Comparison

Gradiator vs BeautOfFractals

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

Head to head
About

Gradiator

Design stunning gradients for various projects in seconds. Utilize AI for instant results or fine-tune every aspect with precise controls. Supports mesh, linear, radial, and conic gradient types.

Highlights
  • AI Gradient Generator
  • Manual Control Options
  • Multiple Gradient Types (Mesh, Linear, Radial, Conic)
  • Color Mood and Temperature Sliders
  • Smart Color Picker
  • Export to PNG and SVG
  • Cross-Platform Compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
Features
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Gradiator is your gradient design studio. Create beautiful gradients for apps, websites, presentations, wallpapers, and branding in seconds. Start with AI for instant results, then refine every detail with precise controls. Why creators choose Gradiator? • Instant AI Generator or one tap presets • Full manual control when you want to craft the perfect look • Clean, focused canvas for fast creation • Universal app that feels at home on iPhone, iPad, and Mac Gradient types • Mesh • Linear • Radial • Conic Key features • AI Generator, create on theme gradients that match your style • Surprise Me, fresh options with a single tap • Color Mood, vibrant, muted, pastel, deep • Temperature slider, shift from cool to warm • Smart color picker and harmony suggestions • Point placement, organic, scattered, or custom • Per point opacity and radius controls • Angle, stops, and curve controls for linear designs • Quick export to PNG or SVG, high resolution ready • Share instantly to your favorite tools Built for creators Whether you design UI, prepare slides, explore brand palettes, or make wallpapers, Gradiator helps you go from idea to export quickly and confidently. Cross platform Design on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a consistent interface and workflow. Export • PNG for pixel perfect assets • SVG for resolution independent graphics

About

BeautOfFractals

Features
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Beauty of Fractals brings mathematical art to iPhone and iPad, with adaptive toolbars and compact settings popovers. Revised Quick Start tips introduce the gestures and controls for your next fractal exploration. Explore the Mandelbrot set and a diverse collection of related fractals with natural touch navigation, fast Metal rendering, precise CPU deep zooms, expressive palettes and abstract rendering styles, iCloud-synced favorite spots, PNG export, and Apple Watch render mirroring. FEATURES - Explore Mandelbrot, Power of n (2-12), Julia, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Celtic, Newton, Kleinian, Mandelbrot Relief, Mandelbulb 3D, Mandelbox 3D, and Eight Rainbows - Navigate naturally with pinch-to-zoom and touch gestures - Explore the fully opened iPhone Duo display with controls that adapt to the available width and status labels that respect safe areas - Use Automatic precision selection from fast interactive views through guarded Extreme Precision - Reveal selected Mandelbrot structures around 10^50x, with deeper views available as an experimental frontier - Render difficult deep zooms with adaptive reference anchors and coverage repair - Let the app choose an iteration budget from the center orbit plus a reserve, or select up to 250,000 iterations manually - Save and revisit precise favorite spots with thumbnails, palette, quality, mode, and effective iteration counts - Sync favorites through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, and Mac - See render progress, final previews, and the current zoom on Apple Watch - Create abstract worlds with Metallic Dreams, Embossed Metal, Guilloché, Spheroid Glass, Quantum Glass, Quantum Traps, and Orbital Waves - Shape each style with its dedicated touch control - Choose from additional expressive color palettes, including Aurora, Auric, Pearl, Rainbows, and Deep Current - Export PNG images recalculated locally for the selected output size - Open compact popovers for fractal type, skin, quality, iterations, and effects from dedicated toolbar icons - Follow longer calculations with clear render status and diagnostics Beauty of Fractals is designed for exploration. There are no accounts, advertisements, analytics, or tracking. Rendering and export happen locally on your device. Optional iCloud sync and Apple Watch communication use Apple system services.

Screenshots

Gradiator4 screens
BeautOfFractals4 screens

Verdict

The call

Gradiator and BeautOfFractals are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Gradiator versus BeautOfFractals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGradiatorBeautOfFractals
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmin EminiLutz-R. Frank

In-app purchases

None

Gradiator

No in-app purchases

None

BeautOfFractals

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gradiator free?
Gradiator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BeautOfFractals free?
BeautOfFractals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gradiator or BeautOfFractals have ads?
Neither Gradiator nor BeautOfFractals shows ads.

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