Comparison

Tesla Toy vs Oscilluma

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

Head to head
About

Tesla Toy

An interactive entertainment app that simulates a powerful electrical field. Touching the screen causes thousands of particles to react dynamically and amusingly.

Highlights
  • Interactive electrical field simulation
  • Thousands of reactive particles
  • Touchscreen interaction
  • Amusing particle reactions
Features
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Tesla Toy is an interactive toy. Touching the screen generates a powerful electrical field that makes the thousands of particles react in amusing ways.

About

Oscilluma

Features
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Turn your screen into living art. Drift through glowing tunnels, flowing glass, unfolding forms and cosmic landscapes. Oscilluma creates its visuals in real time on your device, bringing color and movement to quiet evenings, creative spaces and time with friends. Open a visual world, find a look you love and let it move. No account or phone pairing is required. START FREE Explore Vortex with four included looks. Preview Pro worlds before deciding to unlock more. ONE PURCHASE, MORE WORLDS Oscilluma Pro is an optional one-time purchase that unlocks all 21 visual worlds and 126 authored looks: 20 more worlds and 122 more looks beyond the free collection. No subscription or ads. Each world has its own visual character. Looks are carefully chosen variations within those worlds, rather than separate effects. MADE FOR YOUR SCREEN On iPhone and iPad, explore the world and look library with a live canvas. Pro lets you adjust Palette, Motion, Energy and Detail for your selected look. On Apple TV, browse with the Siri Remote, choose a world and hide the controls for full-screen art. Select a palette to apply it; moving focus between palette cards keeps your current colors. Pro includes 17 curated color palettes alongside each world's default. Turn on Autoplay to move through the worlds available to you. On Apple Vision Pro, explore and tune the art in a spatial window. Pro also lets you save and recall your own Rooms. Oscilluma runs as an app you open. It does not replace the Apple TV system screen saver. The visuals move independently; music and sound response are not included.

Screenshots

Tesla Toy4 screens
Oscilluma4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Oscilluma at Free against Tesla Toy's $1.99. Tesla Toy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#143 vs unranked). On ads 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

Oscilluma is free to download; Tesla Toy costs $1.99 up front. Oscilluma sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tesla Toy asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Tesla Toy versus Oscilluma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTesla ToyOscilluma
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#143 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPDJ AppsPETALUMAPALMER LLC

Bugs and requests

Tesla Toy

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Incompatibility with certain devices or screen sizes
  • Issues with taking screenshots or saving images

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add sound effects or music integration
  • Introduce more varied animations and patterns
  • Implement a save/load feature for creations
  • Allow recording of sessions as videos

Oscilluma

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tesla Toy

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Oscilluma

One-time1
  • Oscilluma Pro — Lifetime$6.99

Questions

Is Tesla Toy free?
Tesla Toy costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Oscilluma free?
Oscilluma is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tesla Toy or Oscilluma have ads?
Neither Tesla Toy nor Oscilluma shows ads.

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