Atomic Toy vs Frabbles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Atomic Toy
Explore the fascinating world of atomic structures. Interact with a dynamic nucleus and energetic particles that react to your touch, creating unique atomic formations. A visually engaging experience for curious minds.
- Dynamic nucleus simulation
- Energetic particle reactions
- Touch-based interaction
- Generates new atom types
- Visually pleasing effects
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Atomic Toy displays a nucleus surrounded by particles of energy. Touching the nucleus generates a new kind of atom. The energetic particles react in pleasing ways to your touches.
Frabbles
Transform your photos into animated drawings with color shapes. Watch your favorite images come to life as you trace them on screen. This app offers a unique way to interact with your pictures.
- Color shape photo reveal
- Animated drawing effect
- Image transformation
- Interactive drawing on screen
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Reveal your favorite picture or photograph with color shapes and color averaging. Watch your image appear with animating shapes as you draw on the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Frabbles at Free against Atomic Toy's $0.99. Frabbles also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1). Atomic Toy's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Frabbles is free to download; Atomic Toy costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Frabbles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
Atomic Toy ships an update every 7 months, Frabbles every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Atomic Toy | Frabbles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PDJ Apps | Tremont Air, LLC |
Customer experience
Atomic Toy
Frabbles
Bugs and requests
Atomic Toy
Reported bugs
7 issues- Multitouch changed and not as good
- Active screen is a portion of the iPhone 6s
- Nucleus display not centered on iPhone 6 Plus
- Photos not showing up in photo album
- App stuck on loading screen
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- Charge problem (charged twice)
- Stole pictures made when app was free
Requested features
11 requests- Bring back old multitouch functionality
- More particles and variable particle size
- Selectable color palette
- Vibrate function
- Add a text tool
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- More features for the price
- More parameters to tweak
- Sound reactivity
- Choose colors, possibly multiple at once
- Draw with patterns to create non-abstract pictures
- Remove menu mode, keep 5-finger mode
Frabbles
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Atomic Toy
No in-app purchases
Frabbles
No in-app purchases
