Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Chaotron

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

Chaotron

Features
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A retro-style falling-block puzzle game with the grid taken out. Two rules changed, and all the chaos follows from them. ROTATION IS ANALOG Pieces are not limited to quarter turns. The right stick spins a piece to any angle at all, and holds it there. GRAVITY IS REAL A piece that lands is a rigid body. It tumbles, it slides, it settles wherever the physics puts it — on a corner, on a slope, wedged against a wall. The stack is a pile of objects, not a tidy grid of cells. So there are no rows to complete. A horizontal band clears when it is FULL ENOUGH: enough of its area covered, at any angles you managed. Only the blocks whose centres fall inside the band are removed. The rest of the piece survives, breaks into loose fragments if it has to, and keeps falling. Nothing is shifted down — the pile collapses on its own. PIECES THAT ARGUE BACK Most pieces are ordinary. A few are not, and you find out which the hard way. HEAVY — cast steel, several times the mass, falling faster than anything else in the well. It shoves the pile aside instead of settling on top of it, then freezes at whatever angle it stopped at. BOUNCY — Matte rubber. It will not land where you aimed it. STICKY — Slime. It splats where it touches and stays there, and whatever leans on it is stuck too. The one piece that will not slide down into the gap it was about to fill. SLIPPERY — Ice. It skates off whatever it lands on, and whatever rests against it is slippery too. MAGNETIC — It draws its neighbours in for as long as it is in the pile, and bends your falling piece off the line you aimed at. WEDGES — Right triangles. They stand exactly where they land and leave slope behind, which is the one thing in the game that can undo a hole instead of making one. BALLS — The only thing in the game that rolls: off the shoulder of the pile, down a slope, into a corner, dragging whatever it hits. CONTROLS Left stick steers. Right stick spins. The button between them drops the piece. External game controllers are supported as well. Free. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account required. Works entirely offline.

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Chaotron3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Chaotron at 3 against Visual Pinball's 1. Visual Pinball's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Visual Pinball versus Chaotron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballChaotron
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (45 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings45 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB4 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperJason MillardTuomas Ekholm

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

Chaotron

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Chaotron

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chaotron free?
Chaotron is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual Pinball or Chaotron have ads?
Neither Visual Pinball nor Chaotron shows ads.

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