Adobe Capture vs Tincta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Adobe Capture
Transform your surroundings into design assets like color palettes, vectors, fonts, and brushes. Seamlessly integrate these creations into Adobe apps for graphic design, illustration, and video projects.
- Remove background from images
- Vectorize images into scalable graphics
- Identify and find fonts
- Create color themes and gradients
- Build custom digital brushes
- Generate patterns and 3D textures
- Capture light and color for grading
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"Adobe Capture transforms your images into beautiful color palettes, vectors, fonts, patterns and more. Imagine looking through your camera to see patterns, vectors, and even fonts. Now imagine turning those visions into design materials to immediately use in apps like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Fresco. The power to transform the world around you into creative assets to build your projects is in the palm of your hands. The creation of graphic design elements is now just a camera click away. Remove Background from Images Take your photo inspiration and transform the background to use in your design projects. Create high-quality graphics to use in your projects. Vectorize on the Go Create vectors instantly with Shapes. Turn images into smooth, detailed, scalable vectors with 1-32 colors, for use in logos, illustration, animation, and more. Point and shoot at your drawing or upload a photo and watch it magically transform into clean, crisp lines. Voice or Audio to text Record your voice to see it transform in text. Replace and add text in your speech directly by editing the transcript. This new audio recording feature is easy to use and will enhance your audio creations. Import audio files to different Adobe apps or download them to your device as WAV files. Identify Typography Find your perfect font using Adobe Capture. Take a photo of the type you like (in a magazine, on a label, a sign, anywhere!) and watch a list of similar Adobe Fonts magically appear. Create Color Themes and Gradients Looking for customized color palettes? Find an inspiring gradient? Find color by number or hex? Aim your camera at the scene that has the colors you want and capture them to use in your artwork. Build Beautiful Digital Brushes Can’t find the right brush to paint? Take a photo or use an image to create digital brushes that match your creative vision. Use your brushes in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fresco for rich painterly effects. Craft Intricate Patterns Capture inspiring images and generate patterns with ease. Create beautiful, colorful patterns that fit with your creative projects by using your vector shapes with our precision pattern builder. Generate 3D Textures Generate realistic PBR materials for use in 3D design straight from the camera. Modify your materials for even more texture or blend the edges for seamless repeat tiling on your 3D objects. Capture Light and Color Collect light and hue to turn into beautiful color grading profiles for your images and videos with Looks. Record the magic of sunset and transfer that feel to use in your photos and video projects. Seamlessly Sync Creative Elements All of your assets save to Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries. Instantly access your digital elements from your Creative Cloud account in all compatible applications. Compatible Adobe Apps and Programs for Creative Assets Photoshop, Photoshop for iPad, Adobe Fresco, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Illustrator for iPad, InDesign, Dimension, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Animate, Substance 3D Apps, and Adobe Express. 2GB FILE STORAGE The free, basic Creative Cloud membership includes 2GB of complimentary storage for file syncing and sharing. MORE STORAGE (Optional in-app purchase) You can purchase an additional 20GB for $1.99 (US dollars) of Creative Cloud file storage per month. You must be 13 or older and agree to Adobe’s terms and privacy policy, viewable at: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy-linkfree.html http://www.adobe.com/special/misc/terms.html"
Tincta
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Tincta turns your camera into a colour intelligence tool. Point it at anything in the world — fabric, paint, product packaging, a flower — and instantly identify, store and learn everything about that colour. - Capture colours from real life Tincta's real-time camera scanner detects colour with precision using the P3 colour profile, for the closest match to what you actually see on-screen. Stay in the viewfinder and capture as many colours as you need in one session. Everything is saved to your personal colour library and named automatically from a database of over 1,500 standard colour names. - Know your colours completely Every captured colour gets a full breakdown: HEX, RGB, HSL, and CMYK values — all tap-to-copy. WCAG AA and AAA contrast ratings for both white and black backgrounds, so you know immediately whether a colour works for accessible design. - Build palettes from what you see Use any captured colour as the foundation for a palette. Choose from six colour theory harmonies — monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triadic, and tetradic — or build manually by scanning additional colours with your camera. Every palette gets an automatic harmony analysis and cohesion rating. - Digital Design & Fashion modes Harmonies can be calculated two ways. Digital Design uses pure colour wheel theory, optimised for screen and digital work. Fashion mode applies muted, desaturated adjustments for real-world wearability — useful when your design work crosses into physical materials, print, or product. Switch between them instantly on any colour. Generate SwiftUI Color code or CSS variables and copy them straight to your clipboard. - Saved For Later All colours you scan are saved, you can also favourite colours for quick access, search your entire library by name or hex value, and every colour is timestamped so you know exactly when you captured it. Tincta is completely free, works entirely on-device, and requires no account or network connection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tincta at none against Adobe Capture's 1. Adobe Capture's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Adobe Capture sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Tincta asks for nothing beyond the download.
Adobe Capture ships an update monthly, Tincta every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Adobe Capture | Tincta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (24K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 367 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adobe Inc. | Peter Campbell |
Bugs and requests
Adobe Capture
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent crashes when using certain features
- Inability to log in or access the app on some devices
- Issues with image tracing and vector conversion
- Syncing problems and lost files in Creative Cloud
- Unreliable text recognition and font matching
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to select and export multiple shapes/patterns at once
- Improved image export quality and resolution
- More control over vector smoothing and cleanup
- Offline functionality and reduced reliance on Creative Cloud
- Better integration with other Adobe apps and services
Tincta
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Adobe Capture
- CC Storage (20 GB)$1.991 Month
Tincta
No in-app purchases








