Comparison

Earth Editor vs Gosper

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • World creation sandbox
  • Gravity field simulation
  • Place sand, water, seeds, lava
  • Creative planetary design
  • Element interaction
Features
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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!

About

Gosper

Features
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In 1970, a mathematician named John Conway wrote three rules on a board: a cell with fewer than two neighbours dies of loneliness, one with more than three dies of crowding, and in an empty space with exactly three neighbours, a new cell is born. That is all. There are no other rules. And out of those three sentences come ships that cross the screen, guns that fire forever, clocks that beat in exact time, and structures that copy themselves. Nobody programmed them: they were in the rules all along. Gosper is a place to watch it happen. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Draw with your finger and press play. Zoom in, zoom out, change the speed, step one generation at a time. • Drop machines from the library: forty historical patterns, each with who discovered it, in what year, and what it does. Nothing invented — every one is checked by a test that verifies its period. • Change the rules. Besides Conway's original there are seven more: HighLife, which replicates itself; Seeds, which explodes; Day & Night, which is symmetric. • Save your universes and come back to them. • Share them with the community, and bring home other people's. • Duel against the machine. Two gardens side by side: you throw machines into its garden, it throws them into yours, and you win by leaving its garden with less than a quarter standing. Build your own deck from the library, from patterns you cut out of your own universe, or from the community. WHY IT IS FAST The engine is written in C++ and computes in blocks of bits, not cell by cell. A universe of a million cells runs at sixty frames per second on an iPhone. Cost depends on what is happening, not on the size of the world: a huge, nearly empty universe costs nothing. NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION No advertising, no analytics, no user profiling. Gosper Pro is a single optional purchase that adds five more themes, giant universes and unlimited saves. Nothing that is free gets cut back to push you into paying. EIGHT THEMES Neon on black, ink on paper, pure black and white, mossy greens, magma, ocean, the amber phosphor of an old monitor, and pastels. The name is for Bill Gosper, who in 1970 built the first glider gun and won the fifty dollars Conway offered to anyone who could prove such a thing could grow forever. That gun is still firing inside this app.

Screenshots

Earth Editor3 screens
Gosper3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Earth Editor at none against Gosper's 1. Earth Editor also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). Gosper's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gosper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Earth Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Earth Editor versus Gosper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEarth EditorGosper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (924 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings924 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAN-BALLIvan Andres Robles Rodriguez

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

Gosper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Earth Editor

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gosper

One-time1
  • Gosper Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Earth Editor free?
Earth Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gosper free?
Gosper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Earth Editor or Gosper have ads?
Earth Editor shows ads; Gosper does not.

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