Comparison

FractRoam vs BodyWays

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Explore Mandelbrot and Julia sets
  • Share fractal images
  • Autonomous roaming exploration
  • Video recording with ReplayKit
  • Share video creations
Features
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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.

About

BodyWays

Features
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Have you ever tried talking with body movements? Instead of using words, use your body movements to ask questions, give your opinion, and wait for the other person to respond. Try to understand what the other is saying with her/his body, without using words. Explore this new universe and discover your body. Discover your expression. Discover how you can say amazing things using your body in a new way like you've never done before. Something totally new for you to try: BodyWay Nota-Anna, an App of motion capture with visualization and sound options for social networks. How it was born? A dancer, Analivia Cordeiro, dreamed that one day everyone would communicate and talk through movements, when technology instruments were still rudimentary, in 1983. Time passed, a lot of research was done by her and Nilton Lobo, responsible for the tech solutions. Together, they created Nota-Anna, trying to turn this dream into reality. Finally, 39 years later, their dream comes true: BodyWay Nota-Anna, a way for people to talk to each other using the movements of their bodies, without words. BodyWay Nota-Anna creates a graphic visualization of your body movement video. You can choose an image background, add a soundtrack. If you want, put a comment and send it to a friend, a relative, a partner, to anyone who you want. And wait for this person to answer. Thus, in a back-and-forth, you create a movement dialogue. BodyWay Nota-Anna is easy to use, fun, applicable to anyone anywhere in the world. A new way to communicate, create and have fun.

Screenshots

FractRoam4 screens
BodyWays4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BodyWays at Free against FractRoam's $0.99. BodyWays also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 29 months). FractRoam's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BodyWays is free to download; FractRoam costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FractRoam ships an update every 29 months, BodyWays every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FractRoam versus BodyWays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFractRoamBodyWays
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (75 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings75 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 29 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaolin FireBody Way

In-app purchases

None

FractRoam

No in-app purchases

None

BodyWays

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FractRoam free?
FractRoam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BodyWays free?
BodyWays is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FractRoam or BodyWays have ads?
Neither FractRoam nor BodyWays shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FractRoam or BodyWays?
FractRoam ships an update every 29 months, and BodyWays every 3 months. Most recently, FractRoam was updated on October 16, 2026 and BodyWays on October 1, 2026.

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