Sand Art Magic vs Map Duel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sand Art Magic
Create captivating sand animations with this addictive game. It enhances emotional stability, fine motor skills, and logic while relieving stress. Suitable for all ages, you can draw solo or with friends and share your creations online.
- Sand animation creation
- Enhances emotional stability
- Improves fine motor skills
- Develops logic and memory
- Stress relief
- Multiplayer drawing
- Social sharing
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"Sand Magic" - an app for creating sand animation. It’s totally addictive game that enhance emotional stability & fine motor skills. Steeled memory & logic, relieves stress. And also - it’s just a lot of fun! "Sand Magic" - developed for a wide audience, intuitive & easy to use so that makes it suitable for both, kids & adults! You can draw something on your own or with your friends. Share your artworks in social networks. With "Sand Magic" - sand animation will always be with you! Find yourself a new world! A world full of new emotions, tons of fun & wide smiles! Find yourself a "Sand Magic"! The application used the music from the song "My cheerful ringing ball" musical project "3.142", by Michael Peskov.
Map Duel
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A race against time and a test of your geographical knowledge. "Map Duel" - your ticket around the world! In exciting duels, you search for well-known places on the world map. Whether it's famous cities, towering mountains, or deep lakes - your geographical knowledge will be put to the test. In three exciting rounds, you have to find three places on the world map each. The player with the crosshair closest to the searched location gets a point. Whoever reaches at least five points first wins the game! Challenge your friends and find out who the true world champion is!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Map Duel at every 9 days against Sand Art Magic's every 4 weeks. Sand Art Magic's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Sand Art Magic sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Map Duel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sand Art Magic ships an update every 4 weeks, Map Duel every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sand Art Magic | Map Duel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Bolshanin | Sebastian Stadtlich |
In-app purchases
Sand Art Magic
- Remove advertisements$0.99
- Buy full version$1.99
Map Duel
- Remove Ads$3.99
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