Comparison

Bead Tower vs Simple Marble Run

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bead Tower

Construct a towering structure by merging colorful beads and sending them down slides. Aim to build the highest tower possible for endless entertainment and satisfying gameplay.

Highlights
  • Build bead towers
  • Unlock colorful slides
  • Merge beads
  • Send beads rolling
  • Stack higher
Features
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Build the ultimate Bead Tower! Unlock colorful slides, merge beads, and send beads rolling for endless fun. Aim high, stack higher, and watch your tower grow!

About

Simple Marble Run

Experience a calming marble game with customizable courses. Manipulate the flow with stoppers, pins, and throwing mechanics. Watch marbles collect and depart in a delightful cycle, offering a unique ASMR-like experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable marble courses
  • Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
  • Marble throwing mechanic
  • Truck collection and departure cycle
  • Adjustable camera viewpoints
  • Soothing ASMR-like experience
Features
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A relaxing marble app where countless marbles roll and tumble across the course. Watching small marbles roll one after another is soothing and fun — you may even lose track of time just gazing at them. In this app, you can enjoy many different types of courses, from classic and simple layouts to unique and playful ones. The charm lies not only in watching the flow, but also in being able to add your own twists and enjoy different ways to play. The rolling marbles can be stopped, thrown, or redirected, allowing for all kinds of surprising moments. • With stoppers, you can hold back marbles and then release them all at once. It feels exciting to see a sudden rush of marbles flowing out together. • Place pins wherever you like to scatter the flow, split the marbles into unexpected paths, or even create small dead ends. Just a little change can transform the whole course. • With the throwing feature, you can tap the screen and toss a marble right to that spot. This lets you add marbles directly into the middle of the action. • At the goal, a truck waits to collect the marbles. Once enough marbles have piled up, a start button appears and the truck drives off, only for a new one to arrive. Watching the marbles leave together with the truck is a delightful part of the experience. • Along the course, you’ll also find camera buttons. Press them to switch the viewpoint and enjoy the marbles from a fresh angle. If you change the camera right before releasing a big group of marbles, the scene becomes even more thrilling to watch. There’s a special satisfaction in building up marbles and letting them flow all at once, in experimenting with setups that create surprising movements, or in simply enjoying the unexpected. Unlike real-life marble play, where preparing many marbles can be difficult, here you can easily enjoy “lots of marbles” and “special tricks” as many times as you like. The rolling sounds and movements are soothing and calming, almost like an ASMR experience that brings a sense of relaxation. You can play however you like — relax and watch quietly, or set up bold tricks and let the marbles rush in large numbers. A marble playground you can enjoy anytime, right on your phone. Roll them again and again, and find your own favorite way to play.

Screenshots

Bead Tower3 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Marble Run at none against Bead Tower's 18. Bead Tower's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads 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. Bead Tower sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Simple Marble Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bead Tower holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bead Tower has 1.4K ratings behind it against 238, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Bead Tower's written reviews are positive against 0% of Simple Marble Run's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bead Tower ships an update every 10 days, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Bead Tower versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBead TowerSimple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better4.4 (238 ratings)
Positive reviews11.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better238
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUpperpik Oyun Yazilim ve Pazarlama Ticaret Anonim Sirketimonois Inc.

Customer experience

Bead Tower

All ratings1,434 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral2.7%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative85.2%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings238 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative60.0%

Bugs and requests

Bead Tower

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes/doesn't load
  • Compatibility issues

Requested features

2 requests
  • Offline mode
  • Reduce ads

Simple Marble Run

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Bead Tower

One-time18
  • Cash Kickstart Pack$1.99
  • 10 Tickets$1.99
  • Manager$2.99
Show 15 more
  • Financier$2.99
  • Engineer$2.99
  • Money Fountain Pack!$2.99
  • 20 Tickets$2.99
  • Royal Treasury Pack$4.99
  • 50 Tickets$4.99
  • No Ads$4.99
  • Bundle Pack$5.99
  • 30 Tickets & No Ads$5.99
  • Treasury Trove Pack$6.99
  • Treasury Trove Pack$7.99
  • Mega Bundle$8.99
  • Big Vault Pack$8.99
  • Big Vault Pack$11.99
  • Ultra Bundle$12.99
None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bead Tower free?
Bead Tower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Marble Run free?
Simple Marble Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bead Tower or Simple Marble Run?
Bead Tower is rated higher. Bead Tower averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 238 ratings.
Do Bead Tower or Simple Marble Run have ads?
Both Bead Tower and Simple Marble Run show ads.
Which is updated more often, Bead Tower or Simple Marble Run?
Bead Tower ships an update every 10 days, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Bead Tower was updated on September 25, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on September 25, 2026.

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