Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Ar

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Ar

Features
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AR-Roids: Blast UFOs in Augmented Reality! The Ultimate AR Alien Invasion Experience! The skies are falling, and it’s up to YOU to save the day! AR-Roids brings the thrill of intergalactic combat to your world with Augmented Reality (AR). Grab your phone, aim at the sky, and blast UFOs and asteroids before they destroy Earth—right in your backyard, your living room, or anywhere you are!

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Ar3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Ar at 3 against Visual Pinball's 1. Ar also leads on iOS requirement (13.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Visual Pinball versus Ar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballAr
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (45 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings45 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB282 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperJason MillardP-Jects

Bugs and 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

Ar

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Ar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ar free?
Ar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual Pinball or Ar have ads?
Neither Visual Pinball nor Ar shows ads.

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