Morphon vs MandelKit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
MandelKit
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Explore infinite Mandelbrot and Julia fractals on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. MandelKit combines native Apple Metal rendering, arbitrary-precision deep zoom, expressive 2D color, illuminated 3D relief, and huge tiled exports in one creative studio. ZOOM BEYOND ORDINARY LIMITS • Explore Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Multibrot, Multijulia, and Multicorn formulas. • Navigate smoothly with mouse, trackpad, touch, or exact high-precision coordinates. • Continue deep into structures that exceed ordinary floating-point precision. • Watch progressive rendering refine the visible image while you work. CREATE A DISTINCTIVE LOOK • Choose independent exterior and interior color sources. • Use built-in or custom gradients, cyclic palettes, potential coloring, domain coloring, interference, orbit traps, and more. • Add contours, field lines, distance bands, ambient occlusion, boundary glow, curvature, textures, and coordinated style presets. • Fine-tune supersampling and detail-preserving filters. SCULPT FRACTALS IN 3D • Turn fractal measurements into an illuminated height field. • Move the relief camera independently from fractal navigation. • Adjust height, smoothing, material, directional or point light, and horizon. SAVE, SHARE, AND EXPORT • Save exact regions with coordinates, colors, effects, lighting, and 3D camera settings. • Keep private regions synchronized through iCloud when you choose. • Publish a separate public copy only after explicit confirmation, or share privately by link. • Export PNG, JPEG, or TIFF while preserving the visible composition. • On Mac, create disk-backed tiled 2D exports up to 100,000 × 100,000 pixels—even beyond the maximum size of a single Metal texture. MandelKit includes a complete in-app manual and a carefully adapted interface for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Morphon at Free against MandelKit's $2.99. MandelKit's advantage is 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
Morphon is free to download; MandelKit costs $2.99 up front. Morphon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MandelKit asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Morphon | MandelKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Wayne Boulet | Bjoern Kindler |
In-app purchases
Morphon
- Morphon Pro$4.99
MandelKit
No in-app purchases







