Comparison

PocketFlow vs Newtonic

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

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About

PocketFlow

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Real water, live on your iPhone. Free to try for 7 days, then one purchase unlocks it for good. Draw a shape with your finger or build one in 3D, and watch water pour over, under and around it as it happens. PocketFlow runs a real free-surface water simulation on your phone's GPU. It isn't an animation: every frame is solved by our own solver, so the water splashes, jumps and settles because the physics says so. NEW IN 3.3 Feel and hear the water: haptics and sound follow the flow as it surges and hits the walls, then ease to a steady hum once it settles, each with a one-tap button. Spray and thin water look lifelike. Plot any 3D section and share it. Import a model at Actual size, and Add and fit tank grows the tank around it. Heights read as real-world elevations, in tanks from 1 cm to 10 km. BRING YOUR OWN MODEL (STL) Import a CAD or 3D-print model from Build, Files, Mail or AirDrop, at Actual size or at a scale you choose. Models move, turn, size, snap and duplicate like any shape, can poke through the walls and floor, and can have up to a million triangles. TWO WAYS TO PLAY • 2D Sketch: a side view of a tank. Draw solids right in the water with a pen, box or oval, and the flow reacts straight away. Press and hold a solid to duplicate it, cut it out or size it exactly, with undo, redo and snap guides. • 3D Build: add boxes, spheres and cylinders. Slide them with an axis lock, size any side, turn about any axis, or type exact numbers. SLICE 3D INTO 2D Cut any 3D scene along or across the flow and open the slice in 2D, at full size or as a scale model such as 1:15. START FROM A TEMPLATE Press ā–¶ to run any template. • 2D: Open channel, Dam break, Sluice gate, Weir • 3D: Channel + pier, Weir, Dam break, Labyrinth weir, Dam & stilling basin, and Mystery dam: an STL dam, spillway and stilling basin at 1:100 SET THE SIDES Make each side a wall or open to the air. Add an inlet by velocity or by flow rate, or hold a side at a water level, with or without inflow. Drag any side to size the tank, set up to eight blocks of starting water, or start empty. SEE WHAT'S GOING ON • Show plain water, or color it by velocity or pressure • Section view in 3D cuts the tank open to show the flow inside, and an Ortho view gives true elevations and plans • Plot along the cut: water surface, bed, velocity and bed pressure Drag to read values; share as a picture or data. Bridges and culverts are drawn as they are, even running full • Tap any solid to read its elevation • Section and level probes in 2D • Stretch the height or mirror the 2D view for long, flat channels • Probe pins with live velocity, depth and Froude readouts • Streamlines that follow the flow • A measure ruler that snaps to walls and edges • Live In and Out, with a Filling or Steady cue TILT TO SLOSH Tap Tilt and tip your phone. The water runs to the low side, like a real tank in your hands. THINK FULL SIZE Working with a scale model? Pick a scale such as 1:25 and every number shows at full size, scaled by Froude similarity. TRACE OVER A PHOTO In 2D, add a photo or drawing as a background, set it to true size from a known length, and draw your solids over it. SHARE IT Save or send a photo with the color scale on it, or a 10-second clip. EASY TO PICK UP A seven-step Quick start shows you where to press. Scenes save themselves, Continue picks up where you left off, and Fast, Balanced and Detailed presets trade speed for detail. GOOD TO KNOW • Runs fully on the device: no account, no ads, no tracking, works offline • One purchase after the 7-day trial, no subscription. Bought PocketFlow before? You're already unlocked. • Made for learning, exploring and quick what-ifs. It is real physics, but not a certified engineering design tool: check real designs with proper engineering analysis. Great for students and teachers, engineers who want a quick feel for a flow, and anyone who likes watching water.

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Newtonic

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Newtonic turns 59 physics topics into simulations you can push around. Throw a ball and watch the range change with the angle. Swing a double pendulum into chaos. Bend light around a galaxy. Fire an electron at a barrier and watch part of it tunnel through. Every topic comes in several ways: • Simulate: change real quantities, in real units, and watch the system answer. Every readout is computed from the actual equations. • Learn: the formulas with every symbol explained, a short plain-language explanation, the key ideas and guided experiments to try. • Quiz: a few questions with explanations, so you know what you understood before the exam does. • Practice: exam-style problems with new numbers every time, on 12 topics. Get a hint, reveal the solution step by step, then load the problem into the simulation and watch your answer happen. Earn XP as you explore, read, take quizzes and solve problems, keep a daily streak and collect 22 badges along the way. Today's practice puts three fresh problems on Home every day. Tell Newtonic your level and favorite fields, and Home suggests what to try next. 59 simulations across 11 fields: classical mechanics, gravity and orbits, fluids, oscillations, waves and sound, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics and light, relativity, quantum mechanics, and atomic and nuclear physics. Made for high school and university students, whether you're studying for an exam or meeting physics for the first time. Works offline. No account, no ads, no tracking. On iPad, the controls sit beside the simulation and a sidebar keeps every section one tap away. Free and Pro 18 simulations are free forever, at least one in every field, with their practice problems. Newtonic Pro unlocks all of them and every practice problem, plus every new simulation as it arrives: • Yearly, with a one-week free trial • Monthly • Lifetime, a single purchase Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Newtonic Pro can be shared with up to five family members through Family Sharing. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://newtonic.pages.dev/privacy

Screenshots

PocketFlow4 screens
Newtonic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Newtonic at every 2 days against PocketFlow's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. PocketFlow sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Newtonic sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PocketFlow ships an update weekly, Newtonic every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
PocketFlow versus Newtonic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocketFlowNewtonic
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAqua Axolotl AnalyticsBURAK GOKYUZ

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PocketFlow

One-time2
  • 7-Day TrialFree
  • Unlock PocketFlow$9.99
3 purchases

Newtonic

Subscriptions2
  • Newtonic Pro monthly$3.991 Month
  • Newtonic Pro yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Newtonic Pro lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is PocketFlow free?
PocketFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Newtonic free?
Newtonic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PocketFlow or Newtonic have ads?
Neither PocketFlow nor Newtonic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PocketFlow or Newtonic?
PocketFlow ships an update weekly, and Newtonic every 2 days. Most recently, PocketFlow was updated on November 12, 2026 and Newtonic on November 10, 2026.

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