Fluids & Particle Simulation vs Just Fidgeting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Just Fidgeting
Engage your hands with a variety of interactive elements like swiping cards, flipping switches, and scrolling lists. This app provides a satisfying loop of motion without the distractions of social media or notifications, offering a digital stress ball for your phone.
- Interactive fidget elements (swipe, tap, drag)
- No social media or notifications
- Offline functionality
- No tracking or data collection
- Customizable color palettes
- Optional awareness messages
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You've opened Instagram, WhatsApp, Email, and all the others, four times in ten minutes. Nothing new. You knew there wouldn't be. Opened them anyway. Your hands needed something to do. They still do. Just Fidgeting is that loop, minus the doom. No feed. No likes. No notifications. Just things to tap, spin, swipe, and drag. Each one feels satisfying and leads absolutely nowhere. It's fidgeting. Nothing else. Open the app and start immediately. Shake your phone to try something different. Eventually you catch yourself. Oh. I'm just moving my fingers. Then you decide: keep going, or put it down. This is not about fixing you. Not about blocking your phone or measuring your screen time or making you feel guilty. Just about giving your hands something harmless to do when they reach for your phone out of habit. If you've enjoyed the pointlessness and want more, Just Fidgeting Pro unlocks everything with a one-time purchase. New fidgets, themes, and icons, plus everything we'll ever build. The best way to support an app built between doom scrolls.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Just Fidgeting at free against Fluids & Particle Simulation's free with in-app purchases. Just Fidgeting also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Fluids & Particle Simulation's advantage is ratings volume (777 vs 15) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Fluids & Particle Simulation sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Just Fidgeting sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Fluids & Particle Simulation against 4.6 for Just Fidgeting. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluids & Particle Simulation has 777 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Fluids & Particle Simulation's written reviews are positive against 100% of Just Fidgeting's.
Fluids & Particle Simulation ships an update monthly, Just Fidgeting every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fluids & Particle Simulation | Just Fidgeting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (777 ratings) — better | 4.6 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 777 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZipoApps | Verena Ortlieb |
Customer experience
Fluids & Particle Simulation
Just Fidgeting
Bugs and 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
Just Fidgeting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fluids & Particle Simulation
- Unlock all features3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Unlock all | monthly premium$5.991 Month
- Fluids PRO$17.991 Year
- Unlock all Presets (iOS)$1.99
- Unlock all Presets (OS X Mac)$2.99
- Unlock all features$14.99
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- Psychedelic magic (OS X Mac)$24.99
- Psychedelic magic (iOS)$44.99
Just Fidgeting
- Unlock Everything$4.99
Questions
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