Comparison

Impresso Pro vs eion cam

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

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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

eion cam

Features
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What is a beautiful picture ? Photographing what makes you vibrate: a moment, a face, a landscape, an atmosphere, a sunset.. But it's also: - Balanced lights - Harmonious colors - Accurate details of your image With a camera: - Who has complete, easily accessible and precise settings - Capable of shooting hundreds of photos without draining your battery - Image formats you can change on the fly The eion cam offers you all this and much, much more... In an application designed for everyone, free and without ads.. The eion cam is a tool for your eye. And a playground to experience your sensibility. All the power of a native 12Mpx camera tailor-made for iPhone. From the photo to the final result, it's all the shooting and computing power of your mobile which is exploited. DASHBOARD You have access to all of these settings in a compact menu: - Exposure time / gamma / white balance / exposure - Full screen format / 16:9 / 3:2 / 4:3 / square - AE/AF lock - Manual focus - Composition grid - Lens Shape: Native/Square/Circle - Torch Mode - Adventure mode - Device horizon and front/back flip levels - GPS data on/off SHOOTING FORMATS Full Screen / 16:9 / 3:2 / 4:3 / Square Swipe to the right or to the left on the screen to switch successively from one format to another. Super quick ! FILTERS AND FX With the help of 33 live filters and 5 FX discover a new reality and find inspiration immediately. - 6 black and white filters - 7 monochrome filters - + 20 other filters - Ghost FX: control and change the color of shapes that appear and disappear on your image - FX 2EX: a live double expo on your screen - FX COLOR: change the color and adjust the opacity of this monochrome filter on your image - FX Bi: 2 colors you change + 256 color photo mode + diffusion mode + raster mode - FX GLOW: outrageous halos of light. It's up to you to find the balance. FX on eion is like exploring new worlds. Live filters are like changing sunglasses 33 times in 5 minutes. PHOTO LIBRARY With the help of the eion photo library, explore all your images. In full screen or zoomed out display. The magic wand corrects your badly exposed images or rebalances those with too many dominants. Swipe up on an image to view all of the metadata contained in your images. FIND ONE IMAGE Find your images from summer 2019 using eion and among the 100,000+ images in your photo library? Easy: filter your images by date. You will also see the date of your images, displayed at the top of the screen, change as you scroll through your library. Super convenient ! CROP Photo cropping is a basic and essential tool of any image editing. The eion crop is simple and very powerful. Thanks to the matrix calculation, it makes it possible to crop an image detail without loss, with a result that will be enlarged to 12 megapixels (Mpx). COMPOS Thanks to the compos on eion you can assemble from 2 to 100 images in one. The power and precision of eion's matrix calculation preserves all the finesse of the colors and the original details while remaining under the 12MP bar and without draining your battery. And if you want to start publishing your images and discover other worlds of creators then join us on eion, our other app available on the Store. eion, it’s here and now: create together. More details on our "General Conditions of Use" (T & Cs) and on our "Privacy Policy" here: https://www.eion.io/legals/cgu-confidentialite-mentions-legales-1-2.html

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: eion cam at Free against Impresso Pro's $29.99. eion cam also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

eion cam is free to download; Impresso Pro costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, eion cam every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Impresso Pro versus eion cam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpresso Proeion cam
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (78 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings78 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCeion

In-app purchases

None

Impresso Pro

No in-app purchases

None

eion cam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Impresso Pro free?
Impresso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is eion cam free?
eion cam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Impresso Pro or eion cam have ads?
Neither Impresso Pro nor eion cam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Impresso Pro or eion cam?
Impresso Pro ships an update every 3 months, and eion cam every 6 weeks. Most recently, Impresso Pro was updated on October 6, 2026 and eion cam on September 26, 2026.

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