Comparison

Fractal Universe vs Morphon

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

Head to head
About

Fractal Universe

Features
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Explore Mathematical Infinity. Powered by Your Touch.Fractal Universe is the most intuitive and powerful fractal explorer ever designed for mobile. Built with cutting-edge WebGL technology and optimized for performance, it brings desktop-class 3D fractal rendering to your pocket—with zero learning curve. 25 Handcrafted Mathematical Worlds From legendary classics like the Mandelbulb and Mandelbox to exotic realms like Kleinian Groups and Quantum Noise Fields, each fractal is a unique universe with its own physics, aesthetics, and infinite depth.Intuitive. Instant. Immersive. One finger to rotate. Two to pan. Pinch to zoom. Double-tap to reset. That's all you need to navigate infinite complexity. Smart presets automatically optimize each fractal's view, so you start exploring immediately—not configuring settings.Real-Time Mutation Engine Watch fractals morph in real-time as you adjust parameters. Twist space. Fold dimensions. Control iteration depth. Shift through neon color spectrums. Every slider unlocks new visual territories.Cinema-Quality Captures Export your discoveries in breathtaking 4K or 8K resolution—perfect for prints, wallpapers, or simply marveling at mathematical beauty in its purest form.Designed for Explorers, Not Engineers No math degree required. No complicated interfaces. Just pure, unfiltered access to some of the most beautiful mathematical structures in existence.Download now and touch the infinite.

About

Morphon

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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

Fractal Universe4 screens
Morphon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Morphon at Free against Fractal Universe's $1.99. Fractal Universe's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On 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

Morphon is free to download; Fractal Universe costs $1.99 up front. Morphon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fractal Universe asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Fractal Universe versus Morphon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFractal UniverseMorphon
Price$1.99Free — better
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeebok LeeJason Wayne Boulet

In-app purchases

None

Fractal Universe

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Morphon

One-time1
  • Morphon Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Fractal Universe free?
Fractal Universe costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Morphon free?
Morphon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fractal Universe or Morphon have ads?
Neither Fractal Universe nor Morphon shows ads.

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