Comparison

Space Particles vs Galaxy Particles

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

Head to head
About

Space Particles

Explore motion, gravity, and light in this touch-driven visual sandbox. Shape particle fields with various tools and presets, or customize your own simulations. Ideal for creative experimentation and generative art.

Highlights
  • Touch-driven particle manipulation
  • Gravity wells and repulsion tools
  • Preset visual themes
  • Customizable particle properties
  • Screenshot capture
  • Shareable scene links
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

Galaxy Particles

Experience a visually stunning and calming interactive game where your facial movements control light particles. Explore diverse physics-based scenes that react to your head, eyes, and mouth. Designed for relaxation with no scores or timers, it offers a private and ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Facial tracking controls light particles
  • 30 unique physics-based scenes
  • Calming, distraction-free interface
  • Private by design, no data collection
  • No ads or in-app purchases
  • Works offline on supported devices
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Your face is the gravity. Galaxy Particles fills the whole screen with thin dashes of light that fly edge to edge. Your head, eyes and mouth become the masses that bend their paths. Turn your head and the field turns with you. Lean in and the orbits tighten. Open your mouth and the pull lets go, or a black hole grows where your mouth is, depending on the scene. Thirty scenes, each with its own physics: • Orbit, Rings, Halo and Galaxy: bodies circling your head • Stream, Compass, Sway, Shear and Vortex Street: currents that part around your face • Black Hole, Lens and Twin Holes: dark cores that swallow nothing but bend everything • Billiards, Marbles and Snowglobe: bodies that bounce off the edges of the screen • Elastic, Honey, Tide, Pulse and Lantern: fields that breathe, stretch and spring back …and more. Swipe left or right to move between them. Made to be calm: • Nothing on screen but the light. No buttons, no scores, no timers, no streaks. • Your face controls everything. You never touch the particles. • Slow responses. Blinking, twitching and tracking hiccups never disturb the picture. • The longer you play over time, the denser the field quietly becomes. Private by design: • Uses the front camera for Apple's on-device face tracking, which gives the app only the position and shape of your face. • The camera image is never shown, saved or sent anywhere. There is nothing to leak. • No account, no analytics, no network access. The app has no way to reach the internet. No ads, ever: • No interruptions, no pop-ups, no videos to watch. Safe to hand to a child. Requires iPhone X or later, including iPhone SE (2020 and newer). Runs entirely on your device.

Screenshots

Space Particles4 screens
Galaxy Particles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Galaxy Particles at none against Space Particles's 1. Space Particles's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Space Particles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Galaxy Particles asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Space Particles against 5.0 for Galaxy Particles. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Space Particles versus Galaxy Particles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpace ParticlesGalaxy Particles
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrandon SchabelYang Zhang

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Space Particles

One-time1
  • Space Particles Pro$2.99
None

Galaxy Particles

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Space Particles free?
Space Particles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Galaxy Particles free?
Galaxy Particles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Space Particles or Galaxy Particles?
Space Particles and Galaxy Particles are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Space Particles or Galaxy Particles have ads?
Neither Space Particles nor Galaxy Particles shows ads.

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