Comparison

PanoPainter vs Magic Fluids

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

Head to head
About

PanoPainter

Create immersive 360° illustrations and animations with a panoramic canvas. This software supports VR headsets, offering intuitive tools for sketching, painting, and animating in a full spherical environment.

Highlights
  • Immersive 360° panoramic canvas
  • VR Painting support
  • High-Performance GPU Accelerated Paint Engine
  • Massive resolution up to 8K panorama
  • Highly customizable brushes
  • Layers and Timelapse
Features
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PanoPainter is the first software ever made to enable an immersive experience for artists that want to sketch, paint, and animate on a full 360° panoramic canvas. Its native workflow allows artists to work in an intuitive environment and create amazing illustrations that can also be viewed using any virtual reality headset and be immersed inside the artwork. These are the main features you will find: - Import regular images and place them in the scene - Share across Apple devices using AirDrop - Copy/paste and transform the selection - Immersive 360° panoramic canvas - High-Performance GPU Accelerated Paint Engine - Intuitive gestures to navigate - Dynamic cross-platform User Interface - Native Apple Pencil support - Native Sonar Pen support - Massive resolution up to 8K panorama - Highly customizable brushes - Cloud Storage for device interoperability - Timelapse - Layers - Side panel for quick access to brush settings. - Popup panels. - Height-map tool for landscapes generation. - Ray-traced shadows generation. - Multi-threading for faster computation. - Overall performance optimized. - Import Photoshop Brushes ABR file. - Improved color picker. - Layer blending modes. - Improved Brush Engine with Dual-Brush and Patterns. - VR Painting - High DPI display support More features will be added as the software evolves.

About

Magic Fluids

Experience a calming and creative fluid simulation. Interact with mesmerizing, colorful swirls that evolve into beautiful digital art. Ideal for relaxation, stress relief, and artistic expression.

Highlights
  • Fluid flow simulation
  • Hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls
  • Stress and anxiety relief
  • Create abstract digital art
  • Configurable fluid behavior
  • Save custom presets
  • Pause animation and save screenshots
Features
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Magic Fluids is a relaxing, colorful fluid simulation app that will help you calm down and relieve stress, or be creative and make aesthetic digital art. It is based on algorithms of fluid flow simulation and features fluid (pun intented!), beautiful graphics. It is the best time waster! TOUCH THE SCREEN and enjoy hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls moving around, sometimes slow, quiet and elegant, other times dynamic, satisfying and trippy. CALM DOWN AND RELAX as you draw and watch peaceful flows evolve in space and eventually settle down into colorful patterns. Magic Fluids will help you sleep, meditate, restore balance, relieve stress and anxiety. GET CREATIVE and, with a touch of your finger, bring to life stylish patterns of paint and particles. If you like abstract digital art or acrylic pour painting, you'll love Magic Fluids! You can create impressive eye-catching designs that look like swirls, galaxies, liquid, fire, light, smoke, lava and much more! KEEP YOUR KIDS BUSY - they love to doodle and watch the fluid move around! We hope that Magic Fluids can also help children with anxiety, autism and sensory issues. Please note: This is NOT a live wallpaper! Key features of Magic Fluids: - Highly configurable fluid behaviour and look - 70+ predefined configuration presets to get you started - Save your own presets - Pause the animation anytime and save screenshots - NEW: Record videos straight from the app! - Smoke, water and jello animation - 10 fluid textures that add fine detail to the fluid - Amazing light and shadow visual effects - Thousands of particles moving with the fluid - You can load photos and images as backgrounds - Highly optimized, multiple quality settings Fluid animation in your pocket! Touch the screen and create beautiful motion of colorful smoke and water. Calm down and relax as you watch trippy, magical swirls of flowing colors. Get artistic and design creative, satisfying patterns of paint and particles.

Screenshots

PanoPainter4 screens
Magic Fluids4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Magic Fluids at $4.99 against PanoPainter's $14.99. Magic Fluids also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.8) and review sentiment (97% vs 57%). PanoPainter's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (9.2 vs 15.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

PanoPainter costs $14.99 and Magic Fluids $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Magic Fluids holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Fluids has 579 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of PanoPainter's written reviews are positive against 97% of Magic Fluids's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PanoPainter ships an update every 2 months, Magic Fluids every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
PanoPainter versus Magic Fluids: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanoPainterMagic Fluids
Price$14.99$4.99 — better
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)4.8 (579 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews96.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5579 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank—#72 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.2 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOmixLab ltdMad Scientist

Customer experience

PanoPainter

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral28.6%
Negative14.3%

Magic Fluids

All ratings575 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews181 reviews
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.7%

Bugs and requests

PanoPainter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Magic Fluids

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Presets not saving properly
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to import custom background images
  • Screen recording functionality
  • More sound and music options
  • Improved interface and UI

In-app purchases

None

PanoPainter

No in-app purchases

None

Magic Fluids

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PanoPainter free?
PanoPainter costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magic Fluids free?
Magic Fluids costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PanoPainter or Magic Fluids?
Magic Fluids is rated higher. PanoPainter averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Magic Fluids averages 4.8 from 579 ratings.
Do PanoPainter or Magic Fluids have ads?
Neither PanoPainter nor Magic Fluids shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PanoPainter or Magic Fluids?
PanoPainter ships an update every 2 months, and Magic Fluids every 4 months. Most recently, PanoPainter was updated on October 29, 2026 and Magic Fluids on October 29, 2026.

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