Comparison

A+ World Map Editor Sandbox vs Terra

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

Head to head
About

A+ World Map Editor Sandbox

Design and customize your own version of Earth, from redrawing borders to renaming regions. This offline sandbox allows you to create fantasy empires or simulate alternate histories with detailed control over maps, flags, and even 3D globe exploration.

Highlights
  • Start with real-world maps
  • Offline functionality
  • Rename countries, cities, oceans
  • Edit and redraw borders
  • Set custom flags and colors
  • 2D and 3D globe exploration
  • Add animated stickers and track stats
Features
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Ever wanted to rewrite history or build a fantasy empire from the ground up? Welcome to A+ World Map Editor Sandbox, where you have the power to reshape the real world! A+ World Map Editor Sandbox is the ultimate creative tool for mappers, world-builders, and alternate history fans. Our powerful sandbox gives you complete control to design, customise, and explore your very own version of Earth, starting from a detailed and accurate real-world map. Create, experiment, and play without ever needing an internet connection. What can you do with A+ World Map Editor Sandbox? ·Start with Reality: Use a high-quality, real-world map as your starting point for any project. ·Full Offline Access: Perfect for travel or brainstorming, the entire app is designed to work without an internet connection. ·Total Control: Rename countries, provinces, cities, and oceans. Your world, your names. ·Redraw Boundaries: Easily draw and edit borders. Merge nations to form an empire or split continents into warring states. ·Personalize Your Map: Set custom flags, choose unique colors, or use your own photos as a background for any region. ·Explore in 2D & 3D: Seamlessly switch between a detailed flat map and a stunning, fully rotatable globe. ·Bring Your World to Life: Add animated stickers, set national capitals, track stats, and design a world with its own lore and rankings. ·Unleash Your Creativity: This is a true sandbox. Create new civilizations, simulate "what if" scenarios, or just have fun making fantasy maps. You can save your projects to continue your masterpiece anytime. Ready to become a world-builder? Install A+ World Map Editor Sandbox now and start your adventure!

About

Terra

Test your knowledge of countries by identifying flags, their locations on a map, and their capitals. Earn collectible patches as you master each country's details through spaced repetition and varied challenges.

Highlights
  • Flag identification
  • Map location quizzes
  • Capital city recall
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Collectible country patches
  • Multi-device sync
  • Multiplayer duels
Features
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Most flag quizzes ask one thing: do you recognise this flag? You get good at recognising flags. You still could not point at the country on a map. Terra asks for three things, and only hands over the patch when all three hold. The flag. Where the country sits in the world. Its capital. Each of them twice, on different days, so it is knowledge and not a lucky guess. WHAT YOU DO You start a collecting round. Terra picks the countries and asks each one exactly the skill it is still missing: the flag for one, the position on the map for the next, the capital for the third. When the third one holds, a needle sews the patch into your album. 195 countries. 195 places waiting. A round mixes deliberately: four countries close to finished, two you have started, two you have never seen. So something is completed almost every round, and something new arrives too. WHAT TERRA REMEMBERS FOR YOU What wobbles comes back sooner. What holds, you see less often. You never decide what to revise. Terra schedules it, per country and per skill separately, so you are not asked about a flag you already know just because the capital is shaky. EIGHT DIRECTIONS, PRACTISED SEPARATELY Flag to country, country to flag. Map to country, country to map. Country to capital, capital to country. Typing the country name from its flag. And the continent, when you want it easy. Filter by continent when you want to work through Africa, or leave it open and take the world as it comes. THE MAP IS A REAL MAP Satellite imagery with borders drawn over it, and no place names, because otherwise the answer would be written on the screen. For a landlocked country the borders of its neighbours are the only clue, which is exactly the skill. ON EVERY SCREEN iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV, with the same collection. Your progress moves between them through iCloud, and the sides are merged rather than overwritten, so playing on one never costs you a patch on another. ON THE WRIST Five questions, flags and capitals, short enough to finish while you wait for something else. A complication on the watch face says whether today's round is still open. The watch does not ask you to place a country on a map, and that is on purpose: picking one off a world map at that size tests your finger, not your knowledge. So a round on the wrist can finish a patch whose position you learned somewhere with more room, and can never produce one on its own. It adds to the album instead of going around it. WIDGETS The flag of the day, kept nameless until you have collected that country. The album filling up. Your streak, with a nudge when today is still open. DUEL A FRIEND Or a tournament of up to eight. Random questions, the same ones for everyone, and everybody answers in their own time: nobody has to be online at the same minute. Afterwards you go through the round question by question and see what each of you got right. Kept apart from your album on purpose, because those questions were not chosen for you. GAME CENTER Leaderboards for patches, streak and best round. Achievements for every continent completed, and one for all 195. And a friends list, showing what the people you know have collected. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING Terra has no sign-up, no advertising and no analytics. The dataset and all 195 flags are inside the app.

Screenshots

A+ World Map Editor Sandbox4 screens
Terra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Terra at none against A+ World Map Editor Sandbox's 3. Terra also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 76%). A+ World Map Editor Sandbox's advantage is chart position (#54 vs unranked). On price, update cadence and iOS requirement 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. A+ World Map Editor Sandbox sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Terra asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

A+ World Map Editor Sandbox ships an update weekly, Terra every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
A+ World Map Editor Sandbox versus Terra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterA+ World Map Editor SandboxTerra
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.8K — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#54 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHsin Yee LowLabyMedia GmbH

Customer experience

A+ World Map Editor Sandbox

All ratings1,792 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews344 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral11.3%
Negative12.2%

Terra

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

A+ World Map Editor Sandbox

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Unable to capture countries or provinces on mobile
  • Flags glitch out when camera is moved

Requested features

2 requests
  • Make flag map and other pro features free
  • Fix the occupy option and camera glitches

Terra

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

A+ World Map Editor Sandbox

One-time2
  • PLUS Editor$2.99
  • PRO Editor2 variants$4.99
None

Terra

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is A+ World Map Editor Sandbox free?
A+ World Map Editor Sandbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Terra free?
Terra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do A+ World Map Editor Sandbox or Terra have ads?
A+ World Map Editor Sandbox shows ads; Terra does not.
Which is updated more often, A+ World Map Editor Sandbox or Terra?
A+ World Map Editor Sandbox ships an update weekly, and Terra every 5 days. Most recently, A+ World Map Editor Sandbox was updated on October 15, 2026 and Terra on October 5, 2026.

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