Magic Fluids Lite vs Fluid Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Fluids Lite
Experience a calming and creative fluid simulation that helps relieve stress and anxiety. Interact with mesmerizing, colorful swirls and patterns that evolve on your screen. Ideal for relaxation, meditation, or creating unique digital art.
- Hypnotizing fluid motion
- Stress and anxiety relief
- Aesthetic digital art creation
- Configurable fluid behavior
- Save custom presets
- Smoke, water, and jello animation
- Light and shadow effects
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Magic Fluids Lite 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 Lite: - Highly configurable fluid behaviour and look - Predefined configuration presets to get you started (10+ are free, ~70 more can be unlocked) - Save your own presets - Pause the animation anytime and save screenshots - 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 - 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.
Fluid Art
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Touch the screen and paint with living liquid light. Fluid Art turns your fingertips into brushes of glowing paint. Swirls, waves, flames and oil — six worlds of real physics respond to every touch, every drag, even your music. SIX PHYSICS WORLDS • Fluid — classic swirling ink: vortices, curls and glowing trails • Ripple — drops become expanding rings; drag your finger for a wake through refracted colors • Oil — thick glossy paint that sags, pools and shimmers; tilt and shake your device to stir it • Fire — heat rises into living flame with flicker and sparks; drag to paint with a torch • Orbit — gravity wells wind matter into spirals; hold a finger and pull the streams toward you • Slime — thick, deeply coloured goo that swells, settles and lags behind your finger like soft putty FIVE COLOR MOODS Classic, Neon, Ink, Calm and Storm — each with its own palette, glow and feel. Your choice applies live, right behind the settings panel. PAINT WITH SOUND Turn on Sound mode and the canvas paints itself to your music or voice. Audio is analyzed on your device in real time — nothing is ever recorded or stored. ASMR TOUCH SOUNDS Tap the headphones and the canvas answers your fingers — and every world answers in its own voice: water swirls and drips in Fluid, drops plink across the film in Ripple, Oil gurgles thick and low, Fire hisses and crackles, Orbit breathes airy swells, Slime squishes and sticks. Everything is synthesized live — never the same twice — and it mixes with your music instead of interrupting it. SHUFFLE Tap the shuffle button and the canvas reinvents itself: every half minute or so a new world and a new palette take over, like a channel of living paintings. IT LIVES ON ITS OWN Leave the app open and Fluid Art keeps painting in ambient mode — a living lava lamp for your desk or nightstand. MULTITOUCH Every finger is its own brush. Paint with a friend. CALM BY DESIGN No ads. No accounts. No timers, scores or pressure. Works fully offline. Nothing to buy, nothing to unlock — just touch and watch. Fluid Art collects no personal data. The optional Sound mode uses the microphone only to measure loudness in the moment — audio never leaves your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Fluid Art at none against Magic Fluids Lite's shown. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Magic Fluids Lite | Fluid Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.2K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mad Scientist | Dmitry Shurco |
Bugs and requests
Magic Fluids Lite
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional screen freezing or glitches
- Inconsistent ad availability
Requested features
4 requests- Option to change fluid colors
- Live wallpaper support
- More preset options in free version
- Sound/music integration
Fluid Art
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Magic Fluids Lite
No in-app purchases
Fluid Art
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Magic Fluids Lite free?
Is Fluid Art free?
Do Magic Fluids Lite or Fluid Art have ads?
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