Light Creations vs Magic Fluids
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
Magic Fluids
Experience a calming and creative fluid simulation. Interact with mesmerizing, colorful swirls that evolve into beautiful digital art. Ideal for relaxation, stress relief, and artistic expression.
- Fluid flow simulation
- Hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls
- Stress and anxiety relief
- Create abstract digital art
- Configurable fluid behavior
- Save custom presets
- Pause animation and save screenshots
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Magic Fluids is a relaxing, colorful fluid simulation app that will help you calm down and relieve stress, or be creative and make aesthetic digital art. It is based on algorithms of fluid flow simulation and features fluid (pun intented!), beautiful graphics. It is the best time waster! TOUCH THE SCREEN and enjoy hypnotizing motion of fluid swirls moving around, sometimes slow, quiet and elegant, other times dynamic, satisfying and trippy. CALM DOWN AND RELAX as you draw and watch peaceful flows evolve in space and eventually settle down into colorful patterns. Magic Fluids will help you sleep, meditate, restore balance, relieve stress and anxiety. GET CREATIVE and, with a touch of your finger, bring to life stylish patterns of paint and particles. If you like abstract digital art or acrylic pour painting, you'll love Magic Fluids! You can create impressive eye-catching designs that look like swirls, galaxies, liquid, fire, light, smoke, lava and much more! KEEP YOUR KIDS BUSY - they love to doodle and watch the fluid move around! We hope that Magic Fluids can also help children with anxiety, autism and sensory issues. Please note: This is NOT a live wallpaper! Key features of Magic Fluids: - Highly configurable fluid behaviour and look - 70+ predefined configuration presets to get you started - Save your own presets - Pause the animation anytime and save screenshots - NEW: Record videos straight from the app! - Smoke, water and jello animation - 10 fluid textures that add fine detail to the fluid - Amazing light and shadow visual effects - Thousands of particles moving with the fluid - You can load photos and images as backgrounds - Highly optimized, multiple quality settings Fluid animation in your pocket! Touch the screen and create beautiful motion of colorful smoke and water. Calm down and relax as you watch trippy, magical swirls of flowing colors. Get artistic and design creative, satisfying patterns of paint and particles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magic Fluids at 4.8 against Light Creations's 4.1. Magic Fluids also leads on review sentiment (97% vs 76%) and ratings volume (579 vs 14). Light Creations's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99). 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
Light Creations costs $2.99 and Magic Fluids $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Magic Fluids holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Fluids has 579 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Light Creations's written reviews are positive against 97% of Magic Fluids's.
Light Creations ships an update every 8 months, Magic Fluids every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Light Creations | Magic Fluids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (14 ratings) | 4.8 (579 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews | 96.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 579 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #154 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joachim Wolffram | Mad Scientist |
Customer experience
Light Creations
Magic Fluids
Bugs and requests
Light Creations
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Magic Fluids
Reported bugs
2 issues- Presets not saving properly
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to import custom background images
- Screen recording functionality
- More sound and music options
- Improved interface and UI
In-app purchases
Light Creations
No in-app purchases
Magic Fluids
No in-app purchases
Questions
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