Play Water 2 vs Elemental Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Water 2
This educational game allows children to interact with water physics by drawing lines to guide its flow, erasing obstacles, and manipulating faucets. It encourages creativity and imagination through a colorful and dynamic water simulation.
- Draw lines to change water flow
- Erase lines and obstacles
- Move and adjust faucets
- Change water color
- Tilt device to observe water movement
- Remove all drawn lines
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◆◇◆ kids free educational apps ◆◇◆ Let's play this app with your kids? The "Play Water 2" app, through the water colorful to the movement, such as the real water, it is a kids educational app free to nurture a rich imagination! ◆◇◆ How to play ◆◇◆ ▽ Let's change the flow of water! You can draw a black line and slid a finger by touching the screen. To become an obstacle in the water, this black line can change the flow of water. You can try a slow flow of water by drawing a slope, or try to reservoir water to draw a cup, how to play are endless! ▽ Try to remove the black line with an eraser! By pressing the button pencil, pencil and eraser mode will switch between modes. You can now draw a black line with a pencil mode, turn off the black line drawn in eraser mode. Let's open the hole with an eraser in the reservoir water cup! You will look as if stabbed a needle into the water balloon though, is the movement of water interesting. ▽ Try to move the faucet! When sliding the finger while touching the faucet, you can move the faucet! ▽ Let's increase or decrease the faucet! You can increase the faucet by pressing the button faucet. The color of the water flowing from the tap is switched to random. You can turn off the faucet by tapping twice in a row the faucet. ▽ Let's tilting the device! This app will detect the tilt of the device. Tilt around the device, let's observe the movement of the flow of the water! ▽ Try to remove the black lines! By pressing the button on the top right, you can turn off the black lines all drawn on the screen. ◆◇◆ Review ◆◇◆ Opinions as a parent, such as opinions and requests from children, By all means, please tell us by in review!!
Elemental Box
Engage in a sandbox game focused on realistic physical simulations. Experiment with various shapes and materials to observe their unique interactions and transformations. This app offers a creative space for exploration and discovery through physics.
- Physical simulation
- Material interaction
- Shape manipulation
- Sandbox gameplay
- Real-time physics
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Physical simulation game that enjoys real physical operation of each shape and change in each material.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Elemental Box at 4.2 against Play Water 2's 3.7. Elemental Box also leads on ratings volume (65 vs 3) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Play Water 2's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Elemental Box holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elemental Box has 65 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Play Water 2's written reviews are positive against 72% of Elemental Box's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Play Water 2 ships an update every 8 days, Elemental Box every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Play Water 2 | Elemental Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.2 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 72.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fun & Cool Ventures K.K. | DAN-BALL |
Customer experience
Play Water 2
Elemental Box
In-app purchases
Play Water 2
No in-app purchases
Elemental Box
No in-app purchases
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