DoomFracting
Mandelbrot Zoom & Math
Free
Now with Bookmarks: save your favorite spots, jump back anytime, or share one as a real link — someone else can open it straight into that exact view.
Stop doomscrolling. Start DoomFracting.
Trade the endless newsfeed for the infinite beauty of nature's most famous mathematical landscape.
DoomFracting turns complex mathematics into a mesmerizing, stress-relieving journey. Built around the legendary equation Zₙ₊₁ = Zₙ² + C, this app lets you zoom endlessly into the Mandelbrot set—a shape where complexity never ends, no matter how deep you go.
Inspired by Benoit Mandelbrot's realization that "clouds aren't spheres, and mountains aren't cones," DoomFracting bridges the gap between scientific history, raw math, and pure visual art.
Why You'll Love It:
• (Almost!) Infinite Discovery: Deep, fluid zooming through never-ending self-similar structures.
• Bite-Sized History: Learn how Benoit Mandelbrot, Gaston Julia, and early IBM computers unlocked fractal geometry.
• Accessible Math: Enjoy clear, approachable explanations—from Z₀ = 0 to complex plane dynamics. No degree in mathematics required.
• Distraction-Free Experience: Pure geometry, historical depth, and effortless exploration designed to give your brain a better kind of infinity.
New Since Launch:
• Bookmarks: Save the exact location, zoom level, palette, and shading of a view you love, and jump back to it anytime. Share any bookmark as a real link—AirDrop, Messages, email, anywhere—that opens straight to that view on someone else's iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Vision Pro, even if they've never saved a palette of their own. Comes with 14 real, hand-researched locations built in—Seahorse Valley, Elephant Valley, the Feigenbaum point, and more—plus an Online Library with 18 further deep cuts to download.
• Auto-Pilot Exploration: Flip on AUTO and let DoomFracting drift deeper into the set on its own, surfacing fresh boundary detail every few seconds — a hands-free, screensaver-style tour you can step into or out of anytime.
• Save Your Favorite Moments: Record the current view's color animation as a looping video clip, saved straight to your Photos library.
• Apple Watch Companion: See your live Mandelbrot — or Julia, with a double-tap — mirrored right on your wrist as you explore.
• Lock Screen & Home Screen Widget: Keep your last discovery glanceable from StandBy, your Lock Screen, or your Home Screen.
• Palette Library: Save, import, share, rename, and duplicate your own color palettes as real Fractint-style .map files — plus an Online Library of curated palettes you can browse and add to your collection in one tap.
• Full-Screen Julia in Landscape: Rotate sideways and tap the corner tag to swap your whole screen over to the Julia set for wherever you're currently zoomed — a genuinely different, connected fractal shape for the same spot, one tap away, with its own palette-animation recording.
Replace aimless scrolling with mathematical wonder. Download DoomFracting today.
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v3.0 introduces Bookmarks: save the exact location, zoom level, palette, and shading of a view you love, and jump back to it anytime. Share any bookmark as a real doomfracting:// link — AirDrop, Messages, email, anywhere — and it opens straight to that view on whoever you send it to, even on a device that’s never saved a palette of its own. Comes with 14 real, researched locations built in (Seahorse Valley, Elephant Valley, the Feigenbaum point, and more, drawn from Robert Munafo’s Mu-Ency and Wikipedia — not invented), plus an Online Library with 18 further deep cuts to download, the same way the existing Palette Library already works. AUTO and Animate Colors deliberately don’t carry over into a bookmark — it’s one specific render to return to, not a journey to resume mid-step.
The developer, Emmanuel Viale, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Emmanuel Viale
- Size
- 2.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 16.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Emmanuel Viale