Bean Pudding vs Bead Lab

Bean Pudding is a calm craft app for fuse-bead fans. Pattern generation from photos, camera, or sketches is free and unlimited; print and export credits are the only monthly limit. • Play: place beads by color code, auto-advance colors, and use hints to find the next bead • Create: turn a photo, camera shot, or sketch into a bead pattern for free • Iron: rub the “paper” after you finish, then shelve the piece in your cabinet • Export: square-grid PNG / PDF for printing physical patterns You get 3 free print credits each calendar month. After they run out, you can watch a full optional rewarded ad from Google AdMob to receive 3 more. No account or in-app purchases. Your core creation data stays on your device and in your personal iCloud private database. To improve stability, Firebase Crashlytics processes necessary crash diagnostic data. Color names follow common bead-code conventions for matching real jars. Not affiliated with any bead brand.

The output isn't a picture. It's something you build. Bead Lab reads your photo against a real manufacturer's bead palette, then gives you the three things a picture can't: the colours to buy and how many of each, the design split across pegboards the size you already own, and a build mode that remembers every bead you've placed. ONE COLOUR AT A TIME Working from a flat pattern means hunting for where the next bead goes. Build mode lights up the colour you're holding and dims everything else, so you place all 720 of the charcoal black, mark that colour done, and move to the next one. Put the phone down halfway through and it's still there tomorrow. KNOW WHAT TO BUY BEFORE YOU BUY IT Every colour comes out of a real brand's catalogue and carries its product code. The materials list gives you the code, the name and the exact count — 720 of H6, 530 of H16 — so you order once instead of running out three evenings in. BOARD BY BOARD A 96×64 design doesn't fit on one pegboard. Bead Lab splits it across as many as it takes, numbers them, and shows each board on its own with the beads that board needs. Print them or work from the screen. FIX WHAT THE CONVERSION GOT WRONG No automatic conversion gets thin shapes right — bamboo leaves, whiskers, lettering. Brush, flood fill, replace colour, eyedropper, line and rectangle let you repair them by hand, and an automatic cleanup folds away stray single beads and colours too close to tell apart. You see how many cells will change before anything changes, and every step undoes. THREE WAYS TO MAKE IT Crisp outline, detail first, or fewer beads. One photo, three trade-offs, each labelled with its colour count, bead count and board count. Choose by the numbers instead of guessing at sliders. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account, no server. Photos, patterns and progress stay on this iPhone. No third-party analytics, no ads. FREE • Unlimited patterns • Grids up to 48×48 • The complete MARD palette and Kawada's 78 colours • The editor and its automatic cleanup • Build mode, in full • PNG export and the materials list • Board-by-board view on screen • Export and import your own projects BEAD LAB PRO — a one-time purchase, not a subscription • Bigger grids: 64×64 and 96×96 • Perler palettes alongside MARD • Board-by-board printing with safe margins • Multi-page PDF at true physical size • Mirrored sheets Made for iPhone. iOS 17 or later.