Überdoodle vs FractRoam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Überdoodle
Relive nostalgic childhood fun with a classic spiral drawing tool. Create intricate patterns with virtual gears and a magic rainbow pen, or simply paint with your finger. Share your creations as wallpapers or send them to loved ones.
- Classic spirograph drawing tool
- Create custom gears and rings
- Multiple drawing modes
- Import photos
- Apple Pencil support
- Draw hypotrochoids and epitrochoids
- Various paper types and background colors
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Thanks for all the amazing feedback - we just love to hear your thoughts, comments and ideas! Überdoodle: Remember the good old spirograph toy? Get nostalgic with this classic spiral drawing tool. Great for children too! The box contains lots of colorful gears, rings and pencils - including a MAGIC rainbow pen - and an unlimited supply of (virtual) paper! Draw beautiful patterns using the gears or simply paint directly on the paper using your finger. Share your doodles to family and friends - or save them and use them as beautiful wallpapers for your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Features: • A Gear Factory where you can create custom gears and rings • Multiple drawing modes: calligraphy pen, celtic braids and multicolor gradients by selecting up to three pencils at the same time • Import photos from your Photo Library • Snap to previous drawing locations • Support for the Apple Pencil. Change calligraphy angle by tilting the pen. • Draw both hypotrochoids and epitrochoids (gears inside a ring or gears on the outside of another gear) • Different paper types and multiple background colors • Eraser and full undo/redo • Change the sizes of gears and rings
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.
- Explore Mandelbrot and Julia sets
- Share fractal images
- Autonomous roaming exploration
- Video recording with ReplayKit
- Share video creations
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FractRoam at 4.3 against Überdoodle's 3.8. FractRoam also leads on ratings volume (75 vs 11) and review sentiment (86% vs 78%). Überdoodle's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 29 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Überdoodle costs $1.99 and FractRoam $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FractRoam holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FractRoam has 75 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Überdoodle's written reviews are positive against 86% of FractRoam's.
Überdoodle ships an update every 3 months, FractRoam every 29 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Überdoodle | FractRoam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (11 ratings) | 4.3 (75 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | 86.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 75 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 29 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Morten Bek Ditlevsen | Kaolin Fire |
Customer experience
Überdoodle
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In-app purchases
Überdoodle
No in-app purchases
FractRoam
No in-app purchases
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