MoonBase Explorer vs Quarry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoonBase Explorer
Explore a detailed, realistic lunar base environment. Interact with astronauts and teleport to various locations around the station and surrounding craters. Discover the architecture of a polar research outpost.
- Realistic moon base architecture
- Interactive astronaut encounters
- Teleportation to 6 key sites
- Exploration of lunar environment
- Hydroponic greenhouses
- Radiation shielding details
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Discover the architecture of a polar station in a realistic lunar environment, with its cylindrical habitat modules, hydroponic greenhouses, radiation shields, walkways and passages protected from solar radiations, lunar landing area, photovoltaic panels rising over 100 m above the ground to provide permanent solar energy... Explore freely the Moon Base in a lunar environment of almost one square kilometer, interact with resident astronauts and teleport directly to 6 sites near the station or in the surrounding craters and valleys.
Quarry
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Data interview practice that runs entirely on your device. Write real SQL and Python (pandas), get graded instantly, and see exactly why. NEW IN 1.1 • Designed for iPhone Duo: question and editor side by side when open, a focused layout when closed, and it adapts as you fold. • A new native design for iPhone and iPad, in light and dark mode. • 60 new problems: a staff-level data engineering set (gaps and islands, sessionisation, slowly changing dimensions, funnels, retention) and company-style SQL sets. • Clearer results: instant correct / not quite feedback, expected vs. actual tables, and the query plan for your SQL. WHAT'S INSIDE • 168 problems across three tracks: 61 SQL, 22 pandas and 85 Python (algorithms and data structures). • Real execution, real grading. Your output is checked against the expected result, with no self-marking. • Company-style practice. Filter problems written in the style of the company you're interviewing at. • Hints and full solutions when you're stuck. • Difficulty levels from Easy to Hard, grouped by topic. • A free-form Playground for scratch SQL and Python. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No analytics. No ads. No tracking. Quarry collects nothing and works fully offline. Built by a working data engineer, for analysts, data engineers, data scientists and software engineers who want a quiet, fast place to actually practice.
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Verdict
MoonBase Explorer and Quarry are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | MoonBase Explorer | Quarry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 757 MB | 128 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olivier Boisard | Mayank Gulaty |
In-app purchases
MoonBase Explorer
No in-app purchases
Quarry
No in-app purchases
Questions
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