Comparison

Sand Balls vs Pairnic

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

Head to head
About

Sand Balls

Dig and collect colorful sand balls by navigating intricate paths and overcoming obstacles. Use strategy to fill a truck and transport them to build and upgrade a beautiful island. Enjoy hundreds of levels for relaxation and brain-teasing fun.

Highlights
  • Dig and collect colorful sand balls
  • Navigate complex paths and obstacles
  • Fill trucks and transport balls
  • Build and upgrade a beautiful island
  • Hundreds of challenging levels
  • Collect golden keys for surprises
Features
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►Catch a ball! Turn right, now a little to the left, and right again, than free up more space so the ball can move, and finally… Yes! Catch it! Make sure you're careful and really pay attention—this is no simple football or volleyball. It's still a game, but with a sand ball! Have you ever seen anything like it before? Even though it's made of sand, it's not yellow like you'd expect. Guess what color a sand ball can be? Orange, green, pink, purple, blue, and many other vibrant colors of the rainbow and beyond! Your imagination will truly take flight! ►Why do you need to collect these sand balls? The first reason is "just for fun", and it's completely true. Why not? Everyone deserves to relax after the a hectic pace of a work day, and this game knows how to help with that! Simple actions, а fresh and cool design, a wide variety of tasks - this game has hundreds of levels so you can have lots of fun in your spare time. The second reason is for strategy. The app features a tricky puzzle where you have to think carefully to beat the level: put colorful balls into the truck and transfer them to a wonderful island located in the middle of nowhere. What's the point? Now we come to the third reason. The game is well-organized in terms of plot. This means that while you play, you will be provided with challenging goals and inspiring missions like repairing buildings and advancing the overall infrastructure of the beautiful island. To sum up, collecting the balls is a good way to relax after a long day and improve your logical thinking at the same time. Press the button and download! ► A bubble of additional interest is gained through • Golden keys. They open boxes with different surprises or even money inside. • Sticks and other obstacles in the way. This is no walk in the park! • A secret weapon that can destroy all balls. (You can restart the level.) • Long and varied routes. They look like a real puzzle. What road will you choose? Try to avoid getting lost! • A special white bubble. It turns into…..you'll find out on your own. ► Make sure that you discover all the WOW effects…and hurry up! Your first truck is coming! Don't miss your chance to build an island! P.S. or maybe not just one incredible island, but several… Subscription Terms: VIP Week Access offers a weekly subscription, you will have a 3-days FREE trial period, after this period you will be charged $5.99/week. After buying this subscription, you will unlock following features: exclusive VIP building, free gems every day, no ads, VIP ball effects. This is an Auto-renewable subscription. The payment is charged to your account after confirmation. The subscription is renewed unless you turn it off 24 hours before the period ends. Your account will be charged for renewal as well. End of trial and subscription renewal: • The payment is charged to your account after a confirmation of purchase. • The subscription is renewed unless you turn it off 24 hour before the end of the current period. • The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period at the cost of the weekly subscription. • The user may manage the subscription and auto-renewal have to be turned off by going to the user’s account settings after purchase in the Store. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Canceling a trial or a subscription: • If you want to cancel a subscription during its free trial, you have to cancel it through your account in the Store. This must be done at least 24 hours before the end of the free trial period to avoid being charged. For more information, please visit https://support.apple.com/HT207865 for more information If there is questions contact us info@saygames.by Privacy Policy : https://say.games/privacy-policy/sandballs Terms of use : https://say.games/terms-of-use/sandballs

About

Pairnic

Features
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Pairnic is a quiet, brain-teasing puzzle game about sliding blocks into place. Every level is a small playfield of walls and colored blocks. You slide blocks left and right — gravity does the rest, pulling them down until they land on a wall, another block, or the floor. Get two or more blocks of the same symbol touching, and they vanish. Clear every block on the board to win the level, before your timer runs out. The signature twist: some levels hide an odd number of a given symbol — three lightning bolts, say, with no way to pair them off two at a time. The only way to clear them is to engineer a moment where all three touch at once. It's a small puzzle within the puzzle, and it's the heart of what makes Pairnic click. Later stages add moving platforms that carry blocks up, down, and sideways on their own schedule, so timing your slides against their patrol becomes part of the solution too. There's no combo timer to beat, no lives to lose, and no ads interrupting your thinking. Pairnic is inspired by the classic block-matching puzzlers of the arcade era, rebuilt from scratch with all-new art, sound, and 100 levels across 10 stages that escalate from gentle introductions to genuinely tricky platform-and-timing puzzles. Every single level has been verified solvable by an exhaustive solver before shipping — if it's in the game, it can be cleared. Play with simple drag controls, or switch to a tap-to-select cursor mode if you'd rather not drag on glass. Full support for iPhone and iPad. Your progress (stars, best scores, which stages you've unlocked) is saved to your device and quietly synced across your other devices via iCloud — no account to create, nothing to sign in to. Finish all 100 levels and Campaigns opens up: free downloadable level packs that add more puzzles in the same style, whenever new ones are released — no purchase, no account, ever. - 100 levels across 10 escalating stages - The signature odd-count "simultaneous merge" puzzle mechanic - Moving platforms that add timing and planning to later stages - Campaigns: free downloadable level packs once you've cleared the main game - Drag controls or tap-to-select cursor mode — your choice - iPhone and iPad support - Undo, so experimenting never costs you the level - No ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no data collection - Progress syncs privately across your devices via iCloud

Screenshots

Sand Balls4 screens
Pairnic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pairnic at none against Sand Balls's 10. Pairnic also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Sand Balls's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price 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. Sand Balls sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Pairnic asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sand Balls ships an update every 2 months, Pairnic weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sand Balls versus Pairnic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSand BallsPairnic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (286K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings286K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size289 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSayGames LTDFrank Neumann

Bugs and requests

Sand Balls

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Balls getting stuck in impossible positions
  • Game freezing or crashing
  • Issues with claiming rewards and unlocking new content

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to replay past levels
  • More challenging and varied levels
  • Improved progression and rewards system
  • Better ad implementation or ad-free option

Pairnic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Sand Balls

Subscriptions2
  • VIP Week3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • VIP Month3 Days trial$19.991 Month
One-time8
  • 3 Hints$0.99
  • 25 Gems$0.99
  • Unique Ball bundle$0.99
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  • 10 Hints$1.99
  • No Ads$2.99
  • Starter Pack$2.99
  • 25 Hints$4.99
  • Basic bundle$6.99
None

Pairnic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sand Balls free?
Sand Balls is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pairnic free?
Pairnic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sand Balls or Pairnic have ads?
Sand Balls shows ads; Pairnic does not.
Which is updated more often, Sand Balls or Pairnic?
Sand Balls ships an update every 2 months, and Pairnic weekly. Most recently, Sand Balls was updated on November 8, 2026 and Pairnic on October 31, 2026.

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