Comparison

Space Crash Simulator vs Gosper

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

Head to head
About

Space Crash Simulator

Experience realistic planetary collisions with a powerful physics engine. Customize your own cosmic events by adjusting particle count, velocity, and accuracy, or jump straight into high-energy impacts. This app offers a detailed, physics-based simulation for educational or entertainment purposes.

Highlights
  • Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation
  • Real-time planetary collisions
  • Customizable simulation parameters
  • Setup Mode for scenario creation
  • Adjustable particle count and accuracy
  • Physics-based detailed simulation
Features
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Smash worlds together and watch them shatter, merge, and melt, driven by real physics, not pre-made animations. Every planet is made of thousands of interacting particles, so every collision is computed live and no two impacts ever look the same. Build your own scenario in Setup Mode: place up to 8 bodies, set their size, density, spin and velocity, then let gravity do the rest. Or dive straight into a head-on collision and watch the debris glow, cool, and form a crust. - True particle physics (SPH), the first of its kind on mobile - Molten impact zones: heat, lava, and cooling crusts - Give planets rings or shred a moon into one with tidal forces (Roche limit) - Protoplanetary disk and colliding-galaxies modes - Black holes that tear planets apart - Custom planet textures from your own photos - Runs on everything: tune particle count, accuracy, and timescale to your device

About

Gosper

Features
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In 1970, a mathematician named John Conway wrote three rules on a board: a cell with fewer than two neighbours dies of loneliness, one with more than three dies of crowding, and in an empty space with exactly three neighbours, a new cell is born. That is all. There are no other rules. And out of those three sentences come ships that cross the screen, guns that fire forever, clocks that beat in exact time, and structures that copy themselves. Nobody programmed them: they were in the rules all along. Gosper is a place to watch it happen. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Draw with your finger and press play. Zoom in, zoom out, change the speed, step one generation at a time. • Drop machines from the library: forty historical patterns, each with who discovered it, in what year, and what it does. Nothing invented — every one is checked by a test that verifies its period. • Change the rules. Besides Conway's original there are seven more: HighLife, which replicates itself; Seeds, which explodes; Day & Night, which is symmetric. • Save your universes and come back to them. • Share them with the community, and bring home other people's. • Duel against the machine. Two gardens side by side: you throw machines into its garden, it throws them into yours, and you win by leaving its garden with less than a quarter standing. Build your own deck from the library, from patterns you cut out of your own universe, or from the community. WHY IT IS FAST The engine is written in C++ and computes in blocks of bits, not cell by cell. A universe of a million cells runs at sixty frames per second on an iPhone. Cost depends on what is happening, not on the size of the world: a huge, nearly empty universe costs nothing. NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION No advertising, no analytics, no user profiling. Gosper Pro is a single optional purchase that adds five more themes, giant universes and unlimited saves. Nothing that is free gets cut back to push you into paying. EIGHT THEMES Neon on black, ink on paper, pure black and white, mossy greens, magma, ocean, the amber phosphor of an old monitor, and pastels. The name is for Bill Gosper, who in 1970 built the first glider gun and won the fifty dollars Conway offered to anyone who could prove such a thing could grow forever. That gun is still firing inside this app.

Screenshots

Space Crash Simulator4 screens
Gosper3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gosper at none against Space Crash Simulator's shown. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Space Crash Simulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gosper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Space Crash Simulator versus Gosper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpace Crash SimulatorGosper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (753 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings753 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size254 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWPCIvan Andres Robles Rodriguez

Bugs and requests

Space Crash Simulator

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Collision trails not clearing properly
  • Protoplanetary disc mode not working as expected

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add more celestial objects (black holes, stars, etc.)
  • Allow for custom textures and planet/atmosphere customization
  • Improve performance and optimization
  • Add more graphic options and settings
  • Allow for custom rings and moons around planets
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  • Enable free camera feature
  • Improve collision and heating effects

Gosper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Space Crash Simulator

One-time1
  • Premium$4.99
1 purchases

Gosper

One-time1
  • Gosper Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Space Crash Simulator free?
Space Crash Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gosper free?
Gosper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Space Crash Simulator or Gosper have ads?
Space Crash Simulator shows ads; Gosper does not.

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