Chesapeake Orchestra vs Fluid Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chesapeake Orchestra
Stay updated on all activities and programs from the Chesapeake Orchestra. Access concert details, news articles, and information about featured programs like the Alba Music Festival and Maryland Youth Symphony Orchestra. All concerts are free to attend.
- Concert and event updates
- Featured program information
- Browse upcoming concerts
- Performance details (venue, dates, repertoire)
- Latest news articles
- Information on Alba Music Festival and MYSO
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Check in to find out what is happening with the Chesapeake Orchestra. The Chesapeake Orchestra app offers a new way to follow us. Now you have access to the variety of Chesapeake Orchestra programs at anytime, anywhere. FEATURED PROGRAMS Chesapeake Orchestra concerts and events, Alba Music Festival and the Young Artists Program, and Maryland Youth Symphony Orchestra. CONCERTS Browse upcoming concerts. Get complete performance information including venue, dates, repertoire, and artists. There is no "Tickets" button because all of our concerts are free! NEWS Read the latest news articles about the Chesapeake Orchestra, Alba Music Festival, Italy, and Maryland Youth Symphony Orchestra. The Chesapeake Orchestra, Inc. app is powered by InstantEncore.
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 — six worlds of real physics respond to every touch, every drag, even your music. ASMR touch sounds turn each gesture into a soft, satisfying texture. SIX PHYSICS WORLDS • Fluid — classic swirling ink: vortices, curls and glowing trails • Ripple — drops become expanding rings; drag your finger for a wake through refracted colors • Oil — thick glossy paint that sags, pools and shimmers; tilt and shake your device to stir it • Fire — heat rises into living flame with flicker and sparks; drag to paint with a torch • Orbit — gravity wells wind matter into spirals; hold a finger and pull the streams toward you • Slime — thick, deeply coloured goo that swells, settles and lags behind your finger like soft putty SEVEN COLOR MOODS Classic, Neon, Ink, Calm and Storm — plus Aurora and Blossom with Fluid Art Pro. Each mood has 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 — nothing is ever recorded or stored. ASMR TOUCH SOUNDS Tap the headphones and the canvas answers your fingers — 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 — never the same twice — and it mixes with your music instead of interrupting it. RECORD AND SHARE (PRO) Capture the canvas as a smooth video and share it straight from the app — your flowing paintings, ready for your feed or a friend. SESSION TIMER (PRO) Set a session of 3, 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes — for meditation, breathing exercises or a focused break. A gentle chime ends the session, and the painting stays. FLUID ART PRO One simple, one-time unlock adds seven new worlds — Coral (a living reef grows wherever you touch), Marble (suminagashi ink folding in laminar swirls), Sand (a living desert that builds itself, storm by storm), Watercolor (wet paint bleeding into soft paper), Kaleidoscope (perfect mirrored mandalas from every touch), Frost (living ice crystals that grow, melt and glisten) and Smiley (a neon face of glowing rings that ripples under your finger and springs back) — plus the Aurora and Blossom color palettes, the session timer and video recording. Purchased once, yours forever, on every device with your account. Restore anytime from the unlock dialog. 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 — 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 scores or pressure. Works fully offline. Everything you need to start is free — six worlds, five color moods, sound and ASMR modes. The optional Pro unlock is a single one-time purchase: no subscriptions, ever. Fluid Art collects no personal data. The optional Sound mode uses the microphone only to measure loudness in the moment — audio never leaves your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chesapeake Orchestra at none against Fluid Art's 1. Chesapeake Orchestra also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.3). Fluid Art's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 13 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. Fluid Art sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chesapeake Orchestra asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chesapeake Orchestra ships an update every 13 months, Fluid Art every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chesapeake Orchestra | Fluid Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fortuna Classical Music, Inc | Dmitry Shurco |
In-app purchases
Chesapeake Orchestra
No in-app purchases
Fluid Art
- Fluid Art Pro$2.99
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