MandelBrowser

Tomasz Śmigielski

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

MandelBrowser is a simple, intuitive, and powerful fractal image generator. The app allows you to easily navigate fractals with gestures (pinch-to-zoom, pan, rotate) and offers many ways to customize images: from changing color schemes to defining custom fractal formulas. That gives you almost limitless possibilities to create amazing pictures.

* 82 fractal types including the most famous Mandelbrot Set,
* 72 paint modes (patterns),
* 128 color palettes,
* 29 image filters, including a kaleidoscope effect,
* 3D light effects using the Blinn-Phong reflection model,
* creating fractal images from photos,
* high resolution rendering up to 8k UHD (6k on Android lower than 10),
* optional supersampling,
* real-time zoom video,
* video creator (requires Android 6+),
* image randomizer,
* user-defined content (fractal types, paint modes, and color palettes),
* saving and sharing images, your favorite spots, and custom content,
* built-in gallery with 900 examples.

EPILEPSY WARNING: this app may produce flashing images.

The app starts in the simple mode with some features hidden. You may switch to the advanced mode in the Settings.

More information in the in-app tutorial which is also available on the app's website: http://mandelbrowser.y0.pl/tutorial/home.html

WARNING: this app is battery consuming.

Ratings and reviews

I've done fractals before on my pc, didn't think it would run this smoothly on my phone. Had to buy the full version and its really fun. Dont want to spend too much time sitting on my desk and saving the fractal images up to 8k for some post work later if needed saves me quite a lot of time. Happy with my purchase for a fractal user of many years.

The only free fractal app (that I've found) that lets you play with 3D effects via lighting and surface depth. I particularly love the Rings paint mode because changing the radius can give you tons of variability. I plan on buying the full version soon, because there's a TON more there, but there's so much you can do with the free version that you might not even need it! You can create your own palettes in the free version, and one custom formula. Water reflection filter is also available.

Very cool app. First learned about fractals (and chaos theory) 30 years ago in college. Back then, we had an old, old, OLD Mac SE/30 to generate them. They were obviously nothing close to what is possible with today's computers. All the more impressive is a phone being able to generate and zoom in (more than 1 trillion times!) on these images. I've looked for an Android app for years that does what this one does.

What's new

* new palette editor: up to 100 colors, optional sharp boundaries, improved randomizer, image preview
* new built-in content: 4 fractal types, 3 paint modes, 21 palettes, 30 examples
* minor improvement and bug fixes