Glory Math 1 vs subflow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glory Math 1
Create dynamic, evolving abstract art with touch and motion. Explore a variety of visual effects like color noise and merging liquids, capturing your creations as you go. The experience is a continuous cycle of creation and dissolution.
- Interactive generative art creation
- Touch and shake controls
- Evolving shapes and color fields
- Color noise effects
- Merging liquid simulations
- Capture artwork as pictures
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Glory Math 1 is an interactive, generative art application for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Starting with a blank slate, touch and shake to create constantly evolving shapes and fields of color. Explore color noise, merging liquids, and spastic color bars, each only briefly maintaining existence. In the end, all devolves into a single color state... Until you begin your exploration again. Along the way, you can take pictures of what you make.
subflow
Create dynamic music visualizations for any setting. Control modes, speed, and beat patterns with intuitive screen gestures. Advanced users can leverage UDP and OS2L for complex control with DJ software.
- Gesture-based control for modes, speed, and beats
- Beat pattern customization
- UDP command sequencing
- OS2L integration with DJ software
- Color customization via long press
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Crisp visualizations for your music stage or living room. Tap left or right edge of screen to change modes. Vertical swipes change speed. Tap the upper half of the screen several times to set a beat pattern. Tap the lower half to cancel or to add single beats. Horizontal swipes fine-tune the beat alignment. Long press will change color. You can also send more complex command sequences over UDP, and you can control via OS2L using most DJ software. See http://subflow.org/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: subflow at free against Glory Math 1's paid. subflow also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 27 months). Glory Math 1's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (54 vs 17). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Glory Math 1 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 54 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Glory Math 1's written reviews are positive against 67% of subflow's.
Glory Math 1 ships an update every 27 months, subflow every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glory Math 1 | subflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (54 ratings) — better | 4.3 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Coffeeshopped LLC | Ello Skelling Productions |
Customer experience
Glory Math 1
subflow
In-app purchases
Glory Math 1
No in-app purchases
subflow
No in-app purchases
