Comparison

Sand Up vs Buzzy Flow

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

Head to head
About

Sand Up

Features
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Sand Up is a relaxing 3D sand sorting puzzle where colorful objects melt away piece by piece. Rotate the object, tap matching color pieces, and turn them into flowing sand. Fill bottles, complete sets of three, and clear each target as the sculpture slowly disappears. Plan your moves carefully. If a color has no matching target, its bottle moves into temporary storage. Keep enough space open, manage your colors, and finish the whole object before your slots fill up. Simple to play, satisfying to watch, and full of colorful sand-clearing fun.

About

Buzzy Flow

Features
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Welcome to Buzzy Flow: Bee Pixel Puzzle, a color matching game where busy bees collect pixel flowers and uncover the colors hidden underneath. Your next swarm starts with a choice from the columns below. Tap an available color box, and its bees fly toward the board to gather flowers of the same color. Each box displays a number showing how many flowers its bees need to collect. As matching flowers are gathered, the number counts down. When it reaches zero, the box leaves its slot, making room for your next choice. Four slots connect your choices to the flower board. Keeping them available is part of every solution. A box that still needs flowers continues to occupy a slot. If all four fill with unfinished boxes and no swarm can collect more flowers, you run out of room to continue. READ THE COLORS, PLAN THE ORDER Look at the flowers currently exposed and consider which colors your bees can collect. The boxes below are arranged in columns, so selecting an available box also opens access to the next one behind it. Plan around both the flower board and the upcoming colors. Completing a box frees valuable space, while sending a color too early can leave you with fewer options. Find the sequence that keeps your bees working and your slots available. DISCOVER THE FLOWERS UNDERNEATH The pixel art board has more to reveal than its first pattern. As bees collect flowers, different colors appear underneath, changing what is available to gather. Different parts of the board open as you play, allowing you to reach flowers from multiple layers. A newly exposed color can give an unfinished swarm more flowers to collect. Watch the changing picture and adjust your plan to clear every flower. WHY PLAY BUZZY FLOW? • Release colorful bee swarms from numbered boxes • Match each swarm with flowers of its own color • Manage four slots and complete boxes to free space • Uncover hidden flowers throughout the layered board • Open the next boxes in each column • Solve pixel puzzles through color matching and careful planning Buzzy Flow combines flower puzzles, colorful pixel art, and a strategy challenge built around limited space. Each completed box gives you room to work, and each newly exposed flower can change your next decision. Read the board, choose your colors, and help your bees collect every flower.

Screenshots

Sand Up4 screens
Buzzy Flow4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sand Up and Buzzy Flow are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sand Up ships an update every 2 days, Buzzy Flow every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sand Up versus Buzzy Flow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSand UpBuzzy Flow
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size264 MB161 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFat Cat With a HatRadiant Cat Studio

In-app purchases

None

Sand Up

No in-app purchases

None

Buzzy Flow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sand Up free?
Sand Up is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Buzzy Flow free?
Buzzy Flow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sand Up or Buzzy Flow have ads?
Both Sand Up and Buzzy Flow show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sand Up or Buzzy Flow?
Sand Up ships an update every 2 days, and Buzzy Flow every 3 days. Most recently, Sand Up was updated on October 31, 2026 and Buzzy Flow on October 31, 2026.

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