Felt Pool

Felt Pool is an offline pool app for one player and an opponent that runs entirely on your iPhone. No ads, no network, no account.

THE PHYSICS IS THE POINT Every shot is worked out at a fixed 240 steps a second, start to finish, before a single ball is drawn. The frame rate cannot change the outcome: the same shot from the same table always ends with the balls in the same places. Collisions are resolved at the moment of contact, so a ball never passes through another ball or through a cushion, however hard you hit it.

THE AIM LINE TELLS THE TRUTH The line from the cue ball is drawn by the same formulas the shot itself uses. It shows the first contact, the ghost ball at the point of impact and the direction the object ball will take, and it carries on through a cushion - or two cushions with Pro. What you see is what the table will do.

SPIN THAT DOES SOMETHING Side spin changes how the cue ball comes off a cushion by up to eight degrees and passes part of itself to the object ball. Top and bottom spin decide where the cue ball stops. The cue ball circle sits under your thumb, and the power slider runs the full height of the table.

FULL 8-BALL RULES Break with four balls to a cushion, an open table until the first object ball drops, then solids or stripes. Fouls are the real ones: cue ball down, no ball hit, wrong ball first, nothing to a cushion - and every one of them hands your opponent ball in hand. The 8 goes last, into a pocket you call by tapping it.

FOUR OPPONENTS Rookie, Amateur, Pro and Shark. Each one checks every ball against every pocket, tries up to 120 shots in simulation and then plays the one it likes - with its own spread on the aim and on the power, so Rookie really does miss and Shark really does not. The top two plan where the cue ball stops; Shark also plays safe when nothing is on.

SIXTY TRICK SHOTS Five chapters of twelve. Pot several balls with one stroke, send the cue ball off a cushion before it touches anything, pot one ball while leaving another untouched, or clear the table inside the shot limit. Three stars each: one for the task, two for doing it with room to spare, three for doing it first time. A worse attempt never takes a star away.

PRACTICE AND A SAVED MATCH Practice is a free table with no opponent and no rules. A match is saved after every shot and comes back with the exact ball positions, the groups, the score and the fouls.

STATISTICS Racks and matches for each opponent, pot rate, pots a visit, best run, break success, wins in a single visit, fouls by type, and the trick shot stars you have collected out of 180.

NOT A GAMBLING GAME There are no bets, no chips, no wheels and no prizes. Coins are earned by playing and are only used for the Guide line, an undo, a trick shot retry, cloths, cue sets and cue ball rings. They cannot be won by wagering and cannot be exchanged for anything outside the app.

IN-APP PURCHASES ARE OPTIONAL Coins come in three packs, and Felt Pool Pro is a single one-time purchase that adds the two strongest opponents, a second cushion in the aim line, two more trick shot chapters, more Guide lines a rack, every cloth and cue set, and a coin bonus once a day. Nothing renews. The free version has the full 8-ball rules, two opponents, 36 trick shots, Practice, the saved match, every statistic and three Guide lines in every rack.