Comparison

Sandbox Draw vs Space Particles

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

Head to head
About

Sandbox Draw

Features
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Sandbox Draw turns your iPhone into a tray of soft, sunlit sand. Drag a finger and the surface carves into a real groove with a shadow along its low edge β€” not a painted-on line. Press harder for a deeper groove. Press hard enough and the device responds with continuous haptic feedback that tracks your stroke. Dig deep enough and a colorful pattern bleeds through from underneath, different every session. Tap the refresh button to smooth the sand flat and start over with a brand-new color world below. Tap the share button at any moment to save or send your drawing. Features - Real-time pressure-sensitive sand drawing, 120 Hz on ProMotion devices - Haptic feedback on the hardest presses - A surprise of color revealed at the bottom of every deep groove - One-tap refresh, one-tap share to Photos, Messages, AirDrop, and more - No accounts, no ads, no data collection A small, quiet app. Draw, smooth, draw again.

About

Space Particles

Features
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Space Particles is a touch-driven visual sandbox for exploring motion, gravity, and light. Start with a live field of glowing particles, then shape it with gravity wells, repulsion, pulses, stir tools, vortices, and erase or freeze interactions. Switch between presets like spiral galaxies, binary systems, collisions, rings, streams, lattices, and nova-style bursts, or tune the simulation yourself. Particle Mode focuses on gravity-driven motion and emergent patterns. Firework Mode turns the same canvas into a configurable spark launcher with adjustable spread, trail length, gravity, drag, color, size, and lifetime. Built for quick experimentation: - Touch and drag directly on the canvas - Choose particle counts, speed, bounds, trails, colors, and visual themes - Toggle between performance and quality settings - Capture screenshots of scenes you create - Share scene links from the web version Space Particles is for anyone who likes visualizers, creative coding, particle systems, physics toys, generative art, or just watching a screen fill with organized chaos.

Screenshots

Sandbox Draw3 screens
Space Particles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sandbox Draw at none against Space Particles's 1. Sandbox Draw also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 8 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Space Particles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sandbox Draw asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sandbox Draw ships an update daily, Space Particles every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on April 30, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Sandbox Draw versus Space Particles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSandbox DrawSpace Particles
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily β€” betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVadim NovitskiiBrandon Schabel

In-app purchases

None

Sandbox Draw

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Space Particles

One-time1
  • Space Particles Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Sandbox Draw free?
Sandbox Draw is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Particles free?
Space Particles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sandbox Draw or Space Particles have ads?
Neither Sandbox Draw nor Space Particles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sandbox Draw or Space Particles?
Sandbox Draw ships an update daily, and Space Particles every 8 days. Most recently, Sandbox Draw was updated on April 30, 2026 and Space Particles on September 13, 2026.

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