Comparison

Suminagashi vs Patternify

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

Head to head
About

Suminagashi

Create calming ink art with flowing colors and ambient soundscapes. Use the built-in focus timer for work or meditation. Save and share your unique creations.

Highlights
  • Touch-driven ink flow
  • Curated visual and sound spaces
  • Lo-Fi music and ambient soundscapes
  • Custom focus and break timer
  • Save and share artwork
  • Automatic language display
Features
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Suminagashi turns your screen into a quiet surface where ink, water, and sound move together. Glide a finger across the water and watch colored ink bloom, overlap, and slowly drift. Choose a Space to change the ink palette, water movement, background, and BGM together, or adjust the experience to suit the moment. Listen to curated Lo-Fi tracks and natural ambience while you create. Use the custom focus timer for a work session, a short break, meditation, or a calm moment before sleep. Features: - Touch-driven ink that blooms and flows across water - Curated Spaces pairing visuals, movement, and sound - Continuous playlists with Lo-Fi music and natural ambience - Auto mode for slow, ambient ink movement - Custom focus and break timer - Save and share your current artwork - Automatic language display: Japanese on Japanese-language devices, English elsewhere - No account required Suminagashi Plus is available as a one-time purchase. It removes ads and unlocks every Space, premium surface, and expressive ink material. There is no right way to draw. Touch the water, follow the flow, wash the surface, and begin again whenever you like.

About

Patternify

Features
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Patternify turns a single shape into a seamless pattern you can use anywhere - a phone wallpaper, a desktop background, wrapping paper, or a print for the wall. Pick a traditional motif, crop a photo from your gallery, or draw your own shape with your finger. The app repeats it into a pattern that tiles perfectly in every direction, with no visible seams and no design skills needed. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Start from 16 traditional motifs: cherry blossom, camellia, plum blossom, chrysanthemum, leaf, maple, bamboo, hemp leaf, blue waves, cloud, crane, koi, seven treasures, star, diamond and dot - Turn any photo into a motif. Pan and zoom to choose the part you want, and the app builds a seamless tile out of it - Draw your own motif by hand. A live strip under the canvas shows how your strokes repeat while you are still drawing - Mix up to four shapes in one pattern. Spread them alternating, checkered or at random, or overlay them stacked in the same cell - Borrow a shape from any of the built-in patterns to drop into your mix - Choose from 12 traditional color palettes, or pick your own colors by hand - Shape the repeat with six symmetries: grid, brick, mirror, four fold kaleidoscope, six fold kaleidoscope and diamond - Drag the canvas to spin and resize the motif, and slide to change the repeat count, the scale and the position of the symmetry axis - Preview your pattern at real size on A5 to A3 paper, shown in both centimetres and inches, so you know exactly how it prints - Export at 2048 pixels as a PNG, ready for a wallpaper, a print, fabric or stationery NOTHING TO SAVE Every pattern you touch is recorded in your library on its own. There is no save button to forget. Keep adjusting and the same pattern updates instead of piling up drafts, so you can come back to any of them later to rename, remix or export again. 111 PATTERNS TO START FROM The library is full from the very first launch. Open any starter pattern, remix it, and it becomes the base of something of your own. MADE FOR - Wallpapers and backgrounds for phones, tablets and desktops - Wrapping paper you designed yourself - Fabric, sticker and stationery prints - Journals, scrapbooks and collage work - Anyone who likes traditional Japanese and Korean pattern craft Pick a shape, slide the axis, and watch a pattern unfold. Download Patternify and make something worth repeating.

Screenshots

Suminagashi4 screens
Patternify4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Suminagashi versus Patternify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuminagashiPatternify
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size173 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMIRAICODEJUHWAN LEE

In-app purchases

None

Suminagashi

No in-app purchases

None

Patternify

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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