Sandbox AR vs WaterWays AR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sandbox AR
Create, build, and explore immersive virtual worlds using augmented reality. This app allows users to scale creations to life-size and share them with others. It's designed to bring interactive technology into educational settings.
- Create, build, and explore in AR
- Life-size scale exploration
- Share creations via QR code
- Capture snapshots and videos
- Teacher audio descriptions (DE:X subscribers)
- Link to curated resources (DE:X subscribers)
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--- Multi award-winning augmented reality maker app --- - BETT Awards 2023 Best AR/VR ! - GESS Awards 2023 Best Digital XR / VR / AI Product - spaces4learning New Product Award 2022 ! -- What is Sandbox? -- Experience, build, and explore in AR with Discovery Education Sandbox. Designed as a companion to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience learning platform, bring immersive technology and content into the classroom. Choose from hundreds of models and create a virtual world to experience and share with fellow students and teachers. Use life size mode to scale up and walk inside your own creation! -- Features -- • Create, build and explore in augmented reality. • Explore creations in life-size scale! • Share your sandboxes with other users with a simple QR code. • Capture snapshots and videos of your sandbox. -- Enhanced features for DE:X subscribers -- As a Discovery Education Experience or Espresso subscriber, access additional features to add teacher audio descriptions to sandboxes and add links to your own curated resources on Experience or Espresso. Integrate with studio boards and access future additional model packs.
WaterWays AR
Explore environmental science concepts like pollution and biodiversity through interactive activities. Students become ecologists using augmented reality and personalized websites to identify solutions for human and environmental health.
- Investigate environmental problems
- Augmented reality and webVR
- Personalized student websites
- Interactive learning activities
- Focus on human and environmental health
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WaterWays is a science curriculum supplement for students in grades 3-5. In WaterWays, students are ecologists actively investigating interconnected problems like plastic pollution, air and water quality, the Urban Heat Island effect, and marine biodiversity. Students use personalized websites and augmented reality or webVR on a computer or tablet to work through interactive activities to identify actions that improve human and environmental health.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sandbox AR at 4.8 against WaterWays AR's 4.0. Sandbox AR also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 2). WaterWays AR's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). 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.
Sandbox AR holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sandbox AR has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Sandbox AR | WaterWays AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.6 GB | 315 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Discovery Education Inc. | Killer Snails |
Customer experience
Sandbox AR
WaterWays AR
In-app purchases
Sandbox AR
No in-app purchases
WaterWays AR
No in-app purchases









