Comparison

Magic Sand Sort vs Glissa

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

Head to head
About

Magic Sand Sort

Features
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Colored sand falls from pixel art. Catch it in the right cauldron. Sort every color. Watch beautiful pixel art pictures dissolve into streams of colored sand. Cauldrons slide along a conveyor below—match each one to the right color and fill it before the sand runs out. Simple to start. Mesmerizing to watch. Surprisingly tricky to perfect. Why It's So Addictive • Sand flows with smooth, satisfying physics • Hidden color layers reveal as the picture dissolves • Levels get faster, tighter, and more colorful • The perfect sort is always possible—you just have to find it What You Get • Hundreds of levels with unique pixel art designs • Magical cauldrons, sparkling effects, and enchanting visuals • Helpful tools: undo, extra cauldrons, reveal layers Your Calm, Magical Puzzle Escape No timer. No pressure. Just flowing sand, magical cauldrons, and the perfect color sort. Whether it's a quick zen break or a long relaxing session—every solved level feels like casting a spell. Download now and let the magic sort.

About

Glissa

Features
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Glissa is a calm, glossy puzzle game where gems behave like liquid. Gems of the same colour reach out to each other and fuse into soft, breathing blobs. Swipe a gem one step to join its colour into a blob of four or more, and the blob bursts, pulling together into a single drop before it pops. The board refills from above and new blobs form on their own. Bigger blobs leave something behind: • Five: a glide gem that sends a bar of light along its row, column or diagonal, melting through every gem it passes. • Six: an ink gem that dyes the gems around it into its own colour, so they fuse and burst next. • Seven or more: mercury, a chrome drop that swallows every gem of the colour you swap it with. Swap two special gems together and both go off, stronger. Every scene is drawn live on your phone's graphics chip: the gems are shapes made of light and maths rather than pictures, which is how they can melt into each other so smoothly. • 60 hand-tuned levels with score targets, colours to collect and three stars to earn • Gentle waves of light that roll across the board between moves • Short, satisfying end-of-level bonus (tap to skip) • Sound effects and haptics, each easy to turn off • Plays offline. No ads, no accounts, no data collected

Screenshots

Magic Sand Sort4 screens
Glissa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glissa at none against Magic Sand Sort's 8. Glissa also leads on ads (none vs shown). Magic Sand Sort's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Magic Sand Sort sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Glissa asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Magic Sand Sort versus Glissa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic Sand SortGlissa
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size278 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTripledot StudiosJorge Costa

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Magic Sand Sort

One-time8
  • Small Pack of Coins$1.99
  • Medium Pack of Coins$7.99
  • Small Bundle$9.99
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  • Large Pack of Coins$14.99
  • Medium Bundle$19.99
  • Ultra Bundle$29.99
  • Super Large Pack of Coins$54.99
  • Mega Pack of Coins$99.99
None

Glissa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Magic Sand Sort free?
Magic Sand Sort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glissa free?
Glissa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Magic Sand Sort or Glissa have ads?
Magic Sand Sort shows ads; Glissa does not.

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