Comparison

Color Magic Cube vs Curvia

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

Head to head
About

Color Magic Cube

Explore a color theory cube with a vast palette of web-safe, saturated, and muted colors. Create personalized photo cubes with up to three interior images, arranging and saving your designs. Experience your creations in augmented reality and generate custom iMessage stickers.

Highlights
  • Interactive color theory cube
  • Customizable photo cubes
  • Augmented reality placement
  • iMessage sticker creation
  • Photo arrangement editing
  • Save and share cube designs
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Tumble, Spin, Zoom, and Open-Up a Magic Cube. View a Color Theory Cube using the 216 web-safe colors, 152 saturated colors on the six cube faces and 60 muted colors, inside. Build a Photo Cube with three interior pictures Swap and spin to edit photo arrangement Save your selected photo cube to reload or share Place your Cube in your home (virtual--AR required) Build a custom iMessage Sticker. Send/attach two kinds of Sticker Send/Receive whole Photo Cube Layout

About

Curvia

Features
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**Most people never get to see how beautiful mathematics really is. Curvia changes that.** Behind every equation hides a shape — glowing, breathing, impossibly intricate. Curvia lets you see those shapes, and play with them, with no math required. Drag one slider and a Fourier series draws a heart. Nudge another and a strange attractor blooms into a slow three-dimensional storm. You don't study the math here. You feel it. It's the math class you wish you'd had: not problems to solve, but wonder to fall into. **A hundred ideas of mathematics, made visible** • Curves — harmonographs, roses, spirographs, the Fourier machine that draws a heart. • Attractors & Chaos — Lorenz, Aizawa and other strange attractors, tumbling in 3D. • Fractals — Koch snowflakes, Sierpinski, dragon curves, Pythagoras trees. • Escape-Time sets — Mandelbrot, Julia, the marbled Lyapunov, and more. These aren't decorations. They're the real, famous objects of mathematics — the ones usually trapped inside textbooks — finally something you can touch. **See the formula behind the beauty** Tap once and the equation appears beneath any piece. The point isn't to teach you — it's to let you fall for the math first, through its beauty, so the symbols stop being scary and start being magic. Wonderful for the curious, for kids, and for anyone who was ever told they're "not a math person." **Made to feel effortless** • Live sliders — every move reshapes the figure instantly. • "Surprise me" — one tap reveals a whole new piece. • Hand-tuned glowing palettes. • Tap the heart to keep the ones you love. **Keep the wonder with you** Save any piece to carry a little mathematical beauty on your screen — as an image, a video, or a true live wallpaper that animates when you press your lock screen. (Live videos and live wallpapers are part of Curvia Pro, a one-time unlock.) No account. No clutter. Everything stays on your device. Math is the engine. Wonder is the product. > *Curvia isn't a math tool and it isn't a design app — it's an invitation to see that mathematics was beautiful all along.*

Screenshots

Color Magic Cube3 screens
Curvia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Curvia at every 4 days against Color Magic Cube's fortnightly. Color Magic Cube's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Color Magic Cube sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Curvia sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Color Magic Cube ships an update fortnightly, Curvia every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Color Magic Cube versus Curvia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor Magic CubeCurvia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn Leffertsrainwe games Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Color Magic Cube

One-time2
  • Edit and Save - 100 Credits$0.99
  • Credits in bulk - 1000$3.99
1 purchases

Curvia

One-time1
  • Curvia Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Color Magic Cube free?
Color Magic Cube is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Curvia free?
Curvia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Color Magic Cube or Curvia have ads?
Neither Color Magic Cube nor Curvia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Color Magic Cube or Curvia?
Color Magic Cube ships an update fortnightly, and Curvia every 4 days. Most recently, Color Magic Cube was updated on October 29, 2026 and Curvia on October 24, 2026.

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