Orbit vs Cairn Stone Balancing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orbit
This app is a meditative physics puzzler where you launch planets to create stable orbits around black holes. Explore a variety of levels, create your own challenges in a sandbox mode, and enjoy a visually artistic and relaxing experience.
- Gravity simulation puzzles
- Create stable orbits
- Sandbox mode for level creation
- Community-created levels
- Visual orbital mechanics
- Minimalist graphics and relaxing music
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ORBIT is a gravity simulator at the heart of a puzzle game. Launch planets with a flick of your finger, and try to get them into stable orbits around black holes. Can you make enough orbits to progress to the next level? New: ORBIT now features a Sandbox (paid) where you can create your own levels! Control time, disable collisions, and paint with gravity. Publish your creations to the world for everyone to play. • 45 free levels, with new mechanics are introduced over time — like repulsive black holes and planets with their own gravity that attract each other • Play community-created levels — virtually limitless content made by other players, all completely free • Launch as many planets as you like, and watch the mesmerizing orbital mechanics unfold • Planets leave colored traces, so that at the end of a level you will have created a beautiful piece of art • See the future trajectory of a planet before you launch it • Play in an environment of smooth, minimalist graphics while listening to relaxing classical piano Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/highkeygames Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/highkeygames
Cairn Stone Balancing
This game offers a meditative and satisfying experience of stacking stones to create land art in various inspiring landscapes. Players can enjoy a zen-like atmosphere with realistic graphics and ambient sounds, choosing between creative building or challenging tasks to unlock new content.
- Meditative stone stacking gameplay
- Thousands of rock shapes and types
- Beautiful and diverse landscapes
- Realistic graphics and ambient sounds
- Creative and challenge modes
- Save and load sculptures
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Cairn Stone Balancing is a relaxing, meditative and satisfying game in which stones are stacked on top of one other to create land art. These balanced rock piles, or stone sculptures, are also known as stone cairns. Simply swipe to rotate, maneuver and stack stones to make sculptures in a variety of inspiring landscapes. Enjoy the zen-like, relaxing experience of rock balancing. Meditate, relax, be creative, and have fun. Challenge yourself to complete tasks in challenge mode in order to unlock new levels and stones, or simply build whatever you like in creative mode. The game features: • Thousands of different rock shapes, sizes, patterns and types • Beautiful locations: From beaches to mountains, waterfalls to deserts • Real environmental ambient sounds • Relaxing ASMR rock stacking sound effects • Cutting edge, realistic graphics • Ability to save and load sculptures • Task challenges • Easy to use swipe and tap based controls
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Verdict
Orbit and Cairn Stone Balancing both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 94% of Orbit's written reviews are positive against 33% of Cairn Stone Balancing's. Orbit also leads on ratings volume (7.6K vs 9). Cairn Stone Balancing's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Orbit sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Cairn Stone Balancing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Orbit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orbit has 7.6K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Orbit's written reviews are positive against 33% of Cairn Stone Balancing's.
Orbit ships an update every 2 months, Cairn Stone Balancing every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orbit | Cairn Stone Balancing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (7.6K ratings) — better | 4.7 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.6K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 526 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HIGHKEY Games | Ammonite Design Studios Ltd |
Customer experience
Orbit
Cairn Stone Balancing
Bugs and requests
Orbit
Reported bugs
3 issues- In app purchase not received
- Sandbox mode not working
- Game crashing and unable to open
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to zoom in and out
- Ability to rotate the game to landscape on iPad
- Ability to edit and move existing objects in sandbox mode
- Ability to name planets and add moons
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- More levels and game modes
Cairn Stone Balancing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Orbit
- $1 contribution$0.99
- Remove ads$0.99
- $2 contribution$1.99
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- $3 contribution$2.99
- Orbit Pro$2.99
- $5 contribution$4.99
- $10 contribution$9.99
Cairn Stone Balancing
- No Ads$5.99
Questions
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