Fraksl vs Morphon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fraksl
Explore and create mesmerizing fractal art with interactive touch controls. Apply various filters and mirrors, and even use your camera to generate unique visual patterns. Save, share, and export your creations in high resolution.
- Navigate fractal space with touch gestures
- Apply filters and mirrors
- Interact with fractals using phone camera
- Record in-app videos
- Export high-resolution images
- Save fractals for later use
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Fraksl turns your device into a real-time fractal visual engine. Powered by live video feedback, it transforms simple inputs into endlessly evolving, mesmerizing patterns — perfect for live performances, music visuals, generative art, and creative exploration. FILTERS & MIRRORS Apply color filters and mirror transformations to reshape your fractals into new forms. Combine them with layers and modulators for infinite creative possibilities. LAYERS Mix multiple visual sources into your fractals. Use your live camera as input, import images and videos from your library, or receive NDI streams from other apps and devices. Each layer has full control over blend mode, opacity, hue, position, rotation, scale, and chroma keying. SEQUENCES Capture bookmarks of your visual state — filter, mirror, color, and more. Arrange them into sequences with custom transition and hold times for smooth, cinematic playback. Export and share your sequences with others. MODULATORS Automate any parameter with real-time signal sources: Audio — react to sound from your microphone MIDI — connect hardware controllers and DAWs Beat Clock — sync to BPM with adjustable divisions Waveform — generate smooth LFO patterns Motion — use your device's gyroscope and accelerometer Gamepad — connect any controller for hands-on performance Create complex, evolving visuals that respond to music, movement, or external control. CAPTURE & RECORDING Take high-resolution screenshots or record video with optional microphone audio. Share directly from the app. NDI STREAMING Stream your output live over the network to any NDI-compatible software or device. Ideal for live shows, streaming setups, and multi-screen installations. PRESETS Save and recall your complete setup — layers, modulators, mappings, sequences, and all settings — in a single tap. AVAILABLE IN 9 LANGUAGES English, Dutch, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, and Polish. FREE TO USE Fraksl is free with core features included. Unlock additional filters, mirrors, layers, modulators, capture, streaming, and save slots individually or as a full bundle. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Morphon
Explore sixty-three dynamic simulations powered by physics, chemistry, and mathematics, all computed on your device's GPU. Interact with complex systems like fractals, fluid dynamics, and cellular automata through touch gestures. Save your creations as stills or short video loops.
- GPU-powered simulations
- Interactive touch controls
- Fractals and cellular automata
- Fluid dynamics and wave phenomena
- Save stills and video loops
- Multi-touch support
- Pencil support on iPad
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Sixty-three simulations from real physics, chemistry, and mathematics — running entirely on your device's GPU. Touch them. Pinch into a Mandelbrot set. Inject a vortex. Drag a magnet and watch a fractal basin re-paint. Drop pebbles into a pool and watch the waves bounce off the walls. Nothing is pre-recorded; everything you see is computed from the underlying equations as you watch. WHAT'S INSIDE • Fractals — Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Newton, IFS chaos game, and ten construction fractals (Koch snowflake, Hilbert curve, Apollonian gasket, and more) that build up one iteration per second • Cellular Automata — Conway's Game of Life, Lenia, Brian's Brain, Forest Fire, neural CA • Reaction-Diffusion — Gray-Scott, Belousov-Zhabotinsky, Turing morphogenesis (square + hex lattice) • Fluid Dynamics — incompressible Stable Fluids, shallow water, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability with optional vortex shedding past a cylinder, non-Newtonian oobleck • Wave Phenomena — Chladni plates, Faraday waves, cymatics, animated underwater caustics • Chaos — Lorenz / Rössler / Halvorsen attractors, magnetic-pendulum fractal basins, Hénon-Heiles • Phase Transitions — Ising, XY-model, Potts, Kuramoto oscillators, percolation, bubble foam coarsening • Field & Flow — Perlin noise, curl-noise, flow fields, paint-your-own velocity fields • Growth — crystal nucleation, L-systems, real DBM Lichtenberg lightning, differential growth • Collective Behaviour — slime-mould Physarum, Boids flocking • Plus granular sand, cloth, sandpiles, Schelling segregation, small-world networks, and more INTERACTION Every simulation responds to touch in a way that's specific to it. Drag to inject dye into a fluid; pinch to zoom into a fractal; flip spins in the Ising model; drag the magnets in the Magnetic Pendulum and watch the basin re-paint. Multi-touch is supported throughout. KEEP YOUR ART Save stills (PNG) and short loops (MP4) directly to Photos, share to social, or just sit back and watch. Six color palettes including viridis, magma, plasma, and turbo apply across every simulation. NO ACCOUNTS, NO ADS, NO TRACKING Morphon collects no data, runs no analytics, and connects to no servers. Whatever you make stays on your device. UNIVERSAL & OPTIMISED Built for iPhone and iPad. Targets 60 fps on every supported device with thermal-aware downshift on older hardware. Pencil-aware on iPad: pressure and tilt drive simulation parameters where it makes sense. Open it. Touch it. The math does the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fraksl at 4.8 against Morphon's 3.0. Fraksl also leads on ratings volume (626 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Morphon's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Fraksl sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Morphon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fraksl holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fraksl has 626 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Fraksl | Morphon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (626 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 626 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emiel Harmsen | Jason Wayne Boulet |
Bugs and requests
Fraksl
Reported bugs
3 issues- Camera feature crashes app on iOS 16
- Recording feature produces slow videos
- Saving high-res images not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Full-screen mode
- More color/shape options
- MIDI/audio integration
- Custom mirror editor
- Ability to import user photos
Morphon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fraksl
- Fraksl Subscription (monthly)$1.491 Month
- Fraksl Subscription$14.991 Year
- Mirror Pack$3.99
- Filter Pack$3.99
- Save Pack$8.99
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- Layers Pack$12.99
- Modulators Pack$12.99
- Fraksl Pro$14.99
- All Packs Bundle (upgrade from pro)$34.99
- All Packs Bundle$44.99
Morphon
- Morphon Pro$4.99









