Relay Smart Agent vs Sandbox AR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Relay Smart Agent
This application offers web filtering and safety features for iOS devices, ensuring CIPA compliance for schools. It provides on and off-campus protection and reports on student activity, acting as a hardware-free cloud solution.
- CIPA compliant web filtering
- On/off campus safety
- Student activity reporting
- Hardware-free cloud solution
- Anytime, anywhere filtering
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This app provides anytime, anywhere filtering, safety, and reporting on iOS devices for schools using the Relay web filter from Lightspeed Systems. With the Relay Smart Agent for iOS, schools get: CIPA compliant web filtering On/off campus safety Reporting on student activity A hardware-free cloud solution And more!
Sandbox AR
Create, build, and explore immersive virtual worlds using augmented reality. This app allows users to scale creations to life-size and share them with others. It's designed to bring interactive technology into educational settings.
- Create, build, and explore in AR
- Life-size scale exploration
- Share creations via QR code
- Capture snapshots and videos
- Teacher audio descriptions (DE:X subscribers)
- Link to curated resources (DE:X subscribers)
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--- Multi award-winning augmented reality maker app --- - BETT Awards 2023 Best AR/VR ! - GESS Awards 2023 Best Digital XR / VR / AI Product - spaces4learning New Product Award 2022 ! -- What is Sandbox? -- Experience, build, and explore in AR with Discovery Education Sandbox. Designed as a companion to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience learning platform, bring immersive technology and content into the classroom. Choose from hundreds of models and create a virtual world to experience and share with fellow students and teachers. Use life size mode to scale up and walk inside your own creation! -- Features -- • Create, build and explore in augmented reality. • Explore creations in life-size scale! • Share your sandboxes with other users with a simple QR code. • Capture snapshots and videos of your sandbox. -- Enhanced features for DE:X subscribers -- As a Discovery Education Experience or Espresso subscriber, access additional features to add teacher audio descriptions to sandboxes and add links to your own curated resources on Experience or Espresso. Integrate with studio boards and access future additional model packs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sandbox AR at 100% against Relay Smart Agent's 0%. Sandbox AR also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.2). Relay Smart Agent's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sandbox AR holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Relay Smart Agent's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sandbox AR's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Relay Smart Agent | Sandbox AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.2 (33 ratings) | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1.6 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lightspeed Solutions, LLC | Discovery Education Inc. |
Customer experience
Relay Smart Agent
Sandbox AR
In-app purchases
Relay Smart Agent
No in-app purchases
Sandbox AR
No in-app purchases
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