Comparison

Motecraft vs Pendulum Wave 3D

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

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About

Motecraft

Features
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Motecraft is a quiet little gallery of small visual worlds. Tap a card and you're inside. Long-press to pour embers into a mandala. Drag a curtain of aurora light. Watch a flock of geese lock into a V and follow your finger. Throw a Spider firecracker that walks legs across the sky. Look at a Cymatics Mandala blooming from a single tone. Hundreds of them, all hand-built โ€” and growing. FREE FOREVER, PLUS PRO The original collection stays free forever. Every visual you could open before, you still can โ€” no account, no catch, nothing walled off after the fact. Motecraft Pro unlocks a growing collection of new premium worlds โ€” the richer, shader-grade pieces โ€” and helps keep this one-person studio building. That's the whole deal: the free gallery stays free, Pro adds the new stuff on top. WHAT MAKES MOTECRAFT DIFFERENT โ€” No accounts to use it. Open the app and you're in. โ€” No ads. None now. None planned. โ€” No tracking. Standard Apple-style crash and performance data, nothing else. โ€” The free collection is free forever โ€” not a trial. THE CATEGORIES โ€ข Mandala โ€” radial geometry that responds to your hand. โ€ข Aurora โ€” silk curtains, slow ribbons, braided light. โ€ข Swarm โ€” flocks, schools, formations that follow you. โ€ข Firecracker โ€” taps that burst into walks across the sky. โ€ข Fractal โ€” Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship. โ€ข Crystal โ€” slow growth that fills the screen. โ€ข Fluid โ€” gradient fields you push around. โ€ข Snow, rain, smoke, sand โ€” the small physical things. โ€ข Henna & calligraphy โ€” symmetric ink that you draw. โ€ข Candle, lantern, fireflies โ€” quiet ambient lights. HOW IT FEELS TO USE Designed for moments, not sessions. Open it for two minutes between meetings, before bed, on the train. Pick a card, watch it become, put the phone down. Then come back tomorrow and pick a different one. Each experience runs natively on your hardware at full frame rate. No external dependencies, no servers in the loop, no spinners. New visuals arrive from time to time โ€” they just appear. MOTECRAFT PRO One unlock, every premium world โ€” now and everything added later. โ€ข Lifetime โ€” pay once, keep it forever. (Best value.) โ€ข Annual โ€” with a free trial to start. โ€ข Monthly โ€” for a lighter commitment. Sign in with Apple or email โ€” only so your unlock follows you across your iPhone and iPad. You still never need an account to enjoy the free gallery. PRIVACY, IN PLAIN ENGLISH We collect anonymous crash reports and performance metrics through Firebase. That's it. No advertising ID. No location. No contacts. Sign-in is used only to restore your purchase across devices โ€” nothing more. We do not sell or share anything, because there is nothing to sell. A NOTE FROM THE MAKER Motecraft Studio is a one-person studio in Ahmedabad, India. I write the code, draw the visuals, design the cards. Made on long evenings, on weekends, between consulting work. Pro is how you keep it going โ€” and how the premium worlds keep coming. If something is broken or you want to see a particular visual added, write to me directly. Feedback, requests, complaints โ†’ support@motecraftstudio.com Made with care, for moments. โ€” Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. The Lifetime unlock is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Terms: https://motecraftstudio.com/eula ยท Privacy: https://motecraftstudio.com/privacy

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Pendulum Wave 3D

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Eighteen pendulums, released at the same instant. A perfect line for a moment โ€” then a wave, a fold, then no pattern at all. Sixty seconds later, a perfect line again. None of that is luck. Every pendulum is given a length that makes it swing an exact whole number of times per cycle, so the scattered part was never really a mess. It was the middle of a return. It is not a looping video, and not an animation faked to look about right. It is a live physics simulation, computed frame by frame while you watch. NOBODY WROTE THE MUSIC Turn the sound on, and each pendulum rings a note once per full swing, as it crosses the bottom โ€” higher for the short ones, lower for the long ones. Only five notes of the scale are used (do, re, mi, so, la), spread across octaves, so they stay clear no matter how many sound at once. There is no composer here. The lengths are the melody. The moment everything lines up is the quietest one โ€” all eighteen are at the far end of their arc, none of them crossing the bottom. A breath later, eighteen notes come down in a run, high to low, in under a fifth of a second. You are hearing exactly what you are watching. ANY ANGLE YOU LIKE Drag to put the camera anywhere. From an angle, a row of swinging pendulums. From directly above, a wave running along the row. The motion never changes. The angle does all the work. Four layouts: a straight Line; a Circle, where the wave travels around the ring; a Spiral winding outward; and a Grid, where the swing spreads like woven mesh โ€” the more pendulums you add, the clearer the weave. Four color themes โ€” Cool, Neon, Mono, Sunset. The bobs glow softly. Turn on Light trails in the Display panel, and each one leaves a line of light hanging in the air behind it. CINEMA MODE One tap: the controls disappear, the camera begins a slow orbit, and the ad goes with them. A waiting room screen, a tablet on the edge of a desk, a dark room late at night. It becomes something to look at, and nothing else. ALSO INSIDE โ€ข Set the number of pendulums, the cycle length, the swing angle and the speed โ€ข Save any setup you like as a preset โ€ข A data panel listing every pendulum's swings, length and period โ€ข "How it works" โ€” the real explanation, in plain words, no equations โ€ข Available in 33 languages โ€ข No account, no sign-in. iPhone and iPad ABOUT THE ADS The app is free. There is one small banner at the bottom of the screen โ€” no full-screen ads, no video ads โ€” and in Cinema mode even that banner disappears. Ads are never personalized. The app itself never asks for your name or email. To show the banner, Google AdMob uses standard advertising data (an advertising identifier and approximate location derived from your IP). See our Privacy Policy for details. Don't stop watching while it is scattered. Stay until it lines up again.

Screenshots

Motecraft4 screens
Pendulum Wave 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pendulum Wave 3D at none against Motecraft's 3. Pendulum Wave 3D also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Motecraft sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Pendulum Wave 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Motecraft ships an update every 2 months, Pendulum Wave 3D every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Motecraft versus Pendulum Wave 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMotecraftPendulum Wave 3D
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size35 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinhaz PTakashi Nemoto

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Motecraft

Subscriptions2
  • Motecraft Pro$2.991 Month
  • Motecraft Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Motecraft Pro (Lifetime)$24.99
None

Pendulum Wave 3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Motecraft free?
Motecraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pendulum Wave 3D free?
Pendulum Wave 3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Motecraft or Pendulum Wave 3D have ads?
Neither Motecraft nor Pendulum Wave 3D shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Motecraft or Pendulum Wave 3D?
Motecraft ships an update every 2 months, and Pendulum Wave 3D every 10 days. Most recently, Motecraft was updated on October 7, 2026 and Pendulum Wave 3D on September 30, 2026.

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