Gravity vs subflow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gravity
Explore a unique blend of music, art, and science with this interactive experience. Guide flowing particles with multiple fingers to create stunning visual animations. Save your creations and experiment with various settings for a relaxing and artistic journey.
- Multitouch particle control
- 10 distinct finger-based animations
- Thousands of particles at 60 FPS
- Customizable colors and animation settings
- Save and load presets
- Multiple play modes
- Save snapshots to photo library
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Free for a limited time!!! 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 * No ads
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.
- Gesture-based control for modes, speed, and beats
- Beat pattern customization
- UDP command sequencing
- OS2L integration with DJ software
- Color customization via long press
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: subflow at Free against Gravity's $1.99. subflow also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 8 months). Gravity's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (88% vs 67%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
subflow is free to download; Gravity costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gravity holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Gravity's written reviews are positive against 67% of subflow's.
Gravity ships an update every 8 months, subflow every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gravity | subflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (50 ratings) — better | 4.3 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.8% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kfirapps Limited | Ello Skelling Productions |
Customer experience
Gravity
subflow
Bugs and requests
Gravity
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes as soon as it opens
- No sound
- Full screen ads in free version
- Ads in paid version
- App control doc keeps hiding
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- Patterns freeze or close down with more than 4 fingers
- Screen capture not working (black screen)
- App hangs/freezes iPad Mini
Requested features
9 requests- Support for new iPhone screens
- Option to record performances
- More music selections or ability to generate original music
- Ability to use as wallpaper
- More particle options (count, size)
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- Easier color selection (color wheel)
- Ability to customize background color
- More songs in rotation
- Ability to have specific particle counts (e.g., 2 particles)
subflow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gravity
No in-app purchases
subflow
No in-app purchases
