Comparison

MBrot8 vs Space Particles

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

Head to head
About

MBrot8

Features
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Explore the infinite beauty of the Mandelbrot set with MBrot8. Navigate intricate fractal landscapes using intuitive pinch-to-zoom and pan gestures. Customize each view with flexible color controls, save your favorite discoveries, and create high-resolution images to share. Features include: • Smooth GPU-powered Mandelbrot rendering • Deep, precise zooming • Intuitive pinch and pan controls • Adjustable color spread, shift, and range • Saved-set thumbnails for quick retrieval • Previous and next navigation • Manual scale and center entry • High-resolution image export • Image saving, retrieval, and sharing • Support for iPhone and iPad • Every region reveals new patterns, structures, and colors. Start exploring and discover what lies within the Mandelbrot set.

About

Space Particles

Features
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Space Particles is a touch-driven visual sandbox for exploring motion, gravity, and light. Start with a live field of glowing particles, then shape it with gravity wells, repulsion, pulses, stir tools, vortices, and erase or freeze interactions. Switch between presets like spiral galaxies, binary systems, collisions, rings, streams, lattices, and nova-style bursts, or tune the simulation yourself. Particle Mode focuses on gravity-driven motion and emergent patterns. Firework Mode turns the same canvas into a configurable spark launcher with adjustable spread, trail length, gravity, drag, color, size, and lifetime. Built for quick experimentation: - Touch and drag directly on the canvas - Choose particle counts, speed, bounds, trails, colors, and visual themes - Toggle between performance and quality settings - Capture screenshots of scenes you create - Share scene links from the web version Space Particles is for anyone who likes visualizers, creative coding, particle systems, physics toys, generative art, or just watching a screen fill with organized chaos.

Screenshots

MBrot83 screens
Space Particles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Space Particles at Free against MBrot8's $2.99. Space Particles also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). MBrot8's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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

Space Particles is free to download; MBrot8 costs $2.99 up front. Space Particles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MBrot8 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MBrot8 ships an update monthly, Space Particles every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
MBrot8 versus Space Particles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMBrot8Space Particles
Price$2.99Free — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarDan GeoSpatialBrandon Schabel

In-app purchases

None

MBrot8

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Space Particles

One-time1
  • Space Particles Pro$2.99

Questions

Is MBrot8 free?
MBrot8 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Particles free?
Space Particles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MBrot8 or Space Particles have ads?
Neither MBrot8 nor Space Particles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MBrot8 or Space Particles?
MBrot8 ships an update monthly, and Space Particles every 8 days. Most recently, MBrot8 was updated on September 7, 2026 and Space Particles on September 13, 2026.

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