Comparison

Glow Lamp vs Fluids & Particle Simulation

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

Head to head
About

Glow Lamp

Transform your device into a dynamic mood lamp using a water bottle. Create relaxing ambient light with shifting colors and customizable effects, reminiscent of a modern lava lamp.

Highlights
  • Device-based mood lamp
  • Uses water bottle for light diffusion
  • Shifting color circles
  • Adjustable color speeds
  • Orbital accent circles
  • Customizable light effects
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a glowing, pulsating mood lamp, perfect to warm up the darkness with a soft relaxing light! Place a bottle of water on one of Glow Lamp's bright circles to pull the light of your device up into the bottle. Circles shift between colors at varying speeds and you can add a smaller orbiting circle that zooms around the outside of the larger circle to add accents and fun. The effects are controlled by you - experiment with colors and speeds to discover the moods you can create! It's a lava lamp for the 21st century! For best results use in a darker space and place your Glow Lamp near a wall. The photo has not been retouched in any way! ----------------------------------- - Thanks to icons8.com for several in-app icons

About

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Create mesmerizing, psychedelic fluid art with your fingertips. This app offers a calming and creative outlet to reduce stress and channel negative emotions into beautiful, flowing patterns. Enjoy a unique ASMR experience with sound-reactive visuals and customizable parameters.

Highlights
  • Interactive fluid art simulation
  • Sound-reactive fluids
  • Dozens of customizable parameters
  • Autopilot mode
  • Gyrosensor and haptic feedback integration
  • Real-time sound synthesis
  • Video recording and screenshot functionality
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Are you stressed and agitated? Do you want to channel your negative energies into something soulful and creatively free till you feel calm? The Fluids and Sounds app can help you - create satisfying, trippy and psychedelic art with your fingertips. This app helps you to reduce stress and calm down. Now you can touch on your screen to simulate colorful and luminescent fluids that flow with your touch movements. Create extraordinary patterns with single touch or multiple touches on the screen and delve deeper into a world of creative fascination and magical freedom till you feel the connection to our universe. --- Features of Fluids and Sounds --- - Wonderful and easy fluid art simulation - Sound reactive fluids (synchronize to your favorite music) - Dozens of parameters to play around with (color, bloom, sunrays, resolution, force and more) - Autopilot included. Let the fluids flow without interacting with the app. You also could stream this to a bigger screen using AirPlay. Please note: Autopilot is not generating sounds. - Gyrosensor, haptic feedback and force touch are integrated (if you want to use them) - Realtime sound synthesis for meditating music - Take screenshots and share them with anyone you like - Record videos of your fluids (please note: Videos are not including the fluid sounds, only the background music, also video recording excludes the UI, so you'll only record what matters - your art) - Save and load your favorite settings using presets --- Feel Free, Calm and Relaxed --- Art is a form of expression and expression helps in catharsis of inexplicable things we feel every day. If you think you suck at art or expression, this app offers you a safe, easy and creative outlet to channel your thoughts into wonderful art impressions that disappear intermittently. Allow yourself to come down and play around with Fluids & Shapes for some minutes to make beautiful expressions on your device’s screen. --- Seek Awareness and Peace --- You feel like the world is too overwhelming and you need to get a bit of awareness? Protect your peace from getting drowned in a pool of negative emotions such as stress, anxiety, agitation, depression etc. Seek awareness and peace the minute you open this app and make the most of your free time with this free, amazing app. --- Create Wonderful Fluid Art Impressions --- Use your fingertips to create wonderful forms and shapes on your device. While you do so, you can listen to relaxing music which is generated in realtime, depending on your input. Get in tune with the relaxing art and music as you make beautiful patterns on your screen. Customize the intensity, color dispersion, vortex index, music effects, waves and other items from the menu to enjoy a more personalized fluid art meditation and relaxation. Are you ready to feel the satisfaction of creative freedom and its impact on your mental wellbeing? The new fluid art meditation and stimulation app is here for you. Enjoy breathtaking art patterns and soulful music till you feel calm and relaxed. Download and use Fluids and Sounds today! Hope you'll enjoy, because we believe you deserve to feel calm and relaxed! Do you have ideas for new features or improvements? You are not satisfied with this app? Feel free to send me a message at info@mkgames.org Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Glow Lamp4 screens
Fluids & Particle Simulation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fluids & Particle Simulation at none against Glow Lamp's shown. Fluids & Particle Simulation also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Glow Lamp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fluids & Particle Simulation sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fluids & Particle Simulation holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluids & Particle Simulation has 777 ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Glow Lamp's written reviews are positive against 90% of Fluids & Particle Simulation's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glow Lamp ships an update every 4 months, Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Glow Lamp versus Fluids & Particle Simulation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlow LampFluids & Particle Simulation
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (36 ratings)4.7 (777 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews89.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings36777 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB189 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael KaufmanZipoApps

Customer experience

Glow Lamp

All ratings36 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral5.3%
Negative18.4%

Fluids & Particle Simulation

All ratings770 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive89.6%
Neutral4.0%
Negative6.4%

Bugs and requests

Glow Lamp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Microphone input not working as expected
  • Difficulty resetting or restoring default settings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to sync visuals with external audio/music
  • More preset options and visual effects
  • Improved UI/UX for settings and controls
  • Support for casting to external displays

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Glow Lamp

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
8 purchases

Fluids & Particle Simulation

Subscriptions3
  • Unlock all features3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Unlock all | monthly premium$5.991 Month
  • Fluids PRO$17.991 Year
One-time5
  • Unlock all Presets (iOS)$1.99
  • Unlock all Presets (OS X Mac)$2.99
  • Unlock all features$14.99
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  • Psychedelic magic (OS X Mac)$24.99
  • Psychedelic magic (iOS)$44.99

Questions

Is Glow Lamp free?
Glow Lamp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fluids & Particle Simulation free?
Fluids & Particle Simulation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Glow Lamp or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
Fluids & Particle Simulation is rated higher. Glow Lamp averages 4.4 out of 5 from 36 ratings, while Fluids & Particle Simulation averages 4.7 from 777 ratings.
Do Glow Lamp or Fluids & Particle Simulation have ads?
Glow Lamp shows ads; Fluids & Particle Simulation does not.
Which is updated more often, Glow Lamp or Fluids & Particle Simulation?
Glow Lamp ships an update every 4 months, and Fluids & Particle Simulation monthly. Most recently, Glow Lamp was updated on October 16, 2026 and Fluids & Particle Simulation on October 23, 2026.

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