Gravilocity vs Magic Fluids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gravilocity
Explore a dynamic particle playground where thousands of stars react to your touch, gravity, and even music. Create stunning visual effects with configurable options, fractal forms, and lightning arcs.
- Thousands of flying stars
- Touch and gesture interaction
- Gravity and accelerometer response
- Music visualization
- Fractal form generation
- Lightning arcs between touches
- Configurable drawing options
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Play with thousands of flying stars. Watch as stars respond to your fingers, while you pull, push and spin them. Watch as they fall and bounce in response to gravity and the accelerometer. Even make them pulse to a musical beat from the microphone. Hundreds of configurable options add to the fun. Features -Pinch and zoom and the stars stretch off into infinity making fractal forms. -Touch with multiple fingers and watch lightning arc between your touches -added VGA out support iPad/iPhone4. -many different drawing options -Preset system, build something interesting and save it for later. -Shape memory feature. Stars can fly home after you push them around. Watch Gravilocity in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbjQU7DOjT4 Gravilocity is built on the critically acclaimed iBeams special effects system, which has been used to make iBeams and iBeams HD. [HINTS] -To make a parameter respond to the microphone press any one of the buttons with a blue arrow on it. A controller window shows up, press mic and the parameter will now respond to the microphone. Gravilocity was inspired by gravilux, and gravitarium, not to mention all the other particle play apps out there. *****Totally Awesome.... Running on an iPad this is seriously psychedelic. I have tried every other visualiser on the iPad and apart from it's bigger brother I-beams this eats them all for breakfast. I have said it before but the author of this software is a real genius. - AAWh *****One of the best of it's type *****Its the best particle manipulator I've messed with. Really cool job Created by Gedalia Pasternak, a Computer Graphics Engineer whose work has been seen in television commercials, video games, and the occasional military training system. As well as in the hands of bored teenagers at art museums.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
Gravilocity and Magic Fluids both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 97% of Magic Fluids's written reviews are positive against 76% of Gravilocity's. Magic Fluids also leads on chart position (#109 vs unranked) and ratings volume (579 vs 73). Gravilocity's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and price ($0.99 vs $4.99). On rating, 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
Gravilocity costs $0.99 and Magic Fluids $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Magic Fluids holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Fluids has 579 ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Gravilocity's written reviews are positive against 97% of Magic Fluids's.
Gravilocity ships an update monthly, Magic Fluids every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gravilocity | Magic Fluids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (73 ratings) | 4.8 (579 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews | 96.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 73 | 579 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #109 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | gedalia.net | Mad Scientist |
Customer experience
Gravilocity
Magic Fluids
User reviews
Gravilocity
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Mesmerizing visuals
- 🎨 Endless customization options
- 💫 Hypnotic and relaxing experience
- 🎉 Fantastic particle effects
- 🤖 Highly responsive and interactive
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches
- 🤔 Unintuitive controls and settings
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 📱 Compatibility issues on older devices
- 🔇 Lack of music/audio integration
Magic Fluids
From 579 App Store ratingsWhat 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
Gravilocity
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch for some users
- Settings menu is unresponsive at times
- Visuals don't scale properly on iPad
- Bluetooth connection issues when using music
Requested features
5 requests- Add screen recording capability
- Improve Bluetooth/audio integration
- Provide more preset visualizations
- Enhance color customization options
- Implement a tutorial or user guide
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
Gravilocity
No in-app purchases
Magic Fluids
No in-app purchases
Questions
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