Comparison

MotorDex vs Armor Sandbox

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

Head to head
About

MotorDex

Instantly identify any car from a photo with AI. Track your car spotting, build a virtual garage, and collect vehicles ranked by rarity. Enjoy a retro arcade experience while discovering rare and exotic cars.

Highlights
  • AI car scanner and identifier
  • Vehicle spotting tracker
  • Virtual car garage builder
  • Gamified rarity tiers
  • Retro arcade aesthetics
  • Cloud sync for collection
Features
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MotorDex turns car spotting into a collecting game. See a car you love on the street, at a car show or in a parking lot, snap a photo, and our AI suggests its make and model. Then it mints into a Catch Card for your garage, with estimated specs, a rarity tier and its own serial number. Wondering "what car is that?" Snap it. MotorDex identifies 2,000+ car models from a photo, from everyday commuters to hypercars. The AI can make mistakes, especially with rare classics and lookalikes, so you can tap WRONG CAR? TRY AGAIN, report a bad match, or request a car that isn't in the dex yet. At heart MotorDex is a retro-arcade collection game. Every model has a rarity tier, from Common to Mythic. Catch a daily driver, or track down Legendary and Mythic supercars to earn XP, level up your Spotter License and take on daily challenges. There's a monthly leaderboard too. Features: AI Car Identifier: Snap a photo, or pick one you took, and the AI suggests the make and model. Your card shows estimated specs like horsepower, 0-60, top speed, original price and market value, plus a short write-up about the car. Car Spotting Tracker: Each catch is logged in your collection, so you can look back at the cars you've found. Build Your Digital Garage: Keep your catches in your own virtual garage. Filter by make, class or rarity, and sort by dex number, name, rarity or date. Gamified Rarity Tiers: Six tiers, Common to Mythic. Each catch is also graded on its own, so the exact trim you catch can outrank the base model. Exotics, muscle cars and rare imports are the finds worth bragging about. Retro Arcade Vibe: Pixel art, nostalgic custom sound design and classic gaming style while you build your automotive library. Spot With Friends: Add friends with a friend code and see their catches in your feed. Report and block are built in. Map Your Spots: Turn on location and your catches are pinned on your own map. Location stays off for players under 16. Spot safely: never use your phone while driving, and respect private property. MotorDex is free to download and play, with no ads inside the app. Your garage holds 100 cards on the free plan. MotorDex Pro (optional) removes the 100-card collection limit and adds batch import, burst mode and an extra AI double-check on tough finds. Subscription options: Pro Monthly or Pro Annual, both auto-renewing. Prices are shown before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. MotorDex is an independent game. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any car manufacturer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://motordexgame.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://motordexgame.com/privacy.html

About

Armor Sandbox

Explore realistic 2D physics simulations of destruction and ballistics. Experiment with over 110 materials, 70 projectiles, and 90 targets, including detailed vehicle cutaways. Create and share your own designs with a vibrant community.

Highlights
  • Realistic 2D physics engine
  • Material property simulation
  • Ballistics and destruction effects
  • Extensive material and projectile library
  • Detailed vehicle cutaways
  • Customizable target and projectile creation
  • Circuitry and electrical simulation
Currently charting
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Armor Sandbox is a 2D physics sandbox and ballistics simulator. Pick something to shoot, pick something to shoot at, and watch what actually happens: armor penetration, ricochets, spalling, fire and explosions, all from real physics. Nothing here is a canned animation. Every armor plate, every projectile and every fragment is made of particles that carry real material properties: density, strength, toughness, melting point, heat capacity. Deformation, fracture, spalling, heat, fire and detonation all come from those numbers. Swap the steel for glass and it shatters instead of denting, because glass is brittle, not because somebody drew a shatter effect. NEW: THE SCI-FI EXPANSION Black holes, antimatter, lasers and the end of the universe, running on the same physics as everything else. 15 new materials, from a black hole generator, antimatter and lasers to strange matter, a force field, hyper-acid, a fusion core, a false vacuum and neutronium. Paint them into any target or projectile. The built-in sci-fi scenes are free to watch. The expansion is an optional one-time in-app purchase and works without the full version. TANK ARMOR PENETRATION Fire an APFSDS dart at a Leopard 2, a HEAT round at a T-72 with reactive armor, or a rifle bullet at a steel plate, and the ballistics decide the result: how deep it goes, whether it ricochets, and what the spall does inside the tank. WHAT IS IN IT • 110+ materials: steels, aluminium alloys, tungsten, uranium, ceramics and glass, concrete and stone, wood, rubber, water, fuel, explosives, nuclear materials and working electrical parts • 70 projectiles: pistol and rifle bullets, APFSDS long rods, shaped charges, HESH, railgun slugs and three detailed missiles • 90+ targets: armor plates, layered armor, deep blocks, ballistic gelatin, bunkers and circuits • 36 tank and vehicle cutaways: T-34-85, Tiger I, Panther, Sherman, IS-2, T-55, M103, T-72 with and without reactive armor, M1A2 Abrams, Leopard 2A6, Challenger 2, BMP-1, M113 and more, plus cars, trucks, a bus, a tractor, a fighter jet and attack helicopters, each with its real armor, ammunition, fuel and engine inside • 60+ ready-made experiments, from a ricochet to a chain of nuclear explosions MAKE YOUR OWN Paint projectiles and targets pixel by pixel, choosing the material of every pixel. Mirror, outline, replace, snap to a grid. Save them to your library and share a design with a friend, or with the community Workshop, as a single small file. WIRE IT UP Batteries, capacitors, switches, sensors and delay lines. Current goes only where you drew a path. HEAR IT, RECORD IT Impacts, explosions, fire and projectiles flying past all sound like the material and the speed. Record your shots as video and share them. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS, NO TRACKING There are no ads and no account. Nothing you build leaves your device unless you export it yourself. FREE, AND FULL Watching is free. Every built-in experiment runs in full, explosives, nuclear devices, circuits and the sci-fi scenes included, and so does every vehicle and every material a preset uses. The full version is for making things: painting with energetic, nuclear and electrical materials, editing the properties of every material, a library without the five-per-kind limit, exporting your designs, and the Extreme and Maximum quality levels. One payment, no subscription. The Sci-Fi Expansion is sold separately, and the Everything bundle includes the full version and the expansion. Available in English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Chinese. Armor Sandbox is a physics simulation made for curiosity. Everything happens to particles in a 2D cross-section, and nothing in it is a guide to building anything real.

Screenshots

MotorDex4 screens
Armor Sandbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Armor Sandbox at daily against MotorDex's weekly. Armor Sandbox also leads on chart position (#100 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). MotorDex's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (822 vs 114). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. MotorDex sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Armor Sandbox sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MotorDex holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MotorDex has 822 ratings behind it against 114, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 88% and 88% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MotorDex ships an update weekly, Armor Sandbox daily. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
MotorDex versus Armor Sandbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMotorDexArmor Sandbox
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (822 ratings) — better4.5 (114 ratings)
Positive reviews87.6% of reviews — better87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings822 — better114
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#100 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB14 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperMatteo FarinacciVitor Japiassu

Customer experience

MotorDex

All ratings822 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.7%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews121 reviews
Positive87.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative8.3%

Armor Sandbox

All ratings109 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative7.5%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MotorDex

Subscriptions2
  • MotorDex Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • MotorDex Pro — Annual$19.991 Year
3 purchases

Armor Sandbox

One-time3
  • Sci-Fi Expansion$2.99
  • Armor Sandbox Complete$8.99
  • Everything: Complete + Sci-Fi$9.99

Questions

Is MotorDex free?
MotorDex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Armor Sandbox free?
Armor Sandbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MotorDex or Armor Sandbox?
MotorDex is rated higher. MotorDex averages 4.9 out of 5 from 822 ratings, while Armor Sandbox averages 4.5 from 114 ratings.
Do MotorDex or Armor Sandbox have ads?
Neither MotorDex nor Armor Sandbox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MotorDex or Armor Sandbox?
MotorDex ships an update weekly, and Armor Sandbox daily. Most recently, MotorDex was updated on November 10, 2026 and Armor Sandbox on November 10, 2026.

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