Comparison

Lava Lamp Simulator vs Sunpatch

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

Head to head
About

Lava Lamp Simulator

Create a calming atmosphere with a virtual lava lamp. Enjoy hypnotic movements and customizable colors to set a relaxing mood for yourself, friends, or a romantic partner. Experience the ambiance of a real lava lamp anywhere.

Highlights
  • Hypnotic lava lamp movements
  • Customizable color selection
  • Pulse-reactive color changes
  • Creates relaxing ambiance
  • Intimate lighting effects
Features
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If you want to relax and enjoy a moment of peace, now you can create the best ambience with this lava lamp. You can use it with your friends to create a relaxing ambience, or be romantic with your partner, or a moment of rest for you alone. This simulator is designed to create hypnotic movements and sensations very similar to those of a real lava lamp. You can also select the color you like the most and the lamp will change color according to your pulse. Strong and striking colors to illuminate your room and create an intimate and relaxing ambience, you will feel as if you had a real lava lamp.

About

Sunpatch

Features
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Every seed packet and plant label is written in hours of direct sun. Almost nobody knows what their own garden actually gets — so the tomatoes go in the shady corner and never ripen. Sunpatch answers the question with a number. MEASURE YOUR OWN SKYLINE Other sun apps show you where the sun is. That is the easy half. The half that decides whether anything grows is what stands in the way: the fence, the garage, next door's lime tree. Point your phone at the top of each one, or enter its height and distance, and Sunpatch builds the skyline around that exact spot. REAL HOURS, ANY DAY OF THE YEAR The app walks the day minute by minute and counts only the light that actually reaches you. You get the total, the first and last sun, the longest unbroken stretch — and the same figures for every day of the year, so you can see the bed that bakes in July sit in shadow from October. FULL SUN OR PART SHADE, SETTLED Sunpatch classes each spot the way plant labels do: full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade. Then it matches 135 plants — vegetables, herbs, fruit, flowers, shrubs, houseplants and lawn — against the light you actually have, and tells you plainly what will not work. WHAT IF YOU CUT THAT TREE BACK Tap any obstruction and see exactly how many hours removing it would give you. Sometimes it is two hours. Often it is nothing at all — which is worth knowing before anyone reaches for a saw. DECIDUOUS TREES ARE HANDLED PROPERLY A bare lime tree in February is not the same obstruction as the same tree in July. Sunpatch drops it to a bare canopy outside the leaf season, and counts dappled light at what it is worth instead of rounding it to nothing. THE SUN COACH Ask what to plant, why something is struggling, or how to win back an hour. It answers from the numbers you measured, not from generic advice. The Coach is the one part of Sunpatch that runs on a server instead of your phone, so it needs Pro and a free account. WORKS OFFLINE, AND WITHOUT SIGNING IN Every calculation runs on your phone using the NOAA solar algorithm, so measuring, the charts, the whole year and the plant library all work in aeroplane mode with no account at all. Signing in is optional and does one thing: it backs your spots up, so a lost phone is not a lost season. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. SUNPATCH PRO The free app measures one spot completely. Pro adds unlimited spots, the Sun Coach, what-if on every obstruction and the full year on any date. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Sunpatch Pro is offered as a monthly or a yearly auto-renewable subscription. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://szymdzie.github.io/sunpatch/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://szymdzie.github.io/sunpatch/privacy.html

Screenshots

Lava Lamp Simulator4 screens
Sunpatch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lava Lamp Simulator at none against Sunpatch's 2. Lava Lamp Simulator also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Sunpatch's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and 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

Both are free to download. Sunpatch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Lava Lamp Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lava Lamp Simulator ships an update every 2 months, Sunpatch monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lava Lamp Simulator versus Sunpatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLava Lamp SimulatorSunpatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (77 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings77 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMapoga IT Development SLSzymon Dziedzic

In-app purchases

None

Lava Lamp Simulator

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Sunpatch

Subscriptions2
  • Sunpatch Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Sunpatch Pro Yearly$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Lava Lamp Simulator free?
Lava Lamp Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sunpatch free?
Sunpatch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lava Lamp Simulator or Sunpatch have ads?
Lava Lamp Simulator shows ads; Sunpatch does not.
Which is updated more often, Lava Lamp Simulator or Sunpatch?
Lava Lamp Simulator ships an update every 2 months, and Sunpatch monthly. Most recently, Lava Lamp Simulator was updated on October 27, 2026 and Sunpatch on October 29, 2026.

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