CHEMION vs Lava Lamp Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CHEMION
Create personalized LED animations and text displays for various events. React to music with a live audio visualizer or design your own unique patterns and animations to express yourself.
- Personalized text and animations
- Real-time animations
- Live audio visualization (equalizer)
- Customizable drawing function
- Save and edit LED animations
- Premade emotion samples
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CHEMISTRY + ON = CHEMION Express yourself through CHEMION 4 Ways to enjoy CHEMION • Cheer your team! o Cheer in the darkness with a personalized text • Enjoy your music! o An equalizer that reacts to music around you • Be creative! o Make your own patterns with the drawing function • Make your own animations! o Express yourself with personalized animations Function: -Real-time animations -Live Audio Visualization (Equalizer) function -LED animations can be saved -LED animations can be edited -A variety of premade Emotion samples
Lava Lamp Simulator
Create a calming atmosphere with a virtual lava lamp. Enjoy hypnotic movements and customizable colors to set a relaxing mood for yourself, friends, or a romantic partner. Experience the ambiance of a real lava lamp anywhere.
- Hypnotic lava lamp movements
- Customizable color selection
- Pulse-reactive color changes
- Creates relaxing ambiance
- Intimate lighting effects
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If you want to relax and enjoy a moment of peace, now you can create the best ambience with this lava lamp. You can use it with your friends to create a relaxing ambience, or be romantic with your partner, or a moment of rest for you alone. This simulator is designed to create hypnotic movements and sensations very similar to those of a real lava lamp. You can also select the color you like the most and the lamp will change color according to your pulse. Strong and striking colors to illuminate your room and create an intimate and relaxing ambience, you will feel as if you had a real lava lamp.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lava Lamp Simulator at 4.3 against CHEMION's 2.8. Lava Lamp Simulator also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 25%). CHEMION's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lava Lamp Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 156 and 78 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of CHEMION's written reviews are positive against 60% of Lava Lamp Simulator's.
CHEMION ships an update monthly, Lava Lamp Simulator every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CHEMION | Lava Lamp Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (156 ratings) | 4.3 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 156 — better | 78 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neofect USA, Inc. | Mapoga IT Development SL |
Customer experience
CHEMION
Lava Lamp Simulator
Bugs and requests
CHEMION
Reported bugs
14 issues- App stuck on startup/loading screen
- Facebook login fails or loads indefinitely
- Explorer section crashes or infinite loading
- Equalizer feature crashes entire app
- Search function non-functional
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- Glasses not detected by app despite proper setup
- App crashes when selecting animations or presets
- Copy/clone animation feature broken
- Japanese text input not working
- Shared content download not functioning
- App crashes when changing eyes/animations
- Connection error messages (e.g., 'disconnected-7')
- Version update incompatibility issues
- iOS compatibility issues with certain versions
Requested features
11 requests- Increase animation speed/FPS beyond current limits
- Restore DJ mode for switching between faces
- Allow offline design editing without connected glasses
- Add shuffle option in Explorer
- Restore text scrolling speed customization
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- Support for non-Facebook login methods
- Reorder/organize custom animation sets
- More font options for text
- Better UI for frame creation workflow
- Improved equalizer/voice sync functionality
- macOS/MacBook support
Lava Lamp Simulator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CHEMION
No in-app purchases
Lava Lamp Simulator
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CHEMION free?
Is Lava Lamp Simulator free?
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