Spacetime Sprint vs Quantum 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spacetime Sprint
Race through space, dodging obstacles at light speed while learning STEM principles. Work with historical scientists, enhance your gameplay with collected bits, and build your IQ to unlock new features. Recruit friends to assist in your cosmic journey.
- Learn STEM principles
- Work with famous scientists
- Explore Hubble images
- Collect bits to enhance gameplay
- Build IQ and unlock features
- Recruit friends as assistants
- Activate Power-Up Particles
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Launch a scientist across the cosmos at near light speed — and try not to slow down. SpaceTime Sprint is a one-thumb arcade runner built on real physics. Steer left and right to weave through asteroids, black holes, and the strangest phenomena in the universe. Every hit drags you below light speed; stay clean to keep your distance climbing. DODGE THE UNIVERSE Solar flares, pulsars, quasars, gravitational lensing, quantum tunnelling, dark matter, supernovae and more — each is its own hand-crafted set piece with its own trick to read and beat. Discover new theories as you run and they unlock in your codex. A LAB THAT'S YOURS Between runs, explore your laboratory. Spend the Bits you collect on power-up particles, new scientists to fly, galaxy backdrops, and playful lab gadgets — tap the disco ball, the Tesla coil, Schrödinger's cat box, and more. POWER-UP PARTICLES Stock particles like the Neutrino, Electron, Higgs Boson, Dark Matter and Antimatter, then grab them mid-run for a burst of speed, double Bits, a shield, a Bit magnet, or a clean sweep of the field. LEARN AS YOU PLAY Every theory comes with a plain-English explainer and a literal how-to-play. Guided walk-throughs teach you the lab and the controls. It's an arcade game with a physics degree. CHASE THE LEADERBOARD Bank your furthest Light-second distance and your biggest single-run Bit haul, and climb the boards. FEATURES • One-thumb arcade controls — tap or tilt • Over 50 physics-themed set pieces to discover • A living lab to explore and upgrade • Collectible power-up particles • Unlockable scientists and galaxy backdrops • Practice mode for any theory you've found • Procedural music and sound, no ads, no nonsense No account, no internet required. Just you, a scientist, and the speed of light.
Quantum 3
An educational match-3 game that blends fun gameplay with quantum physics concepts. Players match quarks to build subatomic particles and learn about fundamental physics mysteries. It's a great introduction to particle physics for all ages.
- Match-3 gameplay
- Learn quantum physics
- Build subatomic particles
- Explore fundamental physics
- Puzzle-solving mechanics
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Quantum 3 is an educational match-3 game for all ages where fun meets quantum physics! Build subatomic particles, learn about the mysteries of fundamental physics and deploy antimatter to clear the way! You'll match and swap quarks to make (and learn about) the baryons you need for each objective. Puzzle out the quantum properties of color, flavor and spin. So get in there and start your quantum-venture! Quantum 3 is puzzle-matching at its finest and a great intro to the world of particle physics! The game is free-to-play with no in-app purchases. The game is developed at Michigan State University by the Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab and is funded under grant PHY 1653405 by the National Science Foundation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spacetime Sprint at every 3 days against Quantum 3's every 16 months. Quantum 3's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spacetime Sprint against 5.0 for Quantum 3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quantum 3 has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Spacetime Sprint ships an update every 3 days, Quantum 3 every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spacetime Sprint | Quantum 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joshua Fair | Brian Winn |
Customer experience
Spacetime Sprint
Quantum 3
In-app purchases
Spacetime Sprint
No in-app purchases
Quantum 3
No in-app purchases
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