Comparison

Chaos Lab vs NagareVisualizer Lite

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

Head to head
About

Chaos Lab

Explore the beauty of chaos through interactive simulations of mathematical objects, chemical reactions, and celestial mechanics. Manipulate parameters with device tilt and touch to create stunning visual art and understand complex scientific principles.

Highlights
  • Interactive strange attractors
  • Chemical oscillator simulations
  • 3-body chaos simulation
  • Julian fractal morphing
  • Real-time parameter control
  • Multiple attractors included
Features
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Chaos Lab puts the beauty of chaos in your hands. With a tilt of your device, you control the parameters of beautiful mathematical objects called strange attractors, the reaction rates of a chemical oscillator, the position of two stars in a 3-body chaos simulation, and the shape of the Julian fractal. Now you can be an experimentalist and an artist. Using real-time integration of over 6,000 points for the attractors whose parameters are tied to your motion, over 7,000 data points for a fractal which morphs at your command, ten "asteroids" demonstrating chaotic sensitivity to initial conditions in a jittering twin-star system where the stars move with your tilt (can you keep them from escaping?), and a real-time BZ-reaction simulation which you control by both tilt and touch, this is chaos as you've never seen it before. Chaos Lab comes loaded with four of the most stunning attractors in chaos theory. The Rössler and Lorenz attractors are well known, but the Thomas and Newton-Leipnik attractors are relatively new and quite amazing! This work has been supported in part by grant PHY-0754081 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Nonlinear Dynamics Research Group at Drexel University (directed by Dr. Robert Gilmore), and the Department of Physics at Drexel University. Please note, some of these experiments will run slower on the older models of iPhones and iPod touch devices. Find the beauty in the chaos!

About

NagareVisualizer Lite

Features
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NagareVisualizer for iPad is an introductory application for fluid simulation. You can enjoy fluid(air or liquid) movement in various ways, even though it is difficult to recognize in our daily life. The visualizer helps you to look into fascinating flow(nagare) world.

Screenshots

Chaos Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chaos Lab at every 3 days against NagareVisualizer Lite's every 9 months. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chaos Lab ships an update every 3 days, NagareVisualizer Lite every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chaos Lab versus NagareVisualizer Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChaos LabNagareVisualizer Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimothy D. JonesInstitute of Computational Fluid Dynamics

In-app purchases

None

Chaos Lab

No in-app purchases

None

NagareVisualizer Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chaos Lab free?
Chaos Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NagareVisualizer Lite free?
NagareVisualizer Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chaos Lab or NagareVisualizer Lite have ads?
Neither Chaos Lab nor NagareVisualizer Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chaos Lab or NagareVisualizer Lite?
Chaos Lab ships an update every 3 days, and NagareVisualizer Lite every 9 months. Most recently, Chaos Lab was updated on October 1, 2026 and NagareVisualizer Lite on October 5, 2026.

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