Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Retro Trivia Blast

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

Head to head
About

Visual Pinball

Experience the full virtual pinball simulator with realistic physics, lighting, and sound. This open-source app offers a redesigned interface, enhanced table management, and the complete desktop experience for mobile devices. Enjoy a vast library of tables without ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Realistic physics, lighting, and sound
  • Redesigned interface with Liquid Glass
  • Full in-game menu for graphics and controls
  • Support for various backglass and display types
  • Easy table import and management
  • Optimized memory usage
Features
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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.

About

Retro Trivia Blast

Features
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Think you know your 80s music? Put it to the test in Retro Trivia Blast — the totally radical trivia game that takes you back to the decade of big hair, power ballads, and MTV! Climb your way up the neon-lit progress map by answering questions across every corner of 80s music — chart-toppers, iconic albums, legendary artists, one-hit wonders, movie soundtracks, and more. Nail a question and you'll rise; miss one and you'll drop. How high can you climb? 5,000 Questions. Zero Repeats. Covering songs, artists, albums, MTV moments, awards, lyrics, collaborations, production, and charts — there's always something new to discover. Three Ways to Play • Play — Race against a 2-minute clock in ranked mode. Your best score goes straight to the Game Center leaderboard. Can you top the charts? • Gauntlet — No clock, but only 3 lives stand between you and oblivion. Choose your difficulty and see how far you can go. • Pass & Play — Hand the phone around! Challenge 2 to 4 players on the same device. Same map, same questions, winner takes the gold. Features • 5,000 hand-curated 80s music trivia questions • Candy Crush-style progress map — climb higher as you answer correctly • Easy, Medium, Hard, or mixed difficulty • Game Center leaderboards for ranked play • Badges and achievements to unlock • Pass & Play local multiplayer for 2–4 players • Totally tubular retro neon aesthetic • No ads. No subscriptions. No data collected. Whether you lived through the decade or just love the music, Retro Trivia Blast is the ultimate 80s music challenge. Gnarly!

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Retro Trivia Blast4 screens

Verdict

The call

Visual Pinball and Retro Trivia Blast are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Visual Pinball versus Retro Trivia Blast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballRetro Trivia Blast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (75 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings75 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.626.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB23 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJason MillardCraig Oaks

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

Retro Trivia Blast

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Retro Trivia Blast

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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