Comparison

Angry Apes 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

Angry Apes

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The greedy toucan birds have stolen the apes' bananas, and now the apes are on a mission to get them back! Help the Angry Apes win back their bananas, and scare away the greedy toucans! The apes have found a cannon, and you can help them fire it by touching the screen. They'll fill the cannon with coconuts, apes, bouncy balls, bombs, "barrel of monkeys", and anything else they can find, just to get the birds to leave their bananas alone!

About

Visual Pinball

Enjoy a realistic pinball simulation with hundreds of community-created tables. Experience immersive haptic feedback and customize your gameplay with intuitive settings and controller support. Advanced options are available for power users.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of community-developed tables
  • Haptic feedback for immersive gameplay
  • Customizable settings and POV adjustments
  • Game controller support
  • External DMD and AltColor/AltSound support
  • Touch overlay and instructions
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

Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Angry Apes at every 3 days against Visual Pinball's every 12 months. Angry Apes also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.6). Visual Pinball's advantage is device support. On price and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Angry Apes ships an update every 3 days, Visual Pinball every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Angry Apes versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAngry ApesVisual Pinball
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.3 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings—74 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 12 months
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
Devices—iPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB120 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperAccelerMedia LLCJason Millard

Bugs and requests

Angry Apes

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

Angry Apes

No in-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Angry Apes free?
Angry Apes 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 is updated more often, Angry Apes or Visual Pinball?
Angry Apes ships an update every 3 days, and Visual Pinball every 12 months. Most recently, Angry Apes was updated on October 23, 2026 and Visual Pinball on October 22, 2026.

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