Comparison

Glitch Clock vs Fluid Art

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

Head to head
About

Glitch Clock

Features
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Hamon turns your screen into a calm pool of water. Tap to drop a ripple and watch it spread, interfere with others, and reflect off the edges โ€” a real fluid simulation, not a looping animation. Switch to ink and stir colors together with your finger: indigo, vermilion and viridian blend the way real ink does in water, then slowly sink and fade. WATCH A living water surface you can touch. Leave it be and ripples appear on their own. CLOCK The time floats on the water, gently distorted by every ripple. Choose a calm water surface or flowing ink behind it. CREATE Adjust the flow โ€” distance, waves, ink density, swirl โ€” and save your own patterns. Designed to be quiet. The interface fades away so only the water remains. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Everything stays on your device.

About

Fluid Art

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Touch the screen and paint with living liquid light. Fluid Art turns your fingertips into brushes of glowing paint. Swirls, waves, flames and oil โ€” six worlds of real physics respond to every touch, every drag, even your music. SIX PHYSICS WORLDS โ€ข Fluid โ€” classic swirling ink: vortices, curls and glowing trails โ€ข Ripple โ€” drops become expanding rings; drag your finger for a wake through refracted colors โ€ข Oil โ€” thick glossy paint that sags, pools and shimmers; tilt and shake your device to stir it โ€ข Fire โ€” heat rises into living flame with flicker and sparks; drag to paint with a torch โ€ข Orbit โ€” gravity wells wind matter into spirals; hold a finger and pull the streams toward you โ€ข Slime โ€” thick, deeply coloured goo that swells, settles and lags behind your finger like soft putty FIVE COLOR MOODS Classic, Neon, Ink, Calm and Storm โ€” each with its own palette, glow and feel. Your choice applies live, right behind the settings panel. PAINT WITH SOUND Turn on Sound mode and the canvas paints itself to your music or voice. Audio is analyzed on your device in real time โ€” nothing is ever recorded or stored. ASMR TOUCH SOUNDS Tap the headphones and the canvas answers your fingers โ€” and every world answers in its own voice: water swirls and drips in Fluid, drops plink across the film in Ripple, Oil gurgles thick and low, Fire hisses and crackles, Orbit breathes airy swells, Slime squishes and sticks. Everything is synthesized live โ€” never the same twice โ€” and it mixes with your music instead of interrupting it. SHUFFLE Tap the shuffle button and the canvas reinvents itself: every half minute or so a new world and a new palette take over, like a channel of living paintings. IT LIVES ON ITS OWN Leave the app open and Fluid Art keeps painting in ambient mode โ€” a living lava lamp for your desk or nightstand. MULTITOUCH Every finger is its own brush. Paint with a friend. CALM BY DESIGN No ads. No accounts. No timers, scores or pressure. Works fully offline. Nothing to buy, nothing to unlock โ€” just touch and watch. Fluid Art collects no personal data. The optional Sound mode uses the microphone only to measure loudness in the moment โ€” audio never leaves your device.

Screenshots

Glitch Clock3 screens
Fluid Art4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Fluid Art at 3 against Glitch Clock's 1. Fluid Art also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Glitch Clock versus Fluid Art: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlitch ClockFluid Art
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyoma YanagimotoDmitry Shurco

In-app purchases

None

Glitch Clock

No in-app purchases

None

Fluid Art

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Glitch Clock free?
Glitch Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fluid Art free?
Fluid Art is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Glitch Clock or Fluid Art have ads?
Neither Glitch Clock nor Fluid Art shows ads.

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