Art in Motion vs Gravity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Art in Motion
This app allows users to create dynamic, evolving digital art scenes rather than static paintings. Utilize a powerful physics engine to bring orbs, colors, and interactive elements to life, offering a unique artistic experience on multi-touch devices.
- Create dynamic art scenes
- Powerful physics engine
- Interactive multi-touch support
- Customizable orb behavior
- Evolving color palettes
- Pre-bundled scene examples
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Art in Motion is a new kind of art application. It’s based on the idea that art should evolve with technology. The iPad is the best multi-touch device on the market, and it is packed with huge processing power. Standard drawing can be very fun, but it hardly makes full use of these advancements in technology. How does Art in Motion compare to standard drawing? • With Art in Motion you create a scene instead of a painting. • Instead of drawing mountains, or trees, you customize and add orbs to your scene. • Instead of looking at your drawing, you watch your orbs come alive. • Unlike a painting, there is motion and life in your creation. You can even interact with your scene. • In a painting colors don’t change, in the scene colors fade and flow constantly. What are some examples of scenes I can create? • By adding many small orbs with little friction and bounce, you can create a water effect. It can slosh around realistically as you tilt your iPad. • You can create a large orb with gravity, and many smaller ones. Watch them as they orbit around like comets flying around a star. • You can create a scene where brilliant colors follow your fingers as you touch the screen. • You can create a scene where you fling fireworks with your fingers and watch them explode into beautiful colors. Features • Powerful physics engine • 20 bundled scenes (to play with and study) • Intuitive interface for creating new scenes of your own • Full multi-touch support, so all 10 fingers can play at once • Many settings allowing for unique and one of a kind scenes • Clear documentation • VGA out support What are people saying about it? • "... very organic, smooth, I like it a lot!" Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater! • “It’s what they would use on board the USS Enterprise for entertainment” G. C. • "Be prepared to melt away hours of your night!" J. S. • “Every iPad owner should have this app, there’s nothing like it!” C. K.
Gravity
Explore a unique blend of music, art, and science with this interactive experience. Guide flowing particles with multiple fingers to create stunning visual animations. Save your creations and experiment with various settings for a relaxing and artistic journey.
- Multitouch particle control
- 10 distinct finger-based animations
- Thousands of particles at 60 FPS
- Customizable colors and animation settings
- Save and load presets
- Multiple play modes
- Save snapshots to photo library
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Free for a limited time!!! Gravity combines music, art and science in one relaxing experience. Use all your fingers to guide the star flow. You can create 10 different animations depending on the number of fingers touching the screen: 1 - Rocket, 2 - Sparkle, 3 - Energy flow, 4 - Atomic, 5 - 3D freeze, 6 - Circularium, 7 - Fish, 8 - Vortex, 9 - Lasers, 10 - Lightning. Unleash your creativity and create unique masterpieces! Features: * Multitouch (upto 10 touch points iPad, 5 on iPhone) * Thousands of particles animated at 60 frames per second * Changing/manual colors * Play/pause the animation * Save snapshots to your Photo Library * Multiple animation options (ex: speed, tail, size, opacity, etc.) * Ability to save and load option presets * Multiple play modes: default, drawing, tranquility and user defined * No ads
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Gravity at free against Art in Motion's paid. Gravity also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 64%) and ratings volume (50 vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Art in Motion costs $1.99 and Gravity $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Art in Motion against 4.7 for Gravity. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravity has 50 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Art in Motion's written reviews are positive against 88% of Gravity's.
Art in Motion ships an update every 11 months, Gravity every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Art in Motion | Gravity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | 4.7 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.9% of reviews | 87.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 50 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PDJ Apps | Kfirapps Limited |
Customer experience
Art in Motion
Gravity
Bugs and requests
Art in Motion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Gravity
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes as soon as it opens
- No sound
- Full screen ads in free version
- Ads in paid version
- App control doc keeps hiding
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- Patterns freeze or close down with more than 4 fingers
- Screen capture not working (black screen)
- App hangs/freezes iPad Mini
Requested features
9 requests- Support for new iPhone screens
- Option to record performances
- More music selections or ability to generate original music
- Ability to use as wallpaper
- More particle options (count, size)
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- Easier color selection (color wheel)
- Ability to customize background color
- More songs in rotation
- Ability to have specific particle counts (e.g., 2 particles)
In-app purchases
Art in Motion
No in-app purchases
Gravity
No in-app purchases









