Liquid Apptoy vs Algae Bloom Dynamics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Liquid Apptoy
Experience a fluid simulation game where you can manipulate water. Add colors, transform it into clouds, or even ice. This interactive experience offers a unique way to play with virtual liquids.
- Fluid simulation gameplay
- Water manipulation
- Add colors to water
- Transform water into clouds
- Transform water into ice
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This game is the 15th iPhone game for the Web Game Site "DAN-BALL". This fluid simulation game allows you to play with water. Enjoy adding some colors or transform water into clouds or ice.
Algae Bloom Dynamics
Experience algae blooms in augmented reality, learning about their causes and solutions in lakes and waterways. Explore animated 3D models of aquatic life and understand environmental threats from human activities and invasive species.
- Augmented reality environmental simulation
- Learn about algae bloom causes
- Explore aquatic life 3D models
- Understand environmental threats
- Global waterway focus
- Educational game
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Algae Bloom Dynamics (ABD) is an augmented reality art, science, and game simulation for experiencing how algae blooms occur, and where to find and fix their sources in lakes and waterways globally. Educate and inform people in an engaging augmented reality that is experienced in your own environment. Experience a clear-water lake that begins to have imbalances in phosphorus and nitrogen from human activities and threats from invasive species. Local, regional, and global threats are presented from: - agriculture - household waste - stormwater runoff - wastewater systems - road salt - invasive species - fossil fuels The project includes animated 3D models of: - Fish: Yellow Perch, Rainbow Smelt, and Bass - Zooplankton: Daphnia and Spiny Water Flea - Phytoplankton: Microcystis and Aphanocapsa - Mollusks: Zebra Mussels - Macroalgae: Nitella ABD is a project created by the Eco Resilience Global Games Research Group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The project is funded in part by the Jefferson Project. For more information, please see our website. Algae Bloom Dynamic AR: https://sites.google.com/view/algae-bloom-dynamics/algae-bloom-dynamics Eco Resilience Games: https://sites.google.com/view/eco-resilience/home Eco Resilience Games is creating virtual worlds that inspire us to preserve our actual ones. Whether we are enabling people to experientially see, hear and touch plankton in new ways in order to understand their vital importance to freshwater ecology, or making it possible to become a water droplet traveling through an entire watershed, we are using advanced game technology creatively to introduce people to new worlds, new perspectives, and new systems to help understand emerging environmental knowledge and the vital need to work together globally for a sustainable, eco resilient future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Algae Bloom Dynamics at 5.0 against Liquid Apptoy's 4.5. Algae Bloom Dynamics also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Liquid Apptoy's advantage is ratings volume (64 vs 4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Algae Bloom Dynamics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Liquid Apptoy has 64 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Liquid Apptoy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Algae Bloom Dynamics's.
| Parameter | Liquid Apptoy | Algae Bloom Dynamics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (64 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 470 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAN-BALL | Kathleen Ruiz |
Customer experience
Liquid Apptoy
Algae Bloom Dynamics
In-app purchases
Liquid Apptoy
No in-app purchases
Algae Bloom Dynamics
No in-app purchases
