Comparison

BeautOfFractals vs qCurving

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

Head to head
About

BeautOfFractals

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Beauty of Fractals brings fractal exploration to the fully opened iPhone Duo display, with native bars that adapt to the available space. Version 2.30 adds compact settings popovers alongside the familiar iPhone and iPad experience. 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 new 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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qCurving

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qCurving is a vector graphics editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Draw paths with the pen tool, fine-tune anchor points and handles right at your fingertips, and create logos, icons, diagrams and illustrations with precision, wherever you are. NO MORE TYPING NUMBERS TO RESIZE • Lock lengths to whole-number units while you drag, so rectangles, lines and polygons come out at round sizes right away • Set a polygon's radius or side length to an exact integer, and stop retyping values one by one to fix dimensions afterwards DRAW WITH PRECISION • Pen, pencil, line, rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star • Add, delete and convert anchor points; edit nodes and handles directly • Snap to points; move and rotate in set increments • Connectors between objects (snap to end points and centers; lines follow when shapes move) WORK WITH TYPE • Text panel: font, size, leading, tracking, horizontal and vertical scale, baseline shift • All caps, small caps, superscript, subscript, underline, strikethrough • Paragraph: left, center, right and justified alignment; left, right and first-line indents; space before and after • Convert text to outlines and edit it as paths BUILD SHAPES • Pathfinder (unite, intersect, minus front, exclude) • Outline stroke, offset path, round corners, reverse path direction • Align and distribute, compound paths, stacking order, flip • Layers (show/hide, lock, reorder, merge) • Fill and stroke (RGB / CMYK, width, caps, corners, dashes) • Numeric input for position, size, move, rotate and scale OPEN AND EXPORT • Open and edit SVG and PDF files (choose which pages to import from a multi-page PDF) • Export to SVG, PDF (millimeter units, CMYK supported), PNG / JPEG / BMP, and for the web • Default stroke width is 1 mm in PDF and 1 px in SVG, so dimensions are ready for print and technical drawing DESIGNED FOR EACH DEVICE • Mac: a desktop interface with a menu bar and keyboard shortcuts • iPhone and iPad: a "relative" mode that works like a trackpad, so your finger never hides what you're drawing • iPhone: a top bar fitted to the Dynamic Island and a collapsible bottom panel that leaves more room for your canvas • Connect an iPhone or iPad to an external display or AirPlay to get the desktop interface on the big screen, with a trackpad and shortcut display in your hands COLOR AND BLENDS • Gradient tool: drag on the canvas to set direction and range, and add, move or delete color stops directly • Blend tool: create any number of in-between shapes that interpolate shape, color and stroke width between two objects PAGES AND ALIGNMENT • Multiple artboards (exported as a multi-page PDF) and document tabs • Rulers and guides, unit-based alignment, and alignment to a key object PRIVACY No account required. All processing happens on your device; no data is collected or sent anywhere. GOOD TO KNOW • When opening a PDF, paths (fills and strokes) and colors are imported. Text, images, gradients and clipping are not imported yet. • Full compatibility with other vendors' software is not guaranteed. • CMYK and color handling are our own approximation; no ICC-profile color management is performed. On-screen colors may differ from printed results. Always check your printer's requirements and a proof before printing or submitting files. • Feedback and requests are welcome on the support page.

Screenshots

BeautOfFractals4 screens
qCurving4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BeautOfFractals at Free against qCurving's $5.99. qCurving's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BeautOfFractals is free to download; qCurving costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BeautOfFractals ships an update daily, qCurving every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
BeautOfFractals versus qCurving: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeautOfFractalsqCurving
PriceFree — better$5.99
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLutz-R. FrankUSHIO FUJIMURA

In-app purchases

None

BeautOfFractals

No in-app purchases

None

qCurving

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BeautOfFractals free?
BeautOfFractals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is qCurving free?
qCurving costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do BeautOfFractals or qCurving have ads?
Neither BeautOfFractals nor qCurving shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BeautOfFractals or qCurving?
BeautOfFractals ships an update daily, and qCurving every 2 days. Most recently, BeautOfFractals was updated on October 24, 2026 and qCurving on October 24, 2026.

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