Comparison

Acrobots vs Magic Fluids

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

Head to head
About

Acrobots

A physics-based toy for iPhone and iPad. Drag and toss living bots, watch them interact, and stack them to create structures. Customize their behavior and environment for endless playful experimentation.

Highlights
  • Drag and toss bots
  • Physics-based interactions
  • Stack bots to form structures
  • Shake to scatter bots
  • Customize scale, gravity, balance, speed, and legs
Features
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Acrobots is a mesmerizing, physics-based toy for your iPhone and iPad. - Drag and toss these living bots across the screen. - Watch them tumble and push off each other. - Stack them together to form living structures. - Shake your iPhone to watch the bots scatter. - Customize scale, gravity, balance, stickiness, speed, and number of legs.

About

Magic Fluids

Experience a calming and creative fluid simulation. Interact with mesmerizing, colorful swirls that evolve into beautiful digital art. Ideal for relaxation, stress relief, and artistic expression.

Highlights
  • Fluid flow simulation
  • Hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls
  • Stress and anxiety relief
  • Create abstract digital art
  • Configurable fluid behavior
  • Save custom presets
  • Pause animation and save screenshots
Features
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Magic Fluids is a relaxing, colorful fluid simulation app that will help you calm down and relieve stress, or be creative and make aesthetic digital art. It is based on algorithms of fluid flow simulation and features fluid (pun intented!), beautiful graphics. It is the best time waster! TOUCH THE SCREEN and enjoy hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls moving around, sometimes slow, quiet and elegant, other times dynamic, satisfying and trippy. CALM DOWN AND RELAX as you draw and watch peaceful flows evolve in space and eventually settle down into colorful patterns. Magic Fluids will help you sleep, meditate, restore balance, relieve stress and anxiety. GET CREATIVE and, with a touch of your finger, bring to life stylish patterns of paint and particles. If you like abstract digital art or acrylic pour painting, you'll love Magic Fluids! You can create impressive eye-catching designs that look like swirls, galaxies, liquid, fire, light, smoke, lava and much more! KEEP YOUR KIDS BUSY - they love to doodle and watch the fluid move around! We hope that Magic Fluids can also help children with anxiety, autism and sensory issues. Please note: This is NOT a live wallpaper! Key features of Magic Fluids: - Highly configurable fluid behaviour and look - 70+ predefined configuration presets to get you started - Save your own presets - Pause the animation anytime and save screenshots - NEW: Record videos straight from the app! - Smoke, water and jello animation - 10 fluid textures that add fine detail to the fluid - Amazing light and shadow visual effects - Thousands of particles moving with the fluid - You can load photos and images as backgrounds - Highly optimized, multiple quality settings Fluid animation in your pocket! Touch the screen and create beautiful motion of colorful smoke and water. Calm down and relax as you watch trippy, magical swirls of flowing colors. Get artistic and design creative, satisfying patterns of paint and particles.

Screenshots

Acrobots4 screens
Magic Fluids4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Magic Fluids at 4.8 against Acrobots's 4.4. Magic Fluids also leads on ratings volume (575 vs 24) and chart position (#44 vs unranked). Acrobots's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Acrobots costs $0.99 and Magic Fluids $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Magic Fluids holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Fluids has 575 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Acrobots's written reviews are positive against 97% of Magic Fluids's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Acrobots ships an update every 5 weeks, Magic Fluids every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Acrobots versus Magic Fluids: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAcrobotsMagic Fluids
Price$0.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.4 (24 ratings)4.8 (575 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews96.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings24575 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#44 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVectorparkMad Scientist

Customer experience

Acrobots

All ratings24 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews165 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative8.5%

Magic Fluids

All ratings575 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.7%

User reviews

Acrobots

From 24 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎉 Fun and entertaining
  • 👍 Mesmerizing and relaxing
  • 🤖 Clever and unique physics simulation
  • 💻 Great port from the web version
  • 🕰 Good time-waster

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
  • 🔍 Lack of customization options
  • 💤 Can get boring after a while
  • 💰 Some feel it's not worth the price

Magic Fluids

From 575 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Calming and relaxing
  • 💡 Highly customizable
  • 🎨 Beautiful visuals and fluid dynamics
  • 🔍 Lots of presets and options to explore
  • 💰 Worth the price

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
  • 🔍 Difficulty accessing menu buttons
  • 🔋 Battery drain issues

Bugs and requests

Acrobots

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Acrobots disappearing when device is leveled
  • Buttons/controls not always responsive
  • Performance issues with many acrobots on screen

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize individual acrobots (color, size, etc.)
  • More interactive elements (explosives, trampolines, etc.)
  • Ability to pause/freeze the simulation
  • Additional background options
  • Sound effects

Magic Fluids

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Presets not saving properly
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to import custom background images
  • Screen recording functionality
  • More sound and music options
  • Improved interface and UI

In-app purchases

None

Acrobots

No in-app purchases

None

Magic Fluids

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Acrobots free?
Acrobots costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magic Fluids free?
Magic Fluids costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Acrobots or Magic Fluids?
Magic Fluids is rated higher. Acrobots averages 4.4 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Magic Fluids averages 4.8 from 575 ratings.
Do Acrobots or Magic Fluids have ads?
Neither Acrobots nor Magic Fluids shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Acrobots or Magic Fluids?
Acrobots ships an update every 5 weeks, and Magic Fluids every 4 months. Most recently, Acrobots was updated on October 15, 2026 and Magic Fluids on October 15, 2026.

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