Fractoid generates Mandelbrot and Julia set fractals with multitouch pinch-to-zoom and rich color schemes. It can save fractals or set them as wallpaper, and uses NDK-based rendering with hardware-accelerated performance. With a solid rating and a long market presence, Fractoid remains a strong choice for fractal enthusiasts 100,000+ total downloads and -1 in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Mandelbrot and Julia set rendering for diverse fractals
Intuitive multitouch zoom for exploration
Multiple color schemes for visual variety
Save fractals or use as wallpaper with efficient rendering (NDK-based)
Not ranked in any top list (no top-list placement noted)
About Fractoid
Fractoid was an entertainment app developed by Dave Byrne. It was removed from Google Play Dec 1, 2017 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Fractoid had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Fractoid was rated 4.07 out of 5 stars, based on 1.5 thousand ratings.
App Information
Fractoid was free to download. The APK download size was 70.46 kB. The last available version was 1.3.7. The last update was on June 2, 2011.
Technical Requirements
Fractoid required Android 2.0.1+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Unrated Maturity. The app had been available on Google Play March 2010.
Description
Generates fractal images.
-Multitouch pinch-to-zoom -Supports multiple equations -Renders Mandelbrot and Julia Set fractals. -Save fractals or set fractal image as wallpaper -Multiple color schemes -Escape-time, Triangle Inequality Average, Curvature estimation algorithms -Uses NDK for improved performance
Recent changes: Dramatically improved performance for phones which support hardware acceleration for floating point math.
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★★★★★
Great app, made even better ... Still nothin' but pure pleasure ( no ads, no permissions req'd and no problems ~;-)
★★★★★
Fantastic app! Only problem I have is saving renderings, guess I'll just screenshot until this is fixed
★★★★★
Incredibly fast and colorful! It renders so quickly! I can delete the competing apps now. This app is teaching me about fractals, and I am a math guru!
★★★★★
I am still sad... I sent an email to developer a year ago or more. Because save image doesn't work. He said he will fix it but he has not. I am still sad because this app is so good for fractal explore and I only wish to save my cool findings in hi-res. But I can not. I take a screenshot and crop it but it would be 100 times better to fix the save image function.
★★☆☆☆
Buggy Makes gorgeous fractals you can't save or share them. That's the buggy part.
★★☆☆☆
Used to be able to save pics. Now you can't save them. What's the point in creating such beautiful work if you can't save it.
★★☆☆☆
Astonishing and fast No save image, no menu on newer devices so pointless. Was the best: Just spooky beauty, never crashes. Razr and Nexus 7. However, can't save or share results on Nexus. The black and white option is 3D, would be great to have same 3D with the winter sky.
★★☆☆☆
Was the best. Until Android changes stopped it from saving ... so now it hangs around the Android Market looking lost, and waiting for someone to care about it enough to allow it to save files again. Apparently not me. Not that sort of dev. Anyway, if you don't need it to SAVE to anything except wallpaper, FINE. Obviously you can screenshot the wallpaper... Assuming you can get the status and nav bars out of the picture... Or crop them out after. (Sigh).
Technologies used by Fractoid
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Trust & Safety: Permissions are limited to android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER and android.permission.STATUS_BAR; no sensitive data or network permissions are requested.
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