Comparison

Impresso Pro vs Sticker Drop Maker Studio

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

Sticker Drop Maker Studio

Easily transform images into animated stickers for messaging apps. Organize your creations into shareable packs and enhance accessibility with descriptions for VoiceOver users. Enjoy a fully featured experience with no hidden costs or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Create stickers from images
  • Organize stickers into packs
  • Share sticker packs
  • Add descriptions for VoiceOver
  • Export to iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Lift your favourite part out of an image and turn it into a digital sticker! Keep a library of your stickers to use later. Group stickers into Packs that can be shared with other Sticker Drop users. Sticker Drop is also inclusive! It can help you to add a description to the Sticker so that people using VoiceOver can join in the fun. Every part of Sticker Drop is 100% available - no up sells or subscriptions, and no accounts to create. There are also 12 different icons to choose from! Sticker Packs can be exported to use in iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp. Sticker Drop is available in a number of languages including, English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian. If you have any questions, feedback or feature requests please send them to me via support@bronron.com. I’m a lone developer working on this app and all feedback is welcome.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sticker Drop Maker Studio at $2.99 against Impresso Pro's $29.99. Sticker Drop Maker Studio also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). Impresso Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Sticker Drop Maker Studio $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Impresso Pro against 4.7 for Sticker Drop Maker Studio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 78 and 151 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Impresso Pro's written reviews are positive against 85% of Sticker Drop Maker Studio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, Sticker Drop Maker Studio every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Impresso Pro versus Sticker Drop Maker Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpresso ProSticker Drop Maker Studio
Price$29.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.7 (78 ratings) — better4.7 (151 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews85.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings78151 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank—#198 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix SoftwareAaron F Stephenson

Customer experience

Impresso Pro

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

Sticker Drop Maker Studio

All ratings151 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral3.4%
Negative11.5%

Bugs and requests

Impresso Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Sticker Drop Maker Studio

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App crashes when adding sticker descriptions
  • Sharing packs to native iOS Files app fails
  • Stickers disappear when app is auto-offloaded for storage
  • File saving issues with iOS Files app (works with OneDrive)
  • Pack title doesn't appear on saved files
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  • Green checkmark indicator unclear
  • Icon changes don't reflect in iMessage
  • Some iMessage sections show as empty
  • Stickers not transferring to new phone
  • Email feedback and bug report features non-functional

Requested features

15 requests
  • iCloud sync and backup functionality
  • Animated sticker support (GIF/Live Photo)
  • Built-in image editing tools (crop, rotate, effects)
  • Sticker editing and correction capabilities
  • FaceTime sticker pack support
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  • Ability to combine multiple stickers
  • Most-used sticker frequency section
  • Auto-save stickers to photo album
  • Circular crop and edge refinement tools
  • Text overlay capability on stickers
  • Custom category icons from stickers
  • Category name display options
  • Category wrapping instead of horizontal scroll
  • List view for easier sticker management
  • Sticker export functionality

In-app purchases

None

Impresso Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Sticker Drop Maker Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Impresso Pro free?
Impresso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sticker Drop Maker Studio free?
Sticker Drop Maker Studio costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Impresso Pro or Sticker Drop Maker Studio?
Impresso Pro is rated higher. Impresso Pro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Sticker Drop Maker Studio averages 4.7 from 151 ratings.
Do Impresso Pro or Sticker Drop Maker Studio have ads?
Neither Impresso Pro nor Sticker Drop Maker Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Impresso Pro or Sticker Drop Maker Studio?
Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, and Sticker Drop Maker Studio every 3 weeks. Most recently, Impresso Pro was updated on August 22, 2026 and Sticker Drop Maker Studio on September 23, 2026.

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