Zaparoo vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zaparoo
Enhance your collection experience by connecting to compatible devices. Search for games, organize with tags, and adjust settings. Unlock advanced features to use your phone as a reader for tokens, no extra hardware needed.
- Connect to Zaparoo devices
- Search for games
- Create and manage tags
- Adjust device settings
- Use phone as Zap reader
- Launch Zap tokens via NFC/camera
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Take your Zaparoo experience to the next level with the official Zaparoo app! Connect to the Zaparoo devices on your network to search for games, create new tags, and adjust settings. Take things further by unlocking the ability to use your phone as a Zap reader! Now you can launch your Zap tokens using the NFC reader or camera in your device. No external hardware required. It's everything you love about Zaparoo, now in the convenience of an app.
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 in-app purchases: Visual Pinball at none against Zaparoo's 1. Visual Pinball also leads on ratings volume (45 vs 7). Zaparoo's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Zaparoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Visual Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.
Zaparoo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. 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 point the same way: 86% of Zaparoo's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's.
| Parameter | Zaparoo | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.6 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Wizzo Pty Ltd | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Zaparoo
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Zaparoo
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
Zaparoo
- Zaparoo Launcher$6.99
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
