murmeli vs Square Race
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
murmeli
Design and build intricate marble runs with a sophisticated yet intuitive interface. This app fosters logical thinking, spatial imagination, and creativity while offering a calming experience and a sense of achievement for all ages.
- Intelligent marble run construction
- Multi-layered path design
- Promotes logical thinking
- Stimulates creative thinking
- Calming and concentration-building
- Cross-device syncing
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With murmeli you can construct intelligent & aesthetic marble runs. Thanks to the sophisticated and intuitive user interface, you can create sophisticated marble runs with multi-layered paths in a short time. In a playful way, murmeli promotes skills such as logical thinking, spatial imagination and visual perception. The countless variations on how a marble run can be built also stimulate creative thinking and problem-solving skills. At the same time, murmeli has a calming effect and promotes the ability to concentrate. Besides all these positive characteristics, murmeli regularly leads to a sense of achievement, which has a positive influence on self-confidence. Due to all these positive properties, murmeli is particularly suitable for supporting the development of cognitive abilities in children of all ages. However, murmeli is designed for people of all ages and offers exciting challenges for adults as well. murmeli is optimized for iOS, iPadOS and macOS devices. Once downloaded, murmeli is available on all these devices. Marble runs can be saved at any time and are automatically synced to all your devices.
Square Race
Design and build custom arenas with interactive elements for physics-driven races. Set up competitions with AI racers and watch unpredictable battles unfold. Record and share your unique creations.
- Customizable arena builder
- Physics-driven competitions
- AI-powered racers
- Maze design editor
- Record and share creations
- Endless customization options
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Create, Compete, and Watch the Chaos Unfold! Unleash your creativity in Square Races: Arena Simulator, where physics-driven competitions come to life! Build fully customizable arenas, design intricate mazes, and set up thrilling challenges using a variety of interactive elements—corridors, walls, teleports, breakable barriers, and more. Design Your Own Race Tracks: Craft pixel-art-style mazes in a grid-based editor, tweak layouts to perfection, and customize colors to match your vision. Set the Rules & Watch the Action: Create unique competitions with AI-powered square racers. Set them loose and watch unpredictable, fast-paced physics battles unfold! Record & Share Your Creations: Capture satisfying races, intense clashes, or mesmerizing patterns and share them with friends or on social media. Endless Customization: Modify player attributes, adjust physics settings, and experiment with different race styles to make every simulation unique. Ready to build, race, and watch the chaos? Download now and start creating your ultimate racing arenas! Icons by Icons8. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: murmeli at none against Square Race's shown. murmeli also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Square Race's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (287 vs 79). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. murmeli sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Square Race sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for murmeli against 4.7 for Square Race. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 287 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 56% of murmeli's written reviews are positive against 57% of Square Race's.
murmeli ships an update every 3 months, Square Race every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | murmeli | Square Race |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (79 ratings) | 4.7 (287 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 | 287 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Stoeckli | Michal Manak |
Customer experience
murmeli
Square Race
In-app purchases
murmeli
- Labyrinth$3.99
- Branching$3.99
- Parallel Start$4.99
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- Tunnel$4.99
- Connector$4.99
- Crossroad$4.99
- Double Lane$6.99
- Metro$6.99
- Acceleration$8.99
Square Race
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$12.99









