Flowpotion vs subflow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flowpotion
An interactive toy that simulates a quantum fluid potion. It responds to touch, motion, and stillness, allowing users to customize colors and brilliance with detailed 3D physics and graphics. This meditative experience offers a glimpse into nature's complexity.
- Interactive fluid simulation
- Responds to touch, motion, and stillness
- Customizable colors, energy, and brilliance
- 3D physics and graphics
- Meditative and mesmerizing experience
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Flowpotion is an interactive toy inspired by the classic homemade creation: a magic potion glitter bottle–with a quantum twist. Flowpotion responds to motion, gravity, and touch, or to stillness. Choose and change colors, energy, and brilliance to match your mood and state of mind. Experience the deep-detail, three-dimensional physics and graphics, with fluid dynamics via its unique evolving quantum wave function. Flowpotion is meditative, mesmerizing, and enlightening. Open it anytime to grok the complexity and beauty of nature animated by mathematical poetry.
subflow
Create dynamic music visualizations for any setting. Control modes, speed, and beat patterns with intuitive screen gestures. Advanced users can leverage UDP and OS2L for complex control with DJ software.
- Gesture-based control for modes, speed, and beats
- Beat pattern customization
- UDP command sequencing
- OS2L integration with DJ software
- Color customization via long press
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Crisp visualizations for your music stage or living room. Tap left or right edge of screen to change modes. Vertical swipes change speed. Tap the upper half of the screen several times to set a beat pattern. Tap the lower half to cancel or to add single beats. Horizontal swipes fine-tune the beat alignment. Long press will change color. You can also send more complex command sequences over UDP, and you can control via OS2L using most DJ software. See http://subflow.org/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: subflow at Free against Flowpotion's $6.99. subflow also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (17 vs 4). Flowpotion's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On ads, in-app purchases 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
subflow is free to download; Flowpotion costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flowpotion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Flowpotion's written reviews are positive against 67% of subflow's.
Flowpotion ships an update every 25 months, subflow every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flowpotion | subflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.3 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | grokware | Ello Skelling Productions |
Customer experience
Flowpotion
subflow
In-app purchases
Flowpotion
No in-app purchases
subflow
No in-app purchases
