machines to the Scorbit network! Engage with millions of players around the world. Share and stream live games and scores, earn achievements, challenge others, and participate in machine leaderboards – for any machine in any location! Follow your favorite pinball players and track what games they play and how they are playing. Streamers and collectors can use Scorbit to add real-time scores or leaderboards to their streams and game rooms for big displays! Operators can use Scorbit to monitor their machines remotely, reducing downtime, and earning more revenue. Scorbit is connected pinball! • Find Games Scorbit’s platform allows owners of pinball machines to create venues and machines so other players can find and play them. There are tens of thousands of pinball machines from all over the world, and you can choose any one or create one to start building a leaderboard. You can view these high score lists at any time, with no limit to the number of entries! • Play Games in New Ways While not required, on machines equipped with Scorbit’s hardware - in public or private locations - your games are connected to Scorbit’s cloud platform. Other users of the app or viewers of the ScorbitVision web tools can view your games as they happen, in real-time. The Scorbit app allows you to tap Scorbit Tap Pads located under the glass of the game. You and other players near you can claim player slots, automatically placing your chosen display names next to those player numbers in the system for others to see. When the platform knows who you are, you can earn achievements! When your game is complete, adding your score to the leaderboard or sharing with your friends is as easy as pressing a button! For games not equipped with Scorbit’s hardware, when your game is finished, you can take a photo of your score and submit it to the same leaderboard and share your experience with others. • Pinball Community Scorbit not only creates a record for your own profile personal bests and achievements, but also allows you to take any game, at any time, and share it with people you choose on the platform. Using the community features of the app, you can curate a list of people you like to follow, either in advance or after a game. After you play, you can choose from that list with who you want to share with or challenge to play – or throw the score away, it’s up to you! When the people you follow also save scores to leaderboards or challenge you, those scores appear in your self-curated community feed. You can also visit other player’s profiles and see what games they are playing, and how they are doing. • Improve Your Game Along with watching others play, Scorbit allows you to view games you have finished with post-game analytics, to help you improve your game! • Monitor Your Machines Collectors and operators have access to their list of games that others can engage with. For games equipped with Scorbit’s hardware, the Scorbitron, collectors and operators who subscribe to the platform can monitor the health of their games remotely, tracking when they are online. The goal is to get more people playing pinball, which means more revenue, and more people enjoying the experience.

Screenshots

Kickstarter4 screens
Scorbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Kickstarter at 4.8 against Scorbit's 4.3. Kickstarter also leads on ratings volume (59K vs 46) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). Scorbit's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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

Kickstarter holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kickstarter has 59K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Kickstarter's written reviews are positive against 44% of Scorbit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kickstarter ships an update every 4 weeks, Scorbit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Kickstarter versus Scorbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKickstarterScorbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (59K ratings) — better4.3 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews32.5% of reviews44.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings59K — better46
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#195 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB80 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKickstarter, PBCScorbit

Customer experience

Kickstarter

All ratings59,049 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews1,693 reviews
Positive32.5%
Neutral8.2%
Negative59.3%

Scorbit

All ratings44 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral9.1%
Negative15.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%

Bugs and requests

Kickstarter

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Explore tab broken in latest update
  • Notifications not working correctly
  • Activity feed not updating
  • Issues with submitting surveys through the app
  • Clunky UI, especially when updating pledges

Requested features

6 requests
  • Allow filtering backed projects by status (received, active, closed)
  • Ability to follow creators directly in the app
  • Improve comments section (threading, search, etc.)
  • Add an archive/delete function for completed/cancelled projects
  • Introduce a read/unread project status
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  • Allow users to block problematic creators

Scorbit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Kickstarter

No in-app purchases

None

Scorbit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kickstarter free?
Kickstarter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scorbit free?
Scorbit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kickstarter or Scorbit?
Kickstarter is rated higher. Kickstarter averages 4.8 out of 5 from 59K ratings, while Scorbit averages 4.3 from 46 ratings.
Do Kickstarter or Scorbit have ads?
Kickstarter shows ads; Scorbit does not.
Which is updated more often, Kickstarter or Scorbit?
Kickstarter ships an update every 4 weeks, and Scorbit fortnightly. Most recently, Kickstarter was updated on October 31, 2026 and Scorbit on October 29, 2026.

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