Comparison

Sand Clear vs Pixel Break

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

Head to head
About

Sand Clear

A relaxing puzzle game where you strategically collect colored sand to reveal beautiful sand art. Plan your moves carefully to avoid filling your collection belt and unlock special items to overcome challenges.

Highlights
  • Satisfying sand physics and ASMR-like visuals
  • Hundreds of sand art levels
  • Strategic bucket queue planning
  • Unlockable buckets and boosters
  • Offline play
Features
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Experience the most satisfying sand-clearing puzzle game! Welcome to Sand Clear:Color Match, an addictive casual game where you collect vibrant falling sand to reveal the empty canvas behind beautiful sand art. Look at the magnificent sand art at the top of your screen. Your goal? Clear it completely! Tap the colored buckets at the bottom to send them to the collection belt. Watch in awe as the matching colored sand elegantly cascades down and fills your buckets. But be careful—your collection belt has limited space! You must plan your moves strategically to catch all the sand without running out of slots. Features: Satisfying Sand Physics: Tap a bucket and watch the colored sand beautifully flow down into it. The visual effect of the sand art slowly dissolving is incredibly relaxing and ASMR-like! Hundreds of Sand Art Levels: Endless challenges with various sand art designs. Clear them all, layer by layer! Brain-Teasing Strategy: Plan your bucket queue carefully! Make sure your collection belt doesn't fill up with mismatched buckets. Unlock Hidden Buckets & Boosters: Collect keys to unlock special mystery buckets and use powerful boosters to clear difficult levels with huge combos. Play Anywhere, Anytime: No Wi-Fi required! Enjoy the satisfying sand-catching fun offline whenever you want. Download Sand Catch: Color Match now and enjoy the ultimate sand-clearing puzzle experience!

About

Pixel Break

This puzzle game combines picture-shattering mechanics with bus parking and color sorting. Tap to place buses, trigger breaks, and collect falling pixel blocks while managing vehicle capacity. Unlock beautiful retro pixel art as you clear levels.

Highlights
  • Picture-shattering puzzle mechanics
  • Bus parking and color sorting
  • Vehicle capacity management
  • Retro pixel art collection
  • Logic-based strategy gameplay
  • Satisfying ASMR cube drops
Features
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Watch it break, catch the drop! Pixel Break: Bus Sort Puzzle completely flips the sorting genre with high-energy, picture-shattering mechanics. Dive into a puzzle game where retro pixel illustrations collapse into cascading cubes, and a fleet of colorful buses is waiting to collect them all! SHATTER, DROP, AND COLLECT Every level starts with a vibrant pixel art masterpiece. Tap to place your buses into limited parking slots, trigger the break, and watch matching color blocks rain down into the vehicles. Manage each car's capacity countdown carefully—once a vehicle reaches 0, it drives away, opening up a crucial spot for the next wave! WHY YOU’LL LOVE PIXEL BREAK: * INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY: A thrilling twist combining picture-breaking action with classic parking management. * PURE LOGIC STRATEGY: Think steps ahead. Pick the wrong bus sequence, and your parking lot will face an irreversible gridlock. * SATISFYING ASMR CUBE DROPS: Feel the satisfaction as hundreds of colorful blocks smoothly cascade into their matching seats. * VIBRANT ART GALLERY: Successfully clear the board to unlock and collect beautiful, retro-style pixel illustrations. If you love color sorting, parking puzzles, and highly visual brain teasers, this is your next mobile addiction. Download now and join the break!

Screenshots

Sand Clear4 screens
Pixel Break4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sand Clear and Pixel Break both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 27% of Pixel Break's written reviews are positive against 14% of Sand Clear's. Pixel Break also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 240). Sand Clear's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Clear sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Pixel Break sells 17 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Sand Clear against 4.6 for Pixel Break. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 240 and 1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 14% of Sand Clear's written reviews are positive against 27% of Pixel Break's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sand Clear versus Pixel Break: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSand ClearPixel Break
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (240 ratings) — better4.6 (1K ratings)
Positive reviews14.0% of reviews27.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2401K — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB382 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEASY HESY TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDminthu minthu

Customer experience

Sand Clear

All ratings154 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive14.0%
Neutral18.6%
Negative67.4%

Pixel Break

All ratings1,041 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral3.6%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive27.0%
Neutral8.1%
Negative64.9%

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Sand Clear

One-time12
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Coins Tier 1$1.99
  • Speedup Pack$3.99
Show 9 more
  • Comeback Pack$5.99
  • Coins Tier 2$7.99
  • No Ads Permanent$7.99
  • Small Pack$9.99
  • No Ads Bundle$12.99
  • Coins Tier 3$14.99
  • Coins Tier 4$32.99
  • Coins Tier 5$57.99
  • Coins Tier 6$99.99
17 purchases

Pixel Break

One-time17
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Gold 1$1.99
  • Fail Offer 1$3.99
Show 14 more
  • Fail Offer 2$5.99
  • Battle pass$6.99
  • Remove ads$6.99
  • Gold 2$7.99
  • Small Bundle$9.99
  • Fail Offer 3$9.99
  • Gold 3$13.99
  • Fail Offer 4$14.99
  • Medium Bundle$19.99
  • Fail Offer 5$19.99
  • Fail Offer 6$29.99
  • Gold 4$33.99
  • Gold 5$50.99
  • Gold 6$89.99

Questions

Is Sand Clear free?
Sand Clear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Break free?
Pixel Break is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sand Clear or Pixel Break?
Sand Clear is rated higher. Sand Clear averages 4.7 out of 5 from 240 ratings, while Pixel Break averages 4.6 from 1K ratings.
Do Sand Clear or Pixel Break have ads?
Both Sand Clear and Pixel Break show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sand Clear or Pixel Break?
Sand Clear ships an update weekly, and Pixel Break weekly. Most recently, Sand Clear was updated on October 25, 2026 and Pixel Break on October 26, 2026.

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