Comparison

Four Colours vs GraphWeave

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

Head to head
About

Four Colours

Explore the mathematical concept of the four-color theorem with interactive maps of various countries and regions. This educational app allows you to test and understand how any map can be colored using only four colors, ensuring no adjacent areas share the same hue.

Highlights
  • Four-color theorem demonstration
  • Interactive maps of 12 countries/regions
  • Geography study tool
  • Computer-aided science verification
  • Educational exploration
Features
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Could be a map of USA or your country colored using four colors in such a way that Nebraska and Missouri (as well as any two contiguous regions or states) wouldn’t be filled with one color? It turns out that you can manage to do it with any map. And this seems to be the first statement in science proved with computer aid. You can verify this statement for variety of maps, study up geography and visit Martin Gardner country by the way. Maps in this release: • Commonwealth of Australia, • Republic of Austria, • French Republic, • Federal Republic of Germany, • United Mexican States, • Republic of Poland, • Portuguese Republic, • Kingdom of Spain, • Kingdom of Sweden, • Swiss Confederation, • United States of America, • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

About

GraphWeave

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GraphWeave lets you draw a network by hand and instantly see its geometric and structural properties, computed on the spot and shown in color. Place nodes and links with your finger, and discrete curvature and centrality measures appear right away. ■ Features • Sketch nodes and links directly; drag to arrange them freely • Discrete Ollivier–Ricci curvature for every link • Six node measures: degree, closeness, betweenness and eigenvector centrality, clustering coefficient, and PageRank • Links or nodes are automatically colored on a coolwarm (blue→red) scale, with numeric labels • Save graphs on your device and reopen them anytime to re-analyze • Works fully offline — no account, no network connection ■ Who it's for • Students and teachers learning graph theory and network science • Anyone who wants a hands-on feel for curvature and centrality • Researchers who need a quick look at the structure of a small network ■ Privacy GraphWeave collects no data. Your graphs are stored only on your device and are never sent anywhere. No ads. Metric definitions follow the open-source networkx implementations.

Screenshots

Four Colours4 screens
GraphWeave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GraphWeave at Free against Four Colours's $1.99. GraphWeave also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 42 months). Four Colours's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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

GraphWeave is free to download; Four Colours costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Four Colours ships an update every 42 months, GraphWeave daily. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Four Colours versus GraphWeave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFour ColoursGraphWeave
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 42 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman KoksharovTaiki Yamada81465561301

In-app purchases

None

Four Colours

No in-app purchases

None

GraphWeave

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Four Colours free?
Four Colours costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GraphWeave free?
GraphWeave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Four Colours or GraphWeave have ads?
Neither Four Colours nor GraphWeave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Four Colours or GraphWeave?
Four Colours ships an update every 42 months, and GraphWeave daily. Most recently, Four Colours was updated on October 8, 2026 and GraphWeave on September 30, 2026.

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