Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Chord Destroyer

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

Chord Destroyer

Learn music theory by playing an arcade game. Identify Roman numeral chord progressions and build them on a virtual fretboard. Features multiple input methods and 41 challenging levels across various keys.

Highlights
  • Diatonic harmony arcade game
  • Identify Roman numeral chords
  • Multiple choice, name notes, or fretboard input
  • 41 levels across major and minor keys
  • Boss battles with key shifting
  • Practice mode for any key/chord
  • Offline play
Features
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Alien amp stacks are descending. Each one wears a Roman numeral on its grille, and only one thing can destroy it: the chord that numeral names in the key you are in. Chord Destroyer takes the part of music theory everyone skips, diatonic harmony, and turns it into an arcade game you can actually finish. Fly the guitar, read the numeral, fire the right notes. HOW IT PLAYS A stack descends wearing a numeral: IV, vi, ii. Work out which chord that is in the current key and fire it before the stack crosses the danger line. The right chord blows it apart. The wrong one is absorbed, and the stack lurches closer. In the key of D, vi is B minor. In the key of A, it's F# minor. The numeral means the same thing in every key, and once that clicks, it never stops being useful. THREE WAYS TO ANSWER • Multiple choice. Four chords, one right. Start here. • Name the notes. Spell the chord out: root, third, fifth. • Fretboard. Build it on the neck, on six real strings. Pick your input every time you launch a level, so the same key can be a warm-up or a proper test. 41 LEVELS Twelve major keys, then twelve minor keys, then seventh chords. A key-shifting boss waits after every third key. THE OSCILLATOR swaps the key underneath you every few seconds, and THE MODULATOR is the one at the end. 24 keys, 168 chords, one guitar. Clear it once and the campaign resets for a second pass while every level you have beaten stays unlocked, so you can keep running it without losing what you earned. PRACTICE Any key, any chord type, no progress saved and nothing on the line. Good for the ten minutes before a lesson. A chord chart sits beside it: every chord in every key, with the shapes to play it, open and barred. WHAT'S NOT IN IT • No ads • No subscription. One optional purchase opens the whole game, once, forever • No accounts and no sign-in • No analytics, no tracking, and no data collection of any kind • No servers of ours. Your app store handles the purchase, and nothing else ever goes out It runs entirely on your device. Your progress is yours and it stays there. Built for guitarists, students and teachers, and for anyone who has ever nodded along to "just play the four chord" without being sure which one that was.

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Chord Destroyer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chord Destroyer at 5.0 against Visual Pinball's 4.3. Chord Destroyer also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.6). Visual Pinball's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (74 vs 1). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chord Destroyer 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Pinball ships an update every 12 months, Chord Destroyer every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Visual Pinball versus Chord Destroyer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballChord Destroyer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (74 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings74 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB31 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJason MillardEggBag

Customer experience

Visual Pinball

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

Chord Destroyer

All ratings1 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

Chord Destroyer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Chord Destroyer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chord Destroyer free?
Chord Destroyer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Visual Pinball or Chord Destroyer?
Chord Destroyer is rated higher. Visual Pinball averages 4.3 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while Chord Destroyer averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Visual Pinball or Chord Destroyer have ads?
Neither Visual Pinball nor Chord Destroyer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Pinball or Chord Destroyer?
Visual Pinball ships an update every 12 months, and Chord Destroyer every 10 days. Most recently, Visual Pinball was updated on October 22, 2026 and Chord Destroyer on October 14, 2026.

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