Comparison

Saving Yourself vs Living Earth

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

Head to head
About

Saving Yourself

This educational game teaches children and adults appropriate responses to natural disasters like volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. It features a narrated adventure, interactive questions, and achievements to track learning progress. The app is available in English and Italian, with more languages and content planned.

Highlights
  • Natural disaster preparedness
  • Narrated adventure guidance
  • Interactive learning questions
  • Achievement system
  • Multi-language support
  • Original artwork and audio
Features
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A new Educational Games on Safety and Emergency. An adventure to learn on the most appropriate behaviour in case of: - volcanic eruptions - earthquakes - hydrogeological disasters A narrating voice will guide you through the game. Audio effects and original drawings. Answer to questions while gaming and earn achievements. A final test will show you what type of expert you've become. The game is ideal for children, but will give important info to adults too. The game can be played now in two languages: English and Italian. More languages and more adventures will comes (First Aid and others) Game design: Sabina Maraffi, Francesco M. Sacerdoti Storytelling: Sabina Maraffi Software development: e-voluzione srl Original Drawings: Sabina Maraffi Music and Audio Effects: Francesco Sacerdoti English translation: Serena Carotenuto, Annalisa Raffone

About

Living Earth

Visualize global natural phenomena like earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and auroras on a dynamic 3D globe. Explore detailed event information, replay past geological activity, and receive optional alerts for significant seismic events. All data is sourced from reputable scientific agencies.

Highlights
  • Live earthquake visualization
  • Hurricane and storm tracking
  • Wildfire monitoring
  • Aurora forecast and animation
  • Volcano information
  • Tectonic plate display
  • Historical event replay
Features
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The planet, live: every earthquake ripples where it struck, hurricanes spin with their real forecast tracks, wildfires burn, volcanoes glow, and the aurora dances over the poles — all on a beautiful 3D globe, straight from USGS, NOAA, NASA, and the Smithsonian. Tap anything for its story. A quake card shows the actual USGS ShakeMap and what its magnitude really means. A hurricane card shows the storm photographed from orbit minutes ago. Every one of 1,214 volcanoes carries its photo and geologic history. THE LIVING GLOBE • Live earthquakes, sized and colored by magnitude, rippling as they arrive • Hurricanes and tropical storms with NOAA's forecast track • Wildfires tracked from orbit by NASA • The aurora oval, forecast by NOAA and animated like the real thing • 1,214 volcanoes from the Smithsonian's catalog — recent eruptions glow • Tectonic plate boundaries: flip them on and the quakes explain themselves REPLAY THE WEEK Scrub through the past seven days and watch 400 earthquakes strike in sequence — the Ring of Fire literally draws itself. BENEATH YOU Which tectonic plate are you standing on? How far is the nearest plate boundary? Your nearest volcano? The week's quakes around you? One tap answers, computed entirely on your device. QUAKE ALERTS Optional notifications for significant earthquakes near you and major ones worldwide — no account, nothing sent anywhere. GUIDED TOURS The Ring of Fire in eight stops, and Legendary Earth — Vesuvius, Tambora, the 1960 M9.5, the dinosaur-killing impact, and more — each with real photography. TODAY ON EARTH The planet's day in one glance, on a widget too. Share any event as a poster. All data comes from public scientific agencies: USGS, NOAA, NASA, and the Smithsonian Institution. No account. No tracking. Your location never leaves your device.

Screenshots

Saving Yourself4 screens
Living Earth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Living Earth at every 2 months against Saving Yourself's every 5 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Saving Yourself against 5.0 for Living Earth. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Saving Yourself ships an update every 5 months, Living Earth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Saving Yourself versus Living Earth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaving YourselfLiving Earth
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developere-voluzione di F.M.Sacerdoti srlCinnamon Mobile LLC

Customer experience

Saving Yourself

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Living Earth

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Saving Yourself

No in-app purchases

None

Living Earth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Saving Yourself free?
Saving Yourself is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Living Earth free?
Living Earth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Saving Yourself or Living Earth?
Saving Yourself and Living Earth are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Saving Yourself or Living Earth have ads?
Neither Saving Yourself nor Living Earth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Saving Yourself or Living Earth?
Saving Yourself ships an update every 5 months, and Living Earth every 2 months. Most recently, Saving Yourself was updated on October 11, 2026 and Living Earth on November 1, 2026.

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