Comparison

Flocking Simulator vs Learning Transformer

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

Head to head
About

Flocking Simulator

Explore emergent behavior and steering rules with a "boids" simulation. Adjust forces like separation, alignment, and cohesion to create lifelike motion. Experiment with visual options and observe instant reactions to your changes.

Highlights
  • Adjustable flocking forces (separation, alignment, cohesion)
  • Customizable perception radius, speed, and steering
  • Visual options: boid shape, color modes, debug overlays
  • Real-time swarm reaction to parameter changes
  • Learning emergent behavior and steering rules
  • Generative visuals and relaxing motion
Features
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Flocking Simulator is a real-time “boids” playground where simple rules create surprisingly lifelike motion. Build your perfect swarm by adjusting the core forces: • Separation, Alignment, Cohesion • Perception radius, max speed, max steer • Drag (friction), noise (jitter), bias • Optional wall bouncing Visual options: • Triangle or circle boids • Color modes: Solid, Velocity, Rainbow • Debug overlays: vision radius, direction vectors, stats/FPS Great for: • Learning emergent behavior and steering rules • Generative visuals and relaxing motion • Quick experiments—change a slider and watch the swarm react instantly Note: Fast motion and bright colors may affect users sensitive to motion.

About

Learning Transformer

Features
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A Transformer, built by hand and shown one step at a time. Twenty-three screens follow "Attention Is All You Need" (Vaswani et al., 2017) in the paper's own order: a word becoming numbers, the three vectors, the scores, the softmax, four heads merged into one, the mask, the second attention, and the loop that writes one word at a time. What this is not: a trained model. Every weight here was set by hand, so that each one can be read in a single line. Nine numbers stand for a word instead of 512. One encoder layer and one decoder layer instead of six of each. Four heads, four words of vocabulary, one short sentence. What it is: the paper's arithmetic at a size you can check by hand. Every number on every screen is computed while you look at it — no videos, no quizzes, no account, no network. Steps 1 to 10 are free. Steps 11 to 23 are one purchase, made once and kept.

Screenshots

Flocking Simulator4 screens
Learning Transformer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flocking Simulator at none against Learning Transformer's 1. Flocking Simulator also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Learning Transformer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Flocking Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Flocking Simulator versus Learning Transformer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlocking SimulatorLearning Transformer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVictor RodriguezSungjun Kim

In-app purchases

None

Flocking Simulator

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Learning Transformer

One-time1
  • the decoder$3.99

Questions

Is Flocking Simulator free?
Flocking Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Learning Transformer free?
Learning Transformer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flocking Simulator or Learning Transformer have ads?
Neither Flocking Simulator nor Learning Transformer shows ads.

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