Comparison

Spacebound vs Beadfall

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

Head to head
About

Spacebound

Features
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Spacebound: Track Every Rocket Launch Never miss a launch again โ€“ past, present, or upcoming! โ€ข Follow every liftoff โ€“ live updates in real time โ€ข Explore all launches โ€“ history and future missions in one app โ€ข Build your watchlist โ€“ save the rockets you care about โ€ข Dive into the details โ€“ rockets, payloads, and mission info Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Beadfall

Experience a realistic fidget toy on your wrist. Tilt your watch to make hundreds of beads pour, climb walls, and rain down with real physics. It's a simple, engaging distraction for moments of downtime.

Highlights
  • Real-time physics simulation
  • 900 simulated beads
  • Uses watch motion sensor
  • Standalone watch app
  • No account or network required
  • Complication for quick access
Features
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A small handful of beads, held inside your watch. Tilt your wrist and they fall. Hold still and they settle. Flick it and they climb the wall, break against it, and rain back down. None of this is animation. Nine hundred beads are simulated sixty times a second, pulled by the gravity your wrist is actually moving through. There is nothing to achieve here. No score, no streaks, no levels, no timers, no notifications, no account, and nothing to buy. You paid once; the whole toy is yours. It is a fidget toy for the thing you already wear. Something for your hands during a long call, a slow queue, the boring middle of the day. Watching the beads pour scratches the same itch as bubble wrap, an hourglass, a snow globe. Except this one lives on your wrist and answers every movement you make. WHAT IT IS โ€ข Nine hundred beads, solved on the watch in real time. Real physics, not a looping video โ€ข Sixty frames a second โ€ข Gravity from the watch's own motion sensor, so the beads answer your wrist rather than following a script โ€ข A watch-face complication: one tap from the face, no hunting through the app grid โ€ข Entirely standalone. No iPhone app required WHAT IT ISN'T โ€ข There is no network code in this app. Not disabled, not opt-out. Absent โ€ข No analytics, no accounts, no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions โ€ข Motion readings move the beads, then vanish. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who kept a fidget toy in a desk drawer, pops bubble wrap slowly, or watches bead-pouring videos on loop. If tilting a little box of beads back and forth sounds like nothing, this is not your app. If it sounds like the best thing you'll do in your next meeting, it is. Beadfall is small on purpose. It does one thing, does it honestly, and gets out of the way.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spacebound at Free against Beadfall's $2.99. Beadfall's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Spacebound is free to download; Beadfall costs $2.99 up front. Spacebound sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Beadfall asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Spacebound versus Beadfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpaceboundBeadfall
PriceFree โ€” better$2.99
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
Monetizationโ€”Paid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size18 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert CleggSeven Summits Studio Ltd

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spacebound

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited Access14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Unlimited Access1 Month trial$34.991 Year
None

Beadfall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spacebound free?
Spacebound is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beadfall free?
Beadfall costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spacebound or Beadfall have ads?
Neither Spacebound nor Beadfall shows ads.

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