Roo's Lights vs Magic Fluids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roo's Lights
A simple, ad-free interactive toy for babies and toddlers inspired by minimalist children's books. It features four switches that control four lights, offering an engaging experience for little ones.
- Four switches
- Four lights
- Ad-free experience
- Inspired by children's books
- Toddler-friendly design
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Four switches, four lights. But for how long? Perfect for babies who love buttons, Roo's Lights is a simple, elegant toddler toy, inspired by minimalist children's books such as "Freight Train", "Press Here" & "10 Black Dots." Totally ad free.
Magic Fluids
Experience a calming and creative fluid simulation. Interact with mesmerizing, colorful swirls that evolve into beautiful digital art. Ideal for relaxation, stress relief, and artistic expression.
- Fluid flow simulation
- Hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls
- Stress and anxiety relief
- Create abstract digital art
- Configurable fluid behavior
- Save custom presets
- Pause animation and save screenshots
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Magic Fluids is a relaxing, colorful fluid simulation app that will help you calm down and relieve stress, or be creative and make aesthetic digital art. It is based on algorithms of fluid flow simulation and features fluid (pun intented!), beautiful graphics. It is the best time waster! TOUCH THE SCREEN and enjoy hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls moving around, sometimes slow, quiet and elegant, other times dynamic, satisfying and trippy. CALM DOWN AND RELAX as you draw and watch peaceful flows evolve in space and eventually settle down into colorful patterns. Magic Fluids will help you sleep, meditate, restore balance, relieve stress and anxiety. GET CREATIVE and, with a touch of your finger, bring to life stylish patterns of paint and particles. If you like abstract digital art or acrylic pour painting, you'll love Magic Fluids! You can create impressive eye-catching designs that look like swirls, galaxies, liquid, fire, light, smoke, lava and much more! KEEP YOUR KIDS BUSY - they love to doodle and watch the fluid move around! We hope that Magic Fluids can also help children with anxiety, autism and sensory issues. Please note: This is NOT a live wallpaper! Key features of Magic Fluids: - Highly configurable fluid behaviour and look - 70+ predefined configuration presets to get you started - Save your own presets - Pause the animation anytime and save screenshots - NEW: Record videos straight from the app! - Smoke, water and jello animation - 10 fluid textures that add fine detail to the fluid - Amazing light and shadow visual effects - Thousands of particles moving with the fluid - You can load photos and images as backgrounds - Highly optimized, multiple quality settings Fluid animation in your pocket! Touch the screen and create beautiful motion of colorful smoke and water. Calm down and relax as you watch trippy, magical swirls of flowing colors. Get artistic and design creative, satisfying patterns of paint and particles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Roo's Lights at Free against Magic Fluids's $4.99. Roo's Lights also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Magic Fluids's advantage is ratings volume (579 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Roo's Lights is free to download; Magic Fluids costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Roo's Lights holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Fluids has 579 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Roo's Lights's written reviews are positive against 97% of Magic Fluids's.
Roo's Lights ships an update every 6 months, Magic Fluids every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roo's Lights | Magic Fluids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (579 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 96.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 579 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sources and Methods | Mad Scientist |
Customer experience
Roo's Lights
Magic Fluids
Bugs and requests
Roo's Lights
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Magic Fluids
Reported bugs
2 issues- Presets not saving properly
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to import custom background images
- Screen recording functionality
- More sound and music options
- Improved interface and UI
In-app purchases
Roo's Lights
No in-app purchases
Magic Fluids
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Roo's Lights free?
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