Celestial Dances vs Flocking Simulator
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.
Flocking Simulator
Explore emergent behavior and steering rules with a "boids" simulation. Adjust forces like separation, alignment, and cohesion to create lifelike motion. Experiment with visual options and observe instant reactions to your changes.
- Adjustable flocking forces (separation, alignment, cohesion)
- Customizable perception radius, speed, and steering
- Visual options: boid shape, color modes, debug overlays
- Real-time swarm reaction to parameter changes
- Learning emergent behavior and steering rules
- Generative visuals and relaxing motion
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Flocking Simulator is a real-time “boids” playground where simple rules create surprisingly lifelike motion. Build your perfect swarm by adjusting the core forces: • Separation, Alignment, Cohesion • Perception radius, max speed, max steer • Drag (friction), noise (jitter), bias • Optional wall bouncing Visual options: • Triangle or circle boids • Color modes: Solid, Velocity, Rainbow • Debug overlays: vision radius, direction vectors, stats/FPS Great for: • Learning emergent behavior and steering rules • Generative visuals and relaxing motion • Quick experiments—change a slider and watch the swarm react instantly Note: Fast motion and bright colors may affect users sensitive to motion.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flocking Simulator at 5.0 against Celestial Dances's 3.0. Flocking Simulator also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Celestial Dances's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flocking Simulator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Celestial Dances | Flocking Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Bretl | Victor Rodriguez |
Customer experience
Celestial Dances
Flocking Simulator
In-app purchases
Celestial Dances
No in-app purchases
Flocking Simulator
No in-app purchases
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