# Stone of Life — Beautiful Game of Life

> Beautiful Game of Life (iPhone/iPad app by Rasmus Hemming Sten.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stone-of-life/id6757100786 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Rasmus Hemming Sten](https://appshunter.io/developer/460825820)
- Category: Education, Games, Simulation
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.1 · 16 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-02-19
- Data updated: 2026-05-13
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stone-of-life/id6757100786/reviews.md

## What is Stone of Life?

Stone of Life is a version of Conway's Game of Life, the popular cellular automaton invented by John Conway in 1970. Explore the many different fascinating patterns and evolutions such as "guns", oscillators, and spaceships - create your own or import patterns from friends and websites.

Comes with a collection of popular example patterns to get you started! 

Stone of Life has many beautiful background animations and useful features such as:
* Import/export RLE, Plaintext and Macrocell text
* Save and open RLE or Macrocell files
* Variable speed
* Stepwise evolution (also backwards!)
* Run many simulations at the same time
* A mini Life lexicon
* Support for changing the accent colour of the app
* Cell transition and glow effects
* Support for other cellular automaton rules than B3/S23(Life)
* HashLife jumps
* And more!


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-04-08

Version 1.3 has many big updates and improvements such as:

* Added new Jump function using HashLife
* A new ”Settings” sheet with many new features, such as:
    - Toggling infinite grid on/off
    - Two cool effects
    - Live Zoom feature
    - Support to change accent colour and the cell color scheme
* Changed the max grid length from 200 to 1024
* Changed the max speed from 100/sec to 1000/sec
* Open, save, import and export in Macrocell and Plaintext formats
 


 If you found a bug or have an idea, contact us at stoneoflife@dll.nu!

### 1.2 — 2026-02-27

Version 1.2 includes some bug fixes and improvements such as:

* Support for other rules than B3/S23
* Finally a proper fullscreen background


If you found a bug or have an idea, contact us at: stoneoflife@dll.nu!

### 1.1 — 2026-02-22

Version 1.1 includes many fixes and improvements:

* Landscape mode
* Support for larger text
* Nicer import with the ability to select import location, mirroring & rotation
* Reverse play
* General layout fixes for various screen sizes and orientations

### 1.0 — 2026-02-19

No release notes.

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