Gears Classic vs Juggling Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gears Classic
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Gears Classic Connect the light gears to the red ones and watch the whole system come to life! Test your wisdom and creativity in this engaging challenge. Relax, enjoy, and dive into the world of gears. This logical puzzle game offers 30 unique levels designed for all ages—both kids and adults alike. Experience the thrill of being an engineer with this fun and entertaining mechanics game. With simple rules and addictive gameplay, you'll keep coming back for more. Plus, it's an educational adventure!
Juggling Lab
Learn and invent juggling patterns with realistic animations and step-by-step instructions. Explore a vast library of patterns, customize animations, and share your creations.
- Animate solo and passing siteswap patterns
- Realistic hand and ball animation
- Integrated siteswap pattern generator
- Step-by-step pattern instructions
- Large categorized pattern library
- Share patterns with friends
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Juggling Lab is an application for creating and animating juggling patterns. Its main goals are to help people learn juggling patterns, and to assist in inventing new ones. Quick feature overview: - Animate all solo and passing siteswap patterns, including synchronous and multiplexed patterns, and patterns involving movement of the juggler bodies - Support for bounced throws - Realistic hand model, with cubic spline hand paths that match the velocities of balls at throwing points - Integrated siteswap pattern generator - Step-by-step instructions to learn popular patterns - Huge (400+) categorized list of juggling patterns - Bookmark your favorite patterns - Pinch to zoom, rotate, pause and change the speed of the animation - Add, delete and rename pattern lists and patterns - Share patterns and pattern lists with your friends - Interoperates with the Juggling Lab desktop application
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Juggling Lab at none against Gears Classic's shown. Juggling Lab also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 23 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Gears Classic ships an update every 23 months, Juggling Lab every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gears Classic | Juggling Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Claudio Souza Mattos | JACK BOYCE |
In-app purchases
Gears Classic
No in-app purchases
Juggling Lab
No in-app purchases
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