Gaster Dingbats vs Calming Ripples
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gaster Dingbats
Transform your text into unique dingbat characters and fonts for messaging. This app offers a keyboard and translator for various dingbat styles, including W. D. Gaster, Wingdings, and Webdings.
- Text to dingbat conversion
- Custom keyboard integration
- W. D. Gaster alphabet support
- Original Wingdings font support
- Wingdings 2 & 3 support
- Webdings font support
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Convert text to Dingbats with this translator and keyboard. The app supports all Zapf Dingbats as a font and as characters to send to your friends in a messaging app. Note that some apps may display dingbats slightly differently than this app, because they use the system font. Supports: • W. D. Gaster alphabet • Original Wingdings font • Wingdings 2 • Wingdings 3 • Webdings
Calming Ripples
Create soothing visual patterns by tapping or stroking the screen. Watch as your interactions generate beautiful, fading ripples. Enjoy a pressure-free, relaxing digital playground with multiple colors.
- Interactive ripple creation
- Multi-finger color blending
- Relaxing visual patterns
- No pressure or scores
- Digital playground experience
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Use this app to create relaxing patterns of ripples. Tap or stroke across the screen. Your fingers will leave a trail of ripples that grow and fade. Use multiple fingers at once for multiple colors. No deep meaning, no pressure, no high score. Just a little relaxing playground.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Calming Ripples at Free against Gaster Dingbats's $7.99. Calming Ripples also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Calming Ripples is free to download; Gaster Dingbats costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Calming Ripples holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Gaster Dingbats | Calming Ripples |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maarten Trompper | John Palevich |
Customer experience
Gaster Dingbats
Calming Ripples
In-app purchases
Gaster Dingbats
No in-app purchases
Calming Ripples
No in-app purchases
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