Comparison

Water Box vs Grainfall

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

Head to head
About

Water Box

Explore realistic fluid dynamics and ragdoll physics in this sandbox playground. Sink ships, experiment with various liquids, and unleash destruction with a wide array of tools and elements. Build and test your creations in a detailed simulation environment.

Highlights
  • Realistic water and powder simulation
  • Ragdoll people playground experiments
  • Ship sinking and floating simulator
  • Gore and destruction simulator
  • Alchemy, fire, and chemical reactions
  • Build and share creations
Features
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People playground meets a floating sandbox games in this realistic water physics simulation! This water physics sandbox games lets you experiment with realistic fluid behavior, sink ships by using bomb explosions, and enjoy a ragdoll people playground built to simulate destruction. Features: Water Simulation & Powder Game - Simulate liquids like lava, petrol, oil, nitro, viruses, fireworks, and more – each with unique behaviors. - Enjoy a beautiful underwater sandbox games with up to 200,000 water particles. Ragdoll & People Playground - Discover the many unpredictable outcomes of ragdoll experiments! - Use virus liquids to infect them or make them go crazy with chemicals & mods. - Realistic gore ragdoll playground: they can walk, drown, burn, or react to your experiments. Ship Sinking Simulator & Floating Sandbox - Build ships from scratch or choose from pre-built ones like cargo ships, submarines, and even the Titanic. - Test their strength against waves, bombs, stormworks, floods, or tsunamis. - Watch ships float, sink, burn, or explode in realistic fashion. - The inbuilt ship sinking simulator is very sophisticated - Includes 50+ pre-built experiments and machines to explore. - Build and test your own ships, vehicles, titanic clones, tanks rockets and share mods in the new online workshop. - Construct using different materials like wood, rubber or stone. Gore Sandboxels & Destruction Simulator - Use explosives like nukes, grenades, and rockets to smash anything. - Unleash god-powers like airstrikes, tsunamis, stormworks, floods or firestorms. - Choose among an arsenal of weapons to wreak havoc against your subjects! Alchemy, Fire & Physics Sandbox - Experiment with different elements - like lava with nitro, or fire with petrol and watch how they react with water, like freezing or evaporating - Realistic temperature, fire, and chemical reactions. - Set things on fire and watch it spread; extinguish it with water or freeze it into ice. - All materials react uniquely – from flammable boats to explosive bombs. - A deep and detailed destruction simulator game. - the game includes many cool firework effects. Now have fun and relax while playing in this underwater powder game: build complex boats, machines or simulate chain reactions in this sandboxel. Players say this sanbox game has everything you would expect from an mobile algodoo alternative. Have ideas or issues? Send me an email! Note: A strong phone is recommended for the best experience. Download the sanbox game now, build something wild, and let the chaos begin! By Gaming-Apps.com (2025)

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

Water Box4 screens
Grainfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Grainfall at none against Water Box's shown. Grainfall also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Water Box's advantage is ratings volume (1.8K vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Water Box sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Grainfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grainfall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Water Box has 1.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Water Box versus Grainfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWater BoxGrainfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.8K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.8K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB23 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperLukas OertelJohn Haas

Bugs and requests

Water Box

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Crashes frequently

Requested features

1 request
  • Make ships sink like in Floating Sandbox

Grainfall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Water Box

One-time10
  • Increase max water by 10000$2.99
  • 250 Coins$4.99
  • Creative Package 50% Discount$4.99
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  • Increase max water by 20000$4.99
  • 550 Coins$7.99
  • Creative Package$9.99
  • Increase max water by 50000$9.99
  • 1200 Coins$14.99
  • Increase max water by 100000$17.99
  • 2300 Coins$24.99
1 purchases

Grainfall

One-time1
  • Grainfall Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Water Box free?
Water Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grainfall free?
Grainfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Water Box or Grainfall?
Grainfall is rated higher. Water Box averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while Grainfall averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Water Box or Grainfall have ads?
Water Box shows ads; Grainfall does not.

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