Light Creations vs Prism Toy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Light Creations
Create dynamic 3D light sculptures from simple line drawings. Accelerate animations with music and explore five unique visual themes. Save and share your mesmerizing creations.
- Create 3D light sculptures
- Dynamic animation from drawn lines
- Music-reactive visuals
- Five unique visual themes
- Screenshot capture
- Universal app support
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Light Creations allows you to create amazing light sculptures and structures. You provide the seed for the creation by drawing an arbitrary line, e.g., straight, curved, or long and winded, and enjoy how Light Creations transforms this seed into a dynamic piece of 3D art. Accelerate the animation by humming, singing or playing music and dive deep into a relaxing journey through a world of light. Observe the mesmerizing dynamics of the evolving art and create screenshots with ease just by tapping an icon. The screenshots are conveniently saved into your photo album for further processing and sharing. Light Creations provides five themes, each transforming the initial seed in a different way: Galaxy - Creates light sculptures built out of many light particles. Light Ocean - Creates light sculptures above an ocean of light. Centered Lines - Creates symmetrical light structures. Warped Lines - Creates a work of art where the initial seed is warped in space resulting in fractal like creations. MultiDraw - The initial line is mirrored several times and warped in space already while drawing. Tip: use the pinch gesture to emphasize the amazing micro and macro structures. - Universal App for iPad, iPhone, iPod. - Retina Display support. - There are no ads or in-app purchases in Light Creations. Customer Comments: ***** Wow!!!! "This is the most beautiful and trippy app I have on my iPad (and I have about 20). Listen to some ambient electronica or psychedelia and ascend to a higher plain without chemical assistance." ***** AWESOME! "Love it, mesmerizing & beautiful ! Save your creations & share. Recommend," ***** Great app for creative control "I typically don't write reviews, but these visuals need a voice! They are simply in a league of their own. The future of intuitive easy to use visuals has arrived! [...] Congratulations to the developer for this marvelous work of art! " ***** Totally brilliant "This is like having your own personal firework display. Congrats to the app maker." ***** Grandiose
Prism Toy
Interact with a virtual prism and light source to create and manipulate rainbows. Control light spread with one finger and prism rotation/size with two fingers.
- Virtual prism interaction
- Light source manipulation
- Rainbow generation
- One-finger light control
- Two-finger prism control
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Play with a prism and a light source. Split the light into a rainbow. One finger controls the light and its spread. Two fingers control the rotation location and size of the prism.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Prism Toy at monthly against Light Creations's every 8 months. Prism Toy also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (75 vs 14). Light Creations's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 50%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Light Creations costs $2.99 and Prism Toy $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Prism Toy holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prism Toy has 75 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Light Creations's written reviews are positive against 50% of Prism Toy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Light Creations ships an update every 8 months, Prism Toy monthly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Light Creations | Prism Toy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (14 ratings) | 4.5 (75 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 75 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joachim Wolffram | PDJ Apps |
Customer experience
Light Creations
Prism Toy
In-app purchases
Light Creations
No in-app purchases
Prism Toy
No in-app purchases
