KaleidoPaint vs Smart Word Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KaleidoPaint
Create intricate, repeating designs by mirroring your brushstrokes in real-time. Offers extensive editing tools for precise control over every element of your artwork. Export your creations as tileable images or standard graphics.
- Real-time mirrored brushstrokes
- 17 symmetry patterns
- Vector graphics editing
- Curve smoothing and area fill
- Undo/Redo functionality
- Export tileable rectangles
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As you draw, KaleidoPaint mirrors your brushstrokes to create a beautiful infinitely repeating design. Image Gallery: http://www.geometrygames.org/KaleidoPaint/Gallery Features: - vector graphics - 17 symmetry patterns - scroll, rotate, zoom - curve smoothing - area fill - Edit Mode: reshape and recolor any dot, line or area - unlimited Undo/Redo - export your favorite paintings - export tileable rectangles Screenshots by Amber van Hoek.
Smart Word Cloud
Generate dynamic word clouds based on trending search queries or your own input. Customize your clouds with various fonts, colors, and shapes. Save or share your creations easily.
- Automatic word cloud creation from keywords
- Reflects recent trending queries
- Customizable fonts, colors, and shapes
- Save word clouds as photos
- Share word clouds via messages or other apps
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With the Smart Word Cloud app, you can easily create word clouds. Simply type in the keywords you want to create and you can automatically create word clouds using the words that are searched for with your keywords recently. Word cloud can be decorated with various fonts, colors and shapes. Key Features - Automatically create word clouds that reflect recent trends by typing only keywords. - You can create word clouds of various shapes and colors - Word clouds can be saved as a photo or copied and sent as a message. - You can send a created word cloud image to another app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: KaleidoPaint at 4.6 against Smart Word Cloud's 3.5. KaleidoPaint also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (77 vs 6). Smart Word Cloud's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs paid) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
KaleidoPaint holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KaleidoPaint has 77 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of KaleidoPaint's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smart Word Cloud's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
KaleidoPaint ships an update every 5 months, Smart Word Cloud every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KaleidoPaint | Smart Word Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (77 ratings) — better | 3.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jeff Weeks | groosoft |
Customer experience
KaleidoPaint
Smart Word Cloud
Bugs and requests
KaleidoPaint
Reported bugs
10 issues- App opens files app and no files are selectable
- App opens an empty page without any controls
- App immediately opens files without allowing creation
- App doesn't work, opens files app and doesn't allow creation
- Old drawings ruined by updates
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- Fill color not changing with line color
- Color and background tabs no longer work
- Sharing button not working
- Tileable rectangle export not working
- Saving as JPG only
Requested features
28 requests- Ability to break a line from a selected point
- Eraser tool
- Export as SVG option
- More features like different brushes, blending colors, more symmetrical choices, and better stroke control
- Ability to export in a square format
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- Transparent background option
- Export function for tilable squares
- Layers
- RGB color value sliders
- Opacity, blending modes
- Selection tool
- Ability to switch mirroring on and off
- Ability to export layers to Photoshop
- More control over drawing strokes
- Adjustable stroke smoothing
- More precise color selection (e.g., RGB or HLS)
- Ability to change grid line color
- Designs that save evenly in any size for multiple tiling
- Export and import patterns within the app
- Basic block repeat option
- Zoom in color selector
- More patterns to choose from and purchase
- Ability to set custom image size
- Export .png files with a transparent background
- More symmetry options
- Line and shape tools
- Apple Pencil support
- Option to minimize tool windows
Smart Word Cloud
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
KaleidoPaint
No in-app purchases
Smart Word Cloud
No in-app purchases
Questions
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