Visual Pinball vs Moonmallow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Moonmallow
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Your little monster lives between your fingers: stretch it wide to catch more candy, squeeze it thin to slip between the walls. Wide = greedy but exposed, thin = safe but hungry. The whole game lives inside that choice, a hundred times a minute. THE MOON ROAD 60 tracks across 6 worlds painted by shaders: the Sugar Hills, the Mirror Woods, the Midnight Sky, the Messy Marsh, the Heart of the Moon and the Sugar Cages. Real branching paths, a different goal on every track (precision, candy runs, golden gates, "no stopping", a little Crumb to escort...) and 3 stars to earn: finish it, nail the goal, do it with style. And it keeps growing: more worlds arrive regularly, already inside the app, opening up on their own with no update to install. That makes 105 tracks across 11 worlds in all. 14 MISCHIEVOUS BOSSES King Gloop spits sticky goo, the Mad Mirror flips your controls, the Lighteater turns off the light, the Glutton swallows your candy before it reaches you... Each with its own rules, all the way to the Great Hunger: a three-phase final boss. Nine of them are waiting right away, the other five arrive with the new worlds. THE MOON RUN Endless mode: no finish line, difficulty that climbs forever, one record to beat (and Moonbits earned on every run). SOMETHING EVERY DAY The Daily Challenge is the same track for the whole world, with win streaks, a recovery token and a 30-day calendar. Plus 3 fresh missions every day that make you replay the game in new ways. CHALLENGE A FRIEND A fresh track, one single code: send it to whoever you like, they run the very same track, and the higher score wins. In a Challenge the powers stay home: only your fingers count. LEADERBOARDS Who scores highest on the Daily Challenge, who lasts longest in the Moon Run, who has collected the most stars. Your phone keeps them, through Game Center, and they open only if you want them to: there is no account of ours anywhere. DRESS YOUR MONSTER 8 monsters (some unlock ONLY with stars, money can't buy them) and 16 accessories: bouncing crowns, fluttering scarves, one loyal firefly. The Monster Album is the diorama of your collection. MADE WITH CARE • 6 languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese • Accessibility: reduce motion, and color assist for players who can't tell red from green • Two control modes: two fingers (pinch) or one finger • A Detail setting for older phones • Plays entirely OFFLINE: no account of ours, no ads, no data collected by us. Ever. The leaderboards, if you use them, go through Game Center, which belongs to your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Visual Pinball at fortnightly against Moonmallow's monthly. Moonmallow's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Visual Pinball ships an update fortnightly, Moonmallow monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Pinball | Moonmallow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (75 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 75 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Millard | Elephant Inc. SRL |
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
Moonmallow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Moonmallow
No in-app purchases
Questions
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