Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Newton's Orchard, browser-based space/gravity playground
Newton's Orchard is a browser-based playground that lets users experiment with space and gravity concepts. It's designed for anyone interested in physics simulation and interactive learning. The tool runs entirely in a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Gravity WebGL experiment in the Solar System
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · multiplanetary.website · its alternatives →
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Wing Playground▲253Iterate on cloud apps in milliseconds, not minutes
2024 · winglang.io · its alternatives →
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Atlas of Spacefree▲770Hello HN! Sharing a recent side project of mine, the Atlas of Space, that I built out to explore the Solar System. As a long-time space nerd, I realized recently that I didn't have a good intuition on the scale, speed, and relative orientation of the celestial bodies around us. So over the break I built out a kind of spatial Wikipedia to click around and learn about planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun. The physics is all simulated in the browser using simple Newtonian mechanics. There's a lot left to do from here, including modeling objects in non-Keplerian orbits…
2025 · atlasof.space · its alternatives →
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A new creative coding environment in Framer X
2019 · framer.com · its alternatives →
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Gravity by Orbit▲262A free magazine about building & scaling communities
2022 · orbit.love · its alternatives →
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Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step by step: two bodies and the equal/opposite force, inertia (the Sun is removed and Earth just drifts straight), then "an orbit is falling and continuously missing," cosmic velocities with a little rocket, Voyager 1 & 2's real gravity assists (the clock runs the actual 1977–1989 dates so the planets orbit into their grand-tour alignment and the…
Jun 2026 · qunabu.github.io · its alternatives →
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Gravity 8▲212Build a SaaS app at warp speed with a Javascript boilerplate
2021 · usegravity.app · its alternatives →
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Sharing, Feedback & Planning Made Easy
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Playground▲408Design like a pro: t-shirts, logos, posters, memes, and more
2024 · playgroundai.com · its alternatives →
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24d ago · space.bl2.net · its alternatives →
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Inspired by Compiler Explorer and other playground/fiddle websites like jsfiddle, db-fiddle, Go playground, and Rust playground, I thought it would be cool to have a playground for nearly any program so I've been working on Program Explorer: a playground for running programs from containers. I am inspired by these playgrounds because they are great educational tools for quickly experimenting and as communication tools by sharing shortlinks that reproduce bugs for instance. I would love for every open source project that publishes a container to get their own playground for free. I'm…
2025 · programexplorer.org · its alternatives →
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Mar 2026 · structuredlabs.github.io · its alternatives →
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Alto's Odyssey▲263Discover the endless desert. A beautiful game for mobile.
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Gravity-shifting action platformer about an octopus
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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3D gravity and space Simulator. Explore and play around with the force of gravity in the context of an array of scenarios from our solar system and beyond. You can add planets, delete the Sun, change the value of the gravitational constant or simply lean back and enjoy the dazzling beauty of the pen
2018 · thehappykoala.github.io · its alternatives →
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Guide your spacecraft through the gravity
2016 · ianmaclarty.com · its alternatives →
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Did gravity ever let you down?
2018 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map, and on a 3D globe. The app includes more than 15,000 objects tracked by CelesTrack, together with their pass predictions, descriptions, and detailed orbital data. A searchable catalog of all objects is also available, as well as a built-in chatbot designed to answer any space-related questions you might have. This is my first published iOS app, so any feedback is greatly appreciated! App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772174570
Jul 2026 · nagylukas.github.io · its alternatives →
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A gravity simulator, with updated movement controls
2016 · valentinvichnal.github.io · its alternatives →
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