Comparison

Flying Comet vs Langton's Ant

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Control a comet
  • Avoid obstacles
  • Reach destination
  • Multiple levels
  • Crash limit per level
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Cellular automaton simulation
  • Ant movement on a grid
  • Rule-based pattern generation
  • Simplicity, chaos, and emergent order modes
  • Visualizes complex behaviors
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Flying Comet4 screens
Langton's Ant4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Flying Comet versus Langton's Ant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlying CometLangton's Ant
Price$3.49$0.99 — better
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better2.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOscar Tsang瑞锋 于

Customer experience

Flying Comet

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Langton's Ant

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Flying Comet

No in-app purchases

None

Langton's Ant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flying Comet free?
Flying Comet costs $3.49, with no in-app purchases.
Is Langton's Ant free?
Langton's Ant costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flying Comet or Langton's Ant?
Flying Comet is rated higher. Flying Comet averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Langton's Ant averages 2.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Flying Comet or Langton's Ant have ads?
Flying Comet shows ads; Langton's Ant does not.
Which is updated more often, Flying Comet or Langton's Ant?
Flying Comet ships an update every 19 months, and Langton's Ant every 4 months. Most recently, Flying Comet was updated on October 12, 2026 and Langton's Ant on October 16, 2026.

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