Comparison

Terrain Editor vs Tiderace

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

Head to head
About

Terrain Editor

Transform real-world materials into 3D landscapes using your phone's camera. Create diverse environments like beaches, mountains, or glaciers from sand, rice, or tapioca.

Highlights
  • Camera-based terrain scanning
  • Real-world material to 3D conversion
  • Create diverse environments
  • Supports sand, rice, tapioca, etc.
  • Generates 3D scenes
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What if your phone's camera turned into a Terrain Editor? Mold a landscape out of sand, rice, tapioca or any other material that you're willing to use and film it with your iPhone camera: it instantly turns into a 3D scene. Grass land, a beach and water? Or mountains and glaciers? You choose! Find out more at https://tapioca.toys/cardboard/#terrain-editor

About

Tiderace

Features
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You don't steer the ship. You move the water, and the water moves the ship. Drag your finger across the sea and it really does push the water around. You can see the swirl you made. Your ship drifts on top of all that. So the game is mostly about reading what the water is already doing, and pushing it where you need it to go. You'll be getting past reefs, wrecked hulls, mines, dock walls with one gap in them, shore cannons, patrol boats that ram you, and planes that drop bombs on the line you're sailing down. There's always a way through, but sometimes you have to make one. Mines float, and they're lighter than your ship, so a hard stir across a row will shove them aside before it moves you at all. Most people never find that out. It's easy to overdo it, though. Stir too hard and you'll knock your own hull into the rock you were trying to avoid. WHAT YOU GET • 22 stretches of sea, in a different order every run — shallows, coral, wreck coasts, smugglers' docks, ghost fleets, minefields • Three ships: a fast sloop, a galleon that takes twice the damage, and a submarine that can dive under a row it can't fit through • A Game Center leaderboard for distance sailed NO ADS, NO TIMERS No ads, no energy bars, no daily login rewards, nothing to wait for. There are two extra ships you can buy once if you want them. Everything else is there from your first run. It works offline.

Screenshots

Terrain Editor4 screens
Tiderace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Terrain Editor at none against Tiderace's 2. Terrain Editor also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Tiderace sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Terrain Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Terrain Editor versus Tiderace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTerrain EditorTiderace
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB29 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMatthieu SavaryAlamak OY

In-app purchases

None

Terrain Editor

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiderace

One-time2
  • Galleon$0.99
  • Submarine$1.99

Questions

Is Terrain Editor free?
Terrain Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiderace free?
Tiderace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Terrain Editor or Tiderace have ads?
Neither Terrain Editor nor Tiderace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Terrain Editor or Tiderace?
Terrain Editor ships an update every 2 days, and Tiderace every 2 days. Most recently, Terrain Editor was updated on November 2, 2026 and Tiderace on October 31, 2026.

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