Williams™ Pinball
Classic pinball perfection
Ratings
Age
18+
Category
Simulation
Languages
English
Wed Nov 12 2025
Audio bug fixes
Stability improvements
Williams Pinball brings the arcade legend to your pocket. Featuring classic tables like Medieval Madness, Fish Tales, and The Getaway: High Speed II, the app offers both pixel-perfect authentic play and enhanced 'remastered' versions with 3D characters and effects. Compete in global tournaments and collect table parts to upgrade your favorites. Developed by Zen Studios, the world's leader in digital pinball, this app provides the most realistic physics and ball movement available on mobile devices.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Williams Pinball is the gold standard for digital pinball on mobile. Zen Studios has done an incredible job of porting these legendary physical tables to a digital format, maintaining the exact physics and layouts that fans of the arcade originals will recognize instantly. Playing 'Medieval Madness' or 'The Getaway' feels just as responsive as it did in the 90s, but with the added benefit of high-definition textures and modern lighting effects.
What makes this app special is the choice between 'Classic' and 'Remastered' views. The classic view is a pure simulation, while the remastered versions add 3D animated characters and visual effects that breathe new life into the tables. The progression system is also quite addictive; instead of just buying tables, you can earn 'fragments' through daily challenges to unlock them for free. It’s a great mix of retro nostalgia and modern mobile gaming features, offering a deep and rewarding experience for both casual players and pinball wizards.
Features
Authentic physics simulation from Zen Studios
Classic and Remastered visual modes
Global multiplayer tournaments and challenges
Huge collection of licensed Williams and Bally tables
Tips & Walkthrough
Tap the left or right side of the screen to activate the flippers. Pull down on the plunger icon to launch the ball. You can nudge the table by swiping to avoid a drain.
Gameplays
Earn tickets by completing daily challenges. These tickets are used to enter tournaments or open crates that contain the 'fragments' needed to unlock new machines.
Screenshot
Q&A
You can play most tables for free by earning in-game currency or choose to buy them for unlimited access.
Ratings & Reviews
Good tables, takes some work
Tue Mar 16 2021 brtedI like that there are no ads essentially, but if you watch ads you can earn bonuses. You start out with permission for only one table and I am happy with Medieval Madness. You earn experience points as you play that move you up levels. After a week I am on Level 17. It gets harder to advance levels as you work your way up. When you advance a level you get bonuses that can slowly authorize other tables. Doing daily challenges also earns bonuses. After getting enough bonus table parts and tickets you can start doing 5-minute challenges on other tables. So I have gotten to play most of the tables, which are mostly good with unlimited lives. Looking forward to having enough table parts to play on some of the tables for real, but having enough tickets to authorize those will be a problem. Do lots of challenges since extra challenges only cost 20-30 tickets and usually earn 100 or more, plus parts. Getting zen coins is much harder without paying real money. The network often fails to connect and there aren’t a lot of instructions, so I am only giving 4 stars. But the tables are 5 stars without the baggage.
Wth is going on with this app?!?!?!!!???
Sat Jul 13 2019 RedRocket131It’s by far my favorite pinball app. I haven’t been playing it for very long. However, I’ve played it long enough to have earned a Ed decent amount of parts, tickets & such. Today I opened it up to play and it’s been completely wiped. All my data, my 1 table, my credits, my tickets, all of it is gone. Every time I open the app I have to choose my first table, as if I’ve never played the game. Once I play the 1 game it says it can’t connect to the server & to try again later. Since all my crap was wiped, I even deleted it & downloaded it again. When I close the app out completely or delete it & then reopen it, I have to start all over again and I get the same message. Err rrIt’s also a bit confusing as to what you need to obtain to completely unlock an additional table, it’s as clear as mud. I thought I had unlocked a 2nd table at a given but nope it wants more stuff b4 I can play it. It would be great if you could make playable tables more obvious & what all needs to be done to make a table eligible for free play would be very nice. Oh, and I agree with one of the previous reviewers, BRING BACK TALES OF ARABIAN!! Or something like that, lol. I just remember enjoying that table for a long time. I was actually looking for it when I came across this app.
Great game ruined by IAP grind
Fri May 10 2019 KrellanShould have just paid the $30 from the start, to unlock all the tables. Unfortunately, this is a one-time offer, and the game tracks you by your Apple account, so deleting the app doesn’t work to reset this. Without this one-time purchase, you are trapped in an endless IAP grind. You only get to play timed challenges on one table, that quickly gets very boring. It would take weeks of grinding this, and/or spending way, way more than $30 to get less than what I would have gotten if I had just taken that one-time offer up front. A scam, and a really unethical way of running things. I hate micro transactions and IAP and mandatory commercials and in-app “coins” that you have to pay real money for. Zen should be ashamed. Zen Pinball is a great app, you pay once per table and then have the table forever. Williams Pinball should have also been the same way, but they squandered that chance. The final straw is the one-time $30 offer, locked to your Apple account so it’s absolutely final, and if you wait too long it’s forever gone, and you have no choice but to tackle the endless IAP grind. No thanks.
What a money grabbing disappointment
Sat Jun 22 2019 Da' iPadderI had just started getting into pinball on my iPad when I found the collection but then realized that I only had a month to pick up the tables I wanted from TPA. I planned to buy all of the Williams and Bally tables from Zen but after seeing how they have set up the tables as a Freemium pay to play concept I was skeptical.I purchased the bundle with the first seven tables and enjoyed being able to play just the table but I quickly noticed that the ball physics going up some of the ramps seem to be off. The ball will almost to the top of the ramp then come back down. This is really evident on Medieval Madness. Also, the ball physics are messed up and the ball sometimes acts like it has a mind of its own. I enjoy the tables that I currently own and actually like the ‘idea’ of the daily challenges but the convoluted pricing structure of the app is absurd. You shouldn’t have to bust out your algebra skills to figure out how much a table cost and then have to grind through countless ads to maximize the table functions. Seeing as I missed the opportunity to acquire most of these tables on the other app, I was hoping to be able to rectify that with the Williams app. With its current pricing structure and difficult to navigate interface I’ll give the app 2 stars.
A disappointment due to poor ad and server stability
Sun May 10 2020 DLWormwoodI already own most of the tables on Pinball FX, but I wanted a way to play on a vertical display without building a cabinet. Sadly, I had been unable to make much progress beyond my first free table until I upgraded my iPad, so the minimum specs are now woefully out of date, but even on a current gen device... I get frequent 5-10 second delays on a waiting dialog, as it seems the app repeatedly drops the server connection while browsing the challenges. The same table seems to have variable physics behavior from game to game; I’ve seen auto-plunges fail to enter the table, as the ball action gets dampened randomly. And it is a gamble if I try to watch an ad to start a challenge or claim a 4th reward; either the app hangs or crashes outright during some ad loads. Rebooting my iPad doesn’t seem to make a difference. I’m afraid to buy IAP, and I suspect some of the ads I’ve seen were not paid out to the devs due to the bugs. I really do want to pay a little more to unlock extra challenges and physics models, but I don’t feel confident that Williams will let Zen keep the IP license if the game stays in this state. FarSight already lost it due to neglect; I’d hate to see it again.
Great game but for one thing...
Fri Jul 31 2020 Add-ledI am generally impressed with this app. The tables are mostly true to the originals, the physics seems correct, and while patience may be virtue if one chooses not to spend real money here, it is fun enough to be worth keeping to the grindstone in order to move ahead. However... I would like to know what genius came up with the idea to place the pause button at the left flipper control. On an iPhone, the screen is too small to have my thumb over the flipper and still see what I’m doing with it, but to move my thumb to left in order to see results in pausing the game about one out of every five hits. Honestly, the frustration of this situation often compels me to just turn it off. I’m old enough to remember playing real pinball frequently, and I don’t remember being able to pause the game at all. I appreciate the option, but it could be somewhere (just about anywhere) on the screen that would be infinitely less obnoxious and intrusive.
Anybody Home?
Sun Nov 21 2021 Chirp-TI’m able to play the game now, thank you for the quick response to my last review, and I gotta say, I do enjoy the game. I have qualms with there being two locks on the table upgrades and the grind being a little steep, but it’s nothing I’m not willing to overlook. The tables look fantastic and play well, and I appreciate the detail put into them. What I’m unable to overlook is the load times for everything. My device is pretty fast, and heaven forbid I tap anything because the same “Fetching Data | Please wait.” prompt comes up for anywhere between ten seconds to a minute and a half. Whether that’s for playing a table, winning a challenge, getting rewards for the challenge, tapping to watch an ad, closing the ad when it ends... there is a load time for everything and it brings the game to a screeching halt (especially when it comes up with another prompt that says there was an error connecting to the game server). If the servers were faster, this game would be just about perfect for pinball lovers who are willing to grind. There is so much potential here and all it needs is some touch-ups at this point!
Fun game, awful bugs!
Sat Oct 01 2022 Lexi-SnepI swear they must be running this game’s server on a 1st generation raspberry pi connected via a single T1 line. The endless server bugs, problems and slowness with this app are insufferable and make it almost unplayable. The game is also extremely greedy, demanding hundreds of dollars in micro transactions to progress. In addition, the game does not work properly on modern iPhones. It puts controls and buttons right under the notch, so you cannot see the game display and buttons are out of reach. Sound doesn’t work when closing and reopening the app, and for a while I was unable to do daily challenges due to the countdown timers for refresh being stuck at 18,000 days remaining. Overall, this app is a sloppy, buggy mess. I would strongly advise against spending any money on it at all in its current state, and instead playing Zen’s much better PC game, Pinball FX3. Edit: After MONTHS the developer has still not fixed the issue. This game works correctly maybe 60% of the time if you’re lucky. The bugs on modern iPhones are still present and it seems that no effort has been made to fix them in this shameless cash grab of an app. I’m disappointed.
