Comparison

Bird Boxing 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

Bird Boxing

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Keep the ice cream truck, camp site and the mountain house free from annoying birds. Get the flyaway birds back into the box! Advance through beautiful isometric scenes with increasing pace and catch as many birds as possible. Strengthen your focus and your ability to react within geometric pattern boundaries. All it takes is a tap, and a tap, and a tap... DODGE incoming clouds. BOX birds for points. ....and keep an eye on the flying baby chicks. They are worth it! Enjoy!

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 in-app purchases: Visual Pinball at none against Bird Boxing's 1. Visual Pinball also leads on ads (none vs shown). Bird Boxing's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.6). On price 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. Bird Boxing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Visual Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bird Boxing ships an update every 10 days, Visual Pinball every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bird Boxing versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBird BoxingVisual Pinball
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.3 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings—74 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 12 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB120 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperWintermute Agency ApSJason Millard

Bugs and requests

Bird Boxing

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

1 purchases

Bird Boxing

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bird Boxing free?
Bird Boxing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bird Boxing or Visual Pinball have ads?
Bird Boxing shows ads; Visual Pinball does not.
Which is updated more often, Bird Boxing or Visual Pinball?
Bird Boxing ships an update every 10 days, and Visual Pinball every 12 months. Most recently, Bird Boxing was updated on October 25, 2026 and Visual Pinball on October 22, 2026.

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