Unfolding Space vs Broom
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.
Broom
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Broom is a minimalist, ad-free decluttering app. Bring your own Claude API key for AI-powered item detection from photos, or manually name and organize your items. Track your belongings, compare items side-by-side, and figure out what to keep. Features: - No ads, no tracking, no account required - All data stored locally on your device - Photograph items with automatic background removal - Organize items into categories - Swipe to rank your belongings - Search, sort, and filter your inventory - Optional AI-powered item name and category detection using your own Anthropic Claude API key - Export and import data as ZIP
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Unfolding Space at 3 against Broom's 1. Unfolding Space also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Unfolding Space | Broom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Johnson | Jakob Kohlhas |
In-app purchases
Unfolding Space
No in-app purchases
Broom
No in-app purchases









