# Bead Lab – Fuse Bead Patterns — Color codes, counts, pegboards

> Color codes, counts, pegboards (iPhone/iPad app by Lintao Li.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bead-lab-fuse-bead-patterns/id6801448257 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Lintao Li](https://appshunter.io/developer/1633884272)
- Category: Utilities, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-16
- Data updated: 2026-10-06
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bead-lab-fuse-bead-patterns/id6801448257/reviews.md

## What is Bead Lab?

The output isn't a picture. It's something you build.

Bead Lab reads your photo against a real manufacturer's bead palette, then gives you the three things a picture can't: the colours to buy and how many of each, the design split across pegboards the size you already own, and a build mode that remembers every bead you've placed.

ONE COLOUR AT A TIME
Working from a flat pattern means hunting for where the next bead goes. Build mode lights up the colour you're holding and dims everything else, so you place all 720 of the charcoal black, mark that colour done, and move to the next one. Put the phone down halfway through and it's still there tomorrow.

KNOW WHAT TO BUY BEFORE YOU BUY IT
Every colour comes out of a real brand's catalogue and carries its product code. The materials list gives you the code, the name and the exact count — 720 of H6, 530 of H16 — so you order once instead of running out three evenings in.

BOARD BY BOARD
A 96×64 design doesn't fit on one pegboard. Bead Lab splits it across as many as it takes, numbers them, and shows each board on its own with the beads that board needs. Print them or work from the screen.

FIX WHAT THE CONVERSION GOT WRONG
No automatic conversion gets thin shapes right — bamboo leaves, whiskers, lettering. Brush, flood fill, replace colour, eyedropper, line and rectangle let you repair them by hand, and an automatic cleanup folds away stray single beads and colours too close to tell apart. You see how many cells will change before anything changes, and every step undoes.

THREE WAYS TO MAKE IT
Crisp outline, detail first, or fewer beads. One photo, three trade-offs, each labelled with its colour count, bead count and board count. Choose by the numbers instead of guessing at sliders.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE
No account, no server. Photos, patterns and progress stay on this iPhone. No third-party analytics, no ads.

FREE
• Unlimited patterns
• Grids up to 48×48
• The complete MARD palette and Kawada's 78 colours
• The editor and its automatic cleanup
• Build mode, in full
• PNG export and the materials list
• Board-by-board view on screen
• Export and import your own projects

BEAD LAB PRO — a one-time purchase, not a subscription
• Bigger grids: 64×64 and 96×96
• Perler palettes alongside MARD
• Board-by-board printing with safe margins
• Multi-page PDF at true physical size
• Mirrored sheets

Made for iPhone. iOS 17 or later.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 拼豆专业版 | $5.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-30

• Bead Lab now runs on iPad, in portrait or landscape. In landscape, the editor and build mode give the pattern the whole left side and put the controls on the right.
• Drag a photo from Photos or Files onto your projects to start a new pattern.
• When you leave build mode, Bead Lab tells you how many beads you placed.
• Finishing a whole pattern gets its own moment, with export one tap away.
• Main buttons give a light tap of haptic feedback.
• Diagonal outlines no longer count as isolated cells.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-23

• Traditional Chinese language support.
• Saving an exported pattern to Photos now asks only to add photos — never for access to your whole library.
• Leaving the editor with unsaved changes now asks whether to save them.
• Buying or restoring Pro now tells you when nothing was unlocked, and why.
• The pegboard count on the size screen now follows the board size you chose.
• Smaller fixes, including VoiceOver in build mode.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-19

• Japanese language support.
• New Kawada 78 palette for Japanese beads, free in every language.
• Bead Saving now keeps the eyes, outlines and other small details, and only merges colours that look alike.
• Clear Outline keeps thin outlines unbroken more often.
• When two styles produce the same pattern they share one card; when they differ by only a few beads, those beads are circled.
• Black outlines now stay visible on the dark canvas.
• Assorted layout fixes for small screens and large text.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-17

No release notes.

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