Micro vs Living Earth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Micro
Engage in a cooperative board game simulation where players act as healthcare professionals to combat the spread of pathogenic agents in a city. Work together to prevent the population from falling ill using preventive measures and medications.
- Cooperative gameplay
- Disease outbreak simulation
- Healthcare professional roles
- Preventive measures and medications
- Multiplayer mode
- Available in 18 languages
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A new way to play Micro-Combat. Play alone, with friends or online! In Micro-Combat you will play the role of doctors, researchers and health-care personnel who have the mission of thwarting the attack of pathogenic agents which can make the population of your city ill. Your objective is to avoid any of the characters in the game losing all of their defenses, and to do this you will have different preventive measures and medications…which are not always enough! Micro-Combat is a cooperative game, so you need to work together in order to win! This App is based on the original idea of the card game that was created by ISGlobal in collaboration with the Laboratori de Jocs, produced and validated with the funding of European Union Joint Action on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections (EU-JAMRAI). Micro-Combat App has been funded by the EU-JAMRAI and designed in collaboration with ISGlobal. AEMPS and ISGlobal are not responsible for and does not endorse player. Game available in 18 languages in January 2021!
Living Earth
Visualize global natural phenomena like earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and auroras on a dynamic 3D globe. Explore detailed event information, replay past geological activity, and receive optional alerts for significant seismic events. All data is sourced from reputable scientific agencies.
- Live earthquake visualization
- Hurricane and storm tracking
- Wildfire monitoring
- Aurora forecast and animation
- Volcano information
- Tectonic plate display
- Historical event replay
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The planet, live: every earthquake ripples where it struck, hurricanes spin with their real forecast tracks, wildfires burn, volcanoes glow, and the aurora dances over the poles — all on a beautiful 3D globe, straight from USGS, NOAA, NASA, and the Smithsonian. Tap anything for its story. A quake card shows the actual USGS ShakeMap and what its magnitude really means. A hurricane card shows the storm photographed from orbit minutes ago. Every one of 1,214 volcanoes carries its photo and geologic history. THE LIVING GLOBE • Live earthquakes, sized and colored by magnitude, rippling as they arrive • Hurricanes and tropical storms with NOAA's forecast track • Wildfires tracked from orbit by NASA • The aurora oval, forecast by NOAA and animated like the real thing • 1,214 volcanoes from the Smithsonian's catalog — recent eruptions glow • Tectonic plate boundaries: flip them on and the quakes explain themselves REPLAY THE WEEK Scrub through the past seven days and watch 400 earthquakes strike in sequence — the Ring of Fire literally draws itself. BENEATH YOU Which tectonic plate are you standing on? How far is the nearest plate boundary? Your nearest volcano? The week's quakes around you? One tap answers, computed entirely on your device. QUAKE ALERTS Optional notifications for significant earthquakes near you and major ones worldwide — no account, nothing sent anywhere. GUIDED TOURS The Ring of Fire in eight stops, and Legendary Earth — Vesuvius, Tambora, the 1960 M9.5, the dinosaur-killing impact, and more — each with real photography. TODAY ON EARTH The planet's day in one glance, on a widget too. Share any event as a poster. All data comes from public scientific agencies: USGS, NOAA, NASA, and the Smithsonian Institution. No account. No tracking. Your location never leaves your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Micro at every 2 weeks against Living Earth's every 2 months. Micro also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Micro ships an update every 2 weeks, Living Earth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Micro | Living Earth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 440 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Agencia Espa�ola de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios | Cinnamon Mobile LLC |
Customer experience
Micro
Living Earth
In-app purchases
Micro
No in-app purchases
Living Earth
No in-app purchases









