Comparison

Impresso Pro vs Split Lab

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Impresso Pro

Transform your photos into stunning Impressionist masterpieces with multi-textured brush strokes. This app offers a pro workflow with smart layers and brushes for blending multiple paint styles, creating captivating, print-worthy artwork.

Highlights
  • Transform photos into multi-textured Impressionist paintings
  • Smart layering system for blending paint styles
  • Library of Edges and Background Paint effects
  • Soft Paint effect for foreground subjects
  • Aged Paint effect for cracked texture
  • Impressionism Paint Effects: Alla Prima, En Plein Air, Tache
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Lucky you, 21st century software wielding seer and lover of beauty—you have Impresso Pro. With the same enduring attention to detail, light, color, and texure, Impresso transforms your photos into multi-textured, stroke-filled Impressionist masterpieces. And keen eyes will love how Impresso maintains the balance of your piece! The result—captivating, print-worthy paintings brimming with passion, life, and beauty. Transform photos into paintings then combine paint effects with layers and brushes for gorgeous print-worthy artwork. Smart Layers and brushes for blending multiple paint styles, a library of Edges that blend beautifully with canvas, a Background Paint effect to create distances, a Soft Paint effect for enhancing foreground subjects, an Aged Paint effect for adding cracked texture, and an ultra-impressionism effect called Tache to cover paintings with broken brush strokes and dabs of color. Impresso Pro has everything an Artist or Photographer will need to create gallery-style paintings with enough detail even for the largest print. Includes: Layers, Brushes, Soft Paint, Background Paint, Aged Paint, Painted Edges and three Impressionism Paint Effects: Alla Prima, En Plein Air and Tache paint styles. Features A pro workflow automatically transforms a photo into a painting and places it on a paint layer along with a canvas. With a smart built-in layering system the photo can then be transformed again when a new paint layer is chosen and placed on the layer above. The layers are ‘smart’ because the settings are retained per layer allowing changes to brush strokes, color finishes and other settings for infinite variation when blending. There are several ways to blend the layers, change the opacity slider to blend the strokes beneath, or to blend color use the brushes to brush-off the paint style or back-on if too much is removed. This powerful feature is great for creating lighter values in distant elements and colorful ones in the foreground. With layers you can also achieve another level of depth (or depth-of-field) by overlapping larger brush strokes with finer ones—all it takes is this simple technique to achieve a highly creative work. Paint Styles and Effects Alla Prima (‘wet-on-wet’ or ‘all-at-once’)—is great for portraits! This beautiful paint style starts by filling the painting with an abundance of brushstrokes. A library of artistic finishes compliments this style by adding light, color and movement. En Plein Air (in open air)—is perfect for landscapes. This stroke-filled effect consists of eight artists’ palettes created by famous impressionists. Use them as they are or edit the paint colors to make your own palette—save preset feature keeps the palette and all the layers intact for future projects. Tache (‘spot’ or ‘blot’)—applies broken brushstrokes throughout the painting. This technique of laying thick patches, flecks and dabs of color is great for making paint look as if it stands out from the surface. Apply a light spackling of strokes or fill the painting with dabs of color. Canvas Layer—supplies the canvas texture and adds a painted edge. NEW—Soft Paint Effect—creates a hard edge when brushed to show contrast from other edges around it—great for foreground objects NEW—Background Paint Effect—recedes objects and scenery when brushed for a natural distant and out-of-focus effect NEW—Aged Paint Effect—cracks paint in a linear or angled fashion with control over crack color, strength, size, angle, spacing and sensitivity NEW—Painted Edges—creates a painted vignette NEW—Signature Layer - Add that personalized touch to your image NEW—CONFORM STROKES This new technology conforms brush strokes, using only a slider, to bring out detail naturally—while still retaining the brushwork.   NEW—BRISTLE STYLES Three bristle styles wield brushwork in an extremely free manner while retaining high quality strokes even up close. NEW—11 NEW BRUSH STYLES

About

Split Lab

Easily split large photos into multiple sections for printing or creating wall collages. Offers various template formats and customizable settings for precise image tiling on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Split large photos
  • Multiple template formats
  • Customizable settings
  • Save and share split images
  • Dropbox integration
  • Print-ready output
Features
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Big photos are great, until you need to print them! Split Lab helps you to create multiple splits fitting to your target format. Make large printouts, plaster your walls - with Split Lab! Split Lab supports multiple template formats, split strategies and customizable settings. The resulting split images can be shared, saved, printed, stored in your Dropbox or any other option you have on your specific device to handle files. The power of Split Lab for iOS: ​ Some years back, we introduced Split Lab to macOS as a powerful tool for professional image splitting and tiling. Now, with the release of Split Lab for iOS, we bring this power to your mobile device.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Impresso Pro at 73% against Split Lab's 15%. Impresso Pro also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.8) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months). Split Lab's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $29.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Impresso Pro costs $29.99 and Split Lab $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Impresso Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Impresso Pro has 78 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Impresso Pro's written reviews are positive against 15% of Split Lab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, Split Lab every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Impresso Pro versus Split Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpresso ProSplit Lab
Price$29.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.7 (78 ratings) — better1.8 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better15.4% of reviews
Number of ratings78 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix SoftwarePengsquare UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Customer experience

Impresso Pro

All ratings78 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral5.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative13.3%

Split Lab

All ratings9 ratings
Positive22.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative77.8%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative84.6%

In-app purchases

None

Impresso Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Split Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Impresso Pro free?
Impresso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Split Lab free?
Split Lab costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Impresso Pro or Split Lab?
Impresso Pro is rated higher. Impresso Pro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Split Lab averages 1.8 from 9 ratings.
Do Impresso Pro or Split Lab have ads?
Neither Impresso Pro nor Split Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Impresso Pro or Split Lab?
Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, and Split Lab every 10 months. Most recently, Impresso Pro was updated on August 22, 2026 and Split Lab on September 22, 2026.

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