Episodic vs Elemental Forces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Episodic
Create dynamic, moving collages from black and white looping animations. Reposition and scale these "episodes" to build unique narratives and explore new visual relationships.
- Create moving collages
- Utilize black and white looping animations
- Reposition and scale animation fragments
- Build unique narratives
- Explore new visual relationships
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Episodic is an artwork that allows users to create a moving collage from disparate fragments. Contained within the app are black and white looping animations. Each animation is a short episode that can be repositioned and scaled allowing users to link together different segments to create a narrative and explore new relationships. The app reconfigures pop-up windows containing Flash animations originally created for the website www.urban fragments.net
Elemental Forces
Experience a digital augmented reality art installation. Point your device at paintings or surfaces to trigger a dynamic sound and light show. Explore geometric shapes and interactive audio influenced by your touch and position.
- Augmented reality art display
- Interactive soundscapes
- Light effects
- Geometric shape visuals
- Touch and location-based interaction
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For the digital augmented reality experience, point your device at the paintings or a surface, and experience a sound and light experience. The program is structured around simple geometric shapes, with sounds affected by your location and touch. This series of digital art and oil paintings represents is a meditation on air, light, surfaces, sound and color.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Episodic at every 8 days against Elemental Forces's every 3 months. Episodic also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Elemental Forces's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.4). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Episodic against 5.0 for Elemental Forces. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Episodic ships an update every 8 days, Elemental Forces every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Episodic | Elemental Forces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jody zellen | Bryan Leister |
Customer experience
Episodic
Elemental Forces
In-app purchases
Episodic
No in-app purchases
Elemental Forces
No in-app purchases
