Grav Box vs Tessel Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grav Box
Control gravity with a tap and hold to manipulate objects. Customize their appearance, explore dynamic physics, and engage in arcade challenges with leaderboards and achievements.
- Tap and hold to control gravity
- Customize grav colors and emojis
- Dynamic backgrounds and physics effects
- Arcade mode with achievements
- Global leaderboards
- In-game events like black holes
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Grav Box places gravity at your fingertips. Tap and hold on the screen to control the gravitational field around your gravs and manipulate them in limitless ways. Customize your entire experience by setting gravs to any color or emoji, explore dynamic backgrounds and physics effects, and even modify the effects of gravity itself. With custom preferences set, head to the arcade to unlock achievements and compete against global leaderboards. Be prepared for black holes, gravitational shifts, and many other in-game events that will impact your gameplay.
Tessel Run
Navigate a physics-based puzzle platformer where colored surfaces alter the rules of gravity and movement. Roll through hand-drawn levels, using color-coded tessels to overcome obstacles and reach the goal. Precision and experimentation are key to mastering the dynamic challenges.
- Physics-based puzzle platforming
- Color-coded physics mechanics
- Hand-drawn tangram level design
- Precision and momentum gameplay
- Dynamic tessellations
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You are a ball in a world of hand-colored tessels where color changes the rules of physics. Tessel Run is a physics-based puzzle platformer where color-coded tessels modify how the world behaves. Roll across different colored surfaces to flip gravity, remove obstacles, bounce higher, and chain effects together to reach the goal. Each level is built from hand-drawn tangram shapes, scanned from real paper drawings by the developers and assembled into dynamic tessellations. Precision, momentum, and experimentation matter. And falling is part of learning the path.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tessel Run at none against Grav Box's 10. Tessel Run also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Grav Box's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 2). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Grav Box sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Tessel Run asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tessel Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grav Box has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Grav Box | Tessel Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gianluca Capraro | Micah Arvey |
Customer experience
Grav Box
Tessel Run
In-app purchases
Grav Box
- Gold Blocks (100) Pack$0.99
- Light Portal$0.99
- Dark Portal$0.99
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- Grav Box$0.99
- Midnight$0.99
- Daybreak$0.99
- Beach$0.99
- Jungle$0.99
- Mist$0.99
- Gold Blocks (1000) Pack$4.99
Tessel Run
No in-app purchases









