Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Angry Frog

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

Angry Frog

Features
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One frog. One tongue. Three lives. No second chances. Angry Frog is a fast-paced arcade reflex game where you snap bugs out of the air with your tongue, chain combos for massive scores, and fight to stay alive on a leaderboard full of players who are better than you think. HOW TO PLAY Tap the screen to shoot your tongue and catch bugs flying across the screen. Each catch scores points. Chain multiple catches in a row to activate a combo multiplier — the longer the chain, the higher the multiplier. One wrong snap on a toxic bug costs you a life. You only get three. When they're gone, your run ends and your score goes to the global leaderboard. That's the whole game. It takes five seconds to learn and a lifetime to master. FEATURES — One-tap controls — pick up and play instantly — Combo multiplier system — chain bugs to explode your score — Toxic bugs — one wrong snap drains a life, three strikes and it's over — Global leaderboard — your score ranks against players worldwide in real time — Endless high score mode — no level caps, just you vs. your personal best — Offline play — no internet required, no interruptions — Free to play — no paywalls, no forced ads between rounds WHY IT'S ADDICTIVE Every run ends in seconds. Every run ends with "one more try." Angry Frog is built on the same reflex loop that made tap arcade games like Flappy Bird and Snake impossible to put down — pure skill, instant feedback, and the pull of beating your own high score. The bugs get faster. The toxic ones get sneakier. The leaderboard keeps moving. Your personal best is already wrong. Fix it. Download free. Tap to play.

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Angry Frog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Angry Frog at fortnightly against Visual Pinball's every 12 months. Angry Frog also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Pinball ships an update every 12 months, Angry Frog fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Visual Pinball versus Angry Frog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballAngry Frog
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (73 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings73 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB6 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJason MillardNihad Abdullayev

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

Angry Frog

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Angry Frog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Angry Frog free?
Angry Frog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual Pinball or Angry Frog have ads?
Neither Visual Pinball nor Angry Frog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Pinball or Angry Frog?
Visual Pinball ships an update every 12 months, and Angry Frog fortnightly. Most recently, Visual Pinball was updated on October 18, 2026 and Angry Frog on October 5, 2026.

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