Comparison

Sandbox vs Grainfall

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

Head to head
About

Sandbox

Explore a creative sandbox world where you can mix elements to discover their reactions and create dynamic environments. Experiment with physics, build structures, and witness exciting events like explosions and growth. New modes allow for planet destruction and life cycle simulation.

Highlights
  • Element mixing and reaction discovery
  • World building with plants and weather
  • Physics experiments (fire, explosions)
  • Planet destruction mode
  • Life cycle simulation mode
Features
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Sandbox - Physics Simulation Do you curious what happened when lighting hit firework powder? Would you like to mix gas with gun powder and let them explode? Would you like to create a sandbox world, plant trees, flowers & watching them growing? Let download Sandbox game to enjoy a creative & relaxing game! You have many elements in game, you can mix them together & discover how them react to each other, how they turn to different form! You can build strong platform, grow your world, put fire, lighting, rain, plants,... on it! With SandBox you can create & destroy everything, you will find many exciting experiment: boil water, making rain, making fire & explosion,... Big Update: - new game mode Planet Destroy: use powerful weapons to destroy whole planet - new game mode Life Box: simulate real life cycle Let download & Relax with Sandbox!

About

Grainfall

Experiment with a physics sandbox where materials interact realistically. Create complex reactions, record your creations as videos, and share them with friends. Enjoy a free simulation with optional pro features for more materials and customization.

Highlights
  • Realistic material interactions
  • Video recording and export
  • Offline play
  • Shareable worlds
  • Tilt gravity control
  • Multiple material types
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Grainfall is a falling sand toy. Pick a material, drag across the screen, and watch it react with whatever is already there. Sand piles up and slides back down. Dig a hole and water will find it. Oil floats on top of water, and oil burns. Plants drink from standing water and creep toward it. Fire spreads, leaves ash behind, and boils water into steam that drifts up, cools off, and comes back down as rain. There is no score and nothing to unlock by playing. What you get is twelve materials that all react to each other, and the fun is working out how. Build a glass tank and fill it with acid, since glass is the one thing acid cannot chew through. Pour lava into water and it sets into stone. Light one end of a gunpowder trail and follow it along. Hit record at any point and Grainfall turns what happened into a video, with sound built from the same events you just watched. Save a world and it keeps a picture of itself in your list. Send one to a friend as a small file and it opens straight into their copy. FREE • Sand, water, oil, plant, fire and wall • The full simulation, running at 60fps • Record and export video, with a small watermark in the corner • Your world saves itself and is waiting when you come back PRO - One time purchase • Six more materials: acid, glass, lava, ice, gunpowder, fireworks • Video export with the watermark gone • Save as many worlds as you want, name them, load them back • Send worlds to friends as .grain files • Four color themes • Tilt gravity, so leaning your phone pours everything sideways A FEW THINGS WORTH TRYING • Float oil on water and drop in a single flame • Fill a glass tank with acid • Pour lava into the sea and watch the steam come off it • Light a gunpowder trail at one end • Set off enough fireworks that the falling sparks catch your plants Every material makes its own sound. No account, no ads, nothing collected, and it all works offline.

Screenshots

Sandbox4 screens
Grainfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Grainfall at 5.0 against Sandbox's 4.4. Grainfall also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sandbox's advantage is ratings volume (9.2K vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Sandbox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Grainfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grainfall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sandbox has 9.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sandbox versus Grainfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSandboxGrainfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (9.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9.2K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB23 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTran Dinh HungJohn Haas

Bugs and requests

Sandbox

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Certain elements not functioning as expected
  • Saved files becoming corrupted
  • Inconsistent performance and stability issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more elements and materials to experiment with
  • Implement a pause/speed up time feature
  • Introduce a sandbox mode without any ads
  • Allow users to save and load custom creations

Grainfall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sandbox

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
1 purchases

Grainfall

One-time1
  • Grainfall Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Sandbox free?
Sandbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grainfall free?
Grainfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sandbox or Grainfall?
Grainfall is rated higher. Sandbox averages 4.4 out of 5 from 9.2K ratings, while Grainfall averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sandbox or Grainfall have ads?
Sandbox shows ads; Grainfall does not.

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