iSymmetry vs Mandala Maker 360
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iSymmetry
This app is a comprehensive studio for creating seamless, kaleidoscopic patterns. It offers a wide array of brushes, precision shape tools, and layer management for intricate designs. Users can import photos, apply filters, and even view their creations in augmented reality.
- 17 Kinds of Pattern
- 18 Expressive Brushes
- Precision Shape Tools
- Layer Management with Blend Modes
- Kaleidoscopic Photo Import
- Augmented Reality Preview
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iSymmetry is a complete studio for seamless pattern creation. Every brush stroke is transformed into a kaleidoscopic design. Built for the iPad and Apple Pencil, iSymmetry gives artists and designers powerful tools to create beautiful patterns with ease. iSymmetry is fun and intuitive and packed with powerful features: SYMMETRIES - 17 Kinds of Pattern (wallpaper groups) - 23 Pattern templates - Symmetry guide lines BRUSHES - 18 expressive brushes: Pencil, Liner, Airbrush, Marker, Ink Stick, Arabesque, Grungy Smoke, Oil, Ink Splatter, Squiggles, Rings, Charcoal, Pastel, Laser, Grungy Rings, Smoulder, Spectral Grain, Ink Splodge - Full support for Apple Pencil - Slider controls for scatter, hardness and pressure to give you even more creative control PRECISION SHAPE TOOLS - Line - Star - Polygon - Triangle - Circle - Arc Import Photos - Kaleidoscopic photo import LAYERS - Blend modes: normal, multiply, screen, overlay, soft-light - Opacity - Offsets - Individual layer symmetry - Merge, duplicate, delete and reorder layers COLOR - HSB and RGB color picker. - Swatches - Eyedropper Share/Export - export seamless pattern tile - export patterns of custom size - png/jpg - Export as Procreate pattern brush FILTERS - Blur - Hue - Color Controls - Tone Curve - Vibrance PATTERN TRANSFORMATIONS - Möbius transformations - Spiral transformations - Bipolar transformations - Animate patterns transformations - Record and share pattern animations AUGMENTED REALITY - View patterns on 3D objects in Augmented Reality - Choose from Dress, Cushions, Shirt, Vase
Mandala Maker 360
Create stunning mandala art with intuitive tools. Customize symmetry, brushes, backgrounds, and even use images as a base for your designs. Explore predefined patterns and add shadows for unique effects.
- Customizable canvas symmetry and background
- Multiple brush styles and color options
- Draw with over 50 predefined images
- Apply shadow effects
- Select from predefined patterns
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• Make beautiful and intricate mandala drawings with a few easy steps. • It has a lot of customization options, where you can change the canvas symmetry, background color, brush settings, apply shadows, and much more. • It even has some predefined patterns which you can use to draw. • You can also use images to draw a mandala and there are more than 50+ images to draw with. #--- Features ----# ◉ Canvas Customization - you can change the background color - can change the canvas center - apply center at the touch - canvas mirroring ◉ Brush Customization - multiple brushes styles - different color types - random color selection - change brush sizes and type ◉ Image Customization - 50+ images to draw with - change image size and dimensions ◉ Shadow Properties - apply random shadow - select different shadow sizes and color ◉ Patterns - select from predefined patterns - multiple patterns to draw with #---- Credits ----# Music by Aakash Gandhi: https://www.youtube.com/@88keystoeuphoria App Icon from qawi_arts: https://bit.ly/3nZCsfC Icons from: https://icons8.com/ Icons from: https://www.flaticon.com/ • Terms of Use (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mandala Maker 360 at Free against iSymmetry's $9.99. Mandala Maker 360 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). iSymmetry's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Mandala Maker 360 is free to download; iSymmetry costs $9.99 up front. Mandala Maker 360 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. iSymmetry asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for iSymmetry against 4.6 for Mandala Maker 360. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 96 and 47 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of iSymmetry's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mandala Maker 360's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iSymmetry | Mandala Maker 360 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (96 ratings) | 4.6 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | DAVID CROOKS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIMITED | Bhupesh Singh |
Customer experience
iSymmetry
Mandala Maker 360
In-app purchases
iSymmetry
No in-app purchases
Mandala Maker 360
- 1 Month$0.991 Month
- Lifetime$3.99
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