Impresso Pro vs Pick Paint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Pick Paint
This app allows for quick and easy daily use of finger painting tools. Users can customize the appearance and properties of each tool, including skin, color, size, and opacity. It's designed to be lightweight and compatible with a wide range of iPad models.
- Customizable tools
- Adjustable color, size, and opacity
- Lightweight design
- Compatible with iOS 9 and later
- Animated graphical user interface
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FingerPaints has been designed for a quick daily use. For this reason, FingerPaints is unique in his category: for each tool displayed on screen you can customize the skin, the color, the size and the opacity. FingerPaints has been optimized to be a lightweight app and has been optimized to be compatible with all new iPad models with iOS 12 and even with the old ones with iOS 9, keeping always the same nice animated graphical user interface.
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pick Paint at Free against Impresso Pro's $29.99. Pick Paint also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 14.0). Impresso Pro's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (81 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Pick Paint is free to download; Impresso Pro costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Impresso Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Impresso Pro has 81 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, Pick Paint every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Impresso Pro | Pick Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (81 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JixiPix, LLC | Batsu |
Customer experience
Impresso Pro
Pick Paint
In-app purchases
Impresso Pro
No in-app purchases
Pick Paint
No in-app purchases









