Sandbox Draw vs Fluid Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sandbox Draw
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Sandbox Draw turns your iPhone into a tray of soft, sunlit sand. Drag a finger and the surface carves into a real groove with a shadow along its low edge — not a painted-on line. Press harder for a deeper groove. Press hard enough and the device responds with continuous haptic feedback that tracks your stroke. Dig deep enough and a colorful pattern bleeds through from underneath, different every session. Tap the refresh button to smooth the sand flat and start over with a brand-new color world below. Tap the share button at any moment to save or send your drawing. Features - Real-time pressure-sensitive sand drawing, 120 Hz on ProMotion devices - Haptic feedback on the hardest presses - A surprise of color revealed at the bottom of every deep groove - One-tap refresh, one-tap share to Photos, Messages, AirDrop, and more - No accounts, no ads, no data collection A small, quiet app. Draw, smooth, draw again.
Fluid Art
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sandbox Draw at none against Fluid Art's 1. Sandbox Draw also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). 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
Both are free to download. Fluid Art sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sandbox Draw asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sandbox Draw ships an update daily, Fluid Art every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sandbox Draw | Fluid Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dox2A Labs LLC | Dmitry Shurco |
In-app purchases
Sandbox Draw
No in-app purchases
Fluid Art
- Fluid Art Pro$2.99
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