Comparison

Fill Sand vs Macaron Stack

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

Head to head
About

Fill Sand

This physics-based puzzle game challenges you to clear colored sand from a grid. Strategically place blocks to absorb matching grains, causing the remaining sand to collapse and resettle. Uncover colorful pictures by emptying the entire grid before time runs out.

Highlights
  • Real falling-sand physics
  • One-finger drag controls
  • Colorful pictures to uncover
  • Shape and space planning
  • Quick stages
  • Special block types
Features
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Watch the sand pour. Every single grain moves for real — it falls, it piles, it slides. Drop one block and thousands of colored grains stream in, the picture above breaks apart, and the colors settle somewhere you never planned for. Sand Fill is the oddly satisfying block puzzle where physics does the talking. HOW TO PLAY • Look at the sand picture above — colors, shapes, layers. • Drag a block onto the grid below. • The block drinks up every grain that matches its color. • The rest of the sand collapses and resettles. Read it again. • Empty the whole picture before time runs out. One finger. No tutorial needed. You'll get it in ten seconds. IT'S THE PHYSICS THAT GETS YOU This isn't sand-shaped decoration. Grains fall, stack, avalanche and mix. Clear the red underneath and everything above comes down. Every stage is a little collapse you set off yourself. SPACE IS THE REAL PUZZLE The grid below is small, and blocks come in awkward shapes. Park one badly and you've stolen the room you needed three moves later. Strong players don't place fast — they place last. COLORS DON'T STAY PUT Sand mixes as it falls. That clean band of blue turns speckled halfway down, and now you have to dig for it. Bring your blocks to the sand instead of waiting for the sand to come to you. PUZZLES THAT KEEP CHANGING • Hidden blocks that won't show their color until you clear others • Frozen blocks locked behind ice • Layered blocks hiding a second color underneath • Sliding blocks that travel on one axis only • Locks and keys • A brand-new picture every single stage WHEN YOU'RE STUCK • Freeze — stop the clock and think it through • Hammer — smash one block into single squares and spread them out • Magnet — pull every matching grain straight into one block Save them. You'll want them later. FEATURES • Real falling-sand physics, grain by grain • Simple one-finger drag controls • Colorful pictures to uncover • Shape and space planning that actually matters • Clear goals, quick stages, easy to pick up • No wrong way to start — just drop a block Drop the block. Watch it pour. Clear every grain. Download Sand Fill: Block Puzzle and see how far you can go.

About

Macaron Stack

Features
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Welcome to Macaron Stack, a cozy bakery puzzle about sorting sweet stacks. Macarons come out of the oven in small batches and land on your trays. Move a run of matching macarons from tray to tray. When a tray holds ten of one flavor, they bake together into two macarons of the next flavor, and that can set off a chain. Strawberry becomes pistachio, pistachio becomes blueberry, and on it goes, all the way up to galaxy, aurora and royal. NO ADS There are no ads, no video buttons, no lives and no energy. Play as long as you like. A FAIR OVEN You always see the next batch before you press the oven. It is shaped around the flavors on your counter, and it won't leave you stuck when a kinder batch would do. EVERY LEVEL IS SOLVABLE Every one of the 500 Journey levels is proven solvable, without boosters, by our built-in solver. Each level shows its par, so you know three stars can be done. 500 LEVELS, 8 BAKERIES Travel from Paris Corner to Cloud Castle. New ideas arrive one at a time: small trays, boxed macarons, frosted trays, twin trays, a conveyor and golden orders. Every 10th level is a Grand Order. MORE WAYS TO PLAY • Endless Bakery: climb the flavors as high as you can. • Daily Recipe: the same puzzle for everyone, every day, with a streak and monthly badges. • Relax: a full counter sells itself, and undo is unlimited. • Café Orders: three minutes and a row of hungry pet customers. MAKE IT YOURS Fill a recipe book of 24 flavors, spend your stars on 40 bakery upgrades from bunting to a golden oven, and choose tray, plating and wallpaper styles with coins you earn by playing. There are 39 medals to collect. KIND TO YOU A symbol on every flavor (color-blind friendly), five free undos every level, Reduce Motion, haptics, and gentle music that lets your own music keep playing. It plays offline and saves after every move. No tracking. No accounts. Nothing collected.

Screenshots

Fill Sand4 screens
Macaron Stack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Macaron Stack at none against Fill Sand's 10. Macaron Stack also leads on ads (none vs shown). Fill Sand's advantage is chart position (#106 vs unranked). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Fill Sand sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Macaron Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Fill Sand versus Macaron Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFill SandMacaron Stack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (805 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews22.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings805 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#106 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size510 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStormborn Inc.Muhammad Rizwan

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Fill Sand

One-time10
  • Starter Bundle$1.99
  • 1,000 Coins$1.99
  • Fail Offer$4.99
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  • 5,000 Coins$7.99
  • No Ads$7.99
  • Fail Offer 02$8.99
  • Sand Pass$9.99
  • Small Bundle$9.99
  • 10,000 Coins$14.99
  • Fail Offer 03$14.99
None

Macaron Stack

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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