Comparison

Gravity Free vs subflow

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

Head to head
About

Gravity Free

Explore a relaxing fusion of music, art, and science by manipulating light particles with your fingers. Create dynamic visual masterpieces with up to ten different animations, each triggered by a unique number of touch points. Save your creations and customize their appearance for a personalized artistic experience.

Highlights
  • Multitouch controls (up to 10 touch points)
  • Thousands of particles animated at 60 FPS
  • Manual color customization
  • Play/pause animation control
  • Save snapshots to photo library
  • Multiple animation options and presets
  • Various play modes
Features
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Gravity combines music, art and science in one relaxing experience. Use all your fingers to guide the star flow. You can create 10 different animations depending on the number of fingers touching the screen: 1 - Rocket, 2 - Sparkle, 3 - Energy flow, 4 - Atomic, 5 - 3D freeze, 6 - Circularium, 7 - Fish, 8 - Vortex, 9 - Lasers, 10 - Lightning. Unleash your creativity and create unique masterpieces! Features: * Multitouch (upto 10 touch points iPad, 5 on iPhone) * Thousands of particles animated at 60 frames per second * Changing/manual colors * Play/pause the animation * Save snapshots to your Photo Library * Multiple animation options (ex: speed, tail, size, opacity, etc.) * Ability to save and load option presets * Multiple play modes: default, drawing, tranquility and user defined

About

subflow

Create dynamic music visualizations for any setting. Control modes, speed, and beat patterns with intuitive screen gestures. Advanced users can leverage UDP and OS2L for complex control with DJ software.

Highlights
  • Gesture-based control for modes, speed, and beats
  • Beat pattern customization
  • UDP command sequencing
  • OS2L integration with DJ software
  • Color customization via long press
Features
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Crisp visualizations for your music stage or living room. Tap left or right edge of screen to change modes. Vertical swipes change speed. Tap the upper half of the screen several times to set a beat pattern. Tap the lower half to cancel or to add single beats. Horizontal swipes fine-tune the beat alignment. Long press will change color. You can also send more complex command sequences over UDP, and you can control via OS2L using most DJ software. See http://subflow.org/

Screenshots

Gravity Free4 screens
subflow2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: subflow at none against Gravity Free's 1. subflow also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 11 months). Gravity Free's advantage is ratings volume (92 vs 17) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

Both are free to download. Gravity Free sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. subflow asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Gravity Free against 4.3 for subflow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravity Free has 92 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Gravity Free's written reviews are positive against 67% of subflow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gravity Free ships an update every 11 months, subflow every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Gravity Free versus subflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGravity Freesubflow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (92 ratings)4.3 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.7% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings92 — better17
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKfirapps LimitedEllo Skelling Productions

Customer experience

Gravity Free

All ratings92 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral5.4%
Negative15.2%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive71.7%
Neutral7.5%
Negative20.8%

subflow

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gravity Free

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
None

subflow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gravity Free free?
Gravity Free is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is subflow free?
subflow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gravity Free or subflow?
subflow is rated higher. Gravity Free averages 4.2 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while subflow averages 4.3 from 17 ratings.
Do Gravity Free or subflow have ads?
Neither Gravity Free nor subflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gravity Free or subflow?
Gravity Free ships an update every 11 months, and subflow every 6 days. Most recently, Gravity Free was updated on September 19, 2026 and subflow on September 9, 2026.

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