Earth Sandbox vs Grainfall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Earth Sandbox
Explore the dynamic evolution of a planet by altering its core systems like climate and gravity. Trigger natural events and observe real-time population and ecosystem trends. This experimental simulation game offers unique outcomes with every interaction.
- Earth-focused environmental simulation
- Interconnected climate and planetary systems
- Dynamic natural events
- Real-time population and ecosystem trends
- Interactive experimentation tools
- Clean visuals and intuitive controls
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Earth Sandbox is an experimental simulation game centered on Earth itself. Instead of following a fixed story or objective, the game invites you to explore how a planet reacts when its core systems are changed. Climate, gravity, oceans, and atmosphere interact dynamically, creating unique outcomes every time you experiment. You can adjust environmental conditions, trigger natural events, or push the planet into extreme states. Rising temperatures may reshape ecosystems, shifting gravity alters planetary balance, and sudden disasters can permanently change the world you observe. Natural events such as meteor impacts, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and global climate shifts are part of the simulation. Each event influences the planet differently depending on existing conditions, encouraging experimentation rather than repetition. The simulation is driven by interconnected systems inspired by scientific principles. Population trends, environmental stability, and planetary conditions evolve in real time, allowing you to observe long-term consequences of your actions. Features: • Earth-focused environmental simulation • Interconnected climate and planetary systems • Dynamic natural events and long-term world changes • Real-time population and ecosystem trends • Interactive tools designed for experimentation • Clean visuals with intuitive controls How will your choices shape the future of this Earth? Icon by orvipixel from www.flaticon.com Icon by Freepik from www.flaticon.com Icon by Solid Icon Co from www.flaticon.com Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay Sound Effect by Universfield from Pixabay Sound Effect by Kalvin C from Pixabay Sound Effect by Jeremay Jimenez from Pixabay Music by Grand_Project from Pixabay Music by Music Unlimited from Pixabay Sound Effect by Matthew Vakalyuk from Pixabay Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grainfall at 5.0 against Earth Sandbox's 2.1. Grainfall also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). Earth Sandbox's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Grainfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Earth Sandbox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grainfall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earth Sandbox has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Earth Sandbox | Grainfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 389 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Heechang Kim | John Haas |
In-app purchases
Earth Sandbox
No in-app purchases
Grainfall
- Grainfall Pro$0.99









