Comparison

Liquid Apptoy vs Simple Marble Run

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

Head to head
About

Liquid Apptoy

Experience a fluid simulation game where you can manipulate water. Add colors, transform it into clouds, or even ice. This interactive experience offers a unique way to play with virtual liquids.

Highlights
  • Fluid simulation gameplay
  • Water manipulation
  • Add colors to water
  • Transform water into clouds
  • Transform water into ice
Features
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This game is the 15th iPhone game for the Web Game Site "DAN-BALL". This fluid simulation game allows you to play with water. Enjoy adding some colors or transform water into clouds or ice.

About

Simple Marble Run

Experience a calming marble game with customizable courses. Manipulate the flow with stoppers, pins, and throwing mechanics. Watch marbles collect and depart in a delightful cycle, offering a unique ASMR-like experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable marble courses
  • Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
  • Marble throwing mechanic
  • Truck collection and departure cycle
  • Adjustable camera viewpoints
  • Soothing ASMR-like experience
Features
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A relaxing marble app where countless marbles roll and tumble across the course. Watching small marbles roll one after another is soothing and fun — you may even lose track of time just gazing at them. In this app, you can enjoy many different types of courses, from classic and simple layouts to unique and playful ones. The charm lies not only in watching the flow, but also in being able to add your own twists and enjoy different ways to play. The rolling marbles can be stopped, thrown, or redirected, allowing for all kinds of surprising moments. • With stoppers, you can hold back marbles and then release them all at once. It feels exciting to see a sudden rush of marbles flowing out together. • Place pins wherever you like to scatter the flow, split the marbles into unexpected paths, or even create small dead ends. Just a little change can transform the whole course. • With the throwing feature, you can tap the screen and toss a marble right to that spot. This lets you add marbles directly into the middle of the action. • At the goal, a truck waits to collect the marbles. Once enough marbles have piled up, a start button appears and the truck drives off, only for a new one to arrive. Watching the marbles leave together with the truck is a delightful part of the experience. • Along the course, you’ll also find camera buttons. Press them to switch the viewpoint and enjoy the marbles from a fresh angle. If you change the camera right before releasing a big group of marbles, the scene becomes even more thrilling to watch. There’s a special satisfaction in building up marbles and letting them flow all at once, in experimenting with setups that create surprising movements, or in simply enjoying the unexpected. Unlike real-life marble play, where preparing many marbles can be difficult, here you can easily enjoy “lots of marbles” and “special tricks” as many times as you like. The rolling sounds and movements are soothing and calming, almost like an ASMR experience that brings a sense of relaxation. You can play however you like — relax and watch quietly, or set up bold tricks and let the marbles rush in large numbers. A marble playground you can enjoy anytime, right on your phone. Roll them again and again, and find your own favorite way to play.

Screenshots

Liquid Apptoy4 screens
Simple Marble Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

Liquid Apptoy and Simple Marble Run both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 84% of Liquid Apptoy's written reviews are positive against 17% of Simple Marble Run's. Liquid Apptoy also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Simple Marble Run's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (261 vs 66). On price, rating, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Liquid Apptoy against 4.4 for Simple Marble Run. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 66 and 261 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Liquid Apptoy's written reviews are positive against 17% of Simple Marble Run's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Liquid Apptoy ships an update every 8 months, Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Liquid Apptoy versus Simple Marble Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiquid ApptoySimple Marble Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (66 ratings) — better4.4 (261 ratings)
Positive reviews83.5% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings66261 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAN-BALLmonois Inc.

Customer experience

Liquid Apptoy

All ratings64 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral1.6%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive83.5%
Neutral5.1%
Negative11.4%

Simple Marble Run

All ratings260 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Liquid Apptoy

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App crashes when adding wallpaper
  • Lava floats unexpectedly
  • Lava doesn't move
  • Game crashes when doing certain actions
  • Glitch prevents element usage
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  • Pixelated duck appears

Requested features

12 requests
  • More realistic water
  • Add more elements/liquids
  • Add sound effects
  • Add new objects (spinner, planets)
  • Add a layout button for UI
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  • Add ability to save worlds
  • Add more things to do
  • Add a paid ad-free version
  • Add a star-making feature
  • Add meteorites and falling objects
  • Add a stick figure game
  • Add more duck types

Simple Marble Run

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Liquid Apptoy

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Liquid Apptoy free?
Liquid Apptoy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Marble Run free?
Simple Marble Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Liquid Apptoy or Simple Marble Run?
Liquid Apptoy is rated higher. Liquid Apptoy averages 4.5 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 from 261 ratings.
Do Liquid Apptoy or Simple Marble Run have ads?
Both Liquid Apptoy and Simple Marble Run show ads.
Which is updated more often, Liquid Apptoy or Simple Marble Run?
Liquid Apptoy ships an update every 8 months, and Simple Marble Run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Liquid Apptoy was updated on October 23, 2026 and Simple Marble Run on October 28, 2026.

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