Whorl, Playful Art & Design
Kinetic Aesthetic, Inc.
4.6 ★
211 ratings
Free
In this art and design app, you can create original graphic images, generative art, and animations by exploring shapes, styles, and colors. Includes tools for pattern design, symmetry, photo overlays, and high-resolution exports.
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78% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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About Whorl, Playful Art & Design
STYLES
35 unique, carefully crafted generative styles to express yourself. Combine with any of the shapes and colors to play without end.
SHAPES
Explore over a hundred variations. Customize your whorl with square, triangle, round, number & letter shapes.
COLORS
Whorl’s coloring system has a unique way of applying colors to a style. Select the colors yourself or let whorl choose superb color combinations.
SCULPT
Change volume, twist, rotate and glitch. Physical manipulation, as fun and easy as playing with clay.
PATTERN
Wander the sphere of geometric patterns. Try each of the 4 different pattern types using your whorl image as the source. Each pattern type can be resized and rotated in real-time to create a wealth of variations.
REFLECT
Create symmetrical spectacle using whorl's multi-axis mirror. Select up to 4 mirror options and rotate the axis lines to reflect your Whorl.
PHOTO
Mix your own image or photo with a Whorl creation right in the app. Choose out of 8 blend modes, change Contrast, Brightness, and Grayscale levels to tune your photo into wicked art. Use the Whorl Photo feature to create artistic photos, mix two whorl images, overlay textures, patterns, logo’s, and whatever one comes up with.
The Photo overlay and pattern feature requires iOS 11 or newer. Due to hardware limitations, the devices that don’t support the Photo feature are iPhone 5s, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3.
Privacy policy
http://wwwhorl.com/privacy-policy.html
HIGH RESOLUTION
With a Whorl Pro subscription, you have unlimited access to save a 4k image of your beautiful whorl creations. High-res images are great to find beautiful cut-outs & details to post online, high-res projections and making your own prints.
RECORD
Record and conduct your whorl in motion! Toggle volume, rotation, and glitch to change how your whorl will be automatically animated. Record directly inside whorl to export a video. The Screen Recording feature requires iOS 11 or newer.
SHARE
Save your image as a better rendered 1024 x 1024 pixel image to share online. We’re sharing regularly on Instagram. Find and connect with us @whorl or tag your shared whorl creations using #whorl. We love to see what you create.
PRO
Try the app as long as you like using the free styles and shapes. You get to play with the Pro elements for a certain amount of actions. To continue using all shapes, styles, colors, remove watermarks and export high-res images please consider purchasing Whorl Pro. You can purchase Whorl Pro once, or you can purchase a subscription and get Whorl Pro for a limited time.
The subscription length is either per month or per year. A yearly subscription gives you a substantial discount. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase.
Terms of service
http://wwwhorl.com/terms-of-service.html
GET IN TOUCH
For any questions or comments, we love to hear from you.
Email: hello@wwwhorl.com
Instagram: Follow us @whorl for regular examples and inspiration.
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Reviews for Whorl, Playful Art & Design
BAR112
3D shapes app, Whorl
2025 Review: Whorl creates pretty kaleido-style designs and wallpapers. Not sure if I am a Pro or not; I would have purchased for one-time fee, but no "Settings" section that I can find. Only reason I subtracted 2 stars is that apps like this are too difficult to use in portrait-mode only on iPad Pro 12.9" in landscape mode, necessitating turning the entire thing sideways! What are these developers thinking? LANDSCAPE MODE PLEASE!!!
Show Poodle
Can’t export hi-res image w/selected background color
As noted, the hi-res image only saves w/ transparent background. What’s the point of a pro subscription if you can’t export as you designed? You have to go into photos, select the image, go into a layout program and add fussily add back—if you can match it—the background color you designed the image with. And even if you do that, there can be artifact colors introduced from the copy and paste, so lots of touch up time required if you want to go forward. These transparent files can’t be placed into Illustrator without massive color distortions. I should’ve tested the Pro subscription instead buying outright. Waste of money. Wow.