Comparison

Solar System Sim vs Fake Beer

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

Head to head
About

Solar System Sim

Simulate and explore celestial bodies within our solar system and beyond. Create your own solar systems, experiment with gravity and physics, and observe orbital mechanics in action.

Highlights
  • Explore planets and moons
  • Visit nearby stars
  • Create custom solar systems
  • Gravity and physics simulation
  • Recalculate orbits
  • Newton's laws implementation
Features
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Zoom from a planet's surface out to distant galaxies, then reshape the whole system with your own hands. Solar System Sim is a real-time gravity sandbox built on Newton's laws and real astronomical data. Every body you add, move or destroy recalculates the orbits of everything else, live. • Smash worlds together: impact craters carve into the surface, firestorms sweep the globe, and glowing debris rains back down. • Build your own universe: add planets, moons, asteroids and comets with their own size, mass and looks, or customise the ones already there. • Land anywhere: drop to a first-person view on any planet's surface and experience its environment. • Sculpt rings: add particle rings and watch gravity shape them in real time. • Witness real eclipses: solar and lunar, with real-world astronomical precision. • Follow comets: watch them streak past and interact with the bodies they meet. • Leave the Solar System: travel to remarkable nearby stars and find them within the Milky Way. • Feel the scale: see the true vastness of space, from a pebble-sized moon to the nearest galaxies. Whether you're here to learn how gravity really works or just to break planets with it, explore at your own pace. Start your cosmic adventure with Solar System Sim.

About

Fake Beer

Experience a hyper-realistic virtual drink simulation. The app uses your phone's camera to refract light through a photorealistic glass, creating dynamic condensation and liquid physics. Enjoy various drink types and engaging mini-games.

Highlights
  • Photorealistic drink simulation
  • Live camera refraction
  • Realistic liquid physics and sloshing
  • Simulated condensation
  • Multiple drink types and glasses
  • Interactive mini-games
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Something's finally real about a virtual pint: the room behind it. Fake Beer puts a photorealistic drink on your screen and traces light through it properly - the camera behind your phone is live, so the glass refracts your actual table, your actual kitchen, whatever is really there. Tilt the phone and it pours. Tilt it back and it sloshes, with its own real resonance rather than a canned wobble. Nothing about it is a picture or a video - it is traced, pixel by pixel, from the same physics a real glass obeys. WHY IT LOOKS REAL Beer has no colour of its own - it's a filter, and the amber-to-black range comes from how far light has to travel through it, not from a paint bucket. The colours here are derived from SRM, the brewing industry's own colour measurement, so the edge of a pint is genuinely a shade lighter than the middle, the way a real one is. The head is lit by whatever room you're in, not painted white. Bubbles rise in straight, regular streams from fixed spots on the glass, the way a scratch or a fibre releases them in a real one. Tilt the glass and the liquid holds its exact volume at any angle, because the surface is solved geometrically rather than animated. NINE DRINKS. Lager, Bitter, Stout, Cider, Lemonade, Milk, Champagne, Red wine, White wine - styles, not products, so nothing here is a real brand. Pints get a choice of nonic or conical glass, wine gets its own bowl shape sized differently for red and white, and Champagne pours into a proper flute with its own rising bubbles and head. Your last drink and glass are picked up again next time you open the app. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY. Don't Spill - fill it to the brim, press Go, and after a 3-2-1 countdown a big stopwatch runs until a drop goes over the rim. Split the Drinks - drink down to exactly half in one gulp, by feel. Three Levels - 75%, then half, then a quarter, each within 5% to unlock the next. Custom Split - pick your own mark. Perfect Pour - tilt to pour a proper head from empty: too little agitation and it's flat, too much and it's overfoamed. All are graded on what actually happened to the liquid, and every result comes with a picture of the bar staff - a barwoman or a barman, your choice - and a card to share. CHEERS, ON VIDEO. Knock the phone against a real glass, or a friend's phone, and it toasts back: the beer jolts, the phone buzzes, and your bar person raises a pint and shouts Cheers, sound and all. Choose Barman or Barwoman and which of fifteen languages plays, or one exact clip - every option can be previewed first. Nothing about the knock itself is sent anywhere: the phone only feels its own knock. A COLD GLASS BEHAVES LIKE ONE. Condensation is simulated droplet by droplet. On a cold glass it beads up, neighbouring drops merge, and the heavy ones run down with gravity whichever way you tilt, leaving a clear track that mists over again. Wipe it with a finger and the water gathers into a drop that runs like the rest. Upside-down mode flips the whole picture for holding the phone the other way up, and Settings can keep the controls (or just Refill) on screen at all times if you'd rather they never duck away. YOUR ROOM, YOUR PRIVACY. The camera frame goes straight to the screen and is released - nothing is recorded, saved or sent anywhere. Choosing to share a result composes a single picture for you to send, and only then. Say no to the camera and the glass refracts a synthetic room instead - everything else still works. NO ADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO ACCOUNT. Fake Beer is a single purchase. That's the whole transaction - no in-app purchases, no subscription, nothing to sign in for. If you wish to try before you buy there is a FREE version of Fake Beer which has some limited functionality and is Ad Supported - give it a search on the App Store :) For more info or to provide feedback, please visit LetsGetStashd.com EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Solar System Sim4 screens
Fake Beer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Solar System Sim at Free against Fake Beer's $0.99. Solar System Sim also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Fake Beer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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

Solar System Sim is free to download; Fake Beer costs $0.99 up front. Solar System Sim sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Fake Beer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Solar System Sim ships an update every 5 days, Fake Beer every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Solar System Sim versus Fake Beer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolar System SimFake Beer
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (4.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size522 MB433 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperWPCLetsGetStashd Ltd

Customer experience

Solar System Sim

All ratings4,331 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral5.4%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews1,212 reviews
Positive80.7%
Neutral9.7%
Negative9.7%

Fake Beer

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Solar System Sim

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Planets/moons disappearing after saving and loading
  • Bright flashes and screen distortions
  • Planets/objects getting stuck inside stars
  • Crashes when colliding or editing certain objects
  • Inconsistent orbital mechanics and moons ejecting from planets

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add more galaxy and nebula textures
  • Implement realistic supernova effects
  • Allow customization of planet atmospheres and terrain
  • Add binary star systems and rogue planets
  • Introduce a galaxy maker and collision feature
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  • Implement a reverse time lapse option
  • Add more speed options (128x, 256x, etc.)
  • Introduce a population counter and life simulation for planets
  • Allow custom city lights and vegetation on planets
  • Add a Roche limit feature to observe tidal disruption

Fake Beer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Solar System Sim

One-time5
  • HD Mars$2.99
  • HD Earth$2.99
  • HD Moon$2.99
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  • No-ads$3.99
  • HD 3-body pack$6.99
None

Fake Beer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Solar System Sim free?
Solar System Sim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fake Beer free?
Fake Beer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Solar System Sim or Fake Beer have ads?
Solar System Sim shows ads; Fake Beer does not.
Which is updated more often, Solar System Sim or Fake Beer?
Solar System Sim ships an update every 5 days, and Fake Beer every 10 days. Most recently, Solar System Sim was updated on October 27, 2026 and Fake Beer on October 26, 2026.

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