Comparison

Touch Fluids vs Mechanical Design and Analysis

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

Mechanical Design and Analysis

Features
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Mechanical Design and Analysis Tool is developed for students and practicing engineers for A Smart Calculator: - A scientific calculator - A unit converter - Both :) -All actions are carried on chatting style front end. All previous entries in calculator can be retrieved by pressing their avatars. Mohr's Circle Stress Analysis: -Stress state to Mohr's Circle presentation by tapping on screen at any instant (on 2D and 3D graph presentation views). -2D Mohr's Circle Stress Analysis. -3D Mohr's Circle Stress Analysis. -2D transformations on Mohr's Circle and Stress State View. -Optional sign conventions. -Shows calculations on formula sheet -Multiple sharing options including airport transfer, can open its pdf export file on other available applications (i.e. pdf editors). -Saves and restores input data. Goodman Fatigue Analysis Diagram: -Calculations can be carried with either “residual stress method” or “nominal mean stress method”. -Goodman Diagram constructed automatically once all parameter are entered and intersection points are calculated and given on diagram for judgement. Bolted Joint Analysis: -Bolted Joint Analysis gives a force diagram and result of its simple calculations for a clamped system under axial external loads. It also gives basic terminology and information to have a better visibility of subjects.

Screenshots

Touch Fluids4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Touch Fluids at $0.99 against Mechanical Design and Analysis's $4.99. Touch Fluids also leads on iOS requirement (17.2 vs 26.0). On update cadence, 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

Touch Fluids costs $0.99 and Mechanical Design and Analysis $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Touch Fluids ships an update every 13 months, Mechanical Design and Analysis every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Touch Fluids versus Mechanical Design and Analysis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouch FluidsMechanical Design and Analysis
Price$0.99 — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 11 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXavier DaxheletDRH YAZILIM VE MUHENDISLIK HIZMETLERI LTD STI

In-app purchases

None

Touch Fluids

No in-app purchases

None

Mechanical Design and Analysis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Touch Fluids free?
Touch Fluids costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mechanical Design and Analysis free?
Mechanical Design and Analysis costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Touch Fluids or Mechanical Design and Analysis have ads?
Neither Touch Fluids nor Mechanical Design and Analysis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Touch Fluids or Mechanical Design and Analysis?
Touch Fluids ships an update every 13 months, and Mechanical Design and Analysis every 11 months. Most recently, Touch Fluids was updated on November 1, 2026 and Mechanical Design and Analysis on November 3, 2026.

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