Comparison

Touch Fluids vs Drilling Simulator 3

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

Head to head
About

Touch Fluids

An educational tool for fluid mechanics courses, featuring basic equations and animations. It covers topics from fluid statics to flow in pipes, suitable for high school and university students. Teachers can use it to present concepts in class.

Highlights
  • Basic fluid mechanics equations
  • Illustrative animations
  • Fluid statics
  • Fluid in motion
  • Continuity and energy equations
  • Flow in pipes
  • Vector operations
Features
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Touch Fluids is an educative iPhone application in support to an high-school or university course of fluid mechanics. It contains not only a memorandum of the basic equations, but it also contains several animations illustrating the various concepts of fluid mechanics. This application runs also on iPad and iPod Touch. 50 screens of physics! For teachers !! Connect your iPad with a video projector and show the animations to your students in classroom. List of covered subjects: Fluid Statics - Fluid Properties, - Pressure, - Fluid Forces. Fluid in mouvement - Approaches, - Kinematics, - Type of flow - Transport Equation. Continuity Equation - Continuity Equation, - Incompressible and Stationnary flow, - Differential Form, Energy Equation - Fluid Energie, - General Energy Equation. Linear Momentum - Momentum Equation, - Differential Form. Flow in Pipes - Lost Head, - Minor Lost Head. Appendices - Vector Operations - Vector Identities.

About

Drilling Simulator 3

This app simulates oil and gas drilling operations, focusing on well control procedures. It allows users to practice kick detection, well shut-in, pressure stabilization, and choke operations with various well configurations and failure scenarios.

Highlights
  • Kick detection and well shut-in simulation
  • Choke panel operations with remote chokes
  • Multiple kick scenarios
  • Directional and horizontal well support
  • Failure schedule with random options
  • Subsea and surface BOP simulation
  • Swabbing effect simulation
Features
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This is a project for Drilling and Well Control optimized for iPhones and iPads. This is a basic drilling simulator that simulates drilling operations based in panels for kick detection, shut-in the well, stabilization of pressures and the choke operations during the well control operations using a hydraulic choke panel simulator. Features: 1. Drilling, kick detection, shut-in, pressures stabilization and control 2. MULTIPLE KICKS (3 SINGLE BUBBLES)  3. DIRECTIONAL/HORIZONTAL WELL  4. WELL CONTROL ON CHOKE PANEL WITH 2 REMOTE CHOKES 5. Standpipe Manifold and Choke Manifold 6. FLOAT VALVE,  7. GESTURE SWAIPE UP/DOWN TO MOVE DRILLSTRING  8. FAILURES SCHEDULE WITH RANDOM OPTION (Mud Pumps 1 and 2 “power end failure” or “fluid end failure”, Chokes 1 and 2 “plugged” or “washed”, One Drill Bit Nozzle “plugged” or “washed”) 9. Set a KICK without drilling required. 10. Subsea Stack BOP and Surface Stack BOP Additional features:   1. Optionally it is possible to use others apps as Remote Choke like "Driller's Method Simulator" and "Wait and Weight Simulator". Both are available for sale in our Portfolio. 2. Swabbing effect simulation This effect occur when the drill string is pulled out of the wellbore to reduce the bottom hole pressure enough to create an underbalance condition and to cause a flow from formation into the wellbore. This effect is performed on this Simulator by moving the finger up in the well layout on the screen. iPad version: 1. Pre-recorded data view 2. Screen layout optimized for 12.9-inch iPad Pro (High Resolution) 3. Three codes (default "0000" for all: admin, instructor, student) to view the gas into the borehole, the pressure at bottom, at shoe and at bop and to enable / disable the Lag Time (by adjusting the choke to change the kill pressure and drill pipe pressure, etc). 4. Use the arrow keys on keyboard for iPad Pro to operate the choke. iPhone version: 1. Pre-recorded data available in the well configuration views. 2. Screen layout optimized for iPhone and iPad Pro (High Resolution) 3. All features available without codes. A graphical very useful tool for training, drillers, toolpusher, drilling engineers, mud engineers and students in the well control procedures. - Well configuration, drilling, kick detection, shut-in and control. - Interactive system: no pre-set methods; - Ability to apply control methods: Driller's method, Wait and Weight method (or Engineer's method), dynamic volumetric and static volumetric (lubricate and bleed); - Hydraulics and Hydrostatics; - Behavior of the kick (until 3 single kick bubbles simultaneously in borehole); - Applied with subsea stack or surface stack; - Set well with until 4 sections: riser, casing, liner, open hole ; - Set Drill String with drill pipe1, drill pipe2, heavy weight, drill collar1, drill collar2 - Support for horizontal and directional wells (builder and plotter) - Bop flow meter (volume to close and to open bop) - Gas compressibility factor (Z) calculations using formulas more accurately by Hall and Yarborough (1973) - Option to select a more didactic choke control mode instead of a more realistic simulation (default) Others apps available on our portfolio that may be useful for you: - Drilling Hydraulics - Kick Tolerance - Leak-Off Test Simulator - Leak-Off Test Analyzer - MPD Simulator - Well Control Methods - Well Control Worksheets - Well Control Simulators specific for each method (Driller's Method, Wait and Weight and Volumetric) These tools can complement (work with) this simulator by creating files which can be used in this application; and more Oil & Gas in our website. DISCLAIMER: These tools & materials are provided 'as is' without warranties of any kind, express or implied. Please verify the tools provided by this application by yourself before you use them. Ensure you understand the impact of using these tools. Any use you choose to make of these tools & materials is undertaken by you entirely at you own risk.

Screenshots

Touch Fluids4 screens
Drilling Simulator 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Touch Fluids at $0.99 against Drilling Simulator 3's $49.99. Drilling Simulator 3's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.2). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Touch Fluids costs $0.99 and Drilling Simulator 3 $49.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Touch Fluids against 5.0 for Drilling Simulator 3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Touch Fluids ships an update every 13 months, Drilling Simulator 3 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Touch Fluids versus Drilling Simulator 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouch FluidsDrilling Simulator 3
Price$0.99 — better$49.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.212.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXavier DaxheletCarlos Moura

Customer experience

Touch Fluids

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Drilling Simulator 3

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Touch Fluids

No in-app purchases

None

Drilling Simulator 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Touch Fluids free?
Touch Fluids costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drilling Simulator 3 free?
Drilling Simulator 3 costs $49.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Touch Fluids or Drilling Simulator 3?
Touch Fluids and Drilling Simulator 3 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Touch Fluids or Drilling Simulator 3 have ads?
Neither Touch Fluids nor Drilling Simulator 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Touch Fluids or Drilling Simulator 3?
Touch Fluids ships an update every 13 months, and Drilling Simulator 3 every 2 months. Most recently, Touch Fluids was updated on September 5, 2026 and Drilling Simulator 3 on September 15, 2026.

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