Fireworks vs Distributed Fire
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! (^ ^)!
Distributed Fire
Experience a unique digital artwork that you can collect and share. Light a flame from an exhibition to take it home, and then share it with others through the app. See how your artwork spreads on a dynamic map.
- Collect digital artwork flames
- Share flames with other users
- View flame spread on a map
- Interactive exhibition experience
- Take artwork home
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This app can be used at the following exhibitions: - teamLab Planets (Toyosu, Tokyo) - teamLab Ruins and Heritage Rinkan Spa & Tea Ceremony (Takeo Hot Springs, Kyushu) --- Distributed Fire is an artwork that can be shared between people. You can also receive this artwork from specified works and bring it home with you. Light the Flame When you approach the flame of an artwork, your flame will ignite and you can take the artwork home with you. Share the Flame If you approach other people with this app, you can share your flame with them. See the Map of the Flame The flames that are shared and spread, as well as the flames shared and spread by you, are displayed on the map in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fireworks at 5.0 against Distributed Fire's 3.6. Fireworks also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 25%) and device support (3 vs 1). Distributed Fire's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 19 months). On price and in-app purchases 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 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Distributed Fire has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Fireworks's written reviews are positive against 25% of Distributed Fire's.
Fireworks ships an update every 19 months, Distributed Fire every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fireworks | Distributed Fire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.6 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kume toru | teamLab Inc. |
Customer experience
Fireworks
Distributed Fire
In-app purchases
Fireworks
No in-app purchases
Distributed Fire
No in-app purchases
