Flying Comet vs Langton's Ant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flying Comet
Navigate a celestial body through challenging levels, avoiding obstacles and reaching the destination. Players can afford two crashes per level before needing to restart. Embark on a journey through numerous stages.
- Control a comet
- Avoid obstacles
- Reach destination
- Multiple levels
- Crash limit per level
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Control the comet, avoid all obstacles, fly to destination. Each level we are allow to crash twice, more than twice crash you need to play again. Many levels are waiting for you.
Langton's Ant
Explore complex emergent behaviors from simple rules in this cellular automaton simulation. Observe patterns evolve from simplicity to chaos and finally to emergent order.
- Cellular automaton simulation
- Ant movement on a grid
- Rule-based pattern generation
- Simplicity, chaos, and emergent order modes
- Visualizes complex behaviors
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Langton’s Ant is a cellular automaton that models an ant moving on a grid of cells following some very basic rules. At the start of the simulation, the ant is randomly positioned on a 2D-grid of white cells. The ant is also given a direction (either facing up, down, left or right). The ant then moves according to the colour of the cell it is currently sitting in, with the following rules: 1.If the cell is white, it changes to black and the ant turns right 90°. 2.If the cell is black, it changes to white and the ant turns left 90°. 3.The ant then moves forward to the next cell, and repeat from step 1. These simple rules lead to complex behaviours. Three distinct modes of behaviour are apparent, when starting on a completely white grid: - Simplicity: During the first few hundred moves it creates very simple patterns which are often symmetric. - Chaos: After a few hundred moves, a big, irregular pattern of black and white squares appears. The ant traces a pseudo-random path until around 10,000 steps. - Emergent order: Finally the ant starts building a recurrent “highway” pattern of 104 steps that repeats indefinitely. All finite initial configurations tested eventually converge to the same repetitive pattern, suggesting that the “highway” is an attractor of Langton’s ant, but no one has been able to prove that this is true for all such initial configurations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flying Comet at 4.5 against Langton's Ant's 2.2. Langton's Ant's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 19 months). On review sentiment, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Flying Comet costs $3.49 and Langton's Ant $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flying Comet holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Flying Comet ships an update every 19 months, Langton's Ant every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flying Comet | Langton's Ant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.49 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 2.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oscar Tsang | 瑞锋 于 |
Customer experience
Flying Comet
Langton's Ant
In-app purchases
Flying Comet
No in-app purchases
Langton's Ant
No in-app purchases
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