Gravity! vs PhySim Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gravity!
Simulate the forces of gravity by flinging particles and observing their interactions. Create celestial bodies like planets and black holes, and customize their properties. Explore vast cosmic simulations with intuitive zoom and pan controls.
- Gravity simulation
- Particle interaction
- Create solar systems
- Add black holes
- Adjust particle properties
- Zoom and pan controls
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This app simulates the effects of gravity. You can fling particles at each other and watch them interact. Create solar systems and galaxies! Make a planet and fling asteroids into it! Add a black hole and watch everything get sucked in! You can adjust the size, mass, and color of the particles! Zoom in and out and look around with two fingers! App Preview Music: "Mesmerizing Galaxy " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
PhySim Lab
Explore classical mechanics through interactive simulations. Design and test physics experiments, simulate celestial motion, and generate custom textures for objects. Group editing and object tracking enhance the learning experience.
- Classical mechanics simulations
- Celestial body motion simulation
- Custom texture generation from photos
- Group editing of objects
- Object following and watching modes
- Gravitation and magnetic force simulation
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Following the great classical mechanics foundation - Newtonian kinematics and partly expanded physics simulator. You can restore and design various experiments of classical mechanics here, and eliminate the effects of ground friction and gravity, and you can also simulate the motion of celestial bodies (circular motion) and so on... Generate texture materials from photos - You can use the pictures in the album as the texture materials of the objects. These materials will be drawn on the surface of the sphere. For example, you can use some planetary textures to make a beautiful star system, and then apply force to it to achieve circular or circular motion. You can use the knowledge you learned in school to calculate this force The specific size, and then verify your ideas. Group editing - Long press or double tap the screen to call up the selection area, you can select a group of objects, and then treat the group as a system for overall editing. You can apply force, speed, displacement, etc. to a group of objects as a whole. You can also edit the amount of charge and mass of the group. These quantities will be equally distributed to each object in the group according to the original value as a weight. Follow and Watch - For the selected single object, you can follow or watch it. To follow is to place your perspective on the object and follow the movement of the object. Remember the "retrograde" phenomenon of Mars? The reason for this phenomenon is that the selected reference frame is different. To follow an object is to place the zero point of the reference frame of the observer on the object. You may see more "retrograde" phenomena. Watch is to record an object to the watching view. You can easily switch and follow the object among the watched objects. More - PhySim realizes gravitation and magnetic force, which is actually a force from the perspective of the field. On this basis, physics gave birth to "centripetal force" and other effect forces, which can explain most of the physical phenomena we can currently observe, and we can also discover some unusual phenomena. For example, you can design two generators, one positive charge and one negative charge, and place several in the scene at the same time. Different from the results of the school experiment, you will find that it will always "jitter" because it is different from the laboratory. Without considering friction and ground gravity, this "jitter" system has no energy loss.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Gravity! at Free against PhySim Lab's $0.99. Gravity! also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 3) and review sentiment (74% vs 65%). PhySim Lab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On ads and device support 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
Gravity! is free to download; PhySim Lab costs $0.99 up front. Gravity! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PhySim Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
PhySim Lab holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravity! has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Gravity!'s written reviews are positive against 65% of PhySim Lab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Gravity! ships an update every 2 months, PhySim Lab every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gravity! | PhySim Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (18 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews — better | 64.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc Davis | 铖 邢 |
Customer experience
Gravity!
PhySim Lab
In-app purchases
Gravity!
- Gravity! Extended Edition$0.99
PhySim Lab
No in-app purchases









