Stone of Life

Rasmus Sten Education iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac

Stone of Life is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Rasmus Sten. Requires iOS 18.1. Updated April 8, 2026.

Price: Free; on the App Store
Size: 16 MB; Age 4+
Updated: Apr 8; 2026 · v1.3

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About Stone of Life

Stone of Life is a version of Conway's Game of Life, the popular cellular automaton invented by John Conway in 1970. Explore the many different fascinating patterns and evolutions such as "guns", oscillators, and spaceships - create your own or import patterns from friends and websites. Comes with a collection of popular example patterns to get you started! Stone of Life has many beautiful background animations and useful features such as: * Import/export RLE, Plaintext and Macrocell text * Save and open RLE or Macrocell files * Variable speed * Stepwise evolution (also backwards!) * Run many simulations at the same time * A mini Life lexicon * Support for changing the accent colour of the app * Cell transition and glow effects * Support for other cellular automaton rules than B3/S23(Life) * HashLife jumps * And more!

What’s new

Version 1.3 · Updated April 8, 2026

Version 1.3 has many big updates and improvements such as: * Added new Jump function using HashLife * A new ”Settings” sheet with many new features, such as: - Toggling infinite grid on/off - Two cool effects - Live Zoom feature - Support to change accent colour and the cell color scheme * Changed the max grid length from 200 to 1024 * Changed the max speed from 100/sec to 1000/sec * Open, save, import and export in Macrocell and Plaintext formats If you found a bug or have an idea, contact us at [email protected]!

App privacy

The developer, Rasmus Sten, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

App details

Stone of Life is a free Education app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac, developed by Rasmus Sten. It requires iOS 18.1 or later and is 16 MB to download. It was first released on February 19, 2026 and last updated on April 8, 2026.

Category: Education
Price: Free
Version: 1.3
Size: 16 MB
Requires: iOS 18.1 or later
Compatibility: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac
Languages: English
Age rating: 4+
Released: February 19, 2026
Last updated: April 8, 2026
Developer: Rasmus Sten

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