Snow Creator vs Castle Explorer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snow Creator
Design unique snowflakes and watch them fall around you. Capture photos with your creations and share them with friends or save them for personal enjoyment. Interact with the falling snow by tilting your device.
- Create custom snowflakes
- Watch snowflakes fall
- Take photos with snowflakes
- Share creations on social media
- Save snowflake photos
- Tilt device to direct snowfall
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Snow Creator allows you to create your own beautiful snow flakes, and then watch them as they fall down around you. You can take a photo with the flakes and share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo or email. Or you can just save a copy for yourself. Tilt the device too, to direct where the snowflakes fall.
Castle Explorer
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The only application on smartphone that references nearly 20,000 castles in Europe. Participate and publish new castles or photos of these magnificent buildings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Castle Explorer at weekly against Snow Creator's fortnightly. Snow Creator's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Snow Creator ships an update fortnightly, Castle Explorer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snow Creator | Castle Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Allday | richard prandini |
In-app purchases
Snow Creator
No in-app purchases
Castle Explorer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Snow Creator or Castle Explorer have ads?
Which is updated more often, Snow Creator or Castle Explorer?
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