Springle vs Kinetiform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Springle
Explore dynamic, evolving environments that react to your touch. This visual toy offers a relaxing escape or a creative tool for live performances. Save your creations, customize colors, and experiment with various shapes and modes.
- Touch-reactive environments
- Save screenshots
- Change colors
- Clear screen with shake
- Customize shapes and modes
- Use personal photos
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Springle is a mesmerizing visual toy for iPhone, touch and iPad. Explore rich and evolving environments as they come alive with your touch. Space out to Springle on the subway or use it to VJ your next show! Springle is very easy to use: -Save screenshots by pressing the camera icon. -Double click to change the colors. -Shake to clear! -Open the controls by pressing the little tab and chose new shapes, modes, and more! -Play with your own photos! Enjoy!
Kinetiform
This app transforms your doodles into dynamic abstract art. Shapes automatically connect and fill with unique patterns, while kaleidoscopic animations add a mesmerizing visual experience. You can also let the app create art for you with its Auto Draw feature.
- Automatic shape detection and pattern filling
- Auto Draw for generative art creation
- Regenerate patterns
- 36 preset kaleidoscopic effects
- Customizable kaleidoscope settings
- Save and share drawings
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Kinetiform is doodling reimagined. It is a canvas with a mind of its own. Draw abstract shapes that automatically connect and fill with randomly generated patterns. Use Auto Draw to sit back and watch as the app creates a unique random composition right before your eyes. Watch as your drawing is tumbled and twisted through beautiful kaleidoscopic animations. Features: - Automatically detects shapes and fills them with random procedural patterns - Auto Draw creates procedural art as you watch and finishes lines for you - Regenerate any pattern after it’s been drawn - 36 preset kaleidoscopic effects - Advanced kaleidoscope settings let you fully configure the effect - Pan and zoom feature that interacts with kaleidoscope effects - Draw into the kaleidoscope - Customize your drawing experience with several control options - Create a color palette and save it, or load one of 200 preset color palettes - Choose which patterns you want to use and how often they will randomly appear - Save drawings to work on them later - Save images to your photo library or share them on social media - 100 levels of undo
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Springle at none against Kinetiform's 1. Springle also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.6). Kinetiform's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (92% vs 71%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Kinetiform sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Springle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kinetiform holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 58 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Springle's written reviews are positive against 92% of Kinetiform's.
Springle ships an update every 55 months, Kinetiform every 22 months. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Springle | Kinetiform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (58 ratings) | 4.9 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 55 months | Every 22 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bolasol, Inc. | Colordodge Labs |
Customer experience
Springle
Kinetiform
In-app purchases
Springle
No in-app purchases
Kinetiform
- Pro Mode$4.99
