Comparison

Space Particles vs Physarum Ambient

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

Head to head
About

Space Particles

Features
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Space Particles is a touch-driven visual sandbox for exploring motion, gravity, and light. Start with a live field of glowing particles, then shape it with gravity wells, repulsion, pulses, stir tools, vortices, and erase or freeze interactions. Switch between presets like spiral galaxies, binary systems, collisions, rings, streams, lattices, and nova-style bursts, or tune the simulation yourself. Particle Mode focuses on gravity-driven motion and emergent patterns. Firework Mode turns the same canvas into a configurable spark launcher with adjustable spread, trail length, gravity, drag, color, size, and lifetime. Built for quick experimentation: - Touch and drag directly on the canvas - Choose particle counts, speed, bounds, trails, colors, and visual themes - Toggle between performance and quality settings - Capture screenshots of scenes you create - Share scene links from the web version Space Particles is for anyone who likes visualizers, creative coding, particle systems, physics toys, generative art, or just watching a screen fill with organized chaos.

About

Physarum Ambient

Features
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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

Space Particles4 screens
Physarum Ambient4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Physarum Ambient at none against Space Particles's 1. Space Particles's advantage is 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. Space Particles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Physarum Ambient asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Space Particles versus Physarum Ambient: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpace ParticlesPhysarum Ambient
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrandon SchabelJohannes Kaindl

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Space Particles

One-time1
  • Space Particles Pro$2.99
None

Physarum Ambient

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Space Particles free?
Space Particles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Physarum Ambient free?
Physarum Ambient is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Space Particles or Physarum Ambient have ads?
Neither Space Particles nor Physarum Ambient shows ads.

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