Living Colors vs Sonic Lifeforms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Living Colors
Create dynamic, animated art by drawing or touching the screen. Interact with your creations using sound and explore various generative art themes. Save and share your unique visual experiences.
- Interactive art generation
- Sound-based animation control
- Multiple art themes
- High-resolution display support
- Screenshot creation and saving
- Zoomable graphics
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Living Colors provides a variety of themes to generate stunning and dynamic art. You supply the seed of a creation by drawing a line or simple screen touches and Living Colors will surprise you with some ever changing animated arts based on your input. Change the animation by humming, singing, or just picking up accoustics through the microphone. Zoom into the graphics and enjoy the crisp and brilliant details. Create screenshots with ease just by tapping an icon. The screenshots are conveniently saved into your photo album for further processing and sharing. Living Colors comes with the following themes: - Color Wand - Waves of Oil - Mandala - Mandala Slim - Mandala Airy - Swirl - Splash - Drifting - Stardust - Amoeba - Vortex - Calligraphy - Alien Living Colors is an universal App for iPad, iPhone, iPod. It supports the native displays (Retina) of all devices for a detailed and crystal clear presentation. There are no ads or in-app purchases in Living Colors! System requirements: - iPhone 5 or higher - iPad mini with Retina or higher - iPad Air or higher Support for the high resolution display can be disabled via the iOS Settings application. This results in a faster evolution of the graphics. Customer Comments: ***** Way beyond the average Found the app today to supplement my binaural app. So fantastic and trippy. I have another app that shows fractal tunnels but this one is interactive in a good way. So enthralling and creative. I'm just amazed. The alien and vortex are my favorite. Beyond any other fractal auto generating app I've seen. It just keeps going and changing with different colors and so complex, I have to watch it again. ***** I just love it!
Sonic Lifeforms
Experience a unique, ever-evolving music album that adapts to your mood in real-time. Control the intensity and direction of procedural music with an intuitive interface, accompanied by reactive visuals for a multisensory journey.
- Ever-evolving music album
- Mood-adaptive soundscapes
- Interactive music control
- Procedural music generation
- Reactive visualizer
- Personalized listening experiences
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What if you could listen to an ever-evolving music album that adapts to your mood in realtime? Meet Sonic Lifeforms, the never-ending album that constantly reinvents itself. Composed and created by Michael Mitch Doerfler. This unique album features procedural interactive music that allows you to control the mood and intensity of your own personalized music experience. Imagine the music of Sonic Lifeforms like a sky with beautiful cloud formations that are constantly shifting and evolving. The basic scenery of each album track remains the same, but the patterns and shapes are always in flux, creating a mesmerizing and ever-changing landscape of sound. Every time you listen to the album, you’ll discover new nuances and variations, just like looking up at the sky on a different day. With Sonic Lifeforms, you can become an active participant when listening to the album. A simple and intuitive user interface lets you adjust the parameters and influence the direction of the music, making each session a unique and personalized experience. Or just let the integrated randomizers do their job. The Sonic Lifeforms App also features stunning visuals that react to the music, creating a multisensory experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sonic Lifeforms at 100% against Living Colors's 50%. Sonic Lifeforms also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). Living Colors's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Living Colors costs $2.99 and Sonic Lifeforms $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sonic Lifeforms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Living Colors's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sonic Lifeforms's.
Living Colors ships an update every 8 months, Sonic Lifeforms every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Living Colors | Sonic Lifeforms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 2.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 350 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joachim Wolffram | Michael Doerfler |
Customer experience
Living Colors
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In-app purchases
Living Colors
No in-app purchases
Sonic Lifeforms
No in-app purchases
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