Comparison

Flux Vortex vs Sacred Drift

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

Head to head
About

Flux Vortex

Explore mesmerizing, ever-changing fractal patterns that react to your touch with satisfying ripples. This app offers a visually engaging and calming experience.

Highlights
  • Constantly changing fractal patterns
  • Interactive ripple effects
  • Visually engaging
  • Calming experience
Features
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Flux Vortex draws constantly changing fractal patterns. Touching the screen sends satisfying ripples through the system.

About

Sacred Drift

Experience a dynamic, living field of bioluminescent particles that you can interact with. Save and share unique generative art scenes with others. This app offers a pocket-sized generative art studio with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Interactive particle field manipulation
  • Generative art creation
  • Customizable motion modes and confinement shapes
  • 22 curated color palettes
  • Shareable scene 'recipes'
  • Offline local processing
Features
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Sacred Drift is a living field of light you keep in your pocket. Open the app and a slow-breathing cloud of bioluminescent particles fills your screen. Drag to orbit, pinch to zoom in. Tap the dice for a fresh field — every roll is a unique scene, never the same twice. Tap the heart when you find one you love and it's saved as a "recipe": a tiny shareable file that reproduces the exact look on any device, including any web browser. Built on a custom physics engine running 60 frames a second, Sacred Drift is an entire generative art studio that fits in a button row: • 5 motion modes — drift, plus four classic strange attractors (Lorenz, Aizawa, Thomas, Halvorsen) • 4 confinement shapes — particles can swirl through a torus, an N-sided polygon tube, a logarithmic galaxy spiral, or a star tetrahedron (merkaba) • 22 hand-curated palettes from infrared to aurora to chlorophyll • 19 starting presets — Astrophage, Plasma Storm, Aurora Drift, Deep Cosmos, Embers, Stardust, Lorenz Wing, Spiral Galaxy, Merkaba Star and more — or roll the dice • 5 spawn distributions: uniform, central focus, hollow shell, diagonal, twin clusters • Soft-edged additive blending with HDR bloom + vignette • Trail persistence for long-exposure ribbons of light • Optional repulsor for negative-space compositions • Camera auto-orbit • Snapshot the current frame to your photo library — with or without a transparent background • Recipe import / export — share scenes with anyone Privacy: Sacred Drift makes zero network calls. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, no data collected. Everything happens locally on your phone. Sister app: Sacred Spin (mandalas you spin and tune) is also available.

Screenshots

Flux Vortex4 screens
Sacred Drift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Flux Vortex at free against Sacred Drift's paid. Flux Vortex also leads on ratings volume (279 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 17.0). Sacred Drift's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Flux Vortex costs $1.99 and Sacred Drift $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sacred Drift holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flux Vortex has 279 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Flux Vortex's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sacred Drift's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flux Vortex ships an update every 7 months, Sacred Drift every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Flux Vortex versus Sacred Drift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlux VortexSacred Drift
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating4.6 (279 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings279 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPDJ AppsBradley Tompkins

Customer experience

Flux Vortex

All ratings278 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Sacred Drift

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Flux Vortex

No in-app purchases

None

Sacred Drift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flux Vortex free?
Flux Vortex costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sacred Drift free?
Sacred Drift costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flux Vortex or Sacred Drift?
Sacred Drift is rated higher. Flux Vortex averages 4.6 out of 5 from 279 ratings, while Sacred Drift averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Flux Vortex or Sacred Drift have ads?
Neither Flux Vortex nor Sacred Drift shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flux Vortex or Sacred Drift?
Flux Vortex ships an update every 7 months, and Sacred Drift every 2 weeks. Most recently, Flux Vortex was updated on October 21, 2026 and Sacred Drift on October 4, 2026.

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