Comparison

Fluids & Particle Simulation vs Flowpaper Classic

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

Head to head
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/

About

Flowpaper Classic

Create unique generative art with dynamic ink physics. Draw flowing lines that react and settle, allowing for delicate or sweeping strokes. Export your creations in high resolution.

Highlights
  • Dynamic ink thread physics
  • Continuous draw mode
  • Customizable ink and canvas colors
  • Draw over imported photos
  • High-resolution export
  • Shareable artwork
Features
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Flowpaper Classic is the original Flowpaper, brought back for modern iPhone and iPad, one purchase, every feature unlocked. Draw with ink that has a life of its own. Each stroke is a bundle of fine threads that trail behind your finger, swing past it, and settle under their own momentum. Move slowly and you get delicate, controlled line work. Sweep quickly and the threads fan out into smoke, feathers and long flowing tails. No two strokes come out the same. • Thread physics that turn a single gesture into something you could never draw by hand • Continuous draw mode, the threads never lift, so one unbroken line builds an entire piece • Choose any ink and canvas colour, and adjust the brush to taste • Bring in a photo from your library as a background and draw over it • Export at high resolution, straight to your photo library • Share your work anywhere the system share sheet reaches No account, no sign-in, no subscription, no in-app purchases. One price, the whole app. Made for people who would rather find a drawing than plan one. PRIVACY POLICY: Our privacy policy is available at: https://flowpaper.io/privacy-policy TERMS OF SERVICE: Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Fluids & Particle Simulation4 screens
Flowpaper Classic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fluids & Particle Simulation at Free against Flowpaper Classic's $1.99. Fluids & Particle Simulation also leads on ratings volume (777 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Flowpaper Classic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads 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

Fluids & Particle Simulation is free to download; Flowpaper Classic costs $1.99 up front. Fluids & Particle Simulation sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Flowpaper Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flowpaper Classic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluids & Particle Simulation has 777 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fluids & Particle Simulation ships an update monthly, Flowpaper Classic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Fluids & Particle Simulation versus Flowpaper Classic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFluids & Particle SimulationFlowpaper Classic
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.7 (777 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings777 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#177 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZipoAppsBotto Studio LLC

Customer experience

Fluids & Particle Simulation

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

Flowpaper Classic

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

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

Flowpaper Classic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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
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  • Psychedelic magic (OS X Mac)$24.99
  • Psychedelic magic (iOS)$44.99
None

Flowpaper Classic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fluids & Particle Simulation free?
Fluids & Particle Simulation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flowpaper Classic free?
Flowpaper Classic costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fluids & Particle Simulation or Flowpaper Classic?
Flowpaper Classic is rated higher. Fluids & Particle Simulation averages 4.7 out of 5 from 777 ratings, while Flowpaper Classic averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fluids & Particle Simulation or Flowpaper Classic have ads?
Neither Fluids & Particle Simulation nor Flowpaper Classic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fluids & Particle Simulation or Flowpaper Classic?
Fluids & Particle Simulation ships an update monthly, and Flowpaper Classic every 2 weeks. Most recently, Fluids & Particle Simulation was updated on November 7, 2026 and Flowpaper Classic on November 6, 2026.

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