Comparison

Powder Game vs Grainfall

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

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About

Powder Game

Explore a physics sandbox where you can simulate the interactions of various elements like water, fire, and gunpowder. Witness unique reactions and emergent phenomena as different 'dots' collide and influence each other.

Highlights
  • Physics simulation with powder elements
  • Over 30 different dot variations
  • Simulate element reactions
  • Explosion effects
  • Plant growth simulation
Features
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Imagine the cool phenomenon when the wind blows the falling leaves. This game physics simulates the phenomenon with powder (dots)! You can choose more than 30 different variations of the dot. Water, fire, oil, gunpowder, metal, seed, birds, Ant and more. The various reactions when in hit with a dot and a dot. The explosion on hit with fire and gunpowder. Trees grow when in hit with the seed and sand.

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

Powder Game4 screens
Grainfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Powder Game at none against Grainfall's 1. Powder Game also leads on ratings volume (2.2K vs 1). Grainfall's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Grainfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Powder Game asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grainfall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Powder Game has 2.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Powder Game versus Grainfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPowder GameGrainfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB23 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDAN-BALLJohn Haas

Bugs and requests

Powder Game

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • View feature not working as expected
  • Occasional freezing or crashing
  • Inconsistent player/fighter behavior
  • Saved creations sometimes disappearing

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more elements and materials
  • Increase pixel/dot limit or make it unlimited
  • Implement a save/load system for creations
  • Add more player/fighter customization options
  • Introduce new gameplay modes or challenges
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  • Improve visibility of glass and other transparent elements

Grainfall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Powder Game

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Grainfall

One-time1
  • Grainfall Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Powder Game free?
Powder Game is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grainfall free?
Grainfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Powder Game or Grainfall?
Grainfall is rated higher. Powder Game averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.2K ratings, while Grainfall averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Powder Game or Grainfall have ads?
Powder Game shows ads; Grainfall does not.

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