Springle vs subflow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Springle
Explore dynamic, evolving environments that react to your touch. This visual toy offers a relaxing escape or a creative tool for live performances. Save your creations, customize colors, and experiment with various shapes and modes.
- Touch-reactive environments
- Save screenshots
- Change colors
- Clear screen with shake
- Customize shapes and modes
- Use personal photos
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Springle is a mesmerizing visual toy for iPhone, touch and iPad. Explore rich and evolving environments as they come alive with your touch. Space out to Springle on the subway or use it to VJ your next show! Springle is very easy to use: -Save screenshots by pressing the camera icon. -Double click to change the colors. -Shake to clear! -Open the controls by pressing the little tab and chose new shapes, modes, and more! -Play with your own photos! Enjoy!
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 update cadence: subflow at every 6 days against Springle's every 55 months. Springle's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (58 vs 17). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Springle holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 58 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Springle's written reviews are positive against 67% of subflow's.
Springle ships an update every 55 months, subflow every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Springle | subflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (58 ratings) — better | 4.3 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 55 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bolasol, Inc. | Ello Skelling Productions |
Customer experience
Springle
subflow
In-app purchases
Springle
No in-app purchases
subflow
No in-app purchases
