Comparison

Silk 2 vs Fluids & Particle Simulation

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

Head to head
About

Silk 2

Create stunning generative art with a magical brush. Easily design mandalas, wallpapers, and flowing visual patterns with simple finger gestures. This app is perfect for both artists and beginners to express their creativity.

Highlights
  • Magic brush for flowing art
  • Create mandalas and wallpapers
  • High-resolution export
  • Rainbow color and new palettes
  • Apple Pencil and 3D Touch support
  • Original music and sound
Features
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Draw beautiful flowing art with Silk. With Silk's award-winning magic brush, anyone can be an artist. Featured by Apple as one of their favorite apps. Relax, express yourself, and create mandalas and wallpapers. With the swish of a finger, Silk strands mingle and fuse, weaving together into wonderful works of art. Silk supports all iPhones and iPads, is enhanced for 3D touch, and specifically designed for the Apple Pencil. Buy once, run everywhere! "I can't believe even someone like me can create something cool looking in this thing. That's amazing!" ~ nickknw "Awesome! All I can think is woahdude." ~ MayhemMark - The official app of the award-winning website weavesilk.com, with millions of users - High-resolution export for poster prints or wallpapers - Eraser, a rainbow color, many new color palettes - Optimized for larger iPhones, iPad, and iPad Pro - Support for the Apple Pencil and 3D touch - Great for artists and non-artists alike - Cross-platform: play on your iPhone/iPod touch, iPad, and iPad Pro - Original music and sound created for Silk - Create gorgeous wallpapers with the swish of a finger. The creature sketch in the iPhone screenshots was drawn by Oliver Wetter (www.fantasio.info) and the silk eye was drawn by Daniel Coonfield.

About

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Create mesmerizing, psychedelic fluid art with your fingertips. This app offers a calming and creative outlet to reduce stress and channel negative emotions into beautiful, flowing patterns. Enjoy a unique ASMR experience with sound-reactive visuals and customizable parameters.

Highlights
  • Interactive fluid art simulation
  • Sound-reactive fluids
  • Dozens of customizable parameters
  • Autopilot mode
  • Gyrosensor and haptic feedback integration
  • Real-time sound synthesis
  • Video recording and screenshot functionality
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Are you stressed and agitated? Do you want to channel your negative energies into something soulful and creatively free till you feel calm? The Fluids and Sounds app can help you - create satisfying, trippy and psychedelic art with your fingertips. This app helps you to reduce stress and calm down. Now you can touch on your screen to simulate colorful and luminescent fluids that flow with your touch movements. Create extraordinary patterns with single touch or multiple touches on the screen and delve deeper into a world of creative fascination and magical freedom till you feel the connection to our universe. --- Features of Fluids and Sounds --- - Wonderful and easy fluid art simulation - Sound reactive fluids (synchronize to your favorite music) - Dozens of parameters to play around with (color, bloom, sunrays, resolution, force and more) - Autopilot included. Let the fluids flow without interacting with the app. You also could stream this to a bigger screen using AirPlay. Please note: Autopilot is not generating sounds. - Gyrosensor, haptic feedback and force touch are integrated (if you want to use them) - Realtime sound synthesis for meditating music - Take screenshots and share them with anyone you like - Record videos of your fluids (please note: Videos are not including the fluid sounds, only the background music, also video recording excludes the UI, so you'll only record what matters - your art) - Save and load your favorite settings using presets --- Feel Free, Calm and Relaxed --- Art is a form of expression and expression helps in catharsis of inexplicable things we feel every day. If you think you suck at art or expression, this app offers you a safe, easy and creative outlet to channel your thoughts into wonderful art impressions that disappear intermittently. Allow yourself to come down and play around with Fluids & Shapes for some minutes to make beautiful expressions on your device’s screen. --- Seek Awareness and Peace --- You feel like the world is too overwhelming and you need to get a bit of awareness? Protect your peace from getting drowned in a pool of negative emotions such as stress, anxiety, agitation, depression etc. Seek awareness and peace the minute you open this app and make the most of your free time with this free, amazing app. --- Create Wonderful Fluid Art Impressions --- Use your fingertips to create wonderful forms and shapes on your device. While you do so, you can listen to relaxing music which is generated in realtime, depending on your input. Get in tune with the relaxing art and music as you make beautiful patterns on your screen. Customize the intensity, color dispersion, vortex index, music effects, waves and other items from the menu to enjoy a more personalized fluid art meditation and relaxation. Are you ready to feel the satisfaction of creative freedom and its impact on your mental wellbeing? The new fluid art meditation and stimulation app is here for you. Enjoy breathtaking art patterns and soulful music till you feel calm and relaxed. Download and use Fluids and Sounds today! Hope you'll enjoy, because we believe you deserve to feel calm and relaxed! Do you have ideas for new features or improvements? You are not satisfied with this app? Feel free to send me a message at info@mkgames.org Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Silk 24 screens
Fluids & Particle Simulation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fluids & Particle Simulation at Free against Silk 2's $2.99. Silk 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and chart position (#158 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Fluids & Particle Simulation is free to download; Silk 2 costs $2.99 up front. Fluids & Particle Simulation sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Silk 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Silk 2 against 4.7 for Fluids & Particle Simulation. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 908 and 777 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Silk 2's written reviews are positive against 90% of Fluids & Particle Simulation's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Silk 2 versus Fluids & Particle Simulation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilk 2Fluids & Particle Simulation
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (908 ratings)4.7 (777 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.9% of reviews — better89.6% of reviews
Number of ratings908 — better777
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#158 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS9.1 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB189 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYuri VishnevskyZipoApps

Customer experience

Silk 2

All ratings899 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews297 reviews
Positive91.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative3.4%

Fluids & Particle Simulation

All ratings770 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive89.6%
Neutral4.0%
Negative6.4%

User reviews

Silk 2

From 908 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌟 Relaxing and calming experience
  • 🎨 Allows for creative expression
  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 💫 Produces beautiful and mesmerizing artwork
  • 🧘‍♀️ Helps with anxiety and stress relief

Room to improve

  • 🖌️ Limited drawing tools and customization options
  • 🖼️ No option to change background color
  • 💾 Inability to save or load previous creations
  • 🔍 Unclear instructions or guidance for some features

Fluids & Particle Simulation

From 777 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Mesmerizing visuals
  • 👍 Relaxing and calming experience
  • 🎨 Customizable color and fluid effects
  • 🎶 Enjoyable audio/music integration
  • 💡 Innovative and creative app concept

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
  • 🔋 Device overheating issues
  • 💰 Paid features may be too expensive
  • 🔇 Lack of volume/audio control options

Bugs and requests

Silk 2

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional app crashes or freezes
  • Compatibility issues with certain devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more drawing tools and brushes
  • Implement background color selection
  • Allow saving and loading of artwork
  • Provide more detailed tutorials or instructions

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Microphone input not working as expected
  • Difficulty resetting or restoring default settings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to sync visuals with external audio/music
  • More preset options and visual effects
  • Improved UI/UX for settings and controls
  • Support for casting to external displays

In-app purchases

None

Silk 2

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Subscriptions3
  • Unlock all features3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Unlock all | monthly premium$5.991 Month
  • Fluids PRO$17.991 Year
One-time5
  • Unlock all Presets (iOS)$1.99
  • Unlock all Presets (OS X Mac)$2.99
  • Unlock all features$14.99
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  • Psychedelic magic (OS X Mac)$24.99
  • Psychedelic magic (iOS)$44.99

Questions

Is Silk 2 free?
Silk 2 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fluids & Particle Simulation free?
Fluids & Particle Simulation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Silk 2 or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
Fluids & Particle Simulation is rated higher. Silk 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 908 ratings, while Fluids & Particle Simulation averages 4.7 from 777 ratings.
Do Silk 2 or Fluids & Particle Simulation have ads?
Neither Silk 2 nor Fluids & Particle Simulation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Silk 2 or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
Silk 2 ships an update monthly, and Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. Most recently, Silk 2 was updated on October 26, 2026 and Fluids & Particle Simulation on October 23, 2026.

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