Comparison

WaveLux Fluids vs Physarum Ambient

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

Head to head
About

WaveLux Fluids

Features
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Experience the mesmerizing power of fluid dynamics like never how before. Welcome to WaveLux Fluids, a masterpiece of interactive art, physics simulation, and gaming. Whether you want to relieve stress by watching gorgeous, colorful liquids swirl at your fingertips, transform your personal photos into fluid masterpieces, or challenge your mind with addictive physics puzzles, WaveLux Fluids offers an unparalleled sensory escape. Step into a world where science meets digital art, and let your creativity flow. - Hyper-Realistic Fluid Simulation Sandbox Discover the ultimate therapeutic and visual sandbox. Powered by a state-of-the-art physics engine, the fluid simulation responds instantly to your touch with breathtaking realism. - Endless Customization: You are the master of the flow. Tweak, experiment, and customize dozens of parameters including viscosity, dissipation, vortex size, color palettes, and pressure. - Stunning Visual Results: Watch as vibrant colors collide, merge, and dissolve into mesmerizing neon trails, glowing smoke, and liquid silk. Stress Relief & Relaxation: Use it as a digital sensory toy to calm your mind, spark your creativity, or simply enjoy the satisfying, hypnotic beauty of motion. Revolutionary Fluid Photo Effects & Selfie Fun Breathe life into your static images, photos, and selfies! WaveLux Fluids bridges the gap between photo editing and live physics, allowing you to interact with your personal memories—and your own face—in a completely new, hilarious, and artistic way. - Import From Your Gallery: Choose any photo, selfie, or image from your device and watch it instantly adapt to the liquid canvas. - Liquefy & Warp Your Selfies: Have endless fun with friends and family! Smudge, swirl, and distort your photos using realistic fluid currents. Melt faces into funny caricatures, create striking abstract art, or design breathtaking ripples over your favorite landscapes. - A Massive Universe of Unique Effects: Don’t just Liquefy & Paint your images—completely transform their reality. Experience a huge library of interactive visual styles including: - Particle Explosion & Pixel Rain: Watch your photos shatter into thousands of physical particles or wash away in a digital downpour. - Glass Shatter & Sand Drift: Smash your images into realistic shards or watch them dissolve like grains of desert sand. - Magnetic Fields & Image Bubbles: Warp your pictures with invisible magnetic forces, or trap your images inside floating, interactive bubbles that you can bounce and pop. - Image Stars & Constellation Map: Turn your favorite memories into glowing cosmic night skies and celestial star networks. - Glitch Art & Neon Edge Glow: Give your selfies a futuristic, cyberpunk aesthetic with electronic distortion and vibrant, radiant outlines. - Cloth Wave & Water Ripple: Watch your photos flow like satin fabric in the wind or react to hyper-realistic aquatic splashes. - Oil Paint: Instantly elevate your everyday snapshots into classic, fluid museum masterpieces with a single tap. The Bucket Challenge: Addictive Physics Gaming Think you’ve mastered the flow? Put your skills to the test in a compelling, physics-based puzzle game that is as challenging as it is entertaining. Your mission: command the liquid to push a ball into the target bucket. - Over 100 Unique Levels: Journey through a meticulously designed campaign featuring more than 100 levels. Each stage introduces clever obstacles, moving platforms, and gravity-defying layouts. - Addictive Gameplay: The perfect blend of strategy and trial-and-error will keep you hooked for hours. Find the perfect angle, control the volume of your fluid, and execute the perfect flow. Perfect For Everyone: Whether you are an artist seeking inspiration, a gamer looking for your next obsession, or someone needing a moment of mindfulness, this app is built for you. Download WaveLux Fluids today and start your journey into the flow!

About

Physarum Ambient

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Physarum turns the emergent behaviour of slime mold into living, breathing art. Thousands of agents lay down and follow trails, and from those simple rules intricate, ever-shifting patterns emerge. Shape them with a full parameter editor, let them react to music through your microphone, and capture stills, videos, or Live Photos. On Apple TV, Physarum becomes a lean-back ambient display you steer from the couch or mirror live from your phone. - Full authoring editor: tune agents, sensing, deposition, decay, colour, post-FX - Audio-reactive: the visuals pulse and bloom to sound - Capture: high-res stills, video clips, Live Photos - Apple TV ambient mode with phone control - Curated presets to start from; save your own

Screenshots

WaveLux Fluids4 screens
Physarum Ambient4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Physarum Ambient at Free against WaveLux Fluids's $1.99. WaveLux Fluids's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On 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

Physarum Ambient is free to download; WaveLux Fluids costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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WaveLux Fluids versus Physarum Ambient: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaveLux FluidsPhysarum Ambient
Price$1.99Free — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpiros ZavitsanosJohannes Kaindl

In-app purchases

None

WaveLux Fluids

No in-app purchases

None

Physarum Ambient

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WaveLux Fluids free?
WaveLux Fluids costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Physarum Ambient free?
Physarum Ambient is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WaveLux Fluids or Physarum Ambient have ads?
Neither WaveLux Fluids nor Physarum Ambient shows ads.

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