Comparison

Plasma! vs Fluids & Particle Simulation

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

Head to head
About

Plasma!

Experience a mesmerizing visual display resembling a lava lamp on your mobile device. Enjoy a free color palette or unlock additional options with a one-time purchase. The app runs continuously, making it a dynamic background for your device.

Highlights
  • Lava lamp simulation
  • Smoothly morphing colorful blobs
  • Free blue-green color palette
  • Unlockable color palettes
  • Continuous background operation
  • Apple Watch compatibility
Features
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Plasma! is like a Lava Lamp in your pocket! Run the app, then place your iPhone or iPad upright on the table. Or just hold it in your hand. Watch as the colorful blobs smoothly morph around the screen. Enjoy the blue-green color palette for free. Then after a one-time purchase, you may choose from 5 different color palettes, or "Cycle All" to rotate amongst them all. If running on an Apple Watch, simply tap on the screen until you find your favorite color. Plasma! will keep going when you're away, so remember to plug in your device to avoid draining the battery. Hope you enjoy it!

About

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Create mesmerizing, psychedelic fluid art with your fingertips. This app offers a calming and creative outlet to reduce stress and channel negative emotions into beautiful, flowing patterns. Enjoy a unique ASMR experience with sound-reactive visuals and customizable parameters.

Highlights
  • Interactive fluid art simulation
  • Sound-reactive fluids
  • Dozens of customizable parameters
  • Autopilot mode
  • Gyrosensor and haptic feedback integration
  • Real-time sound synthesis
  • Video recording and screenshot functionality
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Are you stressed and agitated? Do you want to channel your negative energies into something soulful and creatively free till you feel calm? The Fluids and Sounds app can help you - create satisfying, trippy and psychedelic art with your fingertips. This app helps you to reduce stress and calm down. Now you can touch on your screen to simulate colorful and luminescent fluids that flow with your touch movements. Create extraordinary patterns with single touch or multiple touches on the screen and delve deeper into a world of creative fascination and magical freedom till you feel the connection to our universe. --- Features of Fluids and Sounds --- - Wonderful and easy fluid art simulation - Sound reactive fluids (synchronize to your favorite music) - Dozens of parameters to play around with (color, bloom, sunrays, resolution, force and more) - Autopilot included. Let the fluids flow without interacting with the app. You also could stream this to a bigger screen using AirPlay. Please note: Autopilot is not generating sounds. - Gyrosensor, haptic feedback and force touch are integrated (if you want to use them) - Realtime sound synthesis for meditating music - Take screenshots and share them with anyone you like - Record videos of your fluids (please note: Videos are not including the fluid sounds, only the background music, also video recording excludes the UI, so you'll only record what matters - your art) - Save and load your favorite settings using presets --- Feel Free, Calm and Relaxed --- Art is a form of expression and expression helps in catharsis of inexplicable things we feel every day. If you think you suck at art or expression, this app offers you a safe, easy and creative outlet to channel your thoughts into wonderful art impressions that disappear intermittently. Allow yourself to come down and play around with Fluids & Shapes for some minutes to make beautiful expressions on your device’s screen. --- Seek Awareness and Peace --- You feel like the world is too overwhelming and you need to get a bit of awareness? Protect your peace from getting drowned in a pool of negative emotions such as stress, anxiety, agitation, depression etc. Seek awareness and peace the minute you open this app and make the most of your free time with this free, amazing app. --- Create Wonderful Fluid Art Impressions --- Use your fingertips to create wonderful forms and shapes on your device. While you do so, you can listen to relaxing music which is generated in realtime, depending on your input. Get in tune with the relaxing art and music as you make beautiful patterns on your screen. Customize the intensity, color dispersion, vortex index, music effects, waves and other items from the menu to enjoy a more personalized fluid art meditation and relaxation. Are you ready to feel the satisfaction of creative freedom and its impact on your mental wellbeing? The new fluid art meditation and stimulation app is here for you. Enjoy breathtaking art patterns and soulful music till you feel calm and relaxed. Download and use Fluids and Sounds today! Hope you'll enjoy, because we believe you deserve to feel calm and relaxed! Do you have ideas for new features or improvements? You are not satisfied with this app? Feel free to send me a message at info@mkgames.org Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Plasma!4 screens
Fluids & Particle Simulation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fluids & Particle Simulation at 4.7 against Plasma!'s 3.8. Fluids & Particle Simulation also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 54%) and ratings volume (777 vs 30). Plasma!'s advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 13.0). On price, ads, 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

Both are free to download. Plasma! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fluids & Particle Simulation sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fluids & Particle Simulation holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluids & Particle Simulation has 777 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Plasma!'s written reviews are positive against 90% of Fluids & Particle Simulation's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plasma! ships an update fortnightly, Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Plasma! versus Fluids & Particle Simulation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlasma!Fluids & Particle Simulation
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (30 ratings)4.7 (777 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews89.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30777 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS9.3 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB189 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarl GorringeZipoApps

Customer experience

Plasma!

All ratings26 ratings
Positive65.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative26.9%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral15.4%
Negative30.8%

Fluids & Particle Simulation

All ratings770 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive89.6%
Neutral4.0%
Negative6.4%

Bugs and requests

Plasma!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Microphone input not working as expected
  • Difficulty resetting or restoring default settings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to sync visuals with external audio/music
  • More preset options and visual effects
  • Improved UI/UX for settings and controls
  • Support for casting to external displays

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Plasma!

One-time1
  • More Colors!$0.99
8 purchases

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Subscriptions3
  • Unlock all features3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Unlock all | monthly premium$5.991 Month
  • Fluids PRO$17.991 Year
One-time5
  • Unlock all Presets (iOS)$1.99
  • Unlock all Presets (OS X Mac)$2.99
  • Unlock all features$14.99
Show 2 more
  • Psychedelic magic (OS X Mac)$24.99
  • Psychedelic magic (iOS)$44.99

Questions

Is Plasma! free?
Plasma! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fluids & Particle Simulation free?
Fluids & Particle Simulation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plasma! or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
Fluids & Particle Simulation is rated higher. Plasma! averages 3.8 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Fluids & Particle Simulation averages 4.7 from 777 ratings.
Do Plasma! or Fluids & Particle Simulation have ads?
Neither Plasma! nor Fluids & Particle Simulation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plasma! or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
Plasma! ships an update fortnightly, and Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. Most recently, Plasma! was updated on November 6, 2026 and Fluids & Particle Simulation on November 7, 2026.

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