Fireworks vs AR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Launch fireworks with text
- Customizable text frames
- Shareable capture screens
- Fireworks emoticons
- Invisible text frame option
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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! (^ ^)!
AR
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Fireworks | AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kume toru | Tamiko Thiel |
In-app purchases
Fireworks
No in-app purchases
AR
No in-app purchases









