FractRoam vs AR Solar System PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FractRoam
Discover and share stunning fractal art generated from Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Let the app explore autonomously or record and share your discoveries as videos.
- Explore Mandelbrot and Julia sets
- Share fractal images
- Autonomous roaming exploration
- Video recording with ReplayKit
- Share video creations
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FractRoam is a real-time explorer for the Mandelbrot and Julia sets — and its heart is the autopilot. Press play and let it roam: FractRoam continuously seeks out the most visually interesting regions of the fractal and glides you through them, an endless, ever-changing tour you can simply sit back and watch. Want to take the wheel? Pinch and drag to wander on your own, and recolor the whole scene with a tap. Everything is drawn pixel-by-pixel on your device's GPU, in real time. FEATURES • Roam autopilot — hit play and drift through a continuous, auto-discovered tour of the fractal • Real-time Mandelbrot and Julia set rendering, GPU-accelerated and smooth • Pinch and pan to explore yourself, or hand it back to the autopilot anytime • Color moods — six hand-tuned palettes plus animated color cycling • Share any view — a picture plus a link that reopens the exact same spot • Fully offline — no account, no ads, no data collection • A calm, full-screen interface — just you and the fractal Whether you want something mesmerizing to get lost in, a generative-art source for textures and wallpapers, or a hands-on way to explore the math of self-similarity, FractRoam turns the Mandelbrot and Julia sets into something alive. There's a matching macOS screensaver too — find it at fractroam.com.
AR Solar System PRO
Explore the solar system in augmented reality. Place planets in your environment, walk among them, and learn detailed facts. Interact with celestial bodies to view them from all angles.
- Augmented reality planet placement
- Interactive 3D planet models
- Real-time planet rotation and revolution
- Detailed astronomical data for each planet
- Virtual space travel experience
- Gesture-based interaction
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"AR Solar System" turns your device into a telescope in augmented reality for the observation of the planets of the Solar System. Choose and place a planet or several planets in the scene: in your home (in the air, on the floor, on a table, on a wall, on any horizontal surface) or outside the home (ex. open sky)... Observe the planets of our Solar System as you've never seen them before! The planets available for observation are: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris The software uses the information available on the planets of the Solar System to animate the rotations of the planets: every second corresponds to one hour, each planet rotates at the real speed, in the direction of real rotation. For each planet data are available such as size, rotation period, period of revolution, type of atmosphere, gravity, etc... Walk in the scene with your legs moving between the planets (like travel in space) and observe them with your device like a telescope: - approaching the planet you will see more details such as craters, valleys, plains, mountain ranges, etc... - moving away from the planet, you will see the planet entirely or more planets together - turning around the planet you can see the side of interest or simulate the flight of a spaceship orbiting the planet - by moving over or under the planet you will be able to observe its poles - etc… Interacting manually with the planets you can: - Move the planet in the real scene (pan gesture: dragging a finger on the planet) - Enlarge and shrink the planet (pinch gesture: pinching the planet) - Rotate the planet around its axis of rotation (rotation gesture: rotating the planet with two fingers); manual rotation deactivates the automatic one - Remove the planet from the scene (long press gesture: holding a finger on the planet for half a second) - Add a new planet to the scene by touching the desired position (using horizontal plane in real world or feature points) - Select a planet from the scene and display its characteristics (double tap gesture: tap a planet twice with a finger) Background of the scene: in the presence of light in the real world the milky way and the stars (deep space) are projected as the background of the planets on the walls of your house or in the sky if you are outdoors; in the absence of light (or covering the camera with a finger) moving in the scene will seem to travel in deep space (virtual reality feature… the real world will be removed from the scene). Useful for all those who love to observe the planets of the Solar System in every detail, for teachers, scholars, students, astronomers, etc... UNIVERSAL APP: - You pay only once and run on all your devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FractRoam at 4.3 against AR Solar System PRO's 1.0. FractRoam also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (75 vs 1). AR Solar System PRO's advantage is chart position (#194 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
FractRoam costs $0.99 and AR Solar System PRO $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FractRoam holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FractRoam has 75 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FractRoam ships an update every 29 months, AR Solar System PRO every 46 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FractRoam | AR Solar System PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (75 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 75 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months — better | Every 46 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #194 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kaolin Fire | Gianluca Natalini |
Customer experience
FractRoam
AR Solar System PRO
In-app purchases
FractRoam
No in-app purchases
AR Solar System PRO
No in-app purchases
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