Finalist vs Coffee Pool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Finalist
Access leaderboards for the popular game, showing rankings for both current and past seasons. Stay updated on player performance and competitive standings.
- Current season leaderboards
- Previous season leaderboards
- Player ranking access
- Competitive standings
- Game statistics
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Quickly access leaderboards for THE FINALS, for both current and previous seasons.
Coffee Pool
Engage in a daily pool game with unique challenges and rules each day. Compete with friends or tackle endless levels in League mode with creative game types and modifiers. Enjoy a modern pool experience with streamlined controls and visuals.
- Brand-new table layout daily
- Random game rules
- Unique table modifiers
- Compete with friends
- League mode with endless levels
- Real-world game types
- Creative challenges
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A daily pool game to go with your morning coffee. Each day brings a brand-new table layout, random game rules, and unique table modifiers. Compete with friends to clear the table in the fewest shots, or dive into League mode with endless levels, real-world game types, and creative challenges that keep the action exciting. Featuring a streamlined control scheme and clean, modern visuals, this is pool like you’ve never played it before.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Finalist at none against Coffee Pool's 8. Finalist also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (67% vs 41%). Coffee Pool's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. Coffee Pool sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Finalist asks for nothing beyond the download.
Coffee Pool holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coffee Pool has 2.3K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Finalist's written reviews are positive against 41% of Coffee Pool's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Finalist ships an update every 2 months, Coffee Pool every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Finalist | Coffee Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (2.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 40.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 2.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 419 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan Eisenhuth | Shallot Games, LLC. |
Customer experience
Finalist
Coffee Pool
Bugs and requests
Finalist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Coffee Pool
Reported bugs
1 issue- Game becomes too difficult after paying to remove ads
Requested features
8 requests- Standalone freeplay mode
- Ambient music
- Landscape mode support
- Ability to buy additional modifiers with coins
- Invert contrast or colorblind mode
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- Cue customization
- Skins for table or ball sets
- More incentive for in-game currency
In-app purchases
Finalist
No in-app purchases
Coffee Pool
- Small Coins$1.99
- Starter Pack$4.99
- VIP Pass$7.99
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- Remove Forced Ads$7.99
- Medium Coins$7.99
- Large Coins$14.99
- Huge Coins$29.99
- Giant Coins$49.99
Questions
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