Surfaces in Space vs AeroStream
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Surfaces in Space
Explore and interact with a variety of 3D mathematical surfaces. Visualize complex shapes, customize their appearance, and even import your own 3D models. Offers intuitive touch controls for easy navigation and rendering.
- 3D mathematical surface visualization
- Interactive touch controls (rotate, zoom, pan)
- Customizable surface appearance (fill, primitives)
- Import .stl and .obj files
- Adjustable tessellation detail
- Customizable backgrounds and lighting
- Save 10-bit snapshots
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A 3D viewer for mathematical surfaces. Visualize and interact with parametric shapes including spheres, tori, Klein bottles, Möbius strips, and more. Features: - An expanding catalogue of both vertex-based, tessellated surfaces, and a physical objects category - Rotate, zoom, and pan with (multi-)touch gestures - Auto-rotate along an axis, adjust speed with a dismissible slider - Adjustable tessellation detail via a dismissible slider - Adjustable tessellation fill: solid or wireframe - Adjustable vertex primitives: points, lines, triangles - Adjust point size with a dismissible slider - Optional ripple effect on vertex-based surfaces - Optional rotating light for most surfaces - Customizable background color, background image - Save 10-bit snapshots - Restore previous session, start fresh, or randomize launch - Import .stl (STL) or .obj (OBJ) files for viewing - choose culling mode: none, back, or front - spatial environments: standard / default, Milky Way panorama, a black hole, and - free camera mode: toggle on/off in settings to freely move camera around environment - control free camera mode with a game controller or keyboard (wasd + arrows)
AeroStream
Explore fluid dynamics with an interactive wind tunnel simulator. Visualize real-time flow fields around various shapes and adjust parameters like wind speed and viscosity to observe instant responses. Ideal for engineers, students, and enthusiasts seeking to understand air behavior.
- Live, interactive wind tunnel simulation
- Real-time flow field rendering
- Adjustable wind speed, viscosity, angle of attack
- Streamlines, vortices, and wake region visualization
- Velocity, pressure, vorticity heatmaps
- Particle tracers for real-time motion
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Explore fluid dynamics with a live, interactive wind tunnel simulator right in your pocket. AeroStream renders real-time flow fields around airfoils, cylinders, plates, and nozzles — perfect for engineers, students, and aerodynamics enthusiasts who want to build intuition for how air behaves. Adjust wind speed, viscosity, and angle of attack to see how the flow field responds instantly. Watch streamlines bend, vortices form, and wake regions develop as conditions change. View velocity, pressure, or vorticity heatmaps with particle tracers showing real-time motion through the domain. Whether you're studying for a fluid dynamics course, prototyping a design concept, or just curious how air flows around different shapes, AeroStream brings computational fluid dynamics to your fingertips. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Surfaces in Space at none against AeroStream's 2. Surfaces in Space also leads on iOS requirement (18.4 vs 26.5). 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
Both are free to download. AeroStream sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Surfaces in Space asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Surfaces in Space against 5.0 for AeroStream. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Surfaces in Space | AeroStream |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Colin Ford | Nuv Ahuja |
In-app purchases
Surfaces in Space
No in-app purchases
AeroStream
- AeroPro$5.991 Month
- AeroPro$19.991 Year
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