# iOrnament: draw mandala & art — user reviews > 359 indexed App Store user reviews of iOrnament by science-to-touch, rated 4.70/5 from 3,872 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iornament-draw-mandala-and-art/id534529876/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iornament-draw-mandala-and-art/id534529876.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,164 · 4★ 450 · 3★ 149 · 2★ 48 · 1★ 61 ## What do users think of iOrnament? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Impressive features for the price - 🎨 Ability to create intricate designs - 🔍 Helpful mathematical explanations - 🎨 Relaxing and creative experience - 👍 Reasonable one-time payment - 👍 No ads, no need for premium upgrade **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and freezes - 🤔 Unintuitive user interface - 🤔 Difficulty navigating and accessing saved work - 🤔 Lack of color fill and other basic features - 🤔 Inconsistent undo/redo functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - Saving and loading issues, especially on newer devices - Undo/redo function not working as expected - Toolbar disappearing and becoming inaccessible **Most requested features** - Add color picker and fill tool - Improve layer management and ability to isolate layers - Implement better stroke smoothing and line tools - Allow importing of user images as backgrounds - Add option to save and load custom presets/palettes - Provide a more streamlined and intuitive UI ## Newest reviews (17 of 359) ### 2/5 — So much potential *2024-05-27, version 2.5.13* I found that you can do some cool things with this app, when I am not getting completely frustrated with certain basic functions and issues that should never arise. The biggest problem is my menu completely disappears with no way of retrieving it if I move my iPad in a way that triggers it to reorient itself. Then I can’t undo anything I draw or accidentally put on my project while I’m fighting with it to give me back my menu. I wrote the developer about this and have not gotten a response back from them. I would have bought their other app for drawing Platonic solids, but the stress of using this app is too much and I wouldn’t give them anymore money. ### 5/5 — The only best thing *2023-04-05, version 2.5.13* I’m so happy that they made this app! It is so cool ### 4/5 — Fun 👍 just small bug with layers *2023-03-22, version 2.5.13* Great app, I recommend it, although the UI is a little unintuitive. There’s nowhere to send feedback within the app (maybe it’s meant to be under the ‘i’ button?, but pressing that causes an instant crash) so I’m sending it here… I can set the layer to be top, middle or bottom but it often draws onto the incorrect layer, which I then find out later. ### 5/5 — Great fun *2023-02-27, version 2.5.13* I love this, spend lots of fun times making great patterns. Love it, best thing ever! ### 5/5 — I LOVE THE GAME SO MUCH 🤗👋 *2023-02-08, version 2.5.13* NO PROBLEMS AT ALL NO ADDS please get this app🔜 . ### 5/5 — Super App *2023-02-05* Ich nutze die App auf dem iPad seit sie herausgekommen ist. Bei aufwendigeren Zeichnungen ist die Ansprechzeit mit dem Apple Pencil extrem langsam… ### 5/5 — Library with ornaments is not available *2023-01-24* In description of App and in tips it is said that I can explore collection of sample ornaments after pressing home button and then Art button. There is no Art button in my app and hope button has incorrect icon (letter M instead of home icon) Anyway, I liked the app very much, thanks a lot! ### 5/5 — Best in its class… Quasicrystals?aperiodicy? *2023-01-17, version 2.5.13* Addendum: yeah, more wishes,… Reptiles? Can be done ?like using the sphinx with an adjustable border. That would be cool. Wishlist: Layers that you can turn on and off The ability to set the background color to white or another color or a photo from the camera roll perhaps this is available and I haven’t found it?? Tips mentions a manual control if you don’t have a stylus where the heck is it?? A paint bucket fill tool sure would be nice that would also be tuned to the icons that let you draw in multiple color space Gradients would be nice either with a fill tool or the brushstrokes...oops, I guess you can do gradients with the brush tool tool but alas I haven’t figured out how to do it with a fill tool Export as background transparent would be nice.. or foreground transplant ha ha Also more sophisticated pallets for the tillable coloring tools !!!When I scribble with the stylus very fast I get nice effects but I would like to do this in a slow manner with some sort of brush smoothing function… I E like a slow-moving missile that tracks your cursor or similar to dragging a rope in the sand There’s nothing worse for me than having awkward scribbling that seems disjointed… I think my slow smoothing idea would be very very popular and would be worth another dollar or two! One last thing the tips or manual don’t seem to go into the functions where are you can draw straight lines and move things around that way- I haven’t figured it out yet??? ..... Still the program is fantastic as I’ve been a big fan of MC Escher for a very long time and would like to continue in his vein... For this program only only and maybe one or two others I would actually tip the programmer to continue his great and valuable work.... More great ideas… Make it a subgroup of procreate and then you can use all the brushes in procreate and also converted into a vector program I would pay 20 bucks for a vector version of this! Thanks everyone for your time and consideration This might be a difficult suggestion to implement but it sure would be neat to play with quasicrystals or aperiodic tilings such as Roger Penrose has come up with...As a further helpful suggestion for other users I like to combine this app with an app called Kaleidomatic if I remember right I Kaleidomatic once you purchase provides many different tiling abilities also ### 4/5 — I love this app, but have one issue *2023-01-13, version 2.5.13* Will someone please tell me how to disable the “line adjusting” feature that pops up nearly every time I draw a line? It’s infuriating! ### 4/5 — I *2022-12-29, version 2.5.13* I love it ### 5/5 — Fascinating drawing app *2022-12-15, version 2.5.13* I’ve just touched the surface of learning what this app can do and every drawing I do is more beautiful than the next. Top notch in all ways. ### 5/5 — Fabulous *2022-11-26, version 2.5.13* Anything l do is a learning experience and full of surprises. I’m not very technical so it’s a slow but enjoyable process. 🐞 ### 2/5 — Interface *2022-11-22, version 2.5.13* Avec le iPhone 13 offert en format du iPhone 8, il est impossible de voir le menu au complet donc pas possible de sauvegarder. ### 5/5 — Great app!! *2022-09-30, version 2.5.13* I personally love this app,although when I first got it it was a little bit confusing.I love the fact that it has no adds.ít íѕ ѕσ crєαtívє ### 4/5 — Wonderful *2022-09-12, version 2.5.13* This app is amazing and I love all the features. The one thing that is troubling is that sometimes it crashes for no reason. Like, I’m drawing and it just closes. Luckily whatever I’m drawing is automatically saved and is there to continue when I open it again. Is this something that happens, our is a bug that needs fixing? ### 4/5 — They took away the pressure *2022-07-28, version 2.5.13* I like this very much but the tutorials I have been doing show a pressure tool with the pencil/brush. I can’t do this on my version. I would like to be able to use pressure on the brush to be able to go from thin to thick lines. Is there anyone who can help me? ### 5/5 — Excellent *2022-06-21* Excellente application. J’adore ! Signé M.C. Escher ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — iPhone SE保存できない *2024-06-23* 課金したのに、作ったものが保存できません。 保存コマンドが画面に隠れて押せないのです。 iPhone SE の1番新しいものを使っています。 ### 1/5 — Very disappointed! *2024-04-16, version 2.5.13* In a previous review I wanted to give this app six stars. However I discovered recently I was unable to upload to the app any of my previous work I had stored on my dropbox account. I have emailed the author twice to ask for help and had absolutely no response. ### 1/5 — In M2 the pen pressure does not work for brush size *2022-12-06* The pressure option does not appear in the adjustment options as before, it appears in colors, but in size does not ### 1/5 — Not intuitive *2020-07-14, version 2.5.11* Not intuitive. No clear way to get to “home” screen where I can see a list of mandalas created. Every other art app makes this simple thing easy to do. This app is not important enough to require a user to actually study in order to use it. Waste of money. No respect for users’ time. Poor practice and a waste of money. Apple should have basic usability requirements. Use some common sense, people. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother. Very buggy and slow. *2020-03-19, version 2.5.9* The app developer has hobbled it ON PURPOSE so that you can only undo 6 times before it stalls for a long period of time. Even though I’ve already paid for this app, it demands that you pay more for the “pro” version so that your “undo” isn’t held hostage anymore. Very slimy and underhanded practice. ### 1/5 — Отвратительно!!! *2020-02-20* Куда все делось? Где меню? Где настройки? **Developer response:** In the meantime I isolated the problem. It will be fixed in the next version that should be on the App Store by now (Version 2.5.8). If you find the time you might reconsider your rating :-) ### 1/5 — Missing In-App purchase *2019-12-27, version 2.5.6* I can’t find In-App purchase on my iPad Pro 11” 2018. ### 1/5 — UI not friendly, and this app not working on new Ipad Air- usless *2019-08-16, version 2.5.5* I purchased the bundle , and want to create patterns , mandalas, etc, but unfortunately this app is not compatible with Ipad Air 2019, and UI is terrible to figure out. I’m nothing than disappointed with this purchase, and app is nothing but for children who can move back and forth and make some silly ornaments. Not for designers at all....I use some more friendly app . ### 1/5 — Crashes when exporting high res *2019-07-31* It crashes when you try to export high resolution images. It is useless in low resolution so I wasted my money. **Developer response:** Hi Nicodjfhrmvnt, Could you please contact me via the science-to-touch.com website. I would like to find out what is going wrong in your case. ### 1/5 — Why the game like interface? *2019-05-11, version 2.5.2* If you are making an app with one function why make the interface fun and whimsical rather than practical? The App Store need a really good symmetry drawing app that you can use fast and efficient. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best *2026-08-07, version 2.5.13* Best game ever I can draw lines wherever I want make hacking in the game And I can also draw in black to Hacks ### 5/5 — Reason I bought iPad *2026-01-04, version 2.5.13* I saw the creator demonstrate this software package, and i purchased by first apple product in 20 years BECAUSE of this app! It is that cool! ### 5/5 — I ornament first game ever *2025-12-20, version 2.5.13* Best game ever ### 5/5 — Impressed *2025-10-04, version 2.5.13* I’m very impressed - so much is included for its price. You can do time-lapsed creation videos, use textured backgrounds, and it really has so many mathematical options so you don’t have one pattern base - you can alter every aspect of every design element. I of course push every button & sometimes it takes a minute to figure out what I need to do to change back, for ex: getting out of the design setup and back into drawing, or how to turn “glow” off, etc. But you can always read the tips which sum it up well. Love this app! ### 5/5 — IMPERIUM PROPHET GOODFAITH *2025-03-13, version 2.5.13* Good job it helped me do this ### 5/5 — I love it *2025-01-28, version 2.5.13* Some apps are worth paying for, this is one of them. Thank you for the reasonable once only payment, much appreciated. ### 5/5 — Unendliche Zeichenfreude *2024-11-06* Ich liebe Ornamente und mit dieser App kann man mit so wenigen Strichen so diffizile Muster schaffen und mit vielen Farben, Werkzeugen und Techniken (z.B. ins Bild zoomen) verfeinern. Man kann seine Werke speichern, verschicken und mit der Erweiterung „Crafter“ seine Lieblingsmuster sogar auf Schachtelvorlagen u.Ä. drucken. Aber man kann auch einfach nur zur Entspannung zeichnen - jedes Bild wird anders. Eine immer wieder wunderbare kreative Spielerei! ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2024-03-12, version 2.5.13* This is quite simply one of the very best apps for designers and artists in the App Store. It’s super-fun for the casual hobbyist, but can also be an incredibly powerful and sophisticated tool for professionals. I can’t recommend the latest update enough, it has some amazing new features. ### 5/5 — it’s so amazing!! *2023-12-10, version 2.5.13* I’ve had this app for only one day and I already love it!!! before I got this app I was hesitant because from the pictures of the app it looked kinda hard to do. but that was just because they were doing more harder designs. I got the app, went into it, and it’s extremely simple! just draw whatever you want on the main drawing thingy and it will copy everywhere else! I already drew a unicorn one! I love ittttt!! I always do this app when im bored! I love using the glow pen too because it’s very cool and whenever you have the glow pen equipped and you get a color and start drawing with it, it shows up like bright and glowy and beautiful! anyways im only 9 and im a beginner, but probably even 5 year olds would understand and enjoy this app too! anyways thank you iornament!! I LOVE THIS APPPPPP!!! ### 5/5 — Wow *2023-05-23, version 2.5.13* You can make a masterpiece in seconds with your eyes closed with this app. Very good highly recommend. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*