Comparison

Atheria vs GeoMaker Pattern Studio

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

Head to head
About

Atheria

Transform your device into a generative art studio. Create dynamic, evolving fractal art that breathes and drifts. Export as Live Photos for animated lock screens or share your unique creations with others.

Highlights
  • Generative fractal art creation
  • Live Photo export for animated lock screens
  • Mutate and evolve existing art
  • Real-time color palette control
  • Write custom shaders on device
  • Save, share, and import art via text code
  • Cross-device Handoff with Mac version
Features
Read full description

Grow living art in the palm of your hand. Atheria turns your iPhone and iPad into a generative art studio. Fractal flames are not drawings or videos: each one is a small genome of weighted transforms, iterated billions of times on your GPU into living structure that drifts and breathes while you watch. LOCK SCREENS THAT COME ALIVE Export any flame as a Live Photo and it blooms once each time you wake the screen. iOS does not let an app set your wallpaper, so Atheria saves it to Photos and walks you through the few steps in Settings, one at a time. One is already made and waiting, so you can see it working before you make your own. GROW FLAMES Start from a preset or an archetype family, conjure a fresh random flame, or roll Chaos to invent a brand-new species named after its own anatomy. Tap Mutate to evolve the current flame one step at a time and follow the forms wherever they lead. PAINT WITH LIVING COLOR Four colors flow through every flame. Change any of them and watch the flame take the new palette live, right behind the picker. WRITE YOUR OWN SHADERS The Studio is a real Metal playground: write a fragment shader on your phone, compile it in a tap, and watch it run full screen. No computer, no build step. KEEP AND SHARE Save flames to your Library, keep the archetypes you invent, and share any creation two ways: a Share Card image for anywhere, or a short text code another Atheria user can paste to grow the exact same living art. ON THE MAC Atheria for Mac turns your creations into living desktop wallpapers. With both apps open, Handoff carries whatever you are making straight into the Mac's matching Creator. This app is free and complete on its own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no data collection, no network calls. Everything renders and stays on your device.

About

GeoMaker Pattern Studio

Create unique, generative art with a vast array of pattern engines. Explore diverse artistic styles, from Japanese motifs to mathematical fractals, and customize your creations with adjustable parameters and color palettes. Save your original artwork in high resolution.

Highlights
  • 70+ generative art engines
  • Interactive touch controls
  • Extensive Japanese pattern collection
  • Diverse artistic styles (organic, geometric, fractal)
  • Customizable palettes and line weights
  • Full-resolution PNG export
  • Offline functionality
Features
Read full description

GeoMaker is a pattern studio that never runs dry. Pick one of 70 generative engines, move its levers, and watch original art redraw instantly — every piece grown from a seed, so anything you love can be brought back, tuned again, and saved to Photos in full resolution. TOUCH THE ART Fifteen engines respond to your fingers. Comb floating ink like real suminagashi marbling. Tap wave crests and clouds into an irezumi background. Fracture kintsugi ceramic and paint the gold vein yourself. Bend a maze through a lens, drag the focus of an op-art illusion, morph a living fractal. Turn on kaleidoscope symmetry and one drag becomes six. THE JAPANESE COLLECTION Made by a tattoo artist, GeoMaker goes unusually deep on classical Japanese pattern: sayagata and higaki frets, asanoha hemp-leaf, seigaiha waves, shippō, kikkō, kagome, yagasuri, uroko, ichimatsu, bishamon kikkō armor, matsukawabishi pine-bark, tatewaku rising steam, hanabishi, raimon thunder scrolls, kumiko lattices, kintsugi, indigo shibori, irezumi waves, clouds and mist, and kiku & sakura florals. AND EVERYTHING ELSE • Organic — flow fields, reaction-diffusion, differential growth, mycelium, Voronoi, terrazzo • Sacred & geometric — flower of life, mandalas, Metatron's cube, hex tilings, truchet, Islamic girih, Celtic knots • Wallpaper classics — polka-dot motifs, stripes & chevrons, herringbone parquet, fish scales, low-poly mesh, circuit boards • Mathematical — Penrose aperiodic tiling, Archimedean tessellations, spirograph, mazes & the Hilbert curve, Greek key frets, op art • Fractal — Mandelbrot & Julia, L-systems, the Apollonian gasket, strange attractors MAKE IT YOURS • 18 curated palettes, black & grey to neon — or desaturate any palette into greyscale • Line weight on every pattern, from hairline etching to bold marker • Paper grain and vignette finishing • Seeds: same seed, same art — copy a link that reproduces the exact piece • A favorites shelf that stores the full recipe of anything you make • Full-resolution PNG export through the share sheet Four patterns are free forever, fully featured. A single one-time purchase unlocks everything else — no subscription, ever. Private by design: no account, no ads, no tracking, no data collected. Works completely offline. From Vesica Studio — sibling to the Vesica sacred-geometry drawing app.

Screenshots

Atheria4 screens
GeoMaker Pattern Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Atheria at none against GeoMaker Pattern Studio's 1. Atheria also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). GeoMaker Pattern Studio's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. GeoMaker Pattern Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Atheria asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Atheria against 5.0 for GeoMaker Pattern Studio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Atheria ships an update weekly, GeoMaker Pattern Studio fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Atheria versus GeoMaker Pattern Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAtheriaGeoMaker Pattern Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBen JamesRaul Perez allende wesche

Customer experience

Atheria

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GeoMaker Pattern Studio

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Atheria

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GeoMaker Pattern Studio

One-time1
  • GeoMaker Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Atheria free?
Atheria is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GeoMaker Pattern Studio free?
GeoMaker Pattern Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Atheria or GeoMaker Pattern Studio?
Atheria and GeoMaker Pattern Studio are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Atheria or GeoMaker Pattern Studio have ads?
Neither Atheria nor GeoMaker Pattern Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Atheria or GeoMaker Pattern Studio?
Atheria ships an update weekly, and GeoMaker Pattern Studio fortnightly. Most recently, Atheria was updated on October 7, 2026 and GeoMaker Pattern Studio on October 6, 2026.

Other comparisons