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Living Cells

Small rules.
Surprising
worlds.

Explore Conway’s Game of Life on iPhone and iPad. Draw cells, combine patterns, and watch them change one generation at a time.

Download on the App StoreFor iPhone & iPad · Free. No ads or in-app purchases.
Six patterns from Conway’s Game of Life: glider, blinker, toad, lightweight spaceship, beehive and boat.
GliderSpaceshipBlinkerOscillatorToadOscillatorLWSSSpaceshipBeehiveStill lifeBoatStill life
Actual Living Cells on iPad: a board of cyan patterns with the visual pattern library open.Actual Living Cells on iPhone: white cells on the grid and the pattern library open above the simulation controls.Actual app on iPhone & iPad

Your curiosity is the only instruction.

The app’s visual pattern library on iPad, with the search field and classic patterns including Block, Blinker, Glider and LWSS.

Start with a pattern.
Make it your own.

Explore a visual library of spaceships, oscillators and still lifes. Place a pattern on the board, combine it with another, and see what happens.

Actual simulation controls: adjustable speed, undo, Play, single step and Patterns.

Slow it down.
Follow every generation.

Adjust the speed, pause, or advance one generation at a time. Undo and try again. Watch simple rules create unexpected behaviour.

Three simple steps. Plenty of surprises.

  1. Draw

    Add a few cells
    on the grid.

  2. Play

    Press play and watch
    the generations unfold.

  3. Explore

    Try new patterns
    and make your own.

What will your
first cells become?

Find Living Cells on the App Store

Free. No ads or in-app purchases.