Thisissand

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About this app

Thisissand is a creative playground for making and sharing pictures made of sand.

• Get surprised by the random beauty of layered sand
• Relax and relieve stress and anxiety with falling sand therapy
• Share your pieces and become a part of the community
• Does not display ads
• Free to download and free to play
• Offers a Toolkit in-app purchase for special features

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Thisissand was created in 2008 as a website. It was a school project of a few art students, and to a surprise for the creators it attracted lots of visitors for years to come. In 2012 Thisissand was developed into an app and is still run by an original creator.

Thisissand offers a variety of tools for choosing the sand color. Originally, only the essential Color Palette tool was available. For the app, we have developed a few special kinds of tools which are available as the Toolkit in-app purchase. Just like on the website, the special tools are not at all necessary to enjoy the app, but we're happy for your support if you're willing to try them out.

We're very thankful for all our users who have been able to support by purchasing, Thisissand would not exist without you!

COLOR PALETTE: Use Color Palette to choose specific colors from a swatch of colors. You may choose a solid color, or multiple colors to variate between. Use the intensity slider to adjust how fast the colors change. You may also use the randomize button to get surprising color combos.

COLOR SHIFTER: Color Shifter continuously changes the sand color subtly or dramatically depending on the intensity slider adjustment. Color Shifter often produces rainbow like hues. To set the initial Color Shifter color, choose a color with Color Palette and then select the Color Shifter tool.

PHOTO SAND: Want to try making a sand version of one of your photos? Photo Sand picks the sand color directly from the photo you've chosen from your own device. Try it out and learn the tricks to make abstract and/or photorealistic representations!

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We highly value your feedback and questions. Ideas and feature requests for example are warmly welcome, even though with our scarce resources we might not able to fulfil them very quickly. So please do send us email if you're having trouble with the app or if you have anything else to share with us, thank you! :)

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Ratings and reviews

I used to love this app. it was perfect. I just installed it on a new phone and features that were free before are not free anymore, like changing the size of the sand grains. we never had to "make an account" before either, this should not be forced. the grid looks weird now, like there is a lot of unnecessary space between the pieces and it looks weird. also the app crashed 6 minutes into using it

it seems to read the @ symbol in your email as a special character that it won't allow in your user name. it also shows red and won't accept it without it. so there is no way to sign up to play.

I used to love this game I would play it all the time but here recently ever Sense the new update it's been so glitchy and it won't show up the colors when I go to change them and it's just so glitchy and laggy so if y'all could fix that it would be great other then that I love this game

What’s new

Updates under the hood.