Visual Pinball vs NoCatToe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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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The official Visual Pinball app. Built by volunteers since 2000 and open source since 2010, Visual Pinball is the simulator the virtual pinball community has been playing for over two decades. More than 70 people have contributed to it, and this app runs the same engine as the desktop version, so every table plays with the physics, lighting and sound its creator intended. No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Made by volunteers. Two years of work from the Visual Pinball volunteers, in one update. Thank you for your patience, and for playing! A FRESH NEW LOOK • Redesigned for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass • Favorites and recently played tables at the top of your list • Search, sorting and three tile sizes • Light, Dark or System appearance • New loading screen that shows progress THE FULL DESKTOP EXPERIENCE • The complete Visual Pinball in-game menu for graphics, sound, controls and table options • Remap every button on keyboards and game controllers • Save settings for every table, or just the one you're playing MORE TABLES, LOOKING BETTER • Show the backglass and score display (DMD, alphanumeric or reels) on screen, right where you want them • Support for PUP packs, FlexDMD, B2S backglasses, video playback and VNI colorizations • All the latest physics and rendering improvements from the desktop version • Much lower memory use: textures are compressed on first load, then cached EASIER TABLE MANAGEMENT • Import .zip files, along with .vpx and .vpxz • Share any table as a single .vpxz file • The web file manager can now upload whole folders, extract archives, edit scripts and settings, and show the log live AND MORE • Many stability and memory fixes This version requires iOS 26.6 or later.
NoCatToe
This app reimagines the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe with a unique twist: you only have three pieces on the board at a time. When you place a fourth, your oldest piece is removed, ensuring every game is tense and ends with a clear winner. Enjoy solo play against varied AI or challenge friends locally.
- Limited piece mechanic
- Fast-paced, unpredictable games
- Seven AI personalities
- Local multiplayer
- Series play modes
- Four distinct play arenas
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NoCatToe is tic-tac-toe without the boring part: draws. Each player can only keep three pieces on the board. Place a fourth piece and your oldest one disappears. That one rule turns a solved classic into a fast, tense strategy game where every match ends with a winner. WHY PLAY NOCATTOE • No draws. The board is always changing. • Easy to learn in seconds, harder to master than classic tic-tac-toe. • Great for quick rematches, longer series, and head-to-head bragging rights. WAYS TO PLAY • Solo against 7 AI opponents with different personalities • Local 2-player on one device • Nearby multiplayer on the same Wi-Fi network • Online multiplayer with Game Center automatch and friend invites STRATEGY WITH PERSONALITY Face Rookie, Strategist, Berserker, Guardian, Genius, Grandmaster, and Terminator. Some defend, some attack, and some calculate far ahead. Learning how each one behaves is part of the game. PLAY YOUR STYLE • Best-of series play • Arena settings from helpful to unforgiving • Custom player pieces and colors • Stats, streaks, and achievements BUILT WELL • No ads • Accessibility support including VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and reduced motion • Fast sessions that work equally well for casual play and competitive rematches If you like board games, strategy games, or 2-player games with a clean core idea, NoCatToe gives you a genuinely new take on tic-tac-toe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NoCatToe at 100% against Visual Pinball's 79%. NoCatToe also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.6). Visual Pinball's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 9). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NoCatToe holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 74 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Visual Pinball's written reviews are positive against 100% of NoCatToe's.
Visual Pinball ships an update every 12 months, NoCatToe every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Pinball | NoCatToe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (74 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jason Millard | Byron Quine |
Customer experience
Visual Pinball
NoCatToe
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
NoCatToe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
NoCatToe
No in-app purchases
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