Pong vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pong
Experience a visually stunning rendition of the classic Pong game, powered by advanced neural rendering and real-time ray tracing on mobile devices. Explore realistic lighting effects and dynamic material properties, with gameplay that evolves as you score.
- Real-time ray tracing
- Neural rendering
- Global illumination
- PBR materials
- Dynamic themes
- Adjustable settings
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Pong-RT is a simple game of Pong that showcases the power of neural rendering by running ray tracing on phones. Real-time GI, sub-surface scattering, refraction, reflections, and caustics with PBR materials are showcased in this tech demo. Change the theme by scoring points. First to 3 points, wins. Tap the cog on the top right and adjust settings to improve quality or performance. Also try changing the device to CPU/GPU.
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.
- 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
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Experience the open source pinball simulator now on your iPhone! Features: - Play hundreds of community and hobbyist-developed tables. - Feel the action with haptic feedback for bumpers, targets, and flippers. - Customize your experience with a simple, intuitive interface for settings, table options, and POV adjustments. - Game controller support. - External DMD support for ZeDMD, ZeDMD-WiFi, and Pixelcade devices. - Serum AltColor support. - AltSound support. - Touch overlay shows touch areas. - Step-by-step touch instructions when playing a table. - Advanced options for power users, including script and log file exports. - Support for iOS 18 Game Mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Visual Pinball at 4.6 against Pong's 4.3. Visual Pinball also leads on ratings volume (45 vs 7). Pong's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Visual Pinball holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 45 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pong's written reviews are positive against 81% of Visual Pinball's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Pong | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) | 4.6 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 81.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 45 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 588 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Amrithkiran Manavedan | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Pong
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Pong
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
Pong
No in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Pong free?
Is Visual Pinball free?
Which has better reviews, Pong or Visual Pinball?
Do Pong or Visual Pinball have ads?
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