Comparison

Sandbox AR vs CloudLabs Building a Catapult

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

CloudLabs Building a Catapult

Features
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In this simulation, you are tasked with repairing a wooden catapult, as some of its parts have broken. To do this, you must take its measurements and configure the rapid prototyping machine that prints the parts to be replaced. Once you have repaired the broken parts, you must verify if the catapult works correctly.

Screenshots

CloudLabs Building a Catapult1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: CloudLabs Building a Catapult at 3 against Sandbox AR's 1. CloudLabs Building a Catapult also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sandbox AR versus CloudLabs Building a Catapult: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSandbox ARCloudLabs Building a Catapult
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.6 GB209 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDiscovery Education Inc.Jiovany Orozco

In-app purchases

None

Sandbox AR

No in-app purchases

None

CloudLabs Building a Catapult

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sandbox AR free?
Sandbox AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CloudLabs Building a Catapult free?
CloudLabs Building a Catapult is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sandbox AR or CloudLabs Building a Catapult have ads?
Neither Sandbox AR nor CloudLabs Building a Catapult shows ads.

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