Flowy14 vs Heaton Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flowy14
This visual programming environment allows users to build and execute programs using a flowchart-like interface. It helps users understand software development by visually demonstrating program execution and data flow. Prebuilt demos and a tutorial are included to showcase its capabilities.
- Visual programming environment
- Flowchart-based program assembly
- Real-time execution visualization
- Data flow animation
- Prebuilt demos and tutorial
- Interactive learning
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Flowy is a Flowcharting Programming Environment. It is an interpreter. It allows users to see how their programs execute, which helps form a greater understanding of software development. Flowy comes with prebuilt demos and a simple tutorial, executing those will demonstrate app's capabilities. User's imagination and creativity will take it further. Using Flowy, programmer assembles building blocks, connects data flow between them and executes the program. Flowy then visually executes blocks in logical sequence and animates results at run-time. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.flowy14.com/privacy-policy.html
Heaton Life
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Heaton Life is an app for exploring emergence: simple rules that grow complex, organic, surprisingly lifelike behavior. It brings the classic systems of artificial life together in one place, lets you paint and edit them, breeds brand-new rules, and keeps everything you make in a library of worlds. TEN KINDS OF LIFE • MergeLife — colorful cellular automata where every rule is a hex code. Start from the gallery of featured rules, then breed your own. • Life-like — Conway's Game of Life and its relatives: HighLife, Seeds, Day & Night, or any B/S rulestring you type. • Elementary — Wolfram's one-dimensional rules 0–255, drawn one row per generation. • Cyclic — states that consume one another into spirals and demons. • Wireworld — electrons on wires. Build circuits from the included clock and diode. • Lenia — three flavors (Classic, Asymptotic, Flow) of continuous Life, where smooth, gliding creatures emerge. • Gray-Scott — reaction-diffusion chemistry: spots, stripes, and dividing blobs. • Reynolds boids — flocking with no grid at all. Tap to scatter the flock. FOUR FRACTALS Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, and Newton. Tap to recenter, pinch or scroll to zoom — up to a trillion times (10¹²), with the center tracked precisely enough that the image never smears at depth. Or tap Auto and let the app dive toward the boundary by itself. PAINT, SELECT, PASTE Every world is editable without resetting it. Paint with each family's own ink — states, colors, intensities, chemistry — select and copy regions, paste with rotate and flip, and undo up to 24 steps. Paste accepts standard RLE text straight from LifeWiki, and the pattern zoo ships with gliders, spaceships, oscillators, methuselahs, the Gosper glider gun, HighLife's replicator, and Wireworld's clock and diode, alongside anything you capture yourself. BREED NEW RULES The built-in evolver is a genetic algorithm that breeds MergeLife rules and scores each one by how interesting its world stays over time, the way the original research trainer did. Watch the current best run live, keep the champions in a Finds catalog, open any find as a world, and decode any rule in the Rule Lab. A LIBRARY OF WORLDS Worlds are born saved: every world and fractal expedition lands in your library with a live thumbnail, saves itself when you leave, and reopens exactly where it was: same state, same generation. Name them, favorite them, snapshot any view to PNG, and import RLE patterns or MergeLife PNG exports.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Heaton Life at none against Flowy14's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Flowy14 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Heaton Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Flowy14 | Heaton Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 127 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Software Bugs Un Limited | Jeffrey Heaton |
In-app purchases
Flowy14
- Monthly Subscription Flowy14$1.991 Month
Heaton Life
No in-app purchases









