Unfolding Space vs Wants & Needs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unfolding Space
Explore an interactive, dynamic environment where your gestures reshape the space around you. This app offers a fluid, ever-changing labyrinth that responds to your movements, providing a unique sensory experience inspired by art and mathematics.
- Gesture-controlled space alteration
- Dynamic fluid grid environment
- Interactive labyrinth exploration
- Immersive sensory experience
- Inspired by art and mathematics
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Unfolding Space was conceived by Julieta Aguilera as an immersive malleable environment for the CAVE virtual reality theater where body gestures would alter the structure of the space surrounding the user. The iPad and iPhone versions of the piece give the user a small dynamic window into that world. Unlike the iPad and iPhone versions, the CAVE version of this application allowed you to move though an endless grid of tesseracts. Unfolding Space is an interactive experience where the three dimensional shadow of a four dimensional textured grid is unfolded through gesture. Moving though this fluid grid seeks to evoke the experience of walking through a labyrinth that opens and closes its corridors at will, so the viewer is never trapped as long as he/she can master the form. In other words, "Unfolding Space" shows a structure that responds to motion as if the viewer was wearing space itself. Julieta's idea reflects on how we assimilate the physical space that surrounds us into mental spaces, and is based on architectural, pictorial, and mathematical works in human history such as Gaudi's structures, Japanese gardens, Polynesian navigation, religious iconography, and knot theory. She was inspired by her mother's dream of being trapped in a labyrinth, and wanted to recreate that environment while giving the user the possibility of finding a way through.
Wants & Needs
This app allows users to easily log and organize all their desires, from major life goals to everyday tasks. Add photos, links, and custom labels to keep track of everything. Personalize the app's appearance and share items directly using the share extension.
- Log any wish, big or small
- Sort by favorites and add labels
- Add photos and purchase links
- Share items via Share Extension
- Customize accent colors and icons
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Welcome to Wants & Needs, the simple app that helps you keep track of everything you want and need! From big dreams like your first car to small things like your grocery list, Wants & Needs makes it smooth and easy to remember and organize all your plans. Features: Log Anything: Keep track of any wish, big or small. You can sort by favorites and label them to stay organized. Add Photos and More: Make your wishes more detailed by adding a picture or even a link directly to a purchase page. Make It Yours: Change how Wants & Needs looks with accent colors and app icons! Share your Desires: Share any photo directly into the app using its Share Extension. You can even share a screenshot directly after taking it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wants & Needs at every 4 days against Unfolding Space's every 11 months. Unfolding Space's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Unfolding Space against 5.0 for Wants & Needs. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively.
Unfolding Space ships an update every 11 months, Wants & Needs every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unfolding Space | Wants & Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Johnson | Westy Studios LLC |
Customer experience
Unfolding Space
Wants & Needs
Bugs and requests
Unfolding Space
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashing on iOS 8
- Incompatible with iOS 11
Requested features
8 requests- Enable gyroscope for movement
- Add custom slide feature
- Allow user to move in other directions
- Make it more entertaining with math details
- Add volume control for soundtrack
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- More guidance on user actions
- Option to save current view
- Add explanation of eyeballs
Wants & Needs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Unfolding Space
No in-app purchases
Wants & Needs
No in-app purchases
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