4.9
1.01K reviews
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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.
Updated on
Jan 27, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.9
874 reviews
spam inhaler
March 21, 2026
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
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Andrew Trevorrow
April 17, 2026
Copy the .rule contents into the clipboard and you should be able to install it by doing a paste.
A Google user
March 31, 2020
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!
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Gus Garc
December 12, 2024
Simulate automatas is very similar to the web page and I think is very easy to use and see the results of automatas.
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What’s new

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