Comparison

Backyard Apollo AR vs Spatial Control

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

Head to head
About

Backyard Apollo AR

Experience a life-sized Apollo Saturn V rocket in augmented reality. Explore it from all angles, walk around it, and launch it with realistic sounds and visuals. Customize your rocket experience and share snapshots.

Highlights
  • Life-sized rocket model
  • 360-degree viewing
  • Augmented reality placement
  • Realistic launch sequence
  • Authentic mission sounds
  • Customizable rocket experience
  • Snapshot sharing
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Its the model rocket you’ve always wanted! See a life-sized Apollo Saturn V rocket up close from every angle walk under and around it, then blast it off! Authentic mission sounds using 3D positional audio — wear headphones for the coolest effect — combine with realistic high-detail graphics, physically-based rendering, and HDR audio recordings of real rocket launches to make the experience just like being there! You’ll be able to launch your rocket again and again, from anywhere you like. Just tap where you want your rocket to appear. It's that easy! Launch a tiny model on your desktop or a full-sized giant in a field! Backyard Apollo offers ways to customize your experience too, making it even more fun to launch your rockets and take snapshots for your friends. “3…2…1…Houston: we have liftoff”!

About

Spatial Control

This app allows for real-time control and interaction with immersive audio spaces. Design, deploy, and customize dynamic soundscapes for various environments like retail, hospitality, and museums. It offers user-friendly scene controls, event triggering, and detailed permissions for a seamless audio experience.

Highlights
  • Real-time control of audio spaces
  • Interactive soundscape management
  • User-friendly scene and space controls
  • Trigger interactive events
  • Detailed user roles and permissions
  • Easy setup, tuning, and customization
Features
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Spatial, the immersive audio experience company, provides compelling, dynamic soundscapes in all of the places we work, play and stay. Spatial brings realistic interactive soundscapes to real-world spaces. - Retail: Ignite your customers’ imaginations - Hospitality: Create a world of wonder - Residential: Make home their favorite destination - Museum: Exhibit the unexpected - Theme Park and Experience: Tell your biggest story Spatial experiences are Realistic, Interactive and Flexible - Built on an object-driven platform that renders realistic, believable soundscapes in real-time. - Comprehensive and immediate support for both inputs and outputs, allowing interactive and dynamic experiences and integration with third-party lights, screens, control systems, and more. - Design once; deploy anywhere. Spatial can scale and adapt to any location and installation; place speakers anywhere you want to strengthen the impact. Using real-world acoustic physics, Spatial scenes automatically adjust to the space for the best possible experience. Next Generation Tools: Spatial Control - Real-time control of and interaction with all your spaces - User friendly scene and space controls - Adjust volume, browse scene information, lock and unlock spaces and more - Trigger interactive events right from the Control app - Detailed user roles and permissions for a business-critical service experience - Easy setup, tuning, and customization of your spaces - Get everything just right without ever leaving the space - Use device features to fine tune the acoustics of each location Also available at www.spatialinc.com: Next Generation Tools: Spatial Reality Spatial Reality runs on inexpensive high performance macOS and Linux computers and works with all industry standard audio hardware to create Spatial experiences anywhere you can imagine. Next Generation Tools: Spatial Studio Spatial Studio is a powerful creation environment with detailed control of a fully visualized experiential scene. Creators from beginner to pro can see the whole scene take place on the 3D canvas and a few quick clicks publishes the scene to the Spatial account hosted in the cloud.

Screenshots

Backyard Apollo AR4 screens
Spatial Control3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Backyard Apollo AR at 71% against Spatial Control's 0%. Backyard Apollo AR also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 11). Spatial Control's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). 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

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

Backyard Apollo AR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backyard Apollo AR has 1.5K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Backyard Apollo AR's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spatial Control's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backyard Apollo AR ships an update every 7 months, Spatial Control monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Backyard Apollo AR versus Spatial Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackyard Apollo ARSpatial Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.5K — better11
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWobbleworks LLCSpatial Inc.

Customer experience

Backyard Apollo AR

All ratings1,488 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative25.0%

Spatial Control

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Backyard Apollo AR

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Startup crashes and sensor reset loops
  • Rocket launch sequence freezes
  • Persistent audio issues after app closure

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more rocket models and launch configurations
  • Implement video recording capability
  • Improve overall stability and performance

Spatial Control

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Backyard Apollo AR

No in-app purchases

None

Spatial Control

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backyard Apollo AR free?
Backyard Apollo AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spatial Control free?
Spatial Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backyard Apollo AR or Spatial Control?
Backyard Apollo AR is rated higher. Backyard Apollo AR averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Spatial Control averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do Backyard Apollo AR or Spatial Control have ads?
Neither Backyard Apollo AR nor Spatial Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backyard Apollo AR or Spatial Control?
Backyard Apollo AR ships an update every 7 months, and Spatial Control monthly. Most recently, Backyard Apollo AR was updated on September 23, 2026 and Spatial Control on June 5, 2026.

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