Comparison

Lucinate vs Morphon

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

Head to head
About

Lucinate

Create algorithmic art, generative visuals, and video synthesis with a modular graphics studio. Explore the intersection of math and graphics for intricate stills, evolving patterns, and interactive shader art. Turn abstract ideas into visual form for creation, play, and performance.

Highlights
  • Algorithmic art creation
  • Generative visuals
  • Video synthesis
  • Modular flexibility
  • Parametric shaders
  • Custom shader coding
  • MIDI and audio modulation
  • Beat-synced visuals
Features
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A creative environment for generative art, live visuals, and video synthesis. Blend layers, modulate any parameter with audio, MIDI, and LFOs, sync to the beat, and code your own shaders in the built-in MSL editor. Perform live or record to video. One purchase, no subscription. Use it for shader art, beat-synced visuals, audio/MIDI-reactive VJ sets, image processing, or exploring the aesthetics of algorithms. METAL SHADER ENGINE • Universal app built on Metal for Mac, iPad and iPhone • 16-bit color HDR rendering pipeline • MSL shader editor to learn, tweak, or code your own shaders using the bundled Metal Shading Language library • Includes parametric shaders for image adjustments, effects, patterns, gradients, texture utilities, coordinate space transforms, shader art examples, and more MODULAR ARCHITECTURE • Any number of Tracks, Layers, and Modulators • Advanced layer blending and masking • Deep modulation with MIDI, CV, LFOs, audio reactivity, and more • Route modulation and image signals between Tracks • Use live camera, imported video clips, and image assets as visual input CONNECTIVITY & OUTPUT • Syphon and NDI® real-time video output (Mac only) • Beat-synchronization via Ableton Link or MIDI clock • Receive audio from other apps via Ableton Link Audio • Record your results to video or export still images • Supports external displays and projectors BUY ONCE, OWN FOREVER • No subscriptions, in-app purchases, or ads • One purchase covers Mac, iPad and iPhone NOTE: On Mac, this app requires Apple Silicon or Intel with integrated GPU. NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

About

Morphon

Explore sixty-three dynamic simulations powered by physics, chemistry, and mathematics, all computed on your device's GPU. Interact with complex systems like fractals, fluid dynamics, and cellular automata through touch gestures. Save your creations as stills or short video loops.

Highlights
  • GPU-powered simulations
  • Interactive touch controls
  • Fractals and cellular automata
  • Fluid dynamics and wave phenomena
  • Save stills and video loops
  • Multi-touch support
  • Pencil support on iPad
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Sixty-three simulations from real physics, chemistry, and mathematics — running entirely on your device's GPU. Touch them. Pinch into a Mandelbrot set. Inject a vortex. Drag a magnet and watch a fractal basin re-paint. Drop pebbles into a pool and watch the waves bounce off the walls. Nothing is pre-recorded; everything you see is computed from the underlying equations as you watch. WHAT'S INSIDE • Fractals — Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Newton, IFS chaos game, and ten construction fractals (Koch snowflake, Hilbert curve, Apollonian gasket, and more) that build up one iteration per second • Cellular Automata — Conway's Game of Life, Lenia, Brian's Brain, Forest Fire, neural CA • Reaction-Diffusion — Gray-Scott, Belousov-Zhabotinsky, Turing morphogenesis (square + hex lattice) • Fluid Dynamics — incompressible Stable Fluids, shallow water, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability with optional vortex shedding past a cylinder, non-Newtonian oobleck • Wave Phenomena — Chladni plates, Faraday waves, cymatics, animated underwater caustics • Chaos — Lorenz / Rössler / Halvorsen attractors, magnetic-pendulum fractal basins, Hénon-Heiles • Phase Transitions — Ising, XY-model, Potts, Kuramoto oscillators, percolation, bubble foam coarsening • Field & Flow — Perlin noise, curl-noise, flow fields, paint-your-own velocity fields • Growth — crystal nucleation, L-systems, real DBM Lichtenberg lightning, differential growth • Collective Behaviour — slime-mould Physarum, Boids flocking • Plus granular sand, cloth, sandpiles, Schelling segregation, small-world networks, and more INTERACTION Every simulation responds to touch in a way that's specific to it. Drag to inject dye into a fluid; pinch to zoom into a fractal; flip spins in the Ising model; drag the magnets in the Magnetic Pendulum and watch the basin re-paint. Multi-touch is supported throughout. KEEP YOUR ART Save stills (PNG) and short loops (MP4) directly to Photos, share to social, or just sit back and watch. Six color palettes including viridis, magma, plasma, and turbo apply across every simulation. NO ACCOUNTS, NO ADS, NO TRACKING Morphon collects no data, runs no analytics, and connects to no servers. Whatever you make stays on your device. UNIVERSAL & OPTIMISED Built for iPhone and iPad. Targets 60 fps on every supported device with thermal-aware downshift on older hardware. Pencil-aware on iPad: pressure and tilt drive simulation parameters where it makes sense. Open it. Touch it. The math does the rest.

Screenshots

Lucinate4 screens
Morphon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Morphon at Free against Lucinate's $29.99. Lucinate's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Morphon is free to download; Lucinate costs $29.99 up front. Morphon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lucinate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lucinate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lucinate has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Lucinate versus Morphon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLucinateMorphon
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#53 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKymatica ABJason Wayne Boulet

In-app purchases

None

Lucinate

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Morphon

One-time1
  • Morphon Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Lucinate free?
Lucinate costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Morphon free?
Morphon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lucinate or Morphon?
Lucinate is rated higher. Lucinate averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Morphon averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Lucinate or Morphon have ads?
Neither Lucinate nor Morphon shows ads.

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