Celestial Dances vs Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Celestial Dances
Explore the orbital mechanics of planets, moons, and exoplanets. This app visualizes celestial movements based on concepts from "A Little Book of Coincidence." Discover intriguing patterns and relationships within our solar system and beyond.
- Explore solar system planet motions
- Visualize moon orbits
- Discover exoplanet systems
- Based on 'A Little Book of Coincidence'
- Highlights Earth-Venus relationship
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This app invites you to explore the relative motions of our solar system's planets, their moons, and several exoplanet systems. It is based on ideas presented in "A Little Book of Coincidence" by John Martineau. Are the amazing patterns created by these orbiting bodies just a coincidence, or is something more than that going on? Take a look and see what you think. Be sure to check out the special relationship between the Earth and Venus.
Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1
Explore and learn about various 3D geometric shapes, including platonic and archimedean solids. Interact with morphing models, customize colors, and view them from any angle. Discover fascinating artistic and eccentric forms.
- Interactive 3D model rotation, zoom, and pan
- Morphing between different polyhedra
- Customizable face colors and edge thickness
- Display of polyhedron components
- Links to Wikipedia for related information
- Save PNG images of models
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Polyhedron and Polyhedra is an application which helps you to learn about or explore platonic solids, archimedean solids, catalan solids or polyhedral compounds. Without knowledge of mathematics or polyhedron, you can easily interact with the 3d solids by this application, So, you will become more familiar with the polyhedrons, and you may enjoy these abstract solids as fascinating formative arts. The main advantage of the app is that it offers a large variety of polyhedral compounds with parameters and 3d morphing models between different polyhedra or compounds. By choosing a model, and by setting colors and parameters optionally, you will find various types of 3d shapes including wonderful shapes, mysterious artistic shapes, and strange eccentric shapes, which will be interesting for you. Features: - Swipe or touch gesture will rotate, zoom or move the object. So, you can observe it from various angles or positions. (You can observe it even from inside.) - Switches between showing and hiding each face of the polyhedron, and switches between showing and hiding each component of compounds - Function to display the edges of the polyhedra with selectable thickness and color - For each platonic solid, each archimedean solid or each catalan solid, the app can provide the compound from 14 to 20 kinds, and it can also provide the compounds which are consisting of two or more different polyhedra (more than 700 in total) - Morphing mode, in which you can change or morph one solid into another solid through a seamless transition - The app includes many color patterns for the faces of the polyhedron. - Functions to display basic informations about the polyhedron, and to open the wikipedia sites about the related items in Safari - Slider controllers to reduce z-fighting (screen flicker) - Save PNG images to camera roll
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Celestial Dances at Free against Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1's $2.99. Celestial Dances also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 15 months vs every 30 months). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Celestial Dances is free to download; Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1 costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Celestial Dances ships an update every 30 months, Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1 every 15 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Celestial Dances | Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 15 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Bretl | Masahiko Fukuyama |
Customer experience
Celestial Dances
Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1
In-app purchases
Celestial Dances
No in-app purchases
Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.1
No in-app purchases
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