Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Play SoundOff

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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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

Play SoundOff

A music discovery game for friend groups. Submit songs based on themes, vote anonymously, and reveal who picked the best tracks. Discover new music and create shared playlists with your friends.

Highlights
  • Playlist theme submission
  • Anonymous song voting
  • Real-time group chat
  • End-of-season superlatives
  • Customizable game tempo
  • Favorite song tracking
Features
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SoundOff is a music discovery game for your friend group. Submit songs on a playlist theme. Vote anonymously. Find out who picked what. Leave with new favorites. SoundOff turns your group chat about music into a game—a weekly ritual where everyone brings a song, everyone listens, and everyone walks away with something new on their playlist. HOW IT WORKS - You choose which playlist themes drop each round - Everyone submits songs that fit that theme - Vote anonymously on what you love - See the reveal—who picked the bangers each round - After all the rounds are complete, see who earned the most points WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT - Built for Apple Music - End-of-season superlatives, like Most Contrarian, Most Polarizing Song, and Most Eclectic - Real-time group chat with threads and reactions - Pick your tempo to decide how long the game lasts - Theme polls let the group decide what comes next - Keep track of your favorite songs you discover through SoundOff - Advanced settings to restrict duplicate artist submissions, specific songs, or criteria like genres, release years, and song lengths WHO IT'S FOR Friend groups, college crews, work chats, families, long-distance besties—anyone who believes that making playlists is love language.

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Play SoundOff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Play SoundOff at 5.0 against Visual Pinball's 4.3. Play SoundOff also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.6). Visual Pinball's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Play SoundOff holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 74 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Pinball ships an update every 12 months, Play SoundOff fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Visual Pinball versus Play SoundOff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballPlay SoundOff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (74 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings74 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB3 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperJason MillardBRANDON JAMES SMITH

Customer experience

Visual Pinball

All ratings73 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral12.5%
Negative8.9%

Play SoundOff

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Play SoundOff

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Play SoundOff

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Play SoundOff free?
Play SoundOff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Visual Pinball or Play SoundOff?
Play SoundOff is rated higher. Visual Pinball averages 4.3 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while Play SoundOff averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Visual Pinball or Play SoundOff have ads?
Neither Visual Pinball nor Play SoundOff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Pinball or Play SoundOff?
Visual Pinball ships an update every 12 months, and Play SoundOff fortnightly. Most recently, Visual Pinball was updated on October 22, 2026 and Play SoundOff on October 24, 2026.

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