Particlescape vs Earth Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Particlescape
This app lets you create stunning visual patterns using interactive particle and gravity simulations. Generate thousands of particles with each touch, with higher resolution in dense areas. Optimized for performance, it supports up to half a million particles on screen.
- Interactive particle and gravity simulation
- Generate particles with touch
- Apply gravity with double-tap-hold
- High-resolution rendering in dense areas
- Supports up to 500,000 particles
- 3D Touch pressure sensitivity
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Create beautiful patterns at your fingertips! Particlescape is an interactive particle and gravity simulator designed to be as beautiful as possible and to create an organic link between fingertips and screen. The rules are simple: - Touch to generate particles. - Double-tap-hold to use gravity. - Shake device to change options. Sensitive to up to 10 simultaneous touches on iPad (5 on iPhone), the visual possibilities are limitless. Features: - Generate up to 8000 particles per second per touch. Feel like you're magically summoning particles from the ether. - Particles in high-density regions are rendered at higher resolution (smaller point size), to bring out finer detail. - Extensive optimizations throughout to support a maximum of half a million particles on screen!* - Press harder for more particles or more gravity on 3D Touch-enabled devices, such as iPhone 6s and 6s Plus! *500,000 particles supported on iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, iPad Air 2. Older devices may support less.
Earth Editor
Create your own world by placing various elements like sand, water, and lava on a gravity field. This simulation game allows for boundless creativity in designing unique planetary landscapes. Explore the possibilities of a sandbox environment where you are the architect of your own planet.
- World creation sandbox
- Gravity field simulation
- Place sand, water, seeds, lava
- Creative planetary design
- Element interaction
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This game is the 21st iOS game for the Web game site "DAN-BALL". A simulation game that creates the Earth using various dots on the field of gravity. There are various dots of sand, water, seeds, lava, and more. Be creative. It's up to you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Earth Editor at none against Particlescape's 3. Earth Editor also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (919 vs 76). Particlescape's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price and review sentiment 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. Particlescape sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Earth Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Particlescape holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earth Editor has 919 ratings behind it against 76, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Particlescape's written reviews are positive against 79% of Earth Editor's.
Particlescape ships an update every 24 months, Earth Editor every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on August 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Particlescape | Earth Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (76 ratings) — better | 4.3 (919 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better | 78.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 76 | 919 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edwin Sirko | DAN-BALL |
Customer experience
Particlescape
Earth Editor
User reviews
Particlescape
From 76 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Mesmerizing and beautiful visuals
- 🧘 Calming and relaxing experience
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🤩 Highly entertaining and fun
- 💡 Great for distraction and stress relief
Room to improve
- 🤔 Limited customization options
- 💸 Paid upgrades don't always work
- ❓ Controls can be difficult to use
- ⚫ Black background can be overwhelming
- 👎 Ads can be intrusive
Earth Editor
From 919 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Satisfying and fun
- 👍 No ads feature
- 👍 Relaxing and addictive
- 👍 Interesting physics and elements
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional glitches and crashes
- 🔍 Limited elements and features
- 🔍 Dot/pixel limit
- 💸 Ads can be intrusive
Bugs and requests
Particlescape
Reported bugs
6 issues- Controls not working
- Upgrade does nothing
- App doesn't do anything anymore
- Menus don't work on iPad Air 2
- Paid upgrade provides no new features
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- Settings disabled even after purchase
Requested features
21 requests- Add meditation music
- Ability to change colors
- More options for drag and radius
- More physics properties
- Ability to remove or dim black background
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- Overlay particles on the world
- Add background options
- Pin touch points and work elsewhere
- Place and pin multiple gravity wells
- Negative gravity option
- Video screencast
- Add dubstep in background
- Add chill out sounds
- Clear screen option
- Particle shape option
- Fix disabled settings
- Reset button in options
- Ability to record movements with songs
- Softer shake to bring up menu
- Ability to change color of new particles only
- More control over gravitational strength and spawn speed
Earth Editor
Reported bugs
3 issues- Black holes causing glitches
- Ice not freezing water properly
- Cloned elements not behaving as expected
Requested features
8 requests- More elements and materials to experiment with
- Ability to save multiple worlds
- Zoom and camera controls
- Realistic physics and behaviors (e.g. sand sinking in water)
- Ability to create life, animals, or civilizations
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- Supernova and star effects
- Atmosphere and weather systems
- Ability to move immobile objects
In-app purchases
Particlescape
- Upgrade to Enable More Touches Without Ads$1.99
- Upgrade to Enable Advanced Options$1.99
- Premium options$3.99
Earth Editor
No in-app purchases
