Conway's Cells

Conway's Cells

Cellular Automaton Simulator

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  • Released
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  • May 5, 2026
  • September 6, 2026

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Discover the beauty of cellular automata with Conway's Cells, a polished and powerful implementation of Conway's Game of Life for iOS. WHAT IS THE GAME OF LIFE? Conway's Game of Life is a zero-player game where cells on a grid live, die, or multiply based on simple rules. Despite its simplicity, it produces astonishingly complex behavior — gliders that travel across the screen, oscillators that pulse rhythmically, and structures that generate infinite streams of spaceships. TAP, DRAW, AND EXPLORE • Tap individual cells to toggle them alive or dead • Use drawing tools (line, rectangle, circle) to sketch structures quickly • Stamp pre-built patterns onto the grid with a ghost preview before placement • Zoom in to see every cell, pan across large grids MANY CLASSIC PATTERNS Browse a curated library of famous Game of Life patterns: • Still Lifes: Block, Beehive, Loaf, Boat, Ship, Pond • Oscillators: Blinker, Toad, Pulsar, Pentadecathlon • Spaceships: Glider, LWSS, HWSS, Copperhead • Guns: Gosper Glider Gun, Simkin Glider Gun • Methuselahs: R-pentomino, Acorn, Diehard • Save your own creations to the pattern library CUSTOMIZABLE THEMES Personalize with 11 visual themes — Classic, Blueprint, Matrix, Cyberpunk, Laser, Ocean, Forest, Sunset, Terminal, Pixel, Gameboy. Unlock additional themes with a one-time purchase. 3D VISUALIZATION See the Game of Life like never before. Switch to a 3D torus, cylinder, or sphere topology. Watch patterns wrap around edges in real time. FULL CONTROL • Adjustable simulation speed from 1 to 60 generations per second • Step through generations one at a time • Generation counter and population graph • Undo and redo support • Auto-save your session — pick up right where you left off Conway's Cells is free with optional in-app purchases to remove ads and unlock Pro features.
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What's New in Conway's Cells

1.2.0

September 6, 2026

Life is no longer the only rule here. Switch rule sets and watch a familiar pattern turn unrecognisable. Conway, HighLife and Seeds are free. A FIRST RUN THAT SHOWS YOU New installs open with a glider crossing the grid, then hand you the brush and the Play button. About twenty seconds, and skippable. FASTER ON LARGE GRIDS Neighbours are now counted with a sliding window instead of eight lookups per cell, roughly five times faster in our benchmarks. 1000x1000 finally keeps up with the fastest speed setting. ALSO Studio visuals: cell trails, and glow on the neon themes. Haptic feedback when you draw. Changing the grid size no longer resets your rule to Conway. The rewind buffer now sizes itself to available memory. A restored session no longer loses its first history snapshot. Pinch to zoom no longer toggles a cell under your second finger.

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