Comparison

Sandbox AR vs WaterWays AR

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Investigate environmental problems
  • Augmented reality and webVR
  • Personalized student websites
  • Interactive learning activities
  • Focus on human and environmental health
Features
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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.

Screenshots

WaterWays AR4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sandbox AR versus WaterWays AR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSandbox ARWaterWays AR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (16 ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.6 GB315 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiscovery Education Inc.Killer Snails

Customer experience

Sandbox AR

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

WaterWays AR

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sandbox AR

No in-app purchases

None

WaterWays AR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sandbox AR free?
Sandbox AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WaterWays AR free?
WaterWays AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sandbox AR or WaterWays AR?
Sandbox AR is rated higher. Sandbox AR averages 4.8 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while WaterWays AR averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Sandbox AR or WaterWays AR have ads?
Neither Sandbox AR nor WaterWays AR shows ads.

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