Comparison

GeoMaker Pattern Studio vs Fractal Atlas

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

Fractal Atlas

Explore intricate mathematical patterns by zooming and manipulating them with your fingers. Discover named locations, customize colors, and share your discoveries. No advanced math knowledge is required to enjoy the visual complexity.

Highlights
  • Deep zoom into fractal sets
  • Explore 107 named fractal locations
  • Intuitive pinch, drag, and twist controls
  • Dual view for Mandelbrot and Julia sets
  • 27 different fractals and patterns
  • Customizable colors and looks
  • Shareable links to specific views
Features
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Fractals are patterns that never run out of detail. Fractal Atlas lets you fly into them with your fingers. ZOOM DEEPER THAN YOU'D BELIEVE Pinch into the Mandelbrot set and keep going, trillions of times closer, with the picture staying sharp the whole way. The Sierpinski carpet and gasket and the Apollonian gasket go deeper still, about a quadrillion times. SURPRISE ME Tap the die to fly to one of 107 named places, from Seahorse Valley to a fleet of burning ships. On the Sierpinski carpet and gasket, it takes you on a spiral dive. Or browse every place in the Places sheet and dive to the one you pick. NO MATHS REQUIRED Just pinch, drag and twist. The info card tells you in plain words how far you've zoomed and where you are, with a scale bar like a map's. The technical readout is there if you want it. SEE TWO WORLDS AT ONCE Dual view pairs a Mandelbrot with its Julia set. Drag across one and the other follows. Pick a famous Julia set and see exactly where in the Mandelbrot it comes from. 27 FRACTALS AND PATTERNS Mandelbrot, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Celtic, Multibrot, Phoenix, Julia sets, Newton's method, Nova, Sierpinski carpet and gasket, Apollonian gasket, Koch snowflake, Pythagoras tree, Hexaflake, Dragon, Hilbert and Gosper curves, Barnsley fern, Sierpinski pentagon and more. Every one supports pan, zoom and two-finger rotation. Press play and the Koch snowflake, Pythagoras tree, Hexaflake and the dragon, Hilbert, Gosper and arrowhead curves grow and shrink by themselves, and on the Barnsley fern, Sierpinski pentagon and triangle, Lévy C curve and Vicsek fractal, play replays the chaos game one dot at a time, in a run of about 15 seconds. Share a link after a run and it plays the same run. YOUR COLORS On the Mandelbrot family and the Julia sets, pick a Look: Edge glow, Stripes, Bands, Orbs, Rays or Relief. Then choose from twelve colormaps, from Inferno and Viridis to Classic and Fire, tune Repeat and Shift, and set how much detail to compute. SHARE ANY VIEW Save a still to Photos or send a link. Anyone you send it to lands on your exact spot, in the app or in their browser. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no account, no tracking.

Screenshots

GeoMaker Pattern Studio4 screens
Fractal Atlas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fractal Atlas at none against GeoMaker Pattern Studio's 1. Fractal Atlas also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). 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. Fractal Atlas 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 GeoMaker Pattern Studio against 5.0 for Fractal Atlas. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GeoMaker Pattern Studio ships an update fortnightly, Fractal Atlas every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GeoMaker Pattern Studio versus Fractal Atlas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeoMaker Pattern StudioFractal Atlas
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaul Perez allende wescheKristopher John

Customer experience

GeoMaker Pattern Studio

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

Fractal Atlas

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

GeoMaker Pattern Studio

One-time1
  • GeoMaker Pro$5.99
None

Fractal Atlas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GeoMaker Pattern Studio free?
GeoMaker Pattern Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fractal Atlas free?
Fractal Atlas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GeoMaker Pattern Studio or Fractal Atlas?
GeoMaker Pattern Studio and Fractal Atlas are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do GeoMaker Pattern Studio or Fractal Atlas have ads?
Neither GeoMaker Pattern Studio nor Fractal Atlas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GeoMaker Pattern Studio or Fractal Atlas?
GeoMaker Pattern Studio ships an update fortnightly, and Fractal Atlas every 3 days. Most recently, GeoMaker Pattern Studio was updated on October 31, 2026 and Fractal Atlas on November 6, 2026.

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