Comparison

MoonBase Explorer vs Quarry

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Realistic moon base architecture
  • Interactive astronaut encounters
  • Teleportation to 6 key sites
  • Exploration of lunar environment
  • Hydroponic greenhouses
  • Radiation shielding details
Features
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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.

About

Quarry

Features
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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.

Screenshots

MoonBase Explorer4 screens
Quarry4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
MoonBase Explorer versus Quarry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoonBase ExplorerQuarry
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size757 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOlivier BoisardMayank Gulaty

In-app purchases

None

MoonBase Explorer

No in-app purchases

None

Quarry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MoonBase Explorer free?
MoonBase Explorer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quarry free?
Quarry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MoonBase Explorer or Quarry have ads?
Neither MoonBase Explorer nor Quarry shows ads.

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