Comparison

MathArt Playground vs Curvia

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

Head to head
About

MathArt Playground

Explore mathematical transformations and geometric patterns to create dynamic visual art. This app offers intuitive controls for manipulating shapes, colors, and arrangements, making learning math engaging and accessible for students and educators.

Highlights
  • Transform shapes with sliders
  • Create geometric patterns
  • Customize colors and repetition
  • Save and load artworks
  • Share creations with artwork codes
  • Built-in tooltips for understanding transformations
Features
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MathArt Playground is a creative tool that transforms math into dynamic visual art through intuitive controls and geometric patterns. Designed for students, educators, and creative thinkers, MathArt invites users to explore mathematical transformations like rotation, scaling, skewing, and symmetry in a playful and visual way. Interactive Math Meets Art Start with one of 14 built-in shapes and manipulate your design using powerful sliders that control transformations such as layer count, spread, skew, and rotation. Watch your artwork evolve in real time with every adjustment. Customise and Experiment Fine-tune colors, repetition, and shape arrangements to generate mesmerizing patterns and motion. Built-in tooltips help users understand each transformation and its artistic effect. Save, Load, and Share Save up to 12 artworks in your personal gallery and easily reload or edit them. Export your creations with unique artwork codes to share with friends, classmates, or on social media — all without needing an account. Built for Learning and Exploration MathArt is inspired by educational goals and supports visual learning. Whether you're an instructor illustrating geometric concepts or a student exploring math through design, MathArt offers a fun, engaging, and accessible platform.

About

Curvia

Features
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**Most people never get to see how beautiful mathematics really is. Curvia changes that.** Behind every equation hides a shape — glowing, breathing, impossibly intricate. Curvia lets you see those shapes, and play with them, with no math required. Drag one slider and a Fourier series draws a heart. Nudge another and a strange attractor blooms into a slow three-dimensional storm. You don't study the math here. You feel it. It's the math class you wish you'd had: not problems to solve, but wonder to fall into. **A hundred ideas of mathematics, made visible** • Curves — harmonographs, roses, spirographs, the Fourier machine that draws a heart. • Attractors & Chaos — Lorenz, Aizawa and other strange attractors, tumbling in 3D. • Fractals — Koch snowflakes, Sierpinski, dragon curves, Pythagoras trees. • Escape-Time sets — Mandelbrot, Julia, the marbled Lyapunov, and more. These aren't decorations. They're the real, famous objects of mathematics — the ones usually trapped inside textbooks — finally something you can touch. **See the formula behind the beauty** Tap once and the equation appears beneath any piece. The point isn't to teach you — it's to let you fall for the math first, through its beauty, so the symbols stop being scary and start being magic. Wonderful for the curious, for kids, and for anyone who was ever told they're "not a math person." **Made to feel effortless** • Live sliders — every move reshapes the figure instantly. • "Surprise me" — one tap reveals a whole new piece. • Hand-tuned glowing palettes. • Tap the heart to keep the ones you love. **Keep the wonder with you** Save any piece to carry a little mathematical beauty on your screen — as an image, a video, or a true live wallpaper that animates when you press your lock screen. (Live videos and live wallpapers are part of Curvia Pro, a one-time unlock.) No account. No clutter. Everything stays on your device. Math is the engine. Wonder is the product. > *Curvia isn't a math tool and it isn't a design app — it's an invitation to see that mathematics was beautiful all along.*

Screenshots

MathArt Playground4 screens
Curvia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MathArt Playground at none against Curvia's 1. Curvia's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Curvia sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MathArt Playground asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MathArt Playground ships an update every 3 days, Curvia every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MathArt Playground versus Curvia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMathArt PlaygroundCurvia
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZachary Letcherrainwe games Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

MathArt Playground

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Curvia

One-time1
  • Curvia Pro$2.99

Questions

Is MathArt Playground free?
MathArt Playground is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Curvia free?
Curvia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MathArt Playground or Curvia have ads?
Neither MathArt Playground nor Curvia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MathArt Playground or Curvia?
MathArt Playground ships an update every 3 days, and Curvia every 4 days. Most recently, MathArt Playground was updated on November 5, 2026 and Curvia on October 31, 2026.

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