Comparison

GraviT vs PALINGENESIS

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

Head to head
About

GraviT

Rotate minimalist worlds to bring color and motion into perfect balance. This game offers 50 handcrafted puzzles with a clean design and an original soundtrack. Enjoy effortless controls and intentional movement without ads or clutter.

Highlights
  • 50 handcrafted puzzles
  • Clean, glowing design
  • Effortless controls
  • Original soundtrack
  • No ads
Features
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You don’t move the blocks. You move the world. Gravity is both your tool and your test. Rotate minimal worlds with deliberate grace, bringing color and motion into perfect balance. What’s Inside: • 50 handcrafted puzzles • Clean, glowing design • Effortless controls and intentional movement • Original soundtrack for focus and flow • No ads. No clutter. Just focus. Elegant. Precise. A little smug, like gravity itself.

About

PALINGENESIS

Experience an album as an interactive music video game. Explore animated worlds, each tied to a song, and uncover a developing narrative through your journey. This unique application blends hand-crafted animation with interactive gameplay.

Highlights
  • Interactive animated worlds
  • Music-driven environments
  • Unfolding narrative
  • Hand-crafted animation
  • Visual sequences
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PALINGENESIS is a music video game. The album by GRIGS unfolds as a series of interactive animated worlds, with each environment built around a different song. Created entirely by animator and musician John Paul Grigsby, PALINGENESIS brings together hand-crafted animation, interactive environments, and visual sequences that appear as you move through each world. As you progress through the album, a larger story begins to take shape through the environments and the moments you come across along the way. Listen to PALINGENESIS by GRIGS wherever you stream music. www.johngrigsby.com

Screenshots

GraviT4 screens
PALINGENESIS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: GraviT at free against PALINGENESIS's paid. PALINGENESIS's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for GraviT against 4.8 for PALINGENESIS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of GraviT's written reviews are positive against 100% of PALINGENESIS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GraviT ships an update every 5 days, PALINGENESIS every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
GraviT versus PALINGENESIS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGraviTPALINGENESIS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (20 ratings)4.8 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TViPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB741 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDennis MengeltJohn Paul Grigsby

Customer experience

GraviT

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

PALINGENESIS

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GraviT

No in-app purchases

None

PALINGENESIS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GraviT free?
GraviT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PALINGENESIS free?
PALINGENESIS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GraviT or PALINGENESIS?
PALINGENESIS is rated higher. GraviT averages 4.8 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while PALINGENESIS averages 4.8 from 12 ratings.
Do GraviT or PALINGENESIS have ads?
Neither GraviT nor PALINGENESIS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GraviT or PALINGENESIS?
GraviT ships an update every 5 days, and PALINGENESIS every 9 days. Most recently, GraviT was updated on November 2, 2026 and PALINGENESIS on November 3, 2026.

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