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MandelKit
Fractal explorer — deep zoom, 2D colour, lit 3D relief
Explore infinite Mandelbrot and Julia fractals on iPhone, iPad and Mac. On Apple silicon, MandelKit runs natively as an arm64 app and brings together Metal rendering, arbitrary-precision deep zoom, expressive 2D colouring and lit 3D relief in one creative studio.
A universal purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later.
Screenshots
Fractals, coloured and lit
Click to enlarge — arrow keys to flip through, Esc to close.
What it does
Zoom, colour, render
Six fractal families
Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Multibrot, Multijulia and Multicorn — navigate by mouse, trackpad, touch, or exact high-precision coordinates.
Zoom past the usual limits
Descend into structure far beyond ordinary floating-point precision, with progressive rendering that sharpens the image as you work.
A look that is yours
Independent inside and outside colour sources: gradients, cyclic palettes, potential and domain colouring, interference, orbit traps, contours, field lines, ambient occlusion and edge glow.
Fractals in 3D
Turn fractal measures into a lit height field, move the relief camera independently of the fractal, and tune height, smoothing, material and lighting.
Big, precise exports
Fine-tune supersampling and detail-preserving filters, then export huge tiled images at the resolution you need.
Price
A one-time purchase.
MandelKit is a single purchase across iPhone, iPad and Mac — no subscription, no ads, no tracking.