Pneumatics Animation vs pocketFORTH
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pneumatics Animation
Design and assemble pneumatic circuits with interactive animations. This app helps students visualize and understand how pneumatic systems function by allowing them to drag components, draw connections, and simulate their designs.
- Design pneumatic circuits
- Assemble circuit components
- Animate circuit functionality
- Drag-and-drop interface
- Visualize pneumatic systems
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Science Animations presents Pneumatics Animations which allows for the design and assembling of pneumatic circuits for various purposes. The user drags valves, actuators and exhausts to a design board, draw tubes, activate and then see an animation of how the design works! The Pneumatics Animation app will make it easy for students to understand how pneumatic systems work.
pocketFORTH
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Discover one of the programming languages that helped shape modern computing. PocketFORTH is a modern FORTH environment inspired by the golden age of pocket computers and home computing, bringing the power of interactive programming directly to your iPhone and iPad. Whether you're a retro-computing enthusiast, a student, an electronics maker or simply curious to explore one of the most influential programming languages ever created, Pocket FORTH lets you write, run, edit and save FORTH programs through a clean, fast and completely offline interface. Designed for both learning and experimentation, Pocket FORTH combines the simplicity of the original language with modern features including live editing, dictionary browsing, source inspection, QR code sharing, persistent storage and a growing collection of built-in words compatible with classic FORTH systems.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: pocketFORTH at Free against Pneumatics Animation's $9.99. pocketFORTH also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Pneumatics Animation's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
pocketFORTH is free to download; Pneumatics Animation costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pneumatics Animation ships an update every 2 months, pocketFORTH every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pneumatics Animation | pocketFORTH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Willie van Schalkwyk | Leonardo Del Nonno |
In-app purchases
Pneumatics Animation
No in-app purchases
pocketFORTH
No in-app purchases
Questions
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