# Conway's Life Lab — Play, inspect, learn Life

> Play, inspect, learn Life (iPhone/iPad app by Sub Rosa Industries.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/conways-life-lab/id6800394805 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sub Rosa Industries](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789998892)
- Category: Education, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-19
- Data updated: 2026-09-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/conways-life-lab/id6800394805/reviews.md

## What is Conway's Life Lab?

Conway's Life Lab turns the classic Game of Life into a hands-on playground for curiosity.

Draw on a large zoomable board, load famous patterns, and watch simple local rules create surprising behavior. Standard Conway Life—B3/S23 with wrapping toroidal boundaries—is ready the moment you open the app.

When you want to look closer, open the optional Lab:

• Inspect any cell and count its eight neighbors
• Predict birth, survival, or death before stepping
• See transitions highlighted directly on the board
• Rewind recent generations without changing the latest state
• Compare wrapping and finite boundaries
• Experiment with related binary Life-like B/S rules
• Follow guided experiments built around classic patterns
• Track population changes over time

Free play stays simple: navigate, draw, inspect, play, pause, step, randomize, adjust speed, and browse a thumbnail library of gliders, oscillators, spaceships, methuselahs, and more. Save discoveries from your board, import standard RLE patterns from the wider Life community, and share any board or gallery pattern as a portable .rle file. Imported patterns keep compatible B/S rules; saved patterns can be renamed, reloaded, or deleted whenever you like.

Where available, describe a visual idea in AI Pattern Studio. It creates a best-effort binary Life-like rule and starting pattern that you can keep, rename, export, delete, and evolve on the board. Each generated pattern is a separate consumable In-App Purchase; all core Play, Lab, pattern, and RLE features remain available without purchase.

No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Core features run on your device; where AI Create is available, it sends only the description you choose through Sub Rosa's service to a third-party generation provider. See the privacy policy for details.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AI Pattern Generation | $0.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-08-24

AI Pattern Studio now follows App Store storefront availability automatically. Where optional generation is not offered, Conway's Life Lab keeps its complete local Play, Lab, saved-pattern, built-in-pattern, and RLE experience.

### 1.2 — 2026-08-23

Save patterns you discover, browse them in a thumbnail gallery, and rename or delete them whenever you like. Import standard RLE patterns from the wider Life community as files or pasted text, and share any board or gallery pattern as a portable .rle file. The built-in library grows to 26 classics, including the MWSS and HWSS spaceships, the Simkin glider gun, and more famous methuselahs and oscillators.

New AI Pattern Studio turns a description you write into a best-effort Life-like rule and starting pattern. Each generation is an optional separate In-App Purchase, and the result is saved to Your Patterns to load, rename, export, or delete.

All core Play, Lab, pattern, and RLE features remain free.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-19

No release notes.

## More apps by Sub Rosa Industries

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All apps by Sub Rosa Industries: https://appshunter.io/developer/6789998892

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