Comparison

GeoMaker Pattern Studio vs IrisFold

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

Head to head
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
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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.

About

IrisFold

Features
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Design the iris-folding pattern you want to make, teach, or share. IrisFold turns supported user-owned outlines into a colored, numbered sequence and print-ready PDF and SVG files. • Start with a geometric aperture or import a supported polygonal SVG. • Adjust the seed, spiral, opening, strip width and color lanes. • Follow one strip at a time with a visible completion count. Return directly to an unfinished step. • Prepare Letter or A4 files with a calibration square and clear construction order. • Share a locally rendered Iris Reveal or an editable .irisfold project through the system share sheet. Made for original pattern creators, teachers and card designers—not a catalog of ready-made craft patterns. SVG import supports closed polygonal outlines; curves and unsupported SVG features are rejected with an explanation. Projects and artwork stay on device. No account, cloud service or remote AI is required. Use artwork you own or have permission to use. Always review the guide and check print calibration at 100% before cutting. Shape your next original pattern on iPhone or iPad.

Screenshots

GeoMaker Pattern Studio4 screens
IrisFold3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GeoMaker Pattern Studio at fortnightly against IrisFold's every 6 weeks. GeoMaker Pattern Studio also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. GeoMaker Pattern Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and IrisFold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GeoMaker Pattern Studio ships an update fortnightly, IrisFold every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
GeoMaker Pattern Studio versus IrisFold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeoMaker Pattern StudioIrisFold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaul Perez allende wesche程辉 杨

In-app purchases

1 purchases

GeoMaker Pattern Studio

One-time1
  • GeoMaker Pro$5.99
1 purchases

IrisFold

One-time1
  • IrisFold Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is GeoMaker Pattern Studio free?
GeoMaker Pattern Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is IrisFold free?
IrisFold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GeoMaker Pattern Studio or IrisFold have ads?
Neither GeoMaker Pattern Studio nor IrisFold shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GeoMaker Pattern Studio or IrisFold?
GeoMaker Pattern Studio ships an update fortnightly, and IrisFold every 6 weeks. Most recently, GeoMaker Pattern Studio was updated on October 31, 2026 and IrisFold on October 29, 2026.

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