Fuse Beads vs Bloomwash

Fuse Beads helps you turn a photo into a fuse-bead pattern you can actually iron. Pick a picture from Photos, the camera, or Files, generate an editable pattern on your device, then edit beads, count materials, and follow along color by color. What you can do: - Start from a photo or one of 24 original built-in designs - Board sizes 15×15, 21×21, 29×29, 40×40, 58×58, plus 20×30, 29×40, and custom sizes - Crop with a live preview before you generate - Three detail modes and careful on-device color matching - Optional background cleanup that keeps the subject - Perler common names, Hama Midi numbers, and Artkal S-5mm numbers as on-screen references - Edit bead by bead, undo, zoom, and jump by row or column - See material totals, tick colors you already have, estimate packs, and copy a shopping list - Highlight one color, mark progress, and see what to place next - Search, sort, rename, duplicate, and delete projects - Export high-resolution PNG or PDF with coordinates; large boards split into section pages - Keep a local backup you can export and merge later - 13 interface languages, including Arabic (right to left). Follow the system or lock a language in Settings Privacy first: No account, ads, analytics SDKs, or tracking. Photos, patterns, and progress stay on your device. The camera is used only if you choose to take a photo. The app does not automatically upload photos, patterns, or progress. You control exports and sharing; device data may also be included in system backups according to your backup settings. Screen colors may differ from physical beads. Check the brand’s latest physical color card before buying in quantity. Perler, Hama, and Artkal are trademarks of their respective owners. This app is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or officially authorized by those brands.

Bloomwash is a watercolor app that behaves like the real thing. Every stroke runs through a physical simulation of water and pigment on paper, so the paint spreads, pools, granulates, and dries the way it does on a real sheet. You are not applying a filter. You are painting wet paint and watching it move. Load the brush with water and color, lay a wash, and the pigment settles into the tooth of the paper. Touch a wetter brush into a damp area and it blooms outward. Let two colors meet while they are still wet and they bleed into one another. Come back with a drier brush and the stroke breaks over the grain. What you can do: - Paint transparent watercolor with real granulation, wet in wet blooms, and edges that stay soft or turn crisp depending on how wet the paper is. - Reserve the white of the paper with masking fluid, wash freely over the top, then lift the mask to uncover clean, untouched shapes. - Set the feel with plain sliders for water, paint, drying speed, and edge darkening, or switch between Delicate, Classic, and Bold in one tap. - Mix your own colors from a palette of watercolors and opaque gouache, and pick up a color you used a moment ago from the recents strip. - Choose your sheet. Hot press is smooth, cold press has a gentle tooth, and rough gives you heavy texture. - Paint with the Apple Pencil the way you would hold a brush, with pressure and tilt shaping the mark, or use a finger. - Lift color back out of a wet wash, flick spatter, drop clean water for backruns, or scatter salt for texture. - Hold the sheet up to the light to read the paint from behind, the way you would check a painting against a window. - Keep your work in a gallery, and export a finished piece or a timelapse of how it came together. Bloomwash runs entirely on your device. There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to. It suits a working painter who wants to sketch without setting out water and paper, and it is gentle enough for a first try at the medium without the mess.