Frabbles vs Mathic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Frabbles
Transform your photos into animated drawings with color shapes. Watch your favorite images come to life as you trace them on screen. This app offers a unique way to interact with your pictures.
- Color shape photo reveal
- Animated drawing effect
- Image transformation
- Interactive drawing on screen
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Reveal your favorite picture or photograph with color shapes and color averaging. Watch your image appear with animating shapes as you draw on the screen.
Mathic
Explore mathematical concepts through engaging animations and optical illusions. This app showcases drawing techniques using CoreGraphics and UIKit, offering a visual journey into geometry and patterns. Source code is available for those interested in the underlying technology.
- Shape and path drawing
- Gradient and text rendering
- CoreGraphics animations
- UIKit integration
- Mathematical scenes
- Optical illusions
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A UIKit & CoreGraphics showcase. This app demonstrates different techniques for drawing shapes, paths, gradients, text, and animations using CoreGraphics and UIKit. Scenes are based in mathematics and optical illusions. Source code is available through the About page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mathic at every 10 days against Frabbles's every 10 months. Mathic also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Frabbles against 5.0 for Mathic. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Frabbles ships an update every 10 months, Mathic every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Frabbles | Mathic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tremont Air, LLC | zakk hoyt |
Customer experience
Frabbles
Mathic
In-app purchases
Frabbles
No in-app purchases
Mathic
No in-app purchases
