Comparison

Light Creations vs altDQ

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Create 3D light sculptures
  • Dynamic animation from drawn lines
  • Music-reactive visuals
  • Five unique visual themes
  • Screenshot capture
  • Universal app support
Features
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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

About

altDQ

Explore a seminal 1986 digital art piece in an immersive 3D space. Interact with the artwork to reveal hidden code, hypertext, and behind-the-scenes stories about its creation.

Highlights
  • 3D space exploration
  • Tap to reveal code and hypertext
  • View artwork from both sides
  • See dimensional photos
  • Behind-the-scenes stories
  • Interactive elements
Features
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April Greiman's Does it Make Sense?, created in 1986 for Design Quarterly is on display at LACMA's Digital Witness exhibit. The work explored the use of Apple's Macintosh computer to assemble a collage of illustrative assets and words -- delivered on paper, Z space implied. Now this work can be viewed in X | Y | Z space using a smartphone or tablet. Here are features to explore: tap the screen to reveal related code and hypertext tap again to turn them off see inside photos that have become dimensional witness this display on both sides of the artwork video and images on the back side present stories of the process of making of the original work

Screenshots

Light Creations4 screens
altDQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: altDQ at Free against Light Creations's $2.99. altDQ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 8 months). Light Creations's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1) and chart position (#187 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

altDQ is free to download; Light Creations costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

altDQ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Light Creations has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Light Creations ships an update every 8 months, altDQ weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Light Creations versus altDQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLight CreationsaltDQ
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#187 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB445 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJoachim WolfframIsovist Limited (UK)

Customer experience

Light Creations

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative17.6%

altDQ

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Light Creations

No in-app purchases

None

altDQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Light Creations free?
Light Creations costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is altDQ free?
altDQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Light Creations or altDQ?
altDQ is rated higher. Light Creations averages 4.1 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while altDQ averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Light Creations or altDQ have ads?
Neither Light Creations nor altDQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Light Creations or altDQ?
Light Creations ships an update every 8 months, and altDQ weekly. Most recently, Light Creations was updated on November 10, 2026 and altDQ on October 30, 2026.

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