The Botanist vs Atomus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Botanist
Create beautiful botanical mandalas and arrangements using digital leaves and petals. Save and share your unique floral designs with friends. A relaxing and creative experience inspired by nature's beauty.
- Create botanical mandalas
- Arrange digital leaves and petals
- Save creations to device
- Share designs with friends
- Relaxing and creative experience
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The Botanist is an app of creativity, relaxation and beauty of nature. Select your leafs and petals and other botanical specimens and start laying mandalas and other amazing arrangements. Once you’re done, save your piece on device and share with friends!
Atomus
This app is an interactive visualizer that creates beautiful, dynamic art inspired by natural phenomena and abstract concepts. It offers customizable particle effects, multi-touch interaction, and music integration, designed to inspire creativity or provide a relaxing visual experience.
- 10-Finger Multi-touch Display
- 5 Music Choices
- Fastest Speed (60 FPS)
- 12,000 Particles
- Customizable Particle Length, Number, & Size
- 3-Color Modes
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ATOMUS — A Living Kinetic Universe in Your Hands Touch energy. Shape motion. Watch light come alive. ATOMUS transforms your screen into a living kinetic universe where thousands of particles react instantly to every movement, creating flowing structures, cosmic patterns, and mesmerizing visual motion that feels both dynamic and calming. Designed for moments when you want to reset your mind, explore visual creativity, or simply watch something beautiful evolve under your fingertips, ATOMUS offers a unique sensory experience between digital art and meditation. Every touch creates shifting forms that can feel like fireworks, auroras, galaxies, waves, atomic structures, or living energy — always moving, always changing. Why users love ATOMUS • Deeply immersive touch interaction • Hypnotic moving particle structures • Ideal for creative focus and visual relaxation • A satisfying sensory experience that never feels the same twice • Beautiful for both quiet moments and playful exploration A Dynamic Visual Experience ATOMUS is inspired by: • fireworks • whirlwinds • fireflies • auroras • rainbows • waves • atomic forms Each interaction creates evolving structures that feel alive and endlessly surprising. Real-Time Performance • Up to 12,000 particles in real time • Smooth 60 FPS rendering • 10-finger multi-touch support • Adjustable particle size, quantity, and trail length • 3 color modes: Neon, Crystal, Nature • Built-in music by Aden Ray (optional) Free Version Enjoy ATOMUS for free. Upgrade to HD for: • 2× more particles • Ad-free experience • Richer visual density Support If you have ideas, questions, or feedback, I would love to hear from you. sunglab@gmail.com http://www.sunglab.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Atomus at none against The Botanist's 3. Atomus also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (525 vs 4). The Botanist's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, monetization model, device support 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
Both are free to download. The Botanist sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Atomus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Atomus holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Atomus has 525 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of The Botanist's written reviews are positive against 89% of Atomus's.
The Botanist ships an update every 11 months, Atomus every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Botanist | Atomus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (525 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 89.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 525 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beige Elephant | SungLab Inc |
Customer experience
The Botanist
Atomus
Bugs and requests
The Botanist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Atomus
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes when using more than 10 fingers
- Inconsistent ad frequency
Requested features
3 requests- More color and particle effect options
- Ability to turn off sound/music
- Haptic feedback support
In-app purchases
The Botanist
- Theme #1$1.99
- Theme #2$1.99
- Theme #3$1.99
Atomus
No in-app purchases
Questions
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