Runstatic vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Runstatic
A simple racing game where you shake your phone to control a lizard on a track. Compete against others to reach the finish line first.
- Phone shaking controls
- Lizard character
- Race track gameplay
- Competitive racing
- Simple mechanics
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Shake your phone to help the lizard move through the race track. Try to beat the others.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Runstatic at 4.8 against Visual Pinball's 4.6. Runstatic also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Visual Pinball's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Runstatic holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 45 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Runstatic | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.6 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 37 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | jovan mitchell-etienne | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Runstatic
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Runstatic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
Runstatic
No in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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