Pastello vs Exif Manager PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pastello
Transform your photos into stunning dry media art, mimicking styles like pastel, charcoal, and colored pencil. This app offers a professional workflow with customizable layers and one-click presets for creating expressive, traditional-looking artwork.
- Photo to Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon conversion
- Layering of different dry media
- Customizable stroke direction, size, and volume
- One-click presets with customization options
- Traditional sketch styles and DaVinci effect
- Professional workflow for artists and photographers
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Transform photos into a fine art drawing with Pastel, Pencil, Chalk, Charcoal and Crayon Introducing Pastello, a brand-new companion app to JixiPix’s Impresso Pro. Pastello takes you back in time to the 15th century. Away from brushes and large strokes and into the realm of dry media with color that is both brilliant and subtle. The “Dry color method” made famous by Leonardo da Vinci is so powerful in its simplicity and beauty with its black and red chalk and yellow pastel highlights. Later, artists would paint charming portraits in a smooth heavily blended fashion. Move forward a few centuries later and pastel quickly became filled with brilliant color and crisp detail. Fast forward to today and a digital age has made it so you, the artist, can mix and match media that is difficult or impossible in a traditional setting. Pastello makes it simple and convenient to take an image and change it into Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Colored Pencil and Graphite drawings. Use alone or combine these medias using powerful layers to produce interesting expressive sketch effects filled with colorful personality and passion. And the best part is Pastello does all the work. With Pastello, photographers and artists can now go beyond the camera to turn image files into creative works that resemble traditional handmade media using a professional workflow that is easy and comfortable to operate. Pastello has a pro workflow that automatically transforms a photo into a pastel drawing and places it on an art paper with options to customize. The Pastel can then be changed to Chalk, Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Graphite, Conte or Crayon using Layer styles. The medias start out delicate like traditional drawings do, then allows you to build them up using fills, shading and detail layers. The medias are beautiful as they are, or mix them for an expressive artwork. Pastello includes plenty of traditional sketch styles as well as a DaVinci effect using a mixed media of pencil, charcoal, crayon and old paper. It’s easy to use! We have mixed the media into one-click presets with all the freedom to customize, blend and fine-tune for your own unique artwork filled with age, depth and timeless beauty as if created by the renaissance artist himself. Pastel Styles: Colored Pencil, Graphite, Charcoal, and Chalk come with a fill and detail option that can be layered for infinite variation. Conte has a dynamic sketch feature that lets you fill in shadows, mid-tones and highlights with crosshatching or scumbling. All with the ability to change stroke direction, size, volume and variation. Pastel—(Soft) is a soft, buttery consistency and intense color. This effect is dense and filled with the grain of the paper. Chalk—(Hard Pastel) is a light dusty effect with little specks of preserved paper. This chalky pastel is known for it’s soft strokes and velvety texture. Charcoal—creates a velvety black charcoal effect with shades of grey. Use it for warming up the under painting of a composition, or to complete a finished charcoal piece. Colored Pencil—creates soft colorful strokes in the drawing that can be layered to build up color then burnished with a light Pencil Layer, or the Smudge tool. Pencil—creates pencil drawings with fluid outlines and soft, limpid tonal shadings for a drawing filled with warmth and charm. Conté—is a beautiful crayon media for enhancing highlights, midtones and shadows in drawings using classic colors. Crayon—creates a colorful waxy base to a drawing, then burnished it with a Conte White for highlights or Bistre for shading.
Exif Manager PRO
Easily view and edit photo metadata, including EXIF data like camera settings and location. Remove or modify metadata, and save changes with various options. Supports batch processing and integration with the Photos app.
- View EXIF metadata
- Remove EXIF metadata
- Edit GPS location
- Edit photo date
- Photos Extension support
- Batch processing
- 3D Touch integration
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Every photo and video can carry hidden information. Exif Manager PRO helps you inspect, edit, and remove media metadata before you save or share. Media files can include hidden metadata such as camera details, capture date, file information, and GPS location. Exif Manager gives you a clear way to review that data, update it when needed, or create cleaner copies for sharing. Clean metadata before posting online, sending files to clients, or uploading photos and videos to AI tools. KEY FEATURES: - View detailed EXIF, GPS, TIFF, camera, file, and date metadata - Inspect supported photo and video metadata - Remove hidden metadata from media before sharing - Edit GPS location and capture date - Open photo locations in Maps when GPS data is available - Share original files, metadata-only text, or copies without metadata - Batch select media and apply metadata changes in bulk - Choose how edited media is saved - Delete originals after saving edited copies, if you prefer that workflow - Use the extension in the share menu to inspect and clean shared media from outside the app - Works on iPhone and iPad PRO VERSION: - No ads - Unlimited batch edits - All features of the extension in the share menu - One-time purchase Exif Manager PRO is built for photographers, video creators, sellers, travelers, privacy-conscious users, and anyone who wants more control over the hidden information stored in media files. Questions or feedback? Contact us at ibrightsider@gmail.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pastello at 79% against Exif Manager PRO's 29%. Pastello also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (43 vs 4). Exif Manager PRO's advantage is price ($1.49 vs $29.99) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). 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
Pastello costs $29.99 and Exif Manager PRO $1.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pastello holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastello has 43 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Pastello's written reviews are positive against 29% of Exif Manager PRO's.
Pastello ships an update every 3 months, Exif Manager PRO every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pastello | Exif Manager PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | $1.49 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (43 ratings) — better | 3.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JixiPix Software | Vladyslav Hetman |
Customer experience
Pastello
Exif Manager PRO
In-app purchases
Pastello
No in-app purchases
Exif Manager PRO
No in-app purchases
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