Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Software

Fractal art, for all.

Fractaria is a desktop studio for exploring fractals and turning them into pictures.

Scroll to zoom into whatever is under the cursor. Drag a gradient stop and the image has

already changed under your hand. Export what you found at whatever size you need.

Everything that makes a fractal beautiful is here, and none of it asks you to understand

the equation behind it, unless you want to.

Twenty-six fractal families, with more on the way

Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Celtic, Buffalo, Phoenix, Talis, Spider, the

three Barnsleys, Newton, Nova, the two Magnets and a dozen more. Every family takes

parameters — degree, constants, exponents — so each one is a shelf of shapes rather than

a single picture. Right-click anywhere on a Mandelbrot and its Julia set opens on exactly

that point.

Color is where a fractal becomes a picture

• Dozens of palettes, built by hand — from quiet paper-and-ink to full spectrum.

• A gradient editor, not a preset picker — drag the stops where you want them, set the color inside the set separately from the color outside it, save it to your library.

• Recoloring is instant — the escape data is kept, so a new palette is a remap, not a re-render. About a millisecond, at any zoom depth.

• Tone controls — brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation, gradient density and cycle, all live.

Eight mutations. Pick one. Again.

Your image sits in the middle of a grid with eight children around it. Choose one and the

grid is reborn around that: it moves to the centre, eight new children appear. Five

separate forces — shape, view, gradient, texture, finish — so you can shake the color

hard while the shape stays exactly where you put it.

It is the fastest way to arrive somewhere you would never have thought to look for.

The color does not come from one number

Almost all fractal software assigns a color to a point based on a formula.

Fractaria measures six different aspects of the same orbit, and each one draws a different image:

orbit traps drop stems and petals into the field, escape angle cuts it into wedges,

stripe average turns it to silk, triangle average turns it to plumage, and atom domains

map the bulbs and the Julia sets buried inside them. Each has a switch of its own, and

they blend.

Finish

Relief lights the escape field like a surface, glow bleeds light out of the frontier, and

the ink stroke lays a line along the edge of the set — the one thing here that draws

instead of shading. Vignette and grain give it the weight of something printed.

Made for where the picture is going

Most export dialogs ask you for numbers. This one asks where the image is headed — an

Instagram post or story, a square, a print, a 4K or 8K wallpaper — and puts that frame on

your picture so you can aim it. Drag it, pull the corner to resize, and what is inside is

exactly what gets rendered, with up to four times supersampling. It renders in the

background, tells you what it will cost before it starts, and you can call it off.

Underneath, it is still mathematics

None of it is in your way, and none of it is hidden. Centre, extent, pixel size, rotation

and a precision margin sit along the bottom of the window. Iterations are an artistic

control, but the computation runs eight times deeper than the number you choose, so no

pixel is left undecided and the black is honest.

And Fractaria reads Fractint .frm formula files — the format fractal software has

been sharing since 1991. Drop one in and its entries become fractals you can explore, with

sliders wired to their parameters. Thousands already exist. Yours will work too.

What you get

• One purchase. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no unlocks.

• Every fractal, every palette, every export size, from the first run.

• macOS, Windows and Linux.

• English and Italian.

• No account, no internet connection, nothing phoned home.

Coming next

A dedicated animation editor: keyframe the view, the parameters and the color, and let

Fractaria render the sequence.