# Mecmua: Symmetry Drawing Pad — Mandala Art & Kaleidoscope

> Mandala Art & Kaleidoscope (iPhone/iPad app by Cihat Salik.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mecmua-symmetry-drawing-pad/id6813692651 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cihat Salik](https://appshunter.io/developer/1819820065)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $4.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 82 MB
- Languages: British English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Turkish
- Released: 2026-10-01
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Mecmua?

Draw one stroke and Mecmua folds it into as many as sixty-four, live, on the GPU. Mandalas, kaleidoscope rosettes, Islamic tilings, Turkish ebru marbling, Ottoman calligraphy and now tezhip, the art of gold illumination, all live in one drawing studio for iPad and iPhone.

Tezhip: gold that catches the light
• Gold layers in six finishes: burnished, shell gold, gold leaf, hammered, aged leaf and zerefşan dust
• Yellow, red, green and white gold, silver and copper; tilt your device and the light runs across the metal
• A burnisher that works relief into gold or paint, with agate, hammered, satin, guilloché and punched surfaces
• 88 classical ornaments drawn for Mecmua as stamps: rumi, hatayi, leaves, tulips and carnations, şemse, rosettes, borders, girih and full page layouts
• An archive of 859 ornaments traced from public-domain pattern books, from Ottoman and arabesque to Celtic and Gothic
• 137 transfer sheets: whole pages laid on the canvas as a line drawing, ready to gild and paint
• Lapis, vermilion, malachite and the other grounds of the illuminated page in the palette

Symmetry you draw with
• Mandalas and rosettes from 2 to 64 mirrors, with or without reflection — past twelve mirrors with Unlimited
• 7 frieze groups and all 17 wallpaper tilings, plus spherical and hyperbolic symmetry — the full set with Unlimited
• Change the symmetry and the drawing you already made folds again, in one undoable tap

Ebru and calligraphy
• Drop, comb, wave, vortex and stylus tools that move a simulated ink surface the way paper is marbled on water (Unlimited)
• Over 400 brushes modeled on real hands: Thuluth, Diwani, Ruq'ah, Wissam, decorative and tashkeel sets, and a reed-pen collection

A complete painting app underneath
• Layers, blend modes, masks, clipping and unlimited undo
• Pencils, inks, markers, airbrushes, wet blending, smudge and eraser
• Color balance, hue and saturation, blurs, noise, sharpen and bloom, plus Curves, gradient maps, Liquify and Clone with Unlimited
• QuickShape, crop and resize, drawing guides and perspective assist, and text with Unlimited
• Apple Pencil pressure and tilt, plus Pencil Pro squeeze and barrel roll
• Import brush files made in other drawing apps

Export
• PNG stills with transparent layers, up to 4K, or 8K with Unlimited
• A looping video of the symmetry turning and a time-lapse of the session (Unlimited)
• Wallpaper sizes for iPhone, iPad and the desktop
• Live Photo: a still that moves when the lock screen wakes (Unlimited)

Mecmua Unlimited, an in-app purchase, takes the ceilings off: the ebru marbling tank, tezhip gold and the ornament stamps, the oil, watercolor, gouache, pastel and charcoal sets, the master calligraphy hands, Liquify, Clone, Curves, gradient maps, text, the pro effects, mirrors past twelve, the remaining thirteen tilings, the spherical and hyperbolic groups, 8K stills, looping video and Live Photo.

Free keeps a complete drawing app: the Field, Studio and Open brush sets, over four hundred calligraphy brushes, layers and masks, selection, crop and resize, the color and blur adjustments, symmetry up to twelve mirrors, the frieze groups, four tilings, a globe and a circle limit, and 4K export. Nothing is drawn to a watermark and nothing asks for an account.

Privacy Policy: https://apps.cihat.dev/mecmua/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mecmua Unlimited Yearly | $3.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mecmua Unlimited | $6.99 | one-time |


## Is Mecmua safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Mecmua.

## Is Mecmua legit?

Mecmua: Symmetry Drawing Pad appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Mecmua is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.1 — 2026-11-09

Actions > Help now has quick links to rate Mecmua and to send feedback.

• If an export fails, the error now offers Send feedback

### 1.5.0 — 2026-11-08

Mecmua now speaks Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, German and French.

• Every screen, menu, brush and tool name is translated
• In Arabic the interface reads right to left
• Brush names that were still in English in Turkish are now translated

### 1.4.0 — 2026-11-06

Faster brushes, and a phone that keeps up.

• The Studio shelf is rebuilt from measured Procreate sets, so an imported brush lands with the mark it actually makes instead of a guess
• Strokes are built the way Procreate builds them, and every brush now stays inside a frame budget — no single brush can stall the canvas
• Undo, saving, exporting and the panels do their work between your strokes rather than during them
• Overlapping saves share one encode instead of repeating it
• On iPhone one panel stands at a time: opening Actions, Layers, Colour, Symmetry or Tools puts the others away
• Transform is reachable again from the iPhone bar
• The iPhone tool panel opens straight away, and closing a panel no longer redraws the screen behind it
• The bottom bar's labels fit; "My Works" is no longer cut off
• Gold stays gold on the tezhip inks

### 1.3.1 — 2026-11-02

Mecmua opens up.

• Mecmua is now free to draw in: every brush, every ebru tool and the whole calligraphy set
• Mecmua Unlimited, an in-app purchase, takes the ceilings off: 8K stills, looping video, Live Photo, mirrors past twelve, the remaining thirteen tilings and the spherical and hyperbolic groups
• Installed Mecmua before this update? Every Unlimited feature is already on, whether you paid for the app or not
• Unlimited has its own rows in Settings, with Restore Purchases
• The unlock sheet scrolls properly on a sideways iPhone

### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-18

Mecmua now speaks Turkish, from the menus and brush names to the home-screen widget.

• 8K and wallpaper exports use far less memory.
• Leaving the app mid-drawing saves without freezing the screen.
• The widget is now called Mecmua, and Rate Us opens the right page.

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