Earth Editor vs Swipe the Flow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Earth Editor
Create your own world by placing various elements like sand, water, and lava on a gravity field. This simulation game allows for boundless creativity in designing unique planetary landscapes. Explore the possibilities of a sandbox environment where you are the architect of your own planet.
- World creation sandbox
- Gravity field simulation
- Place sand, water, seeds, lava
- Creative planetary design
- Element interaction
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This game is the 21st iOS game for the Web game site "DAN-BALL". A simulation game that creates the Earth using various dots on the field of gravity. There are various dots of sand, water, seeds, lava, and more. Be creative. It's up to you!
Swipe the Flow
Explore fluid dynamics and wind simulation with interactive touch controls. Create mesmerizing visuals, solve physics-based challenges, and import images to shape the flow. Save and share your creations as photos or videos.
- Real-time fluid simulation
- Interactive touch controls
- Photo and logo import
- Multiple simulation modes
- Physics-based challenges
- Photo and video export
- Game Center leaderboards
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Pour water, draw walls, and change the flow with your fingertips. Swipe the Flow is a hands-on playground for water, wind, and smoke. Enjoy the basic features of all five free-play modes and the first five stages of each of the five challenge games for free. Unlock more challenges and premium visuals with Pro—a one-time purchase, not a subscription. NEW CHALLENGE: WIND TARGET Draw walls, then rotate, move, and carve shapes. The arrow shows how hard the wind pushes—keep its tip inside the box to win. Kites, a sailboat, an umbrella, roof luggage, and a bike behind a truck all catch the wind. • Stages 1–5 are free; Pro includes stage 6 onward • Longer arrows mean a stronger push WATER PLAYGROUND Catch water from a faucet and guide it along walls. Add a drain, pour or erase water, and stir it with your finger to build your own waterway. • Move faucets and drains; adjust each one's size, direction, and speed • Build with cups, funnels, photos, and shapes • Tilt your device to move the water and adjust its thickness • Basic features are free, with up to 10 faucets and drains combined FIVE WAYS TO PLAY • Water Playground: Pour water and draw walls to shape its flow. • Smoke Lab: Follow smoke to see invisible air. Adjust each chimney's smoke output and add a Smoke Eraser. • Wind Tunnel: Watch wind split around walls, photos, and logos. Turn on flow lines and wind push indicators to explore what happens. • Liquid Art: Create, push, stretch, and merge liquid drops. Tilt your device to move them. • Swipe the Flow: Swipe across the screen to draw colorful currents and spirals. FIVE CHALLENGE GAMES • Wind Target: Change the shapes to get the tip of the wind's arrow into the box. • Make Waterways: Draw walls and erase holes to send water where you want it. • Wind Paths: Draw walls to guide wind into the target. • Wind Maze: Carve a route and get the wind out before time runs out. • Smoke Delivery: Move chimneys and draw walls to send smoke where you want it. Stages 1–5 are free in each game. Pro includes Wind Paths 6–15, Wind Maze 6–15, Smoke Delivery 6–15, Make Waterways 6–24, and Wind Target 6–18. Try Game Center leaderboards and achievements, then share a photo of your cleared stage and record. CREATE AND SHARE • Import photos and logos, with background removal on your device • Move, resize, and rotate photo and shape layers with editing handles • Choose flow strength, playback speed, colors, and detail • Pause, reset, save photos, record videos, and share • Photos and videos are processed on your device SWIPE THE FLOW PRO One purchase. No subscription. • Challenge stages beyond the free section • No watermarks • More detailed simulation and all premium visual styles • Up to eight photo or shape layers • Up to 20 chimneys and Smoke Erasers combined in Smoke Lab • Up to 20 faucets and drains combined in Water Playground The free version includes one photo or shape layer. Every day, one Pro stage is free at the top of Home in "What will you play today?" Create without a fixed answer, or take on a puzzle with a goal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Earth Editor at none against Swipe the Flow's 4. Earth Editor also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 50%) and ratings volume (924 vs 6). Swipe the Flow's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating 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. Swipe the Flow sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Earth Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Earth Editor against 4.3 for Swipe the Flow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Earth Editor has 924 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Earth Editor's written reviews are positive against 50% of Swipe the Flow's.
Earth Editor ships an update every 4 months, Swipe the Flow every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Earth Editor | Swipe the Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (924 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 924 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAN-BALL | junho kim |
Customer experience
Earth Editor
Swipe the Flow
Bugs and requests
Earth Editor
Reported bugs
3 issues- Black holes causing glitches
- Ice not freezing water properly
- Cloned elements not behaving as expected
Requested features
8 requests- More elements and materials to experiment with
- Ability to save multiple worlds
- Zoom and camera controls
- Realistic physics and behaviors (e.g. sand sinking in water)
- Ability to create life, animals, or civilizations
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- Supernova and star effects
- Atmosphere and weather systems
- Ability to move immobile objects
Swipe the Flow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Earth Editor
No in-app purchases
Swipe the Flow
- Droplet Tip$1.99
- Swipe the Flow Pro$4.99
- Splash Tip$4.99
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- Wave Tip$9.99
Questions
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