Comparison

Marble Balance vs Simple Marble Run

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Fast ball spawning
  • Merge and upgrade mechanics
  • Bucket filling
  • Opponent ball blasting
  • Enemy destruction
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable marble courses
  • Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
  • Marble throwing mechanic
  • Truck collection and departure cycle
  • Adjustable camera viewpoints
  • Soothing ASMR-like experience
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Marble Balance4 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Marble Balance versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarble BalanceSimple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.4 (263 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1263 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKubra Gundoganmonois Inc.

Customer experience

Marble Balance

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings260 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Marble Balance

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marble Balance free?
Marble Balance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Marble Run free?
Simple Marble Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Marble Balance or Simple Marble Run?
Simple Marble Run is rated higher. Marble Balance averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 263 ratings.
Which is updated more often, Marble Balance or Simple Marble Run?
Marble Balance ships an update every 5 days, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Marble Balance was updated on October 18, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on October 30, 2026.

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