Comparison

SpiroDoodle vs Light Creations

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

Head to head
About

SpiroDoodle

Create intricate, symmetrical mandala designs with a simple finger swipe. Explore endless color combinations and line patterns to unleash your creativity. Save and share your unique artwork as backgrounds or for inspiration.

Highlights
  • Create symmetrical patterns with finger swipes
  • Choose from 1 to 36 radial lines
  • Select from millions of colors or use random colors
  • Special mirror effect for kaleidoscope-like symmetry
  • Fill areas with selected or random colors
  • Draw with different line widths
  • Save and share creations
Features
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Make Mandalas. Create limitless designs. Unleash your creativity. A cross between the old spirograph and finger painting. Take a look at the example images to see what kinds of great designs you can make. Make symmetrical patterns with just a swipe of your finger across the screen. This addictive application will captivate you for hours while you explore new ways to make fun designs. Also a great way to explore ideas for logos or tattoos. Very easy to use. Detailed instructions are included in the application's help section and at www.spirodoodle.com/instructions. You can save your doodle to your photo library. From the photo library you can email it to friends and set it as the iPhone background. Keep your children entertained for hours. Start up your iPod music and then open SpiroDoodle. You can continue listening while you create. See what SpiroDoodlers have to say: I love this app it's great. 5 star app! Great distraction app for my kids. It is so addicting. My boss played it all day. Excellent Application. This was way easy to use. Rock solid. Features: - choose from 1 to 36 lines to draw radially around the screen. - select from millions of colors or let the colors come randomly. - save your creations and share them with friends on social media or use as backgrounds. - a special mirror effect that makes each stroke you do symmetrical, much like a kaleidoscope. - fill areas with the selected color, or random colors. - draw with different line widths.

About

Light Creations

Create dynamic 3D light sculptures from simple line drawings. Accelerate animations with music and explore five unique visual themes. Save and share your mesmerizing creations.

Highlights
  • Create 3D light sculptures
  • Dynamic animation from drawn lines
  • Music-reactive visuals
  • Five unique visual themes
  • Screenshot capture
  • Universal app support
Features
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Light Creations allows you to create amazing light sculptures and structures. You provide the seed for the creation by drawing an arbitrary line, e.g., straight, curved, or long and winded, and enjoy how Light Creations transforms this seed into a dynamic piece of 3D art. Accelerate the animation by humming, singing or playing music and dive deep into a relaxing journey through a world of light. Observe the mesmerizing dynamics of the evolving art and create screenshots with ease just by tapping an icon. The screenshots are conveniently saved into your photo album for further processing and sharing. Light Creations provides five themes, each transforming the initial seed in a different way: Galaxy - Creates light sculptures built out of many light particles. Light Ocean - Creates light sculptures above an ocean of light. Centered Lines - Creates symmetrical light structures. Warped Lines - Creates a work of art where the initial seed is warped in space resulting in fractal like creations. MultiDraw - The initial line is mirrored several times and warped in space already while drawing. Tip: use the pinch gesture to emphasize the amazing micro and macro structures. - Universal App for iPad, iPhone, iPod. - Retina Display support. - There are no ads or in-app purchases in Light Creations. Customer Comments: ***** Wow!!!! "This is the most beautiful and trippy app I have on my iPad (and I have about 20). Listen to some ambient electronica or psychedelia and ascend to a higher plain without chemical assistance." ***** AWESOME! "Love it, mesmerizing & beautiful ! Save your creations & share. Recommend," ***** Great app for creative control "I typically don't write reviews, but these visuals need a voice! They are simply in a league of their own. The future of intuitive easy to use visuals has arrived! [...] Congratulations to the developer for this marvelous work of art! " ***** Totally brilliant "This is like having your own personal firework display. Congrats to the app maker." ***** Grandiose

Screenshots

SpiroDoodle4 screens
Light Creations4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SpiroDoodle at 4.6 against Light Creations's 4.1. SpiroDoodle also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (137 vs 14). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

SpiroDoodle costs $0.99 and Light Creations $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SpiroDoodle holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SpiroDoodle has 137 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of SpiroDoodle's written reviews are positive against 76% of Light Creations's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpiroDoodle ships an update every 2 months, Light Creations every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SpiroDoodle versus Light Creations: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpiroDoodleLight Creations
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (137 ratings) — better4.1 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews — better76.5% of reviews
Number of ratings137 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared P DeGraffenriedJoachim Wolffram

Customer experience

SpiroDoodle

All ratings137 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral4.4%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral9.6%
Negative8.2%

Light Creations

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative17.6%

Bugs and requests

SpiroDoodle

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Crashes when exporting
  • Cannot save work/images not appearing
  • App crashes/closes unexpectedly
  • App behaving erratically
  • Glitchy/glitches every 2 minutes
Show 5 more
  • Fill feature fills outside boundaries
  • Lines are crude with straight segments and sharp angles
  • Color bleeds through lines
  • Lines are not very clean/pixels
  • Small lines are gone after update

Requested features

14 requests
  • Eraser tool
  • Instructions/tutorial
  • Online multiplayer/competition
  • Higher resolution export
  • More cool stuff/features
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  • Zoom feature
  • Smoother lines
  • Gradient feature
  • Layers and layer blending
  • Better color selection/shades of grey
  • Ability to save color palettes
  • Step-by-step redo option
  • Smaller line option
  • More complex icons/example pictures

Light Creations

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SpiroDoodle

No in-app purchases

None

Light Creations

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpiroDoodle free?
SpiroDoodle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Light Creations free?
Light Creations costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SpiroDoodle or Light Creations?
SpiroDoodle is rated higher. SpiroDoodle averages 4.6 out of 5 from 137 ratings, while Light Creations averages 4.1 from 14 ratings.
Do SpiroDoodle or Light Creations have ads?
Neither SpiroDoodle nor Light Creations shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpiroDoodle or Light Creations?
SpiroDoodle ships an update every 2 months, and Light Creations every 8 months. Most recently, SpiroDoodle was updated on October 12, 2026 and Light Creations on October 14, 2026.

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