Pressure Art vs Rainstick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pressure Art
This app explores 3D Touch capabilities by allowing users to draw with varying pressure. It generates immersive 3D structures with randomized color profiles, offering a fun way to visualize device precision. It is best experienced on a 3D Touch capable device.
- Pressure-sensitive drawing
- 3D structure generation
- Randomized color profiles
- Explores 3D Touch capabilities
- Simple interface
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** To clear the screen, just press hard enough on it that it clears. ** Explore the 3D Touch capabilities of your device with this app. It is a simple drawing app that increases the radius of the circle in response to how much pressure you put on the phone. Combining that with a generated color profile with a random seed and you'll find yourself creating immersive 3D structures in seconds flat. It's a fun tool that will allow you to see the precision and range of 3D Touch. Please note: This is only really useful if you do have a 3D Touch capable device. Your experience will be suboptimal if not.
Rainstick
Turn your phone into a virtual rainstick. Simply flip your device to initiate a rain sound effect. Adjust the tilt to control the speed and intensity of the falling rain.
- Virtual rainstick simulation
- Flip device to activate rain
- Tilt control for speed
- Realistic sound effects
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Volume up! Your phone is now a rainstick. Flip it to make the rain fall. Change the tilt to speed it up or slow it down
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pressure Art at every 5 weeks against Rainstick's every 12 months. Pressure Art also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Rainstick's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rainstick holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pressure Art has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pressure Art ships an update every 5 weeks, Rainstick every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pressure Art | Rainstick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ben Slaney | Paul Millerd |
In-app purchases
Pressure Art
No in-app purchases
Rainstick
No in-app purchases
