Comparison

WallBall arcade vs ArcadeOS

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

Head to head
About

WallBall arcade

Features
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One ball. One wall. Six ways to lose it. WallBall is a retro arcade game you play with one finger. A ball with big cartoon eyes bounces off a brick wall, and you slide the paddle to keep it alive. Every hit on the wall scores a point, and the longer you last, the faster it gets. Miss once and it's game over. SIX MODES, SIX SETS OF RULES • Classico: cubes, bars, glass to smash and spinners that fling the ball • Gelo: your paddle slides on ice and the ball never slows down • Calamita: magnets pull and push, and the ball's path bends • Cometa: asteroids shatter into smaller and smaller pieces • Avanzata: the wall creeps toward you, and every hit pushes it back • Mago (new): a wizard fires purple orbs at your paddle. One touch and you're out, but your ball can pop them Put your favorite four on the home screen and try every mode free for 5 minutes. COLLECT AND CLIMB • Earn coins every game and unlock modes forever • Ten balls to collect, each with its own shape, face and trail • The climb: every point takes you higher, with rewards along the way • Badges to earn and detailed stats for every game LOOK AND FEEL • Clean cream-and-ink design, with its own colors for every mode • Retro sounds and haptics • One-handed play, perfect for a quick game anytime APPLE WATCH Classico on your wrist, free and always ready. WALLBALL PRO The weekly Pro subscription lets you play every mode with no time limit, doubles your coins and includes future modes. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. No ads, no tracking, no accounts. It works completely offline and all your data stays on your device.

About

ArcadeOS

Experience a full arcade with 65 original retro-style games on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing to RPGs, all playable offline with instant resume and authentic chip audio. New games are added seasonally.

Highlights
  • 65 original retro-style games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Offline play with no internet required
  • Instant resume for all games
  • Authentic chip audio
  • New games added seasonally
  • No accounts, ads, or tracking
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Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.

Screenshots

WallBall arcade4 screens
ArcadeOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ArcadeOS at every 3 weeks against WallBall arcade's every 2 months. WallBall arcade's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WallBall arcade ships an update every 2 months, ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
WallBall arcade versus ArcadeOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWallBall arcadeArcadeOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNORIS TALABANRetroApps LLC

In-app purchases

None

WallBall arcade

No in-app purchases

None

ArcadeOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WallBall arcade free?
WallBall arcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArcadeOS free?
ArcadeOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WallBall arcade or ArcadeOS have ads?
Neither WallBall arcade nor ArcadeOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WallBall arcade or ArcadeOS?
WallBall arcade ships an update every 2 months, and ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, WallBall arcade was updated on October 31, 2026 and ArcadeOS on October 19, 2026.

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