Comparison

Aroma AI vs Squishme

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

Head to head
About

Aroma AI

Experience a unique blend of sound, haptics, and visuals to simulate aromas. Interact with fruits, vegetables, and coffee beans on your screen to "unlock" their scent through your device's speaker. This entertainment app offers an imaginative and immersive experience.

Highlights
  • AI Smell Engine calibration
  • Interactive "rub to smell" gesture
  • Sound and haptic feedback
  • Futuristic AI animations
  • Fully offline functionality
  • Collection of simulated aromas
Features
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Rub a fruit, vegetable, or coffee bean on your screen and watch our “AI Smell Engine” calibrate itself. As the progress reaches 100%, sound, haptics, and visuals combine to “unlock” the aroma — right through your speaker. Features - A fun collection of aromas: strawberry, lemon, banana, coffee, garlic, mint - Interactive “rub to smell” gesture with real-time progress - Futuristic AI-style animations and status messages - Sound and haptic feedback for a surprisingly immersive experience - Fully offline — no account, no internet required How it works Aroma-AI blends audio cues, visual effects, and haptics to create the illusion of smell. It’s not science — it’s creativity, humor, and a reminder of how powerful imagination can be. Important note Aroma-AI is an entertainment app created as an April Fools’ joke. It does not generate real smells and makes no medical or scientific claims. Smell the future. Or at least… imagine it.

About

Squishme

Create and customize your own unique squishy toys. Choose from a variety of shapes, colors, patterns, and stickers to design your perfect squishy. Then, watch it bounce, wiggle, and dance with fun animations.

Highlights
  • 32 original squishy shapes
  • 360 outside and filling colors
  • 300 decorative patterns
  • 1,600 sticker options
  • 6 dance animations
  • Photo and camera integration
  • Local save and share functionality
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Make your own happy little squishy, decorate it, and give it a squeeze. Press, hold, and stretch to watch your creation bounce back. Choose from 32 original shapes, including blobs, hearts, stars, dumplings, mochi, strawberries, cupcakes, cats, and more. Adjust size and softness to make your creation feel just right. Pick from 360 outside colors and 360 filling colors. Match the filling to the outside, or choose them separately for a colorful gel look. Add optional glitter and explore 300 patterns. Decorate with 1,600 sticker options made from emoji in different sizes and colorful emoji badges. Search the libraries, add more than one copy of a sticker, drag each sticker into place, and pinch or use the size slider to resize it. Give your creation a little groove with six original dance animations: Bounce, Wiggle, Shuffle, Disco, Wave, and Spin. Turn the dance lights on or off and enjoy a silent little dance party. Dance mode has no music. Make a photo squishy with an image you choose through the system photo picker, or take a still photo with your camera. Your photo fits inside the shape you pick. Tap Give it a squish for a quick squeeze. Undo an edit, try Surprise me, or Start fresh. Your current draft saves on your device and returns when you reopen the app. Save or share a still PNG of your creation, including its filling and glitter, through the system share sheet. Made for iPhone and iPad running iOS/iPadOS 15 or later, plus seventh-generation iPod touch. The studio fits smaller displays and adapts to the folding iPhone Duo, with labeled controls, larger text support, and a reduced-motion experience. With Reduce Motion, dance mode uses a still pose and steady lights. No sign-up, ads, analytics, or tracking. Photos and drafts are processed and saved locally. Images leave Squishme only when you choose to share or export them through the system share sheet.

Screenshots

Aroma AI3 screens
Squishme3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Squishme at 15.0 against Aroma AI's 18.6. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Aroma AI against 5.0 for Squishme. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Aroma AI versus Squishme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAroma AISquishme
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnton HalytskyiJoel Dunn

In-app purchases

None

Aroma AI

No in-app purchases

None

Squishme

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aroma AI free?
Aroma AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Squishme free?
Squishme is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Aroma AI or Squishme?
Aroma AI and Squishme are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Aroma AI or Squishme have ads?
Neither Aroma AI nor Squishme shows ads.

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