Drawing Box Pro vs Fluids & Particle Simulation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drawing Box Pro
Create digital paintings and designs with a comprehensive set of artist tools. Features include various brush effects, multi-layer support, and video replays of your creative process. Optimized for Apple Pencil on iPad Pro for enhanced accuracy and natural drawing.
- Pencil and brush effects
- Multi-layer support
- Video replay of artwork
- Apple Pencil optimization
- Symmetrical drawing
- Customizable color mixer
- Export to PSD, PNG, PDF, video
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Drawing Box Pro is the best app for painting and designing on a mobile device. A complete artist necessary tool set, with gorgeous pencil and brush effects. The strong feeling of comfort and the variety of the painting tools are incomparably rich. The pencil has 3 different stroke styles and 9 exclusive hatching effects. Brush, airbrush, watercolor, oil painting and smudge complete the set of artist tools. The excellent video replay of your paintings will show up your processes and techniques. This is the best tool for teaching, analyzing and sharing your artworks. Special for Apple Pencil drawing on the iPad Pro: The Apple Pencil brings new challenges to painting apps with the three totally new specifications: the pointed pencil tip, the tilt angle, and the pressure sensitivity. Drawing Box Pro will give more accuracy compared to the finger tip and other styluses, the painting tool size will produce a really smooth variation by simple tilt the angle of the pen, and the pressure will add dark and saturation to the colors. The pencils, brushes and other painting tools were enhanced individually to take the biggest advantages from pressure sensitivity and tilt angle cognition. You will feel again the incredible natural way to use pencils, pens and brushes. Drawing with the Apple Pencil means working with not less than 350 levels of color density without adjusting your tool. In the meantime, you will draw and paint with strokes which can be enlarged up to 7 times their initial size, always without any adjustment. The necessary tools: - Pencil - Brush - Eraser - Color palettes - Canvas The artist basic digital features: - Zoom and pan - Multi-layers - Undo and redo - Gallery (storage place) - Size and opacity adjustment The extra art tools: - Pencil: 3 styles + 9 hatching heads - Inkpen: rounded and calligraphic heads - Art brush: 30 awesome effects - Airbrush: 9 rich styles - Watercolor: 10 whooshy brushes - Oil painting: 3 deep coloring effects - Smudge: 3 different color merging methods - Symmetrical drawing: vertical and horizontal orientations - Shapes: lined, gradient and flat fill. - Color mixer: create your personal colors. - Wet effect on the canvas. Bonus digital features: - Pressure sensitivity control (compatible with the new Apple Pencil) - Multi-layers options: duplication, merge down 2 layers, opacity control, layer transition and edition, fill layers with imported pictures from your device library, camera or the application gallery. - Canvas: rich textures and colors. - Multiple undos and redos for a faster work edition. - The gallery artwork is organized by blocks of unlimited number of pages. You can almost create a digital book inside the app, then export it as pdf files. Supported exported formats: psd, png, pdf, video. - Video replay and sharing of your artworks. - Paintings can be mixed and duplicated into several blocks.
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.
- 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fluids & Particle Simulation at 4.7 against Drawing Box Pro's 4.4. Fluids & Particle Simulation also leads on ratings volume (770 vs 27) and device support (4 vs 1). Drawing Box Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Drawing Box Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fluids & Particle Simulation sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fluids & Particle Simulation holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluids & Particle Simulation has 770 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Drawing Box Pro's written reviews are positive against 90% of Fluids & Particle Simulation's.
Drawing Box Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Drawing Box Pro | Fluids & Particle Simulation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (27 ratings) | 4.7 (770 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 89.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 770 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon | ZipoApps |
Customer experience
Drawing Box Pro
Fluids & Particle Simulation
User reviews
Drawing Box Pro
From 27 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Realistic paint tools
- ✍️ Fluid line drawing
- 💡 Mirror drawing tool
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 📱 Works well with Apple Pencil
Room to improve
- 💥 Frequent crashes
- 🗑️ Drawings disappear
- 📉 Low resolution (32-bit or less)
- 🚫 No stylus support (except Apple Pencil)
- 🖼️ Oils and watercolor lack realism
Fluids & Particle Simulation
From 770 App Store ratingsWhat 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
Drawing Box Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes after ten minutes
- Drawings disappear when deleting a blank page
- Unintended lines when zooming with Apple Pencil
- Dropbox backup seems out of date
Requested features
6 requests- Update to 64-bit resolution
- Add moving tool
- Improve realism of oils and watercolor
- Support for other styluses (Adonit Jot, Wacom Intuos Creative)
- Rethink the app icon design
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- More brushes
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
Drawing Box Pro
- Unlock All Tools And Features$4.99
Fluids & Particle Simulation
- Unlock all features3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Unlock all | monthly premium$5.991 Month
- Fluids PRO$17.991 Year
- 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
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