Comparison

Isometric vs Silhouette Magic

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

Head to head
About

Isometric

Create stunning geometric art and optical illusions by manipulating basic shapes. Explore endless creative possibilities with intuitive tools, apply stylish filters, and share your unique designs in high resolution or as vector graphics.

Highlights
  • Create geometric art from basic shapes
  • Compose patterns and optical illusions
  • Automatic color depth impression
  • Individual shape coloring
  • Apply style and filter effects
  • Export in high resolution and vector formats
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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"A lot of tapping, but a lot of fun" - THE VERGE "Who knew that so many unique works of art could be created with a rhombus" - APPADVICE "I could spend the whole day creating geometric art" - iDOWNLOADBLOG "Isometric is beautiful" - iFUN.DE "Isometric allows you to create and manipulate designs and optical illusions that are weirdly compelling" - GIZMODO "Isometric allows users to create beautiful geometric designs by tapping, rotating, dragging, and manipulating basic colorful shapes" - LAUGHING SQUID CREATE AMAZING GEOMETRIC ART Compose basic geometric shapes to create beautiful, abstract works of art. A simple rhombus is the basis for everything. Isometric lets you experience pure creativity and play with the tension between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality! There are endless possibilities for making unique graphics and optical illusions. COMPOSE From gorgeous geometric patterns to crazy optical illusions, you can make anything you can imagine. Simply put together 60-degree rhombuses and Isometric does everything else to make it look perfect. It automatically uses three different colors in your drawing to create an impression of depth. Of course, you can also color the shapes individually. STYLE Once you've created a drawing, you can apply various perfectly tuned styles and filter effects, that give your artwork a high-quality and unique appearance. SHARE & EXPORT Easily save your geometric art, share it on Twitter and Facebook or open it in other apps like Tumblr - with a resolution of 2048x2048 pixels. If that's not enough, you can also export your drawing as a 2D or 3D vector graphic in the SVG, PDF, OBJ, STL or DXF format (available as In-App purchase). SYNC Isometric runs on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. You can use iCloud to make your drawings available on all your devices. Sketch a new idea on your iPhone, finish and share it on your iPad! GET INSPIRED The countless isometric designs featured on madewithisometric.com are a great source of inspiration. You'll be totally impressed by what is possible with this app. TOTAL IMMERSION Isometric is the ideal app to forget about time while exploring your creativity and making fascinating artworks. The lightweight yet powerful interface makes it a delight to work on your graphics and to fully concentrate on your creation. You can interact directly with your designs using intuitive multi-touch gestures. This app supports both portrait and landscape mode on all devices. It is also compatible with Split View and Slide Over on iPad.

About

Silhouette Magic

Easily create stunning silhouette effects with an intelligent object masking tool. Apply various decorations like colors, images, and borders to your silhouettes, and compose them with background images for unique artwork. Save your creations as transparent stickers.

Highlights
  • Intelligent one-step object masking
  • Apply fill, gradient, and image colors to silhouettes
  • Add borders and vignette effects
  • Save silhouettes as transparent stickers
  • Compose with background images
  • Use preset or custom images for silhouettes and backgrounds
Features
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Create amazingly beatiful silhouette effect with powerful object masking tool and tons of silhouette decoration options. • Super intelligent one step object masking. • Create silhouette within just a few seconds. No complex editing needed. • Apply fill color to silhouette. • Apply gradient colors to silhouette. • Apply image to silhouette. • Supports beautiful silhouette image presets. You can also use your own photos. • Apply darkness and vignette effect to silhouette. • Apply border to silhouette. • Save silhouette image as sticker image with transparent background. • Compose silhouette with background image to create stunning artwork. • Supports beautiful background image presets. You can also use your own photos as background.

Screenshots

Isometric4 screens
Silhouette Magic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Isometric at 83% against Silhouette Magic's 25%. Isometric also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.8 vs 3.4). Silhouette Magic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Isometric is free to download; Silhouette Magic costs $2.99 up front. Isometric sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Silhouette Magic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Isometric holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Isometric has 201 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Isometric's written reviews are positive against 25% of Silhouette Magic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Isometric ships an update every 2 months, Silhouette Magic monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Isometric versus Silhouette Magic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIsometricSilhouette Magic
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (201 ratings) — better3.4 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews82.7% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings201 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJan PeterDongwook Cho

Customer experience

Isometric

All ratings201 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral5.5%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive82.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative8.2%

Silhouette Magic

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Bugs and requests

Isometric

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashed when starting a new page
  • Doesn't work on iPhone7 or iPad Pro
  • Can't find the in-app purchase

Requested features

20 requests
  • Add a community section inside of the app where you can chat and share isometric posts
  • More Styles (or the possibility to create our own styles)
  • More Updates (bug fixes, more features, etc...)
  • Increase the capacity of squares per screen
  • Add layers, opacity options, and a visual grid which can be turned on and off
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  • Import photos and pictures to a background layer
  • Other shape options
  • Smoother UI for putting shapes over/under one another
  • Ability to adjust how tiles snap to the grid
  • Create a pattern, lock it, and be able to copy and paste that over the whole canvas
  • Output to different sizes
  • Custom texture input
  • Fill the background with colour
  • Bring pieces to the front, or push to behind
  • Custom colour palette
  • Lines
  • More colours
  • Backgrounds
  • Cut and paste tool to make arbitrary groups of tiles and duplicate
  • Using photos from library as textures for tiles

Silhouette Magic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Isometric

One-time2
  • Vector ExportFree
  • Plus CollectionFree
None

Silhouette Magic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Isometric free?
Isometric is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Silhouette Magic free?
Silhouette Magic costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Isometric or Silhouette Magic?
Isometric is rated higher. Isometric averages 4.8 out of 5 from 201 ratings, while Silhouette Magic averages 3.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Isometric or Silhouette Magic have ads?
Neither Isometric nor Silhouette Magic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Isometric or Silhouette Magic?
Isometric ships an update every 2 months, and Silhouette Magic monthly. Most recently, Isometric was updated on August 18, 2026 and Silhouette Magic on September 29, 2026.

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