Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Poker Chip Stack Calculator

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

Poker Chip Stack Calculator

Features
Currently charting
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Build better poker chip stacks for your home cash game. This app helps you turn your available poker chips into practical, playable starting stacks. Enter your chip colors, values, and quantities, set your buy-in amount, choose your player count, and generate stack options that fit your game. Customize stack constraints like the number of unique chip values, chips per stack, and result limits to find combinations that work for your table. Whether you need clean, balanced stacks or a quick setup using the chips you already have, this app helps take the guesswork out of poker night. As an added bonus, you can also track your cash game results. Add players, record buy-ins and final pay-outs, and review a simple game summary with total pot, net results, and pay-out reconciliation. Features: Build chip stacks from your available chip set Enter custom chip colors, values, and quantities Set buy-in amount and player count Generate multiple stack options Adjust stack constraints for cleaner results Track players, buy-ins, and pay-outs Calculate each player’s net result Review total pot and pay-out reconciliation Designed for home poker hosts who want faster setup, cleaner stacks, and easier end-of-night math.

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Poker Chip Stack Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visual Pinball at Free against Poker Chip Stack Calculator's $0.99. Poker Chip Stack Calculator's advantage is chart position (#173 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Visual Pinball is free to download; Poker Chip Stack Calculator costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Visual Pinball versus Poker Chip Stack Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballPoker Chip Stack Calculator
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (45 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings45 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank—#173 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB3 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperJason MillardMaxwel Perna

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

Poker Chip Stack Calculator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Poker Chip Stack Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Poker Chip Stack Calculator free?
Poker Chip Stack Calculator costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual Pinball or Poker Chip Stack Calculator have ads?
Neither Visual Pinball nor Poker Chip Stack Calculator shows ads.

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