Comparison

Fizzik vs Pendulum Wave 3D

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

Head to head
About

Fizzik

Features
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Create mesmerizing and relaxing physics simulations that move, sing, and respond to your touch. Fizzik is a pocket physics sandbox for iPhone and iPad. Fill the scene with with marbles, shape how they move, then turn every ripple, swing, tumble, and orbit into music. Start from a template or roll the dice for an instant surprise, and then make every detail your own. DIFFERENT WAYS TO PLAY • Wave Grid - send ripples through shifting 3D marble sculptures. • Pendulum - build hypnotic waves that drift in and out of sync. • Tilt - pour marbles off the platform by moving your device, and shake to toss them. • Orbit - shape a glowing galaxy around a gravity well • PRO: Bounce Field - watch as the marbles bounce in waves and eventually settle • PRO: Chamber - watch as marbles bounce off of the sides of the chamber in rhythmic patterns SCULPT EVERY DETAIL • Tune speed, gravity, friction, bounce, patterns, shapes, viewing angle, glow, platforms, color, and more. Control the scene with touch controls. Use the randomize option to randomize all of the parameters. EVERY SCENE SINGS • Choose an instrument, scale, key, and octave. Add echo and space, shape how motion maps to melody, or compose your own looping tune note by note. CREATE, EXPLORE, AND SHARE • Keep a synced collection of your creations and organize your favourites • Publish original scenes to Explore, where other makers can play, like, and save them. • Browse trending, top, or random community feeds • Share any published creation directly with other users via Share Codes. • Keep creating offline after you've signed in; changes sync when your connection returns. FIZZIK PRO While Fizzik is free to use, an optional Fizzik Pro auto-renewable subscription unlocks: • Looping video exports for Wave Grid and Orbit simulations. • Custom palette and platform colors, every backdrop, and the full instrument library. • Unlimited access to Explore and the ability to save from Explore. • Build Bounce Field and Chamber simulations. • A collection size of up to 2,000 simulations. Monthly and yearly plans unlock the same Pro features. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel at any time in your Apple Account subscription settings. Terms of Service: https://www.fizzik.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.fizzik.app/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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — the more pendulums you add, the clearer the weave. Four color themes — 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 • Set the number of pendulums, the cycle length, the swing angle and the speed • Save any setup you like as a preset • A data panel listing every pendulum's swings, length and period • "How it works" — the real explanation, in plain words, no equations • Available in 33 languages • 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 — no full-screen ads, no video ads — 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

Fizzik4 screens
Pendulum Wave 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pendulum Wave 3D at none against Fizzik's 2. Pendulum Wave 3D also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Fizzik's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Fizzik sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Pendulum Wave 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fizzik ships an update every 5 days, Pendulum Wave 3D every 10 days. Both last shipped on September 30, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Fizzik versus Pendulum Wave 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFizzikPendulum Wave 3D
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaitoku Corp.Takashi Nemoto

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Fizzik

Subscriptions2
  • Fizzik Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Fizzik Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
None

Pendulum Wave 3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fizzik free?
Fizzik 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 Fizzik or Pendulum Wave 3D have ads?
Neither Fizzik nor Pendulum Wave 3D shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fizzik or Pendulum Wave 3D?
Fizzik ships an update every 5 days, and Pendulum Wave 3D every 10 days. Most recently, Fizzik was updated on September 30, 2026 and Pendulum Wave 3D on September 30, 2026.

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