Comparison

Liquid Math vs Designgraphik

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

Head to head
About

Liquid Math

Create unique art by harnessing the power of biological simulations. Explore natural patterns and bring your digital brush strokes to life with dynamic, rule-based effects. Save your custom simulations and personalize the visual themes.

Highlights
  • Biological simulation art creation
  • 40+ reaction-diffusion presets
  • Custom simulation rule creation
  • Deep theme customization
  • Save custom rules
Features
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Liquid Math is a tool for creating art with biological simulations. There are patterns in nature all around you that form spontaneously from surprisingly simple rules. With Liquid Math, you can use these rules to create art with these patterns, which happen naturally in the raised edges of brain corals, pigmentation in animals with stripes, and more. Think of it as a drawing program that brings your brush strokes to life. Features: - 40+ reaction-diffusion presets to get started with. - Make and save your own simulation rules for later. - Change the look with deep theme customization. EPILEPSY WARNING: Liquid Math can produce very rapidly strobing images which may trigger seizures in those with photosensitive epilepsy.

About

Designgraphik

Explore a curated collection of innovative digital art from a renowned designer. This app showcases high-resolution works in a custom gallery, offering a unique artistic experience.

Highlights
  • High-resolution artwork display
  • Custom gallery presentation
  • Curated digital art collection
  • Exploration of online design boundaries
  • Artist's proprietary creative environment
Features
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Designgraphik is Michael Paul Young. His innovative work has been exhibited worldwide, from the 500,000 LED pixels of U2’s 360° Tour to a 70-foot tall projection on Richard Meier’s The Hague City Hall. He has won awards including the Clio and the Cannes Gold Cyber Lion and has spoken at the world’s most renowned design conventions and festivals. At the turn of the millennium, Young found himself needing a place to explore and test the boundaries of online digital art, resulting in his creation of the Designgraphik name and website. Whether on the web at that site and others like Submethod and Vir2l, in print, or on various hard media, his goal was always the exploration and testing of boundaries, under presentation circumstances that he controlled, in environments that were his own proprietary creations. The work helped to shape online design throughout the late 90s and early 00s, and was nominated for and won numerous multimedia and online design awards until Young retired the Designgraphik name in 2010. In 2020, as we enter the fourth decade of life online, nothing is proprietary. Online art is democratized and sanitized, cropped, compressed, formatted, influenced, ranked, rated and ultimately forgotten in a dark corner of a corporate data center. And so Young has re-launched the Designgraphik name and ethos, once again in presentation circumstances under his control, in an environment that is his own proprietary creation. The ultimate expression of that concept is this app, designed to present Young's work as Designgraphik in high resolution, in a custom gallery, for free.

Screenshots

Liquid Math4 screens
Designgraphik4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Designgraphik at monthly against Liquid Math's every 7 months. Designgraphik also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Liquid Math's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 67%) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Liquid Math costs $0.99 and Designgraphik $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Liquid Math against 4.7 for Designgraphik. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Liquid Math's written reviews are positive against 67% of Designgraphik's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Liquid Math ships an update every 7 months, Designgraphik monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Liquid Math versus Designgraphik: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiquid MathDesigngraphik
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (38 ratings) — better4.7 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings38 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#122#45 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan ColeYouWorkForThem, Inc

Customer experience

Liquid Math

All ratings38 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%

Designgraphik

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Liquid Math

No in-app purchases

None

Designgraphik

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Liquid Math free?
Liquid Math costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Designgraphik free?
Designgraphik costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Liquid Math or Designgraphik?
Liquid Math is rated higher. Liquid Math averages 4.8 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Designgraphik averages 4.7 from 15 ratings.
Do Liquid Math or Designgraphik have ads?
Neither Liquid Math nor Designgraphik shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Liquid Math or Designgraphik?
Liquid Math ships an update every 7 months, and Designgraphik monthly. Most recently, Liquid Math was updated on October 12, 2026 and Designgraphik on October 8, 2026.
Which is more popular, Liquid Math or Designgraphik?
Liquid Math currently peaks at #122 in the App Store charts, and Designgraphik at #45. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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