Mars Walk vs MoonBase Explorer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mars Walk
Embark on an interactive virtual reality tour of the red planet using your smartphone. Explore famous landing sites, witness Martian phenomena like dust storms, and observe scientific missions in action. This educational adventure brings the wonders of Mars directly to you.
- Explore Mars landing sites (InSight, Viking, Curiosity)
- Experience Martian dust storms
- Observe InSight's data gathering
- Visit Viking landers
- Follow Curiosity's sample collection
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The first people who will visit Mars are sitting in a school today. To help inspire these students, Lockheed Martin created Mars Walk. A virtual reality adventure you can experience using your own smartphone. Mars Walk provides a fun, interactive, and educational tour of the red planet, no special gear required! Explore Mars – on your phone. Download today. If you have a cardboard VR device, download the Virtual Reality version - Mars Walk VR. Thanks to our partners NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). FEATURES: - Walk the surface of Mars and explore the landing sites for InSight, Viking and Curiosity. - Experience dust storms at the Northern Crater - Observe InSight as it gathers information about Mars - Visit one of the famous Viking landers that landed more than 40 years ago - Follow Curiosity as it navigates the red surface collecting samples
MoonBase Explorer
Explore a detailed, realistic lunar base environment. Interact with astronauts and teleport to various locations around the station and surrounding craters. Discover the architecture of a polar research outpost.
- Realistic moon base architecture
- Interactive astronaut encounters
- Teleportation to 6 key sites
- Exploration of lunar environment
- Hydroponic greenhouses
- Radiation shielding details
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Discover the architecture of a polar station in a realistic lunar environment, with its cylindrical habitat modules, hydroponic greenhouses, radiation shields, walkways and passages protected from solar radiations, lunar landing area, photovoltaic panels rising over 100 m above the ground to provide permanent solar energy... Explore freely the Moon Base in a lunar environment of almost one square kilometer, interact with resident astronauts and teleport directly to 6 sites near the station or in the surrounding craters and valleys.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MoonBase Explorer at 5.0 against Mars Walk's 3.9. Mars Walk's advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). 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.
MoonBase Explorer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mars Walk has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Mars Walk | MoonBase Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 732 MB | 757 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lockheed Martin | Olivier Boisard |
In-app purchases
Mars Walk
No in-app purchases
MoonBase Explorer
No in-app purchases
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