Comparison

Creative Beading Magazine vs Bead Master

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

Head to head
About

Creative Beading Magazine

Discover beading inspiration with projects for all skill levels from top designers. Explore expert trends, tips, and tricks to elevate your jewelry-making.

Highlights
  • Beading projects for beginners and beyond
  • Projects from top jewelry designers
  • Expert trends, tips, and tricks
  • Inspiration for jewelry making
  • 7 issues per year
Features
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Be inspired by Australia's favorite beading magazine, containing projects for beginners and beyond from Australia’s top jewellery designers and expert trends, tips & tricks. Pricing for subscriptions available: • 1 year subscription = ($46.99 AUD), automatically renewed until cancelled The magazine offers 7 issues per year. When purchasing through iTunes your account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will auto-renew unless you turn this off 24 hours before the subscription runs out. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings. You can manage your subscription through your account settings after purchase on your device. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Terms of Service & Privacy Policy: https://sunraydirect.com/privacy-policy/

About

Bead Master

Transform photos into custom templates for crafting projects like melty beads. Scale, crop, and choose colors to create personalized designs. Save, print, or export your templates for easy crafting.

Highlights
  • Photo to template conversion
  • Customizable scaling and cropping
  • Multiple color palettes (Hama, Artkal, Nabbi, Perler)
  • Save, print, and export templates
  • Transparent pegboard overlay
  • Dithering effect
Features
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Bead Master is an app that will allow you to create templates for melty beads. You can select any photo from your photo roll, scale and crop it to match your desire and choose from various sizes, color and border options in order to make the perfect template for your project. Afterwards you may save the template, print it or even place a transparent pegboard directly on top of your device. Features: - Dithering (Floyd-Steinberg based) - Palettes for Hama, Artkal, Nabbi & Perler - Save color chart with colors used - Export to pdf with color chart - Print with color chart - Pegboard sizes: 14x14, 28x28 and 56x56 Instructions: 1) Tap main area to choose an image to transform 2) Use pinch genstures to zoom and position your image 3) Tap the "gear"-icon in order to se the various options 4) Press the white button to create your template 5) (optionally) Tap the undo button on the lower left hand side if you are not completely happy with your template 6) Tap and hold the template to save, print or export your template The app is still primarily aimed towards melty beads, but have several other uses. Internally it has become a lot easier to add new palettes and board sizes, so please let me know if you think the app would benefit from new palettes (LEGO, Post-it, yarn etc) or board sizes (or other features for that matter). Please mail bugs, requests and suggestions etc to info@codeninja.dk. Credits for bead RGB colors to lordthanda Happy creativity :)

Screenshots

Creative Beading Magazine4 screens
Bead Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Creative Beading Magazine at 5.0 against Bead Master's 3.5. Bead Master's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Creative Beading Magazine sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per 6 months. Bead Master asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Creative Beading Magazine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Creative Beading Magazine ships an update every 7 months, Bead Master every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Creative Beading Magazine versus Bead Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreative Beading MagazineBead Master
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZinio ProJonatan Yde

Customer experience

Creative Beading Magazine

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

Bead Master

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Creative Beading Magazine

Subscriptions2
  • 6 months subscription$17.996 Months
  • 1 year subscription$29.491 Year
One-time9
  • Volume 10-6$4.99
  • Volume 11-4$4.99
  • Volume 13 Issue 3$4.99
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  • Volume 14 Issue 5$4.99
  • Volume 15 issue 1$4.99
  • Volume 14 issue 6$4.99
  • Volume 15 issue 6$4.99
  • Volume 16 Issue 5$4.99
  • Volume 21 Issue 4$4.99
None

Bead Master

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Creative Beading Magazine free?
Creative Beading Magazine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bead Master free?
Bead Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Creative Beading Magazine or Bead Master?
Creative Beading Magazine is rated higher. Creative Beading Magazine averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Bead Master averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Creative Beading Magazine or Bead Master have ads?
Neither Creative Beading Magazine nor Bead Master shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Creative Beading Magazine or Bead Master?
Creative Beading Magazine ships an update every 7 months, and Bead Master every 9 months. Most recently, Creative Beading Magazine was updated on October 12, 2026 and Bead Master on September 20, 2026.

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