Liquid Math vs Emigre Fonts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Biological simulation art creation
- 40+ reaction-diffusion presets
- Custom simulation rule creation
- Deep theme customization
- Save custom rules
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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.
Emigre Fonts
Explore a comprehensive digital archive of type specimens and design magazines. This app allows graphic designers and typography enthusiasts to zoom in on intricate typographic details and read all published essays and interviews.
- View entire collection of type specimens
- Read all issues of Emigre magazine
- Zoom in on typographic details
- Read essays and interviews
- Easy-to-use interface
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View and read all pages of the entire collection of Emigre Fonts type specimens, and all issues of the legendary Emigre magazine, in this easy-to-use app made for graphic designers and type aficionados alike. Zoom in on typographic details, and read every essay and interview published to date.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Emigre Fonts at Free against Liquid Math's $0.99. Emigre Fonts also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Liquid Math's advantage is chart position (#15 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Emigre Fonts is free to download; Liquid Math costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Liquid Math against 4.9 for Emigre Fonts. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 18 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Liquid Math's written reviews are positive against 100% of Emigre Fonts's.
Liquid Math ships an update every 7 months, Emigre Fonts every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Liquid Math | Emigre Fonts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (39 ratings) | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #15 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Cole | Emigre Inc. |
Customer experience
Liquid Math
Emigre Fonts
In-app purchases
Liquid Math
No in-app purchases
Emigre Fonts
No in-app purchases
