Comparison

Simple Marble Run vs Dar Dar Games

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

Head to head
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.

About

Dar Dar Games

Features
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Swipe, tap PLAY and learn something new in a minute. DarDar Games is a feed of short learning mini games from the DarDar YouTube channel. HOW IT PLAYS • Every game says its task out loud. • Levels come one after another. Beat your best score. • Every game has its own music. • Like the games you love and share them with a link. SCREEN TIME AND PRIVACY • Daily screen-time limit with a break. • Several players on one device, each with their own records. • Works offline. No ads, no account, no personal data collected. • New games arrive over time, no app update needed.

Screenshots

Simple Marble Run4 screens
Dar Dar Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dar Dar Games at none against Simple Marble Run's shown. Dar Dar Games also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). Simple Marble Run's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Marble Run ships an update every 6 weeks, Dar Dar Games every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Simple Marble Run versus Dar Dar Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Marble RunDar Dar Games
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (266 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings266 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size193 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermonois Inc.Bulat Khaziev

In-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

None

Dar Dar Games

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Marble Run free?
Simple Marble Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dar Dar Games free?
Dar Dar Games is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Marble Run or Dar Dar Games have ads?
Simple Marble Run shows ads; Dar Dar Games does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Marble Run or Dar Dar Games?
Simple Marble Run ships an update every 6 weeks, and Dar Dar Games every 5 days. Most recently, Simple Marble Run was updated on November 8, 2026 and Dar Dar Games on November 6, 2026.

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