Sand in a Box: Magic Pixel Art5.50 - App Store

Sand in a Box: Magic Pixel Art turns your screen into a mesmerizing magical sand playground.

It’s a creative falling sand simulator, blending the charm of magic sand and the endless creativity of a sandbox. Watch particles flow, stack, and interact as you shape colorful landscapes and dynamic worlds.

Features:
. Engaging sand physics - watch sand and particles fall, pile up, and interact with walls, fluids, and other elements.
. Intuitive painting controls - simply touch and drag to paint with sand, water, oil, lava, and more.
. Diverse materials - build with over 36 unique materials, including brick, metal, sponge, acid, TNT, bacteria, and many more.
. Vibrant colors - mix and match sand and fluid colors to create dazzling art and landscapes.
. Fluids and reactions - experiment with water, oil, lava, and acid, and see how they blend and react.
. Dynamic elements - unleash the power of lava, bacteria, explosions, and more.

Version 4.0 brought back the original 2011 simulation engine, now faster, smoother, and more dynamic than ever.
Version 5.0 expanded your creativity: from 4 to 36 elements, unlocking infinite possibilities for your designs.

Whether you’re looking to relax, create pixel art, experiment with fluid dynamics, or simply enjoy the satisfying motion of falling sand and particles - this app is for you.

Version History New improved icons, bug fixes and support for latest devices. 5.50 07/15/2025 Stability improvements and bug fixes. 5.41 10/20/2022 New app icon and stability fixes. 5.40 09/14/2022 Sand in a Box now supports multiple languages: English, Spanish, Polish and French. 5.30 05/18/2022 Added support for iOS 15 and latest devices. New content coming later this year. 5.25 09/29/2021 This update is all about content!
There's now 35 elements in total, a huge increase from 4 elements from older older versions.
- 9 solid materials brick, concrete, sandstone, metal, foam, sponge and more!
- sand is now available in different colors, with special rainbow type.
- Water is also available in different colors and now different colors will mix together!
- Oil is the new addition, it will float on water, but it also will burn when exposed to fire.
- There's 8 new special elements, acid will melt some materials, lava would flow and burn flammable objects, bacteria will do their thing and there's more! 5.00 06/24/2020 Version 4.0 introduces new simulation algorithm. As some reviewers suggested, they liked older version better, so this new algorithm returns to original simulation from 2011 and makes it even better. Now particles move more freely making simulation more dynamic and there's no more randomization involved in simulation. 4.00 04/06/2020 Fixes to a few minor bugs introduced in last update. 3.81 07/10/2018 Bug Fix: simulation stability was improved. Rare bug that cause simulation to freeze was removed. 3.8 06/13/2018 This version introduces improved water flow and some changes in how elements interact. This is a groundwork for upcoming updates that will introduce pressure system for even better water simulation in near future and more elements some time after. 3.7 02/09/2018 - iPhone X support.
- Bigger play area for everyone! 3.6 12/07/2017 Improved sand engine, multi core CPU support. 3.5 10/18/2017 It's been a while, since last update. Sand in a Box is now rewritten from scratch using new engine and is now supporting all current iOS devices. There's also a new gravity feature. 3.0 02/26/2017 Minor bugs fix. 1.91 02/08/2011 This update contains some features of incoming BIG 2.0 update. It features:
- new physics engine: more natural sand and water simulation, material density,
- new mode: Sand Painter - play with sand in thousands of colors,
- bugs fixed, some new graphics.

Sand in a Box is still in development if you have an idea of a great new feature just write a review. 1.9 01/27/2011 Few bugs fixed. There should be no more crashes on any device. 1.01 08/18/2010 1.0 08/13/2010