Comparison

Sand Loop vs Gate Master

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

Head to head
About

Sand Loop

Engage in a relaxing puzzle game where you guide buckets to collect colored sand. Watch as the sand flows with realistic physics to reveal beautiful artwork. Enjoy a calming escape with intuitive controls and hundreds of handcrafted levels.

Highlights
  • Sand collection puzzle gameplay
  • Realistic sand physics
  • Hundreds of handcrafted levels
  • Intuitive tap controls
  • Visually satisfying sand flow
  • Hidden artwork reveals
Features
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Sand Loop is a relaxing sand sort puzzle: a finished sand artwork is sitting in front of you, and your job is to collect every grain of it. Guide the buckets along the conveyor, pour each color into the one that matches, and let real sand physics do the rest. Take the whole picture apart, color by color, until the board is clear. Relax and unwind after a long day, or take one level at a time on the go. How to play: - Tap to release a bucket and send it down the conveyor - Each color of sand gets poured into the bucket that matches - Work through the artwork until every grain is collected - Place your buckets strategically to solve the puzzle - Clear the board and enjoy the payoff Easy to pick up, genuinely tricky by level 100! Why you'll love it: The sweet spot between a brain teaser and a stress-relief game. Simple taps, beautiful results, steady progress, sand physics and ASMR-style sounds that make every level worth watching. Game features: - A sand sort puzzle built on a loop: timing matters, not just matching - Real sand physics: every grain pours, piles and settles - Hundreds of handcrafted levels, with more in every update - Fresh obstacles and twists that keep changing how you solve - A different sand artwork to take apart in every level - Soft ASMR-style sand sounds and a calm, colorful art style - Free to play, with no countdown timer on any level - Limited-time events to take part in when you feel competitive It never settles into one trick. Just as you get comfortable, a level changes the rules on you - a new obstacle, a new way the sand behaves, a new reason the order you pour in suddenly matters. There is a fresh twist every couple of weeks, so the game you are playing in a month is not the one you downloaded. Hundreds of levels in, it is still finding ways to surprise you. Take a moment for yourself. Let the sand flow. Download Sand Loop for free and start sorting.

About

Gate Master

Features
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The town has lost its power! The lamps are dark, the bank vault is locked, and the traffic lights have gone out. Travel from region to region with your guide Wire, fix the circuits and bring the town's lights back on. Gate Master is a puzzle game played with real logic gates. Every level shows a real device at the top of the screen: a night light, a doorbell, an elevator, a traffic light. Below it sits the circuit board. Drop the right gate into each empty slot, press Test and watch whether the device works in every case. MEET THE GATES Every gate has a face and a personality: AND with its glasses, OR with its little sprout, NOT who flips everything around, NAND in a cape, XOR with a crown... When their output is 1 their faces light up, and at 0 they doze off. Each new gate arrives with its own intro card. BUILD, PREDICT, FIND THE FAULT Levels don't always ask for the same thing: • Build: place gates in the slots, and sometimes choose where a wire goes • Predict: look at the circuit. Will the lamp turn on or stay off? • Set the switches: flip the inputs to reach the goal • Find the fault: spot the wrong gate and swap it • Only these gates: copy one gate using just one kind of gate • Machine: a big circuit at the end of every region 10 REGIONS, 200 LEVELS Home, Bank, Apartment, Greenhouse, Factory, Stairs, Workshop, School, Traffic and Clock Tower. You start with a single wire and a NOT gate. After AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR come binary numbers, adders, a 7-segment display, selectors, decoders and, at the very end, memory and counters. The challenge grows step by step, and every level was checked to be solvable. TEST IT, WATCH THE LIST The Test button tries every input combination in turn, filling the list of tries row by row. You see exactly which case went wrong. In the first levels the list uses pictures, and 0 and 1 come later. LIGHT UP THE TOWN As you repair the circuits, dark devices switch on one by one and the town lights up region by region. STARS AND HINTS Every level has 3 stars: solve it, get it right on the first Test, and finish without hints. Stuck? Wire can help. Hints are paid for with coins you earn by finishing levels, or you can watch a short ad to get one. PHONE AND TABLET Plays in landscape. On tablets the circuit board and the list of tries sit side by side, and everything is bigger. Plays without an internet connection too. PRIVACY AND ADS • The game is free and needs reading. Menus and Wire's guidance come in 17 languages; the level stories are in English and Turkish. • No ads in the first 4 levels. From level 5, an interstitial ad may appear only after a level is finished, at most once every 3 levels and at least 3 minutes apart. Never in the middle of a level. • Ads are not personalized and are limited to content rated G (general audiences). The app never asks for tracking permission. • Optional purchases: 5 hints, 20 hints and Remove Ads. Every purchase and restore goes through a parental gate. • No account and no analytics. Progress is saved on the device only. Wire is waiting. Let's light up the town together!

Screenshots

Sand Loop4 screens
Gate Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Gate Master at every 3 days against Sand Loop's fortnightly. Sand Loop's advantage is chart position (#96 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Sand Loop sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Gate Master sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sand Loop ships an update fortnightly, Gate Master every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Sand Loop versus Gate Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSand LoopGate Master
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (22K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews17.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#96 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size393 MB34 MB
Age rating+49+
DeveloperVoodooSarper Isık

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Sand Loop

One-time16
  • Coin Pack 1$1.99
  • Happy Hour$3.99
  • Special Offer$4.99
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  • Sand Loop Offer$5.99
  • Coin Pack 2$7.99
  • No Ads$7.99
  • Sand Loop Offer$9.99
  • Sandy Essentials$9.99
  • Sandy Pass$9.99
  • No Ads Bundle2 variants$12.99
  • Sand Loop Offer$14.99
  • Coin Pack 3$14.99
  • Sandy Gift$19.99
  • Sandy Treasures$29.99
  • Coin Pack 5$54.99
  • Coin Pack 6$99.99
3 purchases

Gate Master

One-time3
  • 5 Hints$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • 20 Hints$2.49

Questions

Is Sand Loop free?
Sand Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gate Master free?
Gate Master is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sand Loop or Gate Master have ads?
Both Sand Loop and Gate Master show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sand Loop or Gate Master?
Sand Loop ships an update fortnightly, and Gate Master every 3 days. Most recently, Sand Loop was updated on October 29, 2026 and Gate Master on October 24, 2026.

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