Swipe the Flow vs Firewood Splitting Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swipe the Flow
Experiment with water, wind, and smoke physics by drawing walls and manipulating elements. Enjoy free-play modes and initial challenge stages, with an option to unlock advanced content and premium visuals through a one-time purchase.
- Pour water and draw walls
- Manipulate wind and smoke
- Five free-play modes
- Challenge games with stages
- Import photos and logos
- Record and share creations
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Pour water, draw walls, and change the flow with your fingertips. Swipe the Flow is a hands-on playground for water, wind, and smoke. Enjoy the basic features of all five free-play modes and the first five stages of each of the five challenge games for free. Unlock more challenges and premium visuals with Pro—a one-time purchase, not a subscription. NEW CHALLENGE: WIND TARGET Draw walls, then rotate, move, and carve shapes. The arrow shows how hard the wind pushes—keep its tip inside the box to win. Kites, a sailboat, an umbrella, roof luggage, and a bike behind a truck all catch the wind. • Stages 1–5 are free; Pro includes stage 6 onward • Longer arrows mean a stronger push WATER PLAYGROUND Catch water from a faucet and guide it along walls. Add a drain, pour or erase water, and stir it with your finger to build your own waterway. • Move faucets and drains; adjust each one's size, direction, and speed • Build with cups, funnels, photos, and shapes • Tilt your device to move the water and adjust its thickness • Basic features are free, with up to 10 faucets and drains combined FIVE WAYS TO PLAY • Water Playground: Pour water and draw walls to shape its flow. • Smoke Lab: Follow smoke to see invisible air. Adjust each chimney's smoke output and add a Smoke Drain. • Wind Tunnel: Watch wind split around walls, photos, and logos. Turn on flow lines and wind push indicators to explore what happens. • Liquid Art: Create, push, stretch, and merge liquid drops. Tilt your device to move them. • Flow Painting: Swipe across the screen to draw colorful currents and spirals. FIVE CHALLENGE GAMES • Wind Target: Change the shapes to get the tip of the wind's arrow into the box. • Make Waterways: Draw walls and erase holes to send water where you want it. • Wind Paths: Draw walls to guide wind into the target. • Wind Maze: Carve a route and get the wind out before time runs out. • Smoke Delivery: Move chimneys and draw walls to send smoke where you want it. Stages 1–5 are free in each game. Pro includes Wind Paths 6–15, Wind Maze 6–17, Smoke Delivery 6–16, Make Waterways 6–24, and Wind Target 6–18. Try Game Center leaderboards and achievements, then share a photo of your cleared stage and record. CREATE AND SHARE • Import photos and logos, with background removal on your device • Move, resize, and rotate photo and shape layers with editing handles • Choose flow strength, playback speed, colors, and detail • Pause, reset, save photos, record videos, and share • Photos and videos are processed on your device SWIPE THE FLOW PRO One purchase. No subscription. • Challenge stages beyond the free section • No watermarks • More detailed simulation and all premium visual styles • Up to eight photo or shape layers • Up to 20 chimneys and Smoke Drains combined in Smoke Lab • Up to 20 faucets and drains combined in Water Playground The free version includes two photo or shape layers. Every day, one Pro stage is free at the top of Home in "Today's Picks." Create without a fixed answer, or take on a puzzle with a goal.
Firewood Splitting Simulator
Experience the peaceful and oddly satisfying act of splitting firewood. This game offers realistic sounds and visuals, with an optional purchase to unlock competitive features and track your progress.
- Realistic 3D wood splitting
- ASMR sound effects
- Automatic wood stacking
- Offline gameplay
- Global leaderboards
- Achievements
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Relax, split wood, and watch it stack. Free to play, and no ads - just oddly satisfying splits and sounds recorded from the real thing. I love splitting firewood so much that I 3D scanned my actual stump and axe and wood and recorded my axe motions and splitting sounds and made this 3D firewood splitting simulator so that you could experience exactly what I love about splitting firewood. Tap to split, and drag to rotate the camera. Satisfying splits every time, automatic wood stacking, and ASMR sounds - this is a simple relaxing game that aims to capture what makes splitting wood outside so peaceful. There are no ads and the game is completely free if you want to split wood purely for the joy of it. If you want to play for points, compete in global leaderboards, earn achievements, see a pile of all the wood you've ever split, and challenge your friends to see who can cut the most perfect shapes, there is an optional one-time purchase ($0.99 in the US) that unlocks the full set of features. This game works offline and does not require internet to play, but you will need internet to access Apple Game Center features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Firewood Splitting Simulator at 4.9 against Swipe the Flow's 4.4. Firewood Splitting Simulator also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and ratings volume (94 vs 7). Swipe the Flow's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Swipe the Flow sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Firewood Splitting Simulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Firewood Splitting Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Firewood Splitting Simulator has 94 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Swipe the Flow's written reviews are positive against 100% of Firewood Splitting Simulator's.
Swipe the Flow ships an update every 3 days, Firewood Splitting Simulator fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swipe the Flow | Firewood Splitting Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 4.9 (94 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 94 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | junho kim | Gavin Shapiro |
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Swipe the Flow
Firewood Splitting Simulator
In-app purchases
Swipe the Flow
- Droplet Tip$1.99
- Swipe the Flow Pro$4.99
- Splash Tip$4.99
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- Wave Tip$9.99
Firewood Splitting Simulator
- Competitive Firewood Experience$0.99
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