SynatelloFire vs Vortis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SynatelloFire
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You were always told not to play with fire. Now you finally can. No burns. No smoke in your home. No fire department required. Synatello Fire puts a real-time, interactive fire simulation in your hands. Start with the gentle flame of a candle, build a roaring fire, or fill the screen with a blazing inferno. And this isn't a prerecorded animation. The fire is simulated and evolves in real time directly on your iPhone. Play with the flames • Blow on the fire by holding your finger near the flame • Watch the flame bend, twist, break apart and recover • Blow out a candle and watch the smoke rise afterward • Add multiple fire sources anywhere in the scene • Create swirling vortices with your finger • Watch glowing sparks travel with the simulated airflow • Slow down time and explore the motion of fire in detail • Move the camera around the full 3D simulation • Explore different scenes, from a quiet candle and campfire to a raging inferno • Push the simulation further with increasingly powerful fire effects Want a calm candle flame? You got it. Want a roaring fire? Go for it. Want to see what happens when you take things a little too far? Try it. Synatello Fire is a real-time physics sandbox made for playing, experimenting, and simply enjoying fire in motion. Everything runs directly on your device. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just fire. Synatello Fire Fire you can finally play with.
Vortis
Experience a dynamic fluid art simulation that responds to your touch with vibrant colors and mesmerizing patterns. Explore various visual styles and adjust simulation parameters in real-time for a unique, stress-relieving visual experience.
- Interactive fluid simulation
- Real-time GPU computation
- Multiple visual styles (looks)
- Adjustable simulation parameters
- Music and camera integration
- Record and save creations
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A relaxing fluid simulation you play with your fingers: a pool of color that answers every touch. Draw across it and you pull a band of color through the flow. Tap and a drop bursts open. Rest a finger and a glowing plume rises. Behind it runs a real fluid solver on the GPU, up to a hundred and twenty times a second. No video, no loop: what you see was computed a moment ago and will never come back quite the same. TWENTY LOOKS Ink on water, northern lights, marbled paper, smoke, neon, deep sea. One for every mood — and if you would rather not choose, the dice hands you one. EVERYTHING IS A SLIDER Vorticity, color decay, resolution, pressure: the knobs of the method itself, not a few filters laid over it. The pool keeps painting while you drag them, so you see what you are doing straight away. MORE THAN FINGERS Let the music in the room drive the flow. Use your own photo or the camera as a color source. Paint walls the color has to flow around. And record what came out of it. No goal, no score, no progress. A pool that answers back. Every third roll of the dice plays a short video ad. Vortis Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks the effects, your own image sources and the solver's own controls — and removes the ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SynatelloFire at none against Vortis's 1. SynatelloFire also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Vortis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SynatelloFire asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | SynatelloFire | Vortis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Surynek | Ines Golub |
In-app purchases
SynatelloFire
No in-app purchases
Vortis
- Vortis Pro$2.99








