Pinball Workshop
Build it. Play it. Beat it.
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A new machine every day, a Weekly Cup, and Arcade Run. Seven stock tables, Game Center boards, and a parts bin to build your own. The 1982 feel, on your phone.
Flippers up. A silver ball, a black field, six colors, and a parts bin. Play the tables in the box, then build your own and play them, too.
PINBALL WORKSHOP is a loving throwback to the computer-lab classics of the early 1980s — the kind of game where you spent as long building the table as playing it. Six-color pixel art, a chunky terminal font, square-wave beeps synthesized the old way, and gentle scanlines.
No remaster gloss. The real look, on your phone. Inspired by the 1982 classic.
PLAY
• Seven stock tables, easy to brutal: First Machine, Double Bank, Clockwork, Gauntlet, Nightmare, and two more that gold unlocks
• Pick your ball speed — EASY, NORMAL, HARD, EXPERT — and earn up to 2x score for the harder ones
• Bronze, silver, and gold goals on every table
• Game Center leaderboards for every stock table and 18 achievements
• Tap and hold the ball to pull the plunger, tap either side of the table to flip, nudge if you dare — tilt if you don't
CHALLENGES
• DAILY MACHINE: a new table every day, the same for everyone. Your first finished game is your score; keep a streak going
• WEEKLY CUP: one stock table with a twist, Monday to Sunday. Best score of the week
• ARCADE RUN: table after table until the balls run out. Balls carry over
• Game Center boards for all three
BUILD
• Drop parts straight onto the table: flippers, bumpers, slingshots, drop banks, targets, rollovers, spinners, one-way gates
• Draw your own walls, point by point, as lines or closed shapes
• Turn the world dials: gravity, speed, kick, bounce
• Save to My Tables and play it with the same physics as the stock tables
• Share a table with a friend: show its code, they point their iPhone camera at it, and it's theirs to play. Send a score to beat along with it. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed.
NO CATCH
• Free. No ads. No account.
• Anonymous play stats help tune the balance; switch them off in Settings any time.
• Dark by default, the way the original screen was. Light mode is in Settings.
Made by one person who still remembers the sound of the flipper. If something feels wrong, email the developer from Settings, and they'll look into it and push out updates quickly.
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Three new ways to play, from the CHALLENGES tile on the home screen:
- DAILY MACHINE: a new table every day, the same for everyone. Your first finished game is your score.
- WEEKLY CUP: one stock table with a twist, Monday to Sunday. Best score of the week.
- ARCADE RUN: table after table until the balls run out. Balls carry over.
Game Center leaderboards for all three, plus five new achievements.
Send a score to beat along with a table you share.
The developer, Mike Watson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Mike Watson
- Size
- 40.4 MB
- Category
- Casual
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Mike Watson
