Golly

Andrew Trevorrow

About this game

Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for exploring Conway's Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.

Key features:
Supports bounded and unbounded universes, with cells of up to 256 states.
Supports multiple algorithms, including Bill Gosper's super fast hashlife algorithm.
Many different types of CA are included: John von Neumann's 29-state CA, Wolfram's 1D rules, WireWorld, Generations, Langton's Loops, Paterson's Worms, etc.
Reads RLE, macrocell, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and MCell files.
Can extract patterns and rules from zip files.
Can download patterns and rules from online archives.
Includes a state-of-the-art pattern collection.
Unlimited undo/redo.
Extensive help, with an integrated Life Lexicon.

Ratings and reviews

Look, this is really fun one problem though. you can't even import .rule files because you need to put them in the /data file... ANDROID DOESNT LET YOU DO THAT. and the normal Bnumber/Snumber is pretty boring and even with other ones its impossible to figure out how it works edit: I got a way to do it from dev reply edit 2: the app won't open anymore and keeps crashing

The sim is verry fast, i have a cheep phone but it can still load billions of cells, it is great. All ofhe other simulators are millions of times slower than this, also the UI is the best, i can copy and past patterns and rotate patterns ans much more. It is amazing!

I've been using Golly for years on Linux. I enjoy the Android version just as much and I've never been bored with it. A favourite of mine.

What’s new

Fixed problem with hidden tool bars on devices using Android 15.