Comparison

Doodle Spark vs Space Particles

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

Head to head
About

Doodle Spark

This app offers a simple, engaging drawing experience for toddlers. Children can create colorful rainbow trails, trigger fireworks, and watch their art glow. It's designed with no distractions, making it easy for young children to use independently.

Highlights
  • Rainbow brushstrokes
  • Interactive fireworks
  • Glowing, fading strokes
  • Multi-finger drawing
  • Guided Access support
  • Distraction-free interface
Features
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Doodle Spark is the perfect drawing app for little ones. With just a touch, toddlers can paint rainbow trails across the screen, tap to burst colorful fireworks, and watch their creations glow and sparkle. Designed from the ground up for young children — no menus, no buttons, no distractions. Just a clean black canvas and endless color. Built-in Guided Access support lets parents lock the screen to Doodle Spark with a triple-click, so little hands stay safe and the fun never gets interrupted. Features: Rainbow brushstrokes that follow every finger Tap anywhere to burst a colorful firework Smooth glowing strokes that gently fade away Draw with up to 5 fingers at once Guided Access ready — lock to the app in seconds No ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no internet required Doodle Spark is designed to be completely distraction-free. There are no pop-ups, no notifications, and nothing to accidentally navigate away from. Just hand it to your toddler and let their imagination run wild.

About

Space Particles

Features
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Space Particles is a touch-driven visual sandbox for exploring motion, gravity, and light. Start with a live field of glowing particles, then shape it with gravity wells, repulsion, pulses, stir tools, vortices, and erase or freeze interactions. Switch between presets like spiral galaxies, binary systems, collisions, rings, streams, lattices, and nova-style bursts, or tune the simulation yourself. Particle Mode focuses on gravity-driven motion and emergent patterns. Firework Mode turns the same canvas into a configurable spark launcher with adjustable spread, trail length, gravity, drag, color, size, and lifetime. Built for quick experimentation: - Touch and drag directly on the canvas - Choose particle counts, speed, bounds, trails, colors, and visual themes - Toggle between performance and quality settings - Capture screenshots of scenes you create - Share scene links from the web version Space Particles is for anyone who likes visualizers, creative coding, particle systems, physics toys, generative art, or just watching a screen fill with organized chaos.

Screenshots

Doodle Spark3 screens
Space Particles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doodle Spark at none against Space Particles's 1. Doodle Spark also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Space Particles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Doodle Spark asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle Spark ships an update every 3 days, Space Particles every 8 days. Both last shipped on September 13, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Doodle Spark versus Space Particles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle SparkSpace Particles
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatt SavageBrandon Schabel

In-app purchases

None

Doodle Spark

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Space Particles

One-time1
  • Space Particles Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Doodle Spark free?
Doodle Spark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Particles free?
Space Particles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Doodle Spark or Space Particles have ads?
Neither Doodle Spark nor Space Particles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodle Spark or Space Particles?
Doodle Spark ships an update every 3 days, and Space Particles every 8 days. Most recently, Doodle Spark was updated on September 13, 2026 and Space Particles on September 13, 2026.

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