Comparison

MyArtTools 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

MyArtTools

A versatile drawing and sketching app for all skill levels, offering a wide range of artistic tools that emulate traditional media. Create digital art anywhere, from quick doodles to finished masterpieces, with precise control using Apple Pencil.

Highlights
  • Emulates traditional art media
  • Precise Apple Pencil support
  • User-friendly interface for all skill levels
  • Built-in help module
  • Import and edit images
  • Save and share high-resolution files
Features
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MyArtTools provides fast easy access to creative or just-for-fun sketching and doodling tools. It has a built in help module and is designed to be user-friendly and versatile for any skill level. All ages can use it for plain-old-fun, fast conceptual sketching or fully finished serious artistic work. When I entered art school, personal computers didn't exist, and it wasn't until the Macintosh II with a color monitor came out (around 1987) that I became interested in working on screens. I started using a program called Director to develop interactive presentations and hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animation. Director had a scripting language, which I learned to write, and that was the beginning of my interest in programming. Over the years, I taught myself to program in various languages, and I eventually adapted to Apple's programming paradigm while working for an educational company. With my background in art and programming, when the iPad 2 came out, I developed a drawing app as a proof of concept, which I called ArtFusion. However, it didn't offer much precision when using the center of the finger, so I scrapped the idea, as it wasn't ready for practical use. With the release of the Apple Pencil and the iPad Pro, everything changed for me: from my perspective of precision drawing, I finally had a portable digital graphics tablet that I could use as a sketchbook. However, I wanted artistic tools that emulated those I had in the studio for drawing on paper and canvas. So I retrieved the old proof of concept, renamed it MyArtTools, and began adding more tools and processes to improve it to my specifications. A full year of programming later, the app was released in March 2017. Since then, I've updated it to keep up with Apple's code improvements. Using MyArtTools is incredibly easy: open the app, choose a drawing tool, and start sketching. If you have any questions about how to use a tool, you'll find comprehensive help within the app. This app is the digital version of a sketchbook or canvas. From realism to abstract art, from finger painting to complex drawing, MyArtTools is designed to emulate real art media such as pencil, pen, pastel, brush, palette knife, and many other tools that respond perfectly to the precision of the Apple Pencil. Create beautiful sketches and paintings anywhere. Save and resume your work. Send your finished pieces as high-resolution files to iCloud and other storage options, or share them with clients, colleagues, friends, and family via email, messaging, or directly on popular social media platforms. Create your drawings from scratch or import images from your photo library. Edit, filter, combine, or use imported photos as templates. On my developer website the Art Fusion link showcases artwork created using MyArtTools: https://www.piratesmoon.com/in_artFusion.php IMPORTANT: Some of the tools in this application are smaller than would normally respond to a finger touch, but perfect for the precision of the Apple Pencil. THE SPECS MyArtTools supports multiple composition layers. Clipping paths can be used to extract images to a new layer. Layers can be combined. The included filters can modify any bitmap image layer. The tool properties panel provides for adjusting various tool layer controls. Users can create, save and reuse gradients. Works-in-progress can be saved. Finished works can be saved as high resolution PNG files to iCloud, the Files app, Dropbox, and other storage options. Finished works can be shared via email, messaging or any of the other popular social networks.

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/

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fluids & Particle Simulation at Free against MyArtTools's $3.99. Fluids & Particle Simulation also leads on ratings volume (777 vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months). MyArtTools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Fluids & Particle Simulation is free to download; MyArtTools costs $3.99 up front. Fluids & Particle Simulation sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. MyArtTools asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MyArtTools holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluids & Particle Simulation has 777 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyArtTools ships an update every 5 months, Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
MyArtTools versus Fluids & Particle Simulation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyArtToolsFluids & Particle Simulation
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (777 ratings)
Positive reviews—89.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1777 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB189 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPirate's Moon, Inc.ZipoApps

Customer experience

MyArtTools

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fluids & Particle Simulation

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

Bugs and requests

MyArtTools

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

MyArtTools

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 MyArtTools free?
MyArtTools costs $3.99, 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, MyArtTools or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
MyArtTools is rated higher. MyArtTools averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Fluids & Particle Simulation averages 4.7 from 777 ratings.
Do MyArtTools or Fluids & Particle Simulation have ads?
Neither MyArtTools nor Fluids & Particle Simulation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MyArtTools or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
MyArtTools ships an update every 5 months, and Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. Most recently, MyArtTools was updated on October 18, 2026 and Fluids & Particle Simulation on October 23, 2026.

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