Dot vs Physarum Ambient
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Dot
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Dot-Physics is an interactive particle sandbox where tiny glowing dots follow simple rules and grow into surprising patterns. Choose a preset world, create your own rules, or draw particles directly onto the screen. Change how colours attract, repel, chase, cluster, and spread, then watch the world come alive. Features: ⢠Real-time particle worlds with colourful motion ⢠Creative Mode for custom attraction and repulsion rules ⢠Draw Mode for painting new particles into the simulation ⢠Touch interaction for attracting, repelling, stirring, and dropping dots ⢠Adjustable dot count, speed, damping, radius, and point size ⢠Relaxing ambient background music ⢠Presets for quick experiments and beautiful patterns Dot-Physics is part visual toy, part creative sandbox, and part simple science experiment. There are no scores, timers, or pressure. Just start a world, interact with it, and see what emerges.
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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dot at 15.1 against Physarum Ambient's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Dot | Physarum Ambient |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV ā better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EOIN J TOLSTER | Johannes Kaindl |
In-app purchases
Dot
No in-app purchases
Physarum Ambient
No in-app purchases
Questions
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