Comparison

Liquid Is Fun vs Vortis

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

Head to head
About

Liquid Is Fun

Immerse yourself in a calming liquid simulation. Interact with flowing, colorful fluids to create mesmerizing patterns and reduce stress. This app offers a visually soothing experience perfect for unwinding.

Highlights
  • Realistic liquid physics
  • Smooth fluid movement
  • Multiple colors and effects
  • Touch-based interaction
  • Stress relief visuals
Features
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Experience a beautiful and soothing liquid simulation designed to help you relax and unwind. Watch colorful fluids flow, bend, and transform as you interact with them. Every touch creates smooth ripples and mesmerizing shapes for a calming, almost meditative experience. Perfect for relaxing after a long day, reducing stress, or simply exploring the physics of digital fluids. Adjust settings, play at your own pace, and enjoy a visually immersive environment. Features: • Realistic liquid physics • Smooth, slow-motion fluid movement • Multiple colors and effects • Simple, touch-based interaction • Relaxing visuals for stress relief Enjoy watching liquids shift, swirl, and form new patterns every time you touch the screen. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legalfinternet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Vortis

Experience a dynamic fluid art simulation that responds to your touch with vibrant colors and mesmerizing patterns. Explore various visual styles and adjust simulation parameters in real-time for a unique, stress-relieving visual experience.

Highlights
  • Interactive fluid simulation
  • Real-time GPU computation
  • Multiple visual styles (looks)
  • Adjustable simulation parameters
  • Music and camera integration
  • Record and save creations
Features
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A relaxing fluid simulation you play with your fingers: a pool of color that answers every touch. Draw across it and you pull a band of color through the flow. Tap and a drop bursts open. Rest a finger and a glowing plume rises. Behind it runs a real fluid solver on the GPU, up to a hundred and twenty times a second. No video, no loop: what you see was computed a moment ago and will never come back quite the same. TWENTY LOOKS Ink on water, northern lights, marbled paper, smoke, neon, deep sea. One for every mood — and if you would rather not choose, the dice hands you one. EVERYTHING IS A SLIDER Vorticity, color decay, resolution, pressure: the knobs of the method itself, not a few filters laid over it. The pool keeps painting while you drag them, so you see what you are doing straight away. MORE THAN FINGERS Let the music in the room drive the flow. Use your own photo or the camera as a color source. Paint walls the color has to flow around. And record what came out of it. No goal, no score, no progress. A pool that answers back. Every third roll of the dice plays a short video ad. Vortis Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks the effects, your own image sources and the solver's own controls — and removes the ads.

Screenshots

Liquid Is Fun4 screens
Vortis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Vortis at 5.0 against Liquid Is Fun's 1.0. Vortis also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Liquid Is Fun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Vortis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vortis holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Liquid Is Fun ships an update fortnightly, Vortis every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Liquid Is Fun versus Vortis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiquid Is FunVortis
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBhupesh SinghInes Golub

Customer experience

Liquid Is Fun

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Vortis

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Liquid Is Fun

One-time1
  • Premium User$3.99
1 purchases

Vortis

One-time1
  • Vortis Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Liquid Is Fun free?
Liquid Is Fun is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vortis free?
Vortis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Liquid Is Fun or Vortis?
Vortis is rated higher. Liquid Is Fun averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Vortis averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Liquid Is Fun or Vortis have ads?
Both Liquid Is Fun and Vortis show ads.
Which is updated more often, Liquid Is Fun or Vortis?
Liquid Is Fun ships an update fortnightly, and Vortis every 5 days. Most recently, Liquid Is Fun was updated on October 30, 2026 and Vortis on November 7, 2026.

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