Comparison

Hand Control vs Fluid Art

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

Head to head
About

Hand Control

Transform your hands into dynamic controllers for real-time visual effects. Create magic auras, energy blasts, and control swarms of swords with intuitive gesture recognition. Experience interactive visuals that respond instantly to your movements.

Highlights
  • Real-time hand tracking
  • Magic hand effects (aura, energy)
  • Sword and power effects
  • Particle and visual effects
  • Gesture-based interaction
Features
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Turn your hands into real-time magic effects with smooth hand control and tracking. Create aura, energy, and anime-style visual effects, or control thousands of flying swords — all reacting instantly to your movement. Just open the camera and start. Your hands become the controller for dynamic, interactive visuals. [ Powerful Hand Control Features ] *** Real-Time Hand Tracking Use your camera to detect hand and finger movement instantly with smooth and responsive tracking. *** Magic Hand Effects Create aura, energy, and glowing visual effects directly from your hands. *** Sword and Power Effects Control thousands of flying swords and create powerful, dynamic visuals. *** Particle and Visual Effects Trigger smooth particle animations and real-time visual effects that respond to movement. *** Gesture-Based Interaction Different hand movements trigger different effects using real-time hand control. UNLIMITED ACCESS MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION • You can subscribe to all features within Mix Beats Music - Full Mods for unlimited access. • Subscriptions are billed weekly, monthly, or yearly at the rate selected depending on the subscription plan. • You can cancel your subscription via this URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 Privacy Policy: https://mobile-smart-growth.web.app/ Terms of Use: https://mobile-smart-growth.web.app/term-of-use.html

About

Fluid Art

Features
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Touch the screen and paint with living liquid light. Fluid Art turns your fingertips into brushes of glowing paint. Swirls, waves, flames and oil — six worlds of real physics respond to every touch, every drag, even your music. ASMR touch sounds turn each gesture into a soft, satisfying texture. SIX PHYSICS WORLDS • Fluid — classic swirling ink: vortices, curls and glowing trails • Ripple — drops become expanding rings; drag your finger for a wake through refracted colors • Oil — thick glossy paint that sags, pools and shimmers; tilt and shake your device to stir it • Fire — heat rises into living flame with flicker and sparks; drag to paint with a torch • Orbit — gravity wells wind matter into spirals; hold a finger and pull the streams toward you • Slime — thick, deeply coloured goo that swells, settles and lags behind your finger like soft putty SEVEN COLOR MOODS Classic, Neon, Ink, Calm and Storm — plus Aurora and Blossom with Fluid Art Pro. Each mood has its own palette, glow and feel. Your choice applies live, right behind the settings panel. PAINT WITH SOUND Turn on Sound mode and the canvas paints itself to your music or voice. Audio is analyzed on your device in real time — nothing is ever recorded or stored. ASMR TOUCH SOUNDS Tap the headphones and the canvas answers your fingers — and every world answers in its own voice: water swirls and drips in Fluid, drops plink across the film in Ripple, Oil gurgles thick and low, Fire hisses and crackles, Orbit breathes airy swells, Slime squishes and sticks. Everything is synthesized live — never the same twice — and it mixes with your music instead of interrupting it. RECORD AND SHARE (PRO) Capture the canvas as a smooth video and share it straight from the app — your flowing paintings, ready for your feed or a friend. SESSION TIMER (PRO) Set a session of 3, 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes — for meditation, breathing exercises or a focused break. A gentle chime ends the session, and the painting stays. FLUID ART PRO One simple, one-time unlock adds seven new worlds — Coral (a living reef grows wherever you touch), Marble (suminagashi ink folding in laminar swirls), Sand (a living desert that builds itself, storm by storm), Watercolor (wet paint bleeding into soft paper), Kaleidoscope (perfect mirrored mandalas from every touch), Frost (living ice crystals that grow, melt and glisten) and Smiley (a neon face of glowing rings that ripples under your finger and springs back) — plus the Aurora and Blossom color palettes, the session timer and video recording. Purchased once, yours forever, on every device with your account. Restore anytime from the unlock dialog. SHUFFLE Tap the shuffle button and the canvas reinvents itself: every half minute or so a new world and a new palette take over, like a channel of living paintings. IT LIVES ON ITS OWN Leave the app open and Fluid Art keeps painting in ambient mode — a living lava lamp for your desk or nightstand. MULTITOUCH Every finger is its own brush. Paint with a friend. CALM BY DESIGN No ads. No accounts. No scores or pressure. Works fully offline. Everything you need to start is free — six worlds, five color moods, sound and ASMR modes. The optional Pro unlock is a single one-time purchase: no subscriptions, ever. Fluid Art collects no personal data. The optional Sound mode uses the microphone only to measure loudness in the moment — audio never leaves your device.

Screenshots

Hand Control4 screens
Fluid Art4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hand Control at fortnightly against Fluid Art's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Hand Control sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Fluid Art sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hand Control ships an update fortnightly, Fluid Art every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Hand Control versus Fluid Art: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHand ControlFluid Art
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (67 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews4.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.3
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile Smart GrowthDmitry Shurco

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Hand Control

Subscriptions2
  • Hand Control Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Hand Control Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
1 purchases

Fluid Art

One-time1
  • Fluid Art Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Hand Control free?
Hand Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fluid Art free?
Fluid Art is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hand Control or Fluid Art have ads?
Neither Hand Control nor Fluid Art shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hand Control or Fluid Art?
Hand Control ships an update fortnightly, and Fluid Art every 3 months. Most recently, Hand Control was updated on October 25, 2026 and Fluid Art on October 25, 2026.

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