Comparison

Orbit vs Cairn Stone Balancing

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Gravity simulation puzzles
  • Create stable orbits
  • Sandbox mode for level creation
  • Community-created levels
  • Visual orbital mechanics
  • Minimalist graphics and relaxing music
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Orbit4 screens
Cairn Stone Balancing4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Orbit versus Cairn Stone Balancing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbitCairn Stone Balancing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.6K ratings) — better4.7 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews94.4% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings7.6K — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB526 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHIGHKEY GamesAmmonite Design Studios Ltd

Customer experience

Orbit

All ratings7,627 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews628 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.0%

Cairn Stone Balancing

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

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

7 purchases

Orbit

One-time7
  • $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
1 purchases

Cairn Stone Balancing

One-time1
  • No Ads$5.99

Questions

Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cairn Stone Balancing free?
Cairn Stone Balancing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Orbit or Cairn Stone Balancing?
Orbit is rated higher. Orbit averages 4.8 out of 5 from 7.6K ratings, while Cairn Stone Balancing averages 4.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Orbit or Cairn Stone Balancing have ads?
Both Orbit and Cairn Stone Balancing show ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbit or Cairn Stone Balancing?
Orbit ships an update every 2 months, and Cairn Stone Balancing every 8 days. Most recently, Orbit was updated on October 29, 2026 and Cairn Stone Balancing on October 24, 2026.

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