Comparison

Fireworks vs AR

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

Head to head
About

Fireworks

Create custom fireworks displays with text and characters. Input your message, launch fireworks, and share your creations. Make the text frame invisible for a unique visual experience.

Highlights
  • Launch fireworks with text
  • Customizable text frames
  • Shareable capture screens
  • Fireworks emoticons
  • Invisible text frame option
Features
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Fireworks app that launches favorite characters Tell your thoughts with fireworks! Share the capture screen to everyone! For the operation, enter characters in the frame at the bottom of the screen. Pushing fire button will fire fireworks. You can also make the frame of the text invisible. It is fun to set some characters and let someone shoot you. ! Fireworks Emoticons may be interesting too! (^ ^)!

About

AR

Features
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AR-vos is an augmented reality app that enables you to view image trigger based AR artworks like Tamiko Thiel's "Eisai" or geolocative works like "Reign of Gold." "Eisai" is an image-trigger artwork that can be viewed anywhere in the world to meditate on the monk Eisai who brought Zen to Japan. It was developed for the Kennin-ji Zen Temple in Kyoto, as part of the "Art Innovation" Exhibition and Symposium. http://art.gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-en.html To use "Eisai," you first need to download the trigger image http://www.ar-vos.com/zen.jpg, either print the image or look at it on a screen. Start the app and bring the trigger image into the "Fit the image you're scanning" frame. Once the app detects the image, the animation of Eisai will emerge. "Reign of Gold" is a geolocative AR work that can be viewed anywhere around the world. Simply select the layer, it will surround you with an animated rain of gold coins.

Screenshots

Fireworks3 screens
AR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: AR at none against Fireworks's shown. AR also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 19 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fireworks ships an update every 19 months, AR every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fireworks versus AR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFireworksAR
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkume toruTamiko Thiel

In-app purchases

None

Fireworks

No in-app purchases

None

AR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fireworks free?
Fireworks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AR free?
AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fireworks or AR have ads?
Fireworks shows ads; AR does not.
Which is updated more often, Fireworks or AR?
Fireworks ships an update every 19 months, and AR every 4 months. Most recently, Fireworks was updated on October 21, 2026 and AR on October 29, 2026.

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