Comparison

Impresso Pro vs Simplified AI

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

Head to head
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

Simplified AI

This app offers a comprehensive suite for marketing creation and collaboration. Design visuals, generate marketing copy, produce videos, and publish directly to social media, all within a single platform. Streamline your workflow and scale your marketing efforts efficiently.

Highlights
  • No-code design editor
  • AI marketing copy writer
  • Video creation tools
  • Collaboration features
  • In-app social publishing
  • Multiple brand kits
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Simplified is the one app to create, collaborate, and scale your marketing. Design, write marketing copy, create videos, collaborate, and publish to socials—all in the same place. Built for speed and simplicity, Simplified helps over 400,000 creators, marketers, and businesses to scale their marketing, streamline their workflows, and get work done in a few clicks. With a no-code design editor, AI writer, stunning templates, multiple brand kits, unlimited workspaces, and in-app publishing, you can start and finish your marketing without switching tabs. Ever. "Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/"

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Impresso Pro at 73% against Simplified AI's 23%. Impresso Pro also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 17). Simplified AI's advantage is price (Free vs $29.99) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On iOS requirement 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

Simplified AI is free to download; Impresso Pro costs $29.99 up front. Simplified AI sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $15.00 per month. Impresso Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Impresso Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Impresso Pro's written reviews are positive against 23% of Simplified AI's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, Simplified AI every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Impresso Pro versus Simplified AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpresso ProSimplified AI
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (81 ratings) — better2.5 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better22.6% of reviews
Number of ratings81 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCTLDR Technologies,Inc.

Customer experience

Impresso Pro

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

Simplified AI

All ratings20 ratings
Positive30.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative65.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive22.6%
Neutral6.5%
Negative71.0%

In-app purchases

None

Impresso Pro

No in-app purchases

17 purchases

Simplified AI

Subscriptions7
  • Starter$15.001 Month
  • Monthly$15.001 Month
  • Small Teams$30.001 Month
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  • Business$49.991 Month
  • Ai Writer Pro II$49.991 Month
  • Yearly$90.001 Year
  • Starter7 Days trial$107.991 Year
One-time10
  • $10 One-time$9.99
  • $9.99 one-time$9.99
  • $15 One-time$14.99
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  • AI Credit 15K$14.99
  • $14.99 AI Generations$14.99
  • $30 One-time$29.99
  • AI Credit 30K$29.99
  • AI Words - 100K$29.99
  • AI Credit 50K$49.99
  • $49.99 AI Generations$49.99

Questions

Is Impresso Pro free?
Impresso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simplified AI free?
Simplified AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Impresso Pro or Simplified AI?
Impresso Pro is rated higher. Impresso Pro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Simplified AI averages 2.5 from 20 ratings.
Do Impresso Pro or Simplified AI have ads?
Simplified AI shows ads; Impresso Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Impresso Pro or Simplified AI?
Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, and Simplified AI every 4 weeks. Most recently, Impresso Pro was updated on October 24, 2026 and Simplified AI on October 24, 2026.

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