Artisan Forge vs BeautOfFractals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artisan Forge
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Artisan Forge is a creative studio for algorithmic and generative art on iOS. Design original visuals with layered engines, tune parameters in real time, and export high-quality artworks for sharing, wallpapers, and personal projects. Key features: - Multiple art engines across cellular systems, fractals, geometry, noise, particles, and photo-driven styles. - Layer-based workflow with editable parameters for each layer. - Save and organize projects in your local library. - Daily inspiration view to quickly discover new visual directions. - Export to image, share directly, and save to Photos. Why creators use Artisan Forge: - Fast experimentation with immediate visual feedback. - Local-first creative workflow focused on control and flexibility. - Suitable for artists, designers, hobbyists, and visual explorers.
BeautOfFractals
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: BeautOfFractals at none against Artisan Forge's shown. Artisan Forge's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Artisan Forge | BeautOfFractals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 玉华 胡 | Lutz-R. Frank |
In-app purchases
Artisan Forge
No in-app purchases
BeautOfFractals
No in-app purchases
Questions
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