# Moku Hanga — Photo to Japanese Wood Carving

> App transforms photos into customizable Japanese woodblock prints. (iPhone/iPad app by JixiPix Software.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/moku-hanga/id506703833 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [JixiPix Software](https://appshunter.io/developer/380605671)
- Category: Photo & Video, Social Networking
- Price: $4.99
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 397 App Store ratings · 202 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 25 MB
- Released: 2012-04-04
- Data updated: 2026-08-16
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/moku-hanga/id506703833/reviews.md

## What is Moku Hanga?

You've discovered the fascinating art of Moku Hanga, the Japanese method of wood-block printing. Breathtaking landscapes, beautiful women, and busy cityscapes can be transformed into this exotic art known for flowing hand-chiseled outlines and brushed on color.

The Moku Hanga app, Moku the Japanese word for “wood” while hanga is known as “print”, allows you to create an artistic wood-block print from any picture or snapshot — no need for time consuming carving — the artists from JixiPix do all the work for you! With the power to fully customize your Moku Hanga, you can create a masterpiece artistic enough be part of printmaking history!

The outlines in Moku Hanga are extremely eye catching, replicating a hand chiseled relief-art. Using sliders found on the adjust tab you can control the smoothness, width and strength of the chiseled outline to fit your composition.

Presets are also available to give your project a quick start. Choose from a range of bold chisled outlines, and bright to subtle color combinations. If the preset colors chosen for your work are not to your liking, there is the option to alter your palette colors. Once the desired color is achieved complete your artwork with an artistic edge or paper. In printmaking the final image does rely on the choice of paper; whether it is kozo fibers or rice paper — this will add an artistic quaility to your print and complete your Moku Hanga.

Moku Hanga Features:
• Automatically create a work of art with the look of hand chiseled outlines and brushed on color, fully adjustable with simple sliders.

• Adjust the outline width, strength and how smooth or fluid your chiseled outline appears.

• Control the color in your artwork with saturation, strength and image color sliders.

• Choose between two printing styles: "Multi-Color" or "Multi-Block".

• The Multi-Color style uses all the original colors in your photo. By adjusting the "Image Color" slider you can reduce or add colors to your artwork giving it a variety of printed-styles, from a full-color block process to spot-color ones.

•The Multi-Block style uses 5 blocks of color pulled from your original image then divides the colors across your artwork giving the look of carving a separate woodblock for every color. The cool thing about this style is the ability to "Randomize Colors" throughout your artwork and the ability to replace any or all of these colors, using the full-spectrum color picker. You can achieve simple to exaggerated color results using this process.

• Works with Hi-Res images and saves Hi-Res for top-quality results

• Gets you started fast with a variety of presets

• Creates personal-favorite custom presets using the "Save Preset" menu

• Has the addictive JixiPix Randomizer – so much fun!

• Superior customer support and updates – we're committed to your long-term satisfaction

## Key features

- Automatic hand-chiseled outlines and brushed-on color
- Adjustable outline width, strength, and smoothness
- Control color saturation, strength, and image color
- Two printing styles: Multi-Color and Multi-Block
- Customizable color palettes and randomization
- Artistic edge and paper style options
- Save custom presets

## What do users think of Moku Hanga?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Great app
- 🎨 Unique and beautiful effects
- 💡 Versatile and customizable
- 🎨 Transforms photos into art
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎨 Stunning results
- 👍 Fantastic app
- 🎨 Excellent and creative effects
- 👍 Wonderful app
- 🎨 Impressive and unique

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes on startup
- ⏱️ Slow to save/render
- 🎨 Limited texture options
- 🎨 Effects can be overpowering

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes on startup
- Slow saving and rendering

**Most requested features**

- More texture and paper options
- Ability to adjust effect strength
- Faster saving and rendering
- Metadata preservation

## Recent user reviews (10 of 202)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/moku-hanga/id506703833/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Great App.

*2025-12-19*

This is a useful creative App , but now crashes every time it is started - please fix.
Update: Author has released a newer version which has fixed the crash. Good.

### 5/5 — Great app, awesome devs

*2025-06-04*

Jixipix had been around for a long time and I’ve been using their apps for years. I think I might have all of them 🤣 At a time when the store is packed with poor quality apps sold at ridiculous subscription prices they’re a breath of fresh air, making high quality photo art apps at reasonable, one time fees. This one offers a bunch of different styles with a lot of customization options to get your image just right.

### 3/5 — 钱已付

*2025-01-31*

三个小时过去了，但一直没下载下来，

### 5/5 — My favourite photo texturizer

*2024-04-21*

This is an easy APP which offers a variety of texture, and when occasionally put through the process a few times, it converts my original image, when combined with my colour changer on my iPhone, to a surprising and often pleasing variety of new images.

### 5/5 — Create Japanese style prints from photos

*2023-03-27*

Great way to stylize your photos into Japanese style prints.

### 5/5 — Wonderful photo manipulation

*2022-09-01*

I highly recommend this and other apps by this dev. Great features including random select, return to previous random preset, square cropping. But the effect is superb and very evocative of Hiroshige And others of the period. The samples shown do not do this app justice!

### 3/5 — Can’t access my photos on my phone

*2021-06-03*

Looks to be a great app but I am unable to access my own photos. I can only use photos that I take with this app so I am disappointed.

### 3/5 — Not worth the price

*2020-06-23*

Should have more options for being a paid app, and not a cheap one.

### 1/5 — One trick pony

*2020-05-26*

Briefly pleasing, but far too expensive at present price of £4.99 for a one trick pony

### 2/5 — Garbage

*2020-04-08*

If you don’t make Japanese prints then this is perfect for your watercolour like images. If you make Japanese prints this app is useless. It renders your photos into watercolours and not any type of print I’ve ever seen. For the price not worth it. I also realize it’s  a bit of a gag app but if you’re going to tell people it makes your pictures look like Moku Hanga then it’s misleading.

## Frequently asked questions about Moku Hanga

### What does the Moku Hanga app do?

The Moku Hanga app transforms your photos into artistic Japanese woodblock prints. It automatically generates hand-chiseled outlines and brushed-on colors, mimicking the traditional Moku Hanga technique without requiring manual carving.

### What are the key features of Moku Hanga?

Key features include automatically generated adjustable outlines, control over color saturation and strength, two distinct printing styles (Multi-Color and Multi-Block), customizable color palettes, and the ability to add artistic edges and paper textures to your prints. You can also save your own custom presets.

### How much does Moku Hanga cost?

The application is a paid app. The description does not mention any in-app purchases or subscription models, indicating a one-time purchase for full functionality.

### What kind of images can I use with Moku Hanga?

The app works with high-resolution images and saves results in high-resolution, ensuring top-quality artistic output. You can use any picture or snapshot to begin the transformation process.

### What are the different printing styles available?

Moku Hanga offers two printing styles: 'Multi-Color' and 'Multi-Block'. The Multi-Color style uses the original colors from your photo, allowing adjustments to reduce or add colors. The Multi-Block style uses five color blocks pulled from the image, offering options to randomize or replace these colors for unique results.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.63 — 2025-12-18

Optimization, bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 1.53 — 2025-12-07

Optimization and bug fixes

### 1.48 — 2024-02-14

Optimization, bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 1.47 — 2023-05-30

Optimization, bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 1.46 — 2023-01-03

Optimization, bug fixes and performance improvements.

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