Comparison

Circle Run 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

Circle Run

A relaxing one-tap game where you guide a sphere across floating tiles. Enjoy a calming experience with no timers or pressure, set to ambient music and beautiful visual themes. Relieve stress and find your rhythm.

Highlights
  • One-tap gameplay
  • Stress relief mechanics
  • Multiple wellness themes
  • Ambient soundtrack
  • No timers or enemies
  • Score tracking
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A casual one-tap hopper for the moments you need a moment. Drift a soft simple sphere along floating iso tiles, settle into the rhythm of your own tap, and let the soft wellness skies do the rest. GAMEPLAY Tap to hop. Land on the next tile to keep flowing, miss it and gently start over. Combos, scores, and your best run are all there if you want them, but there's no timer pushing you forward. Your breath sets the pace. Relief stress. WELLNESS THEMES Pick the mood that fits the moment. Wake up with Morning Mist, unwind into Sunset Calm, drift through Cherry Blossom, lose yourself in Starlight Sky. Every theme repaints the entire world, sky, tile, sphere, dust motes, so the same chain of hops feels new each time. DESIGNED TO CHILL Soft pastel gradients. Slow drifting colour matching particles in the sky. An ambient soundtrack picked for breathing along to. No timers, no enemies, no fail screens shouting at you. Falling resets your score and slides you back to the start tile in one quiet breath. GO PRO Five themes are included free. Unlock the other five, Aurora Dream, Lavender Field, Starlight Sky, Bamboo Grove, and Desert Bloom, with a single in-app purchase that also removes ads. One tap, one purchase, every mood.

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

Circle Run4 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Circle Run at 100% against Simple Marble Run's 17%. Circle Run also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Simple Marble Run's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 137 months). On price 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. Circle Run sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Marble Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Circle Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Marble Run has 263 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Circle Run's written reviews are positive against 17% of Simple Marble Run's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Circle Run ships an update every 137 months, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Circle Run versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCircle RunSimple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.4 (263 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1263 — better
Update frequencyEvery 137 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeromytapmonois Inc.

Customer experience

Circle Run

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings260 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Circle Run

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Circle Run free?
Circle Run 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, Circle Run or Simple Marble Run?
Circle Run is rated higher. Circle Run averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 263 ratings.
Which is updated more often, Circle Run or Simple Marble Run?
Circle Run ships an update every 137 months, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Circle Run was updated on October 24, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on October 30, 2026.

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