Comparison

mySolar vs murmeli

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

mySolar

Become a celestial architect and shape your own solar system. Collect cosmic resources to expand your universe, conquer rival systems, and freely design your dream planets. Experience the power of creation and domination.

Highlights
  • Build your own solar system
  • Collect God points (GP) and Mass points (MP)
  • Defeat rival solars
  • Absorb enemy resources
  • Freely build planets
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Play as a God, build your own solar. Roaming the universe to collect GP (God point) and MP (Mass point) to grow your solar. Defeat all emery solars, absorb their resources. Freely build your dream planets.

About

murmeli

Design and build intricate marble runs with a sophisticated yet intuitive interface. This app fosters logical thinking, spatial imagination, and creativity while offering a calming experience and a sense of achievement for all ages.

Highlights
  • Intelligent marble run construction
  • Multi-layered path design
  • Promotes logical thinking
  • Stimulates creative thinking
  • Calming and concentration-building
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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With murmeli you can construct intelligent & aesthetic marble runs. Thanks to the sophisticated and intuitive user interface, you can create sophisticated marble runs with multi-layered paths in a short time. In a playful way, murmeli promotes skills such as logical thinking, spatial imagination and visual perception. The countless variations on how a marble run can be built also stimulate creative thinking and problem-solving skills. At the same time, murmeli has a calming effect and promotes the ability to concentrate. Besides all these positive characteristics, murmeli regularly leads to a sense of achievement, which has a positive influence on self-confidence. Due to all these positive properties, murmeli is particularly suitable for supporting the development of cognitive abilities in children of all ages. However, murmeli is designed for people of all ages and offers exciting challenges for adults as well. murmeli is optimized for iOS, iPadOS and macOS devices. Once downloaded, murmeli is available on all these devices. Marble runs can be saved at any time and are automatically synced to all your devices.

Screenshots

mySolar4 screens
murmeli4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: murmeli at Free against mySolar's $14.99. murmeli also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). mySolar's advantage is ratings volume (408 vs 77). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

murmeli is free to download; mySolar costs $14.99 up front. mySolar sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and murmeli sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

murmeli holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mySolar has 408 ratings behind it against 77, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of mySolar's written reviews are positive against 56% of murmeli's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
mySolar versus murmeli: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermySolarmurmeli
Price$14.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (408 ratings)4.6 (77 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.1% of reviews55.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings408 — better77
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOscar TsangMichael Stoeckli

Customer experience

mySolar

All ratings408 ratings
Positive79.2%
Neutral5.1%
Negative15.7%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive41.1%
Neutral14.0%
Negative44.9%

murmeli

All ratings77 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral6.5%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%

Bugs and requests

mySolar

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Levels not progressing properly after completing objectives
  • Planets and upgrades disappearing after watching ads
  • Inability to create binary or multi-star systems

Requested features

3 requests
  • Sandbox mode with more customization options
  • Multiplayer or co-op gameplay
  • Improved tutorial and onboarding

murmeli

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

mySolar

One-time3
  • 30000 GP$2.99
  • 80000 GP$5.99
  • 150000 GP$9.99
9 purchases

murmeli

One-time9
  • Labyrinth$3.99
  • Branching$3.99
  • Parallel Start$4.99
Show 6 more
  • Tunnel$4.99
  • Connector$4.99
  • Crossroad$4.99
  • Double Lane$6.99
  • Metro$6.99
  • Acceleration$8.99

Questions

Is mySolar free?
mySolar costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is murmeli free?
murmeli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, mySolar or murmeli?
murmeli is rated higher. mySolar averages 4.2 out of 5 from 408 ratings, while murmeli averages 4.6 from 77 ratings.
Do mySolar or murmeli have ads?
mySolar shows ads; murmeli does not.
Which is updated more often, mySolar or murmeli?
mySolar ships an update every 3 months, and murmeli every 3 months. Most recently, mySolar was updated on October 4, 2026 and murmeli on September 25, 2026.

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