Comparison

Simple Marble Run vs Sandspiel

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

Head to head
About

Simple Marble Run

Experience a calming marble game with customizable courses. Manipulate the flow with stoppers, pins, and throwing mechanics. Watch marbles collect and depart in a delightful cycle, offering a unique ASMR-like experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable marble courses
  • Interactive marble manipulation (stoppers, pins)
  • Marble throwing mechanic
  • Truck collection and departure cycle
  • Adjustable camera viewpoints
  • Soothing ASMR-like experience
Features
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A relaxing marble app where countless marbles roll and tumble across the course. Watching small marbles roll one after another is soothing and fun — you may even lose track of time just gazing at them. In this app, you can enjoy many different types of courses, from classic and simple layouts to unique and playful ones. The charm lies not only in watching the flow, but also in being able to add your own twists and enjoy different ways to play. The rolling marbles can be stopped, thrown, or redirected, allowing for all kinds of surprising moments. • With stoppers, you can hold back marbles and then release them all at once. It feels exciting to see a sudden rush of marbles flowing out together. • Place pins wherever you like to scatter the flow, split the marbles into unexpected paths, or even create small dead ends. Just a little change can transform the whole course. • With the throwing feature, you can tap the screen and toss a marble right to that spot. This lets you add marbles directly into the middle of the action. • At the goal, a truck waits to collect the marbles. Once enough marbles have piled up, a start button appears and the truck drives off, only for a new one to arrive. Watching the marbles leave together with the truck is a delightful part of the experience. • Along the course, you’ll also find camera buttons. Press them to switch the viewpoint and enjoy the marbles from a fresh angle. If you change the camera right before releasing a big group of marbles, the scene becomes even more thrilling to watch. There’s a special satisfaction in building up marbles and letting them flow all at once, in experimenting with setups that create surprising movements, or in simply enjoying the unexpected. Unlike real-life marble play, where preparing many marbles can be difficult, here you can easily enjoy “lots of marbles” and “special tricks” as many times as you like. The rolling sounds and movements are soothing and calming, almost like an ASMR experience that brings a sense of relaxation. You can play however you like — relax and watch quietly, or set up bold tricks and let the marbles rush in large numbers. A marble playground you can enjoy anytime, right on your phone. Roll them again and again, and find your own favorite way to play.

About

Sandspiel

Experiment with a physics sandbox where you can place various elements like sand, water, and fire to observe complex chain reactions. This creative toy encourages exploration and discovery through simulated interactions, offering a calming and reflective play experience.

Highlights
  • Falling sand physics simulation
  • Place diverse interactive elements
  • Observe complex chain reactions
  • Creative sandbox for experimentation
  • Calm reflection and healing gameplay
Features
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Sandspiel is a falling sand physics simulator. It is creative toy where players can place elements (like sand, water, fire, plants, etc.) and watch them interact according to simulated physics rules. The game lets you paint with elements and observe surprisingly complex chain reactions: water flows and pools, fire spreads and consumes, plants grow and creep, sand piles up. It's a sandbox for experimentation with no goals beyond play and discovery. Sandspiel embodies constructivist principles — giving you tools to explore and discover rather than explicit objectives to complete, and facilitates calm reflection and healing.

Screenshots

Simple Marble Run4 screens
Sandspiel3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sandspiel at 90% against Simple Marble Run's 17%. Sandspiel also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). Simple Marble Run's advantage is ratings volume (269 vs 19). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sandspiel holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Marble Run has 269 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Simple Marble Run's written reviews are positive against 90% of Sandspiel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Marble Run ships an update every 6 weeks, Sandspiel daily. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Simple Marble Run versus Sandspiel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Marble RunSandspiel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (269 ratings)4.8 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings269 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size193 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermonois Inc.Max Bittker

Customer experience

Simple Marble Run

All ratings260 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

Sandspiel

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Marble Run

No in-app purchases

None

Sandspiel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Marble Run free?
Simple Marble Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sandspiel free?
Sandspiel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simple Marble Run or Sandspiel?
Sandspiel is rated higher. Simple Marble Run averages 4.4 out of 5 from 269 ratings, while Sandspiel averages 4.8 from 19 ratings.
Do Simple Marble Run or Sandspiel have ads?
Simple Marble Run shows ads; Sandspiel does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Marble Run or Sandspiel?
Simple Marble Run ships an update every 6 weeks, and Sandspiel daily. Most recently, Simple Marble Run was updated on November 12, 2026 and Sandspiel on November 5, 2026.

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