Comparison

PythagorasTree vs Sacred Drift

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

Head to head
About

PythagorasTree

Explore the visual beauty of mathematical concepts with this app. It generates fractal art based on the Pythagorean theorem, allowing you to customize angles and colors. Watch the intricate patterns grow and shrink to understand the recursive process.

Highlights
  • Recursive fractal generation
  • Adjustable triangle angles
  • Customizable tree colors
  • Interactive growth and shrink animation
  • Visualizes Pythagorean theorem
Features
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The Pythagoras Tree is math art. A square trunk is drawn. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is laid on top of the square. From the two legs two new squares are drawn. This process is repeated recursively until there the size of the square is too small to draw. Here you can adjust the angles of the triangle and the color of the tree. You can also make the tree grow and shrink to see the steps in making the tree.

About

Sacred Drift

Experience a dynamic, living field of bioluminescent particles that you can interact with. Save and share unique generative art scenes with others. This app offers a pocket-sized generative art studio with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Interactive particle field manipulation
  • Generative art creation
  • Customizable motion modes and confinement shapes
  • 22 curated color palettes
  • Shareable scene 'recipes'
  • Offline local processing
Features
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Sacred Drift is a living field of light you keep in your pocket. Open the app and a slow-breathing cloud of bioluminescent particles fills your screen. Drag to orbit, pinch to zoom in. Tap the dice for a fresh field — every roll is a unique scene, never the same twice. Tap the heart when you find one you love and it's saved as a "recipe": a tiny shareable file that reproduces the exact look on any device, including any web browser. Built on a custom physics engine running 60 frames a second, Sacred Drift is an entire generative art studio that fits in a button row: • 5 motion modes — drift, plus four classic strange attractors (Lorenz, Aizawa, Thomas, Halvorsen) • 4 confinement shapes — particles can swirl through a torus, an N-sided polygon tube, a logarithmic galaxy spiral, or a star tetrahedron (merkaba) • 22 hand-curated palettes from infrared to aurora to chlorophyll • 19 starting presets — Astrophage, Plasma Storm, Aurora Drift, Deep Cosmos, Embers, Stardust, Lorenz Wing, Spiral Galaxy, Merkaba Star and more — or roll the dice • 5 spawn distributions: uniform, central focus, hollow shell, diagonal, twin clusters • Soft-edged additive blending with HDR bloom + vignette • Trail persistence for long-exposure ribbons of light • Optional repulsor for negative-space compositions • Camera auto-orbit • Snapshot the current frame to your photo library — with or without a transparent background • Recipe import / export — share scenes with anyone Privacy: Sacred Drift makes zero network calls. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, no data collected. Everything happens locally on your phone. Sister app: Sacred Spin (mandalas you spin and tune) is also available.

Screenshots

PythagorasTree3 screens
Sacred Drift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PythagorasTree at Free against Sacred Drift's $1.99. PythagorasTree also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Sacred Drift's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 21 months). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

PythagorasTree is free to download; Sacred Drift costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PythagorasTree against 5.0 for Sacred Drift. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PythagorasTree ships an update every 21 months, Sacred Drift every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PythagorasTree versus Sacred Drift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPythagorasTreeSacred Drift
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEric StrohBradley Tompkins

Customer experience

PythagorasTree

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sacred Drift

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PythagorasTree

No in-app purchases

None

Sacred Drift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PythagorasTree free?
PythagorasTree is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sacred Drift free?
Sacred Drift costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PythagorasTree or Sacred Drift?
PythagorasTree and Sacred Drift are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do PythagorasTree or Sacred Drift have ads?
Neither PythagorasTree nor Sacred Drift shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PythagorasTree or Sacred Drift?
PythagorasTree ships an update every 21 months, and Sacred Drift every 2 weeks. Most recently, PythagorasTree was updated on October 23, 2026 and Sacred Drift on October 4, 2026.

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