Magic Fluids vs Gaster Dingbats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Gaster Dingbats
Transform your text into unique dingbat characters and fonts for messaging. This app offers a keyboard and translator for various dingbat styles, including W. D. Gaster, Wingdings, and Webdings.
- Text to dingbat conversion
- Custom keyboard integration
- W. D. Gaster alphabet support
- Original Wingdings font support
- Wingdings 2 & 3 support
- Webdings font support
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Convert text to Dingbats with this translator and keyboard. The app supports all Zapf Dingbats as a font and as characters to send to your friends in a messaging app. Note that some apps may display dingbats slightly differently than this app, because they use the system font. Supports: • W. D. Gaster alphabet • Original Wingdings font • Wingdings 2 • Wingdings 3 • Webdings
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Magic Fluids at 97% against Gaster Dingbats's 0%. Magic Fluids also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (575 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Magic Fluids costs $4.99 and Gaster Dingbats $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Magic Fluids holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Fluids has 575 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Magic Fluids's written reviews are positive against 0% of Gaster Dingbats's.
Magic Fluids ships an update every 4 months, Gaster Dingbats every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magic Fluids | Gaster Dingbats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (575 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 575 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #38 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mad Scientist | Maarten Trompper |
Customer experience
Magic Fluids
Gaster Dingbats
Bugs and 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
Gaster Dingbats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Magic Fluids
No in-app purchases
Gaster Dingbats
No in-app purchases
Questions
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