Line Art vs Spacedots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Line Art
Engage in a calming interactive experience by touching the screen to create dynamic visual art and animations. Explore different effects based on the number of fingers used, with thousands of particles animating smoothly. Save your creations and enjoy the integrated soundtrack.
- Multitouch up to 5 points
- Thousands of particles at 60fps
- Manual color selection
- Play/pause animation
- Save snapshots
- Integrated soundtrack
- Multiple animation options
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Line Art combines music, art and science in one relaxing experience. Use all your fingers to guide the star flow. You can create 5 different animations depending on the number of fingers touching the screen: 1 – Rocket, 2 – Sparkle, 3 – Energy flow, 4 – Atomic, 5 – 3D freeze Features: ► Multitouch (upto 5 touch points) ► Thousands of particles animated at 60 frames per second ► Changing/manual colors ► Play/pause the animation ► Save snapshots to your Photo Library ► Soundtrack (includes 3 demo tracks) ► Multiple animation options (ex: speed, tail, size, opacity, etc.) ► Ability to save and load option presets ► Multiple play modes: default, drawing, tranquility and user defined
Spacedots
Create dynamic visual art by drawing shapes and manipulating particle systems. Customize colors, gravity, and fill modes for a unique experience. The full version unlocks image import and video recording.
- 65000+ particles
- Draw lines, rects, circles, triangles
- Customizable particle colors
- Adjustable gravity field
- 60fps performance
- Import images (Full Version)
- Record videos (Full Version)
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Play with over 65000 particles in space. Draw lines, rects, circles or triangles and choose between different fill modes. You can change the particle colors and the gravity field behaviors and enjoy it all at 60fps. In the Full Version you can now also import images and record videos. Most enjoyable on an iPad :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spacedots at 4.5 against Line Art's 3.7. Spacedots also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 14 months). Line Art's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Spacedots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Line Art asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spacedots holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Line Art's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spacedots's.
Line Art ships an update every 14 months, Spacedots every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Line Art | Spacedots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (16 ratings) | 4.5 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ABCiSoft | Johannes Pfahler |
Customer experience
Line Art
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In-app purchases
Line Art
No in-app purchases
Spacedots
- Full Version$3.99
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