Mandala Studio
Build your own mandala. Color it your way.
Most coloring apps hand you a finished picture and a paint bucket. Mandala Studio hands you the pieces. Place one petal, heart, star, or moon and it blooms instantly into a full symmetrical mandala, because every piece is a living part of the design, not a pixel in a picture. Sixteen drawing tools, up to 24-fold symmetry, and every piece stays editable forever: recolor it, unlink it, remix it.
Two ways in
Or don't build at all. One tap on "Make a complex one for me" builds a dense, 12-ring coloring-book mandala for you, pure line art with hundreds of pieces, ready to color. Every control is in plain words: Detail is just Simple, Detailed, Complex, or Extreme.
Build your own, ring by ring. Draw mode builds the way the classic coloring books are made: each ring gets its own element (petals, leaves, teardrops, dots, triangles, hexagons, diamonds, hearts, stars, sparkles, moons, scallops, rings, arcs), its own size, and its own orientation, spin the pattern, turn each element, with mirror symmetry on or off and 4 to 48 segments. Stack up to 16 rings for dense, intricate designs, and changing a ring's shape never wipes its colors.
Or start from the library. Eighteen ready-made designs, Sun Wheel, Ocean Wave, Peacock, Night Sky, and more, including six dense line-art mandalas in the classic coloring-book style, open as a fresh copy in your own gallery, ready to color. Your library is yours; the supplied library never changes.
Coloring that feels like coloring
Color by scrubbing with a finger or Apple Pencil, the way you would with a real pencil, and the color stays inside the lines. Solid colors, gradients, and dot or stripe patterns, with an eyedropper, recent colors, and an eraser that keeps the outline. Watch your mandala come together again in the timelapse replay, then export it at up to 4096 by 4096, or share the editable mandala file itself so a friend can remix it with your name still on it as the original creator.
A quiet break
The mandala is one of the oldest contemplative art forms in the world, a circle drawn and colored for centuries, and the one Carl Jung sketched every morning as a picture of his inner state. Many people find coloring one calming and absorbing, a small daily pause with no feed, no streaks, and no noise. Mandala Studio is made for that: Calm mode hides everything but a single exit button, and the whole app works offline. It is a creative pastime, not therapy and not a medical device.
Fair terms
- Free for 7 days, everything included.
- Then one payment of $4.99 unlocks everything forever. No subscription, no ads, ever.
- Your artwork lives on your device. No account, no cloud, nothing collected.
- iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later.