Überdoodle vs Glide Oracle
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
Glide Oracle
Explore an ancient divination system with dynamic, transforming symbols that offer translations. This app presents a unique language and its interpretation, inspired by concepts of co-evolving language and consciousness.
- Dynamic, transforming symbols
- User interaction with symbols
- Symbol translations
- Inspired by I Ching tradition
- Xenolinguistics interpretation
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The Glide Oracle is an oracle whose roots are in the tradition of the I Ching, and whose symbols announced themselves as an alien language called Glide, transmitted in an altered state of consciousness. Glide symbols dynamically transform under the touch of the user, and deliver a translation. These translations of 729 Glide hexagrams were completed by Dr. Diana Slattery of the Department of Xenolinguistics at the Institute for the Encouragement of Outrageous Ideas. Slattery speculates that language and consciousness are co-evolving in the human species, catalyzed in the culture by psychedelic experience, an idea addressed by psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna. She sees the morphing symbols of Glide as a model of a new way of making meaning that can potentially rewire the brain with a bias toward perception of transforming rather than static states, increasing the fluidity and flexibility of thought forms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Glide Oracle at Free against Überdoodle's $1.99. Glide Oracle also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). Überdoodle's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). 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
Glide Oracle is free to download; Überdoodle costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Glide Oracle holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Überdoodle has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Überdoodle's written reviews are positive against 75% of Glide Oracle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Überdoodle ships an update every 3 months, Glide Oracle every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Überdoodle | Glide Oracle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (11 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Morten Bek Ditlevsen | Mark Buchanan |
Customer experience
Überdoodle
Glide Oracle
In-app purchases
Überdoodle
No in-app purchases
Glide Oracle
No in-app purchases
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