# Fast Fractal

> Ultra-fast fractal explorer

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id398923328](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id398923328)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id398923328`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tom Kerrigan
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 3.90 / 5 (36 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2019-12-22
- **First published:** 2010-10-25
- **Size:** 1.57 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fast-fractal/id398923328)
- **Website:** [http://www.roamingtrek.com/fastfractal](http://www.roamingtrek.com/fastfractal)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.roamingtrek.com/fastfractal/privacy.php](http://www.roamingtrek.com/fastfractal/privacy.php)

## Description

Ultra-fast fractal explorer

Fast Fractal is an ultra-fast Mandelbrot set explorer.

- Blazing speed allows perfectly fluid exploration with standard pinch and swipe gestures
- Spectacular image quality
- Double-precision floating point math allows 100,000,000,000 times magnification
- Full support for multi-core chips
- Easily set the coordinates and number of iterations
- Easily switch between Mandelbrot and Julia sets

Fast Fractal is made by the developer of tChess (the popular chess app) and Learn Chess (the Apple Staff Favorite e-book).

## Rankings

- #210,988 — Overall

## Review summary

Fast Fractal offers real-time Mandelbrot and Julia rendering with smooth pinch-zoom and easy double-tap Julia view. It provides strong customization via advanced settings and retina-quality visuals, including tablet landscape support. However, reviews warn of drawbacks: a hard zoom cap, intrusive ads, memory issues on older devices with oversampling, and comparatively slower performance with fewer color options than some rivals. Overall, it's a capable mobile fractal explorer with impressive speed and UI, but notable trade-offs exist.

### Pros

- Fast real-time rendering with smooth pinch-zoom on Mandelbrot/Julia
- Intuitive pinch-to-zoom and quick access to Julia sets via double-tap
- Advanced settings for iterations, zoom, and oversampling enabling deeper detail
- Beautiful visuals with vibrant colors and retina quality, plus tablet landscape support

### Cons

- Zoom is capped; hard limit prevents deep zoom
- Intrusive ads/popups
- Oversampling can cause memory crashes on older devices
- Slower performance and fewer color options compared to some rivals

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id398923328)