Comparison

Elemental Forces vs Vortis

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

Head to head
About

Elemental Forces

Experience a digital augmented reality art installation. Point your device at paintings or surfaces to trigger a dynamic sound and light show. Explore geometric shapes and interactive audio influenced by your touch and position.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality art display
  • Interactive soundscapes
  • Light effects
  • Geometric shape visuals
  • Touch and location-based interaction
Features
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For the digital augmented reality experience, point your device at the paintings or a surface, and experience a sound and light experience. The program is structured around simple geometric shapes, with sounds affected by your location and touch. This series of digital art and oil paintings represents is a meditation on air, light, surfaces, sound and color.

About

Vortis

Experience a dynamic fluid art simulation that responds to your touch with vibrant colors and mesmerizing patterns. Explore various visual styles and adjust simulation parameters in real-time for a unique, stress-relieving visual experience.

Highlights
  • Interactive fluid simulation
  • Real-time GPU computation
  • Multiple visual styles (looks)
  • Adjustable simulation parameters
  • Music and camera integration
  • Record and save creations
Features
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A relaxing fluid simulation you play with your fingers: a pool of color that answers every touch. Draw across it and you pull a band of color through the flow. Tap and a drop bursts open. Rest a finger and a glowing plume rises. Behind it runs a real fluid solver on the GPU, up to a hundred and twenty times a second. No video, no loop: what you see was computed a moment ago and will never come back quite the same. TWENTY LOOKS Ink on water, northern lights, marbled paper, smoke, neon, deep sea. One for every mood — and if you would rather not choose, the dice hands you one. EVERYTHING IS A SLIDER Vorticity, color decay, resolution, pressure: the knobs of the method itself, not a few filters laid over it. The pool keeps painting while you drag them, so you see what you are doing straight away. MORE THAN FINGERS Let the music in the room drive the flow. Use your own photo or the camera as a color source. Paint walls the color has to flow around. And record what came out of it. No goal, no score, no progress. A pool that answers back. Every third roll of the dice plays a short video ad. Vortis Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks the effects, your own image sources and the solver's own controls — and removes the ads.

Screenshots

Elemental Forces1 screens
Vortis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Elemental Forces at none against Vortis's 1. Elemental Forces also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Vortis's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Vortis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Elemental Forces asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Elemental Forces against 5.0 for Vortis. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Elemental Forces ships an update every 3 months, Vortis every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Elemental Forces versus Vortis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElemental ForcesVortis
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBryan LeisterInes Golub

Customer experience

Elemental Forces

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Vortis

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Elemental Forces

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Vortis

One-time1
  • Vortis Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Elemental Forces free?
Elemental Forces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vortis free?
Vortis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Elemental Forces or Vortis?
Elemental Forces and Vortis are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Elemental Forces or Vortis have ads?
Vortis shows ads; Elemental Forces does not.
Which is updated more often, Elemental Forces or Vortis?
Elemental Forces ships an update every 3 months, and Vortis every 5 days. Most recently, Elemental Forces was updated on November 3, 2026 and Vortis on November 7, 2026.

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