Marble Balance vs Simple Marble Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marble Balance
Tap to quickly spawn balls and use merges and upgrades to fill your bucket. Blast your opponent's balls with yours to fill your bucket and destroy the enemy. Compete to be the winner.
- Fast ball spawning
- Merge and upgrade mechanics
- Bucket filling
- Opponent ball blasting
- Enemy destruction
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-Tap quickly to spawn your balls fast -Use merge and upgrades to fill bucket -Blast your opponent's balls by your balls. -Fill the bucket to destroy your enemy!
Simple Marble Run
Experience a calming marble game with customizable courses. Manipulate the flow with stoppers, pins, and throwing mechanics. Watch marbles collect and depart in a delightful cycle, offering a unique ASMR-like experience.
- Customizable marble courses
- Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
- Marble throwing mechanic
- Truck collection and departure cycle
- Adjustable camera viewpoints
- Soothing ASMR-like experience
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A relaxing marble app where countless marbles roll and tumble across the course. Watching small marbles roll one after another is soothing and fun — you may even lose track of time just gazing at them. In this app, you can enjoy many different types of courses, from classic and simple layouts to unique and playful ones. The charm lies not only in watching the flow, but also in being able to add your own twists and enjoy different ways to play. The rolling marbles can be stopped, thrown, or redirected, allowing for all kinds of surprising moments. • With stoppers, you can hold back marbles and then release them all at once. It feels exciting to see a sudden rush of marbles flowing out together. • Place pins wherever you like to scatter the flow, split the marbles into unexpected paths, or even create small dead ends. Just a little change can transform the whole course. • With the throwing feature, you can tap the screen and toss a marble right to that spot. This lets you add marbles directly into the middle of the action. • At the goal, a truck waits to collect the marbles. Once enough marbles have piled up, a start button appears and the truck drives off, only for a new one to arrive. Watching the marbles leave together with the truck is a delightful part of the experience. • Along the course, you’ll also find camera buttons. Press them to switch the viewpoint and enjoy the marbles from a fresh angle. If you change the camera right before releasing a big group of marbles, the scene becomes even more thrilling to watch. There’s a special satisfaction in building up marbles and letting them flow all at once, in experimenting with setups that create surprising movements, or in simply enjoying the unexpected. Unlike real-life marble play, where preparing many marbles can be difficult, here you can easily enjoy “lots of marbles” and “special tricks” as many times as you like. The rolling sounds and movements are soothing and calming, almost like an ASMR experience that brings a sense of relaxation. You can play however you like — relax and watch quietly, or set up bold tricks and let the marbles rush in large numbers. A marble playground you can enjoy anytime, right on your phone. Roll them again and again, and find your own favorite way to play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple Marble Run at 4.4 against Marble Balance's 1.0. Simple Marble Run also leads on ratings volume (263 vs 1). Marble Balance's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Marble Run holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Marble Run has 263 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Marble Balance ships an update every 5 days, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marble Balance | Simple Marble Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.4 (263 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 263 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | — | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kubra Gundogan | monois Inc. |
Customer experience
Marble Balance
Simple Marble Run
In-app purchases
Marble Balance
No in-app purchases
Simple Marble Run
No in-app purchases
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