Comparison

Chembox Sandbox vs Grainfall

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

Head to head
About

Chembox Sandbox

Experiment with chemical reactions in a virtual sandbox. Drag and drop elements to create explosions, fire, and discover surprising interactions. Explore all 118 periodic table elements with realistic physics and visual effects.

Highlights
  • Real-time chemical reactions
  • All 118 periodic table elements
  • Physics-based particle systems
  • Stunning visual effects
  • Interactive element mixing
  • Explosion and fire simulation
Features
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Drag and drop chemicals onto the canvas and watch them react in real time! Mix hydrogen with oxygen, cause explosions, create fire, build with elements, and discover surprising reactions. With all 118 periodic table elements, physics-based particle systems, and stunning visual effects, ChemBox transforms the periodic table into an interactive playground of discovery.

About

Grainfall

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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.

Screenshots

Chembox Sandbox1 screens
Grainfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Grainfall at Free against Chembox Sandbox's $0.99. Chembox Sandbox's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, 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

Grainfall is free to download; Chembox Sandbox costs $0.99 up front. Grainfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chembox Sandbox asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Chembox Sandbox versus Grainfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChembox SandboxGrainfall
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB23 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAGIGUI LLCJohn Haas

In-app purchases

None

Chembox Sandbox

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Grainfall

One-time1
  • Grainfall Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Chembox Sandbox free?
Chembox Sandbox costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grainfall free?
Grainfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chembox Sandbox or Grainfall have ads?
Neither Chembox Sandbox nor Grainfall shows ads.

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