Comparison

Pastello vs Camare Experimental Camera

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Camare Experimental Camera

This app offers unique image filters and simulations for creative photography. Combine multiple exposures and filters to create one-of-a-kind images. It also features an experimental editor and supports using multiple lenses simultaneously.

Highlights
  • Unique image filters
  • Single, dual, and multi-exposure photography
  • Film-sensor simulations
  • Border-framing filters
  • Experimental editor/post-processor
  • Multi-lens support
  • Adjustable image aspect ratios
Features
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Camare is a creative photography app with unique image filters you can combine to take photos. You can creatively take single, dual, or multiexposure photographs like no other apps. It is the first to provide program cards for storage and files but also to use with all compatible photo apps. App includes by default 17 creative filters (Nerve, Dolce, Bewi, Sqare, Booty, Geoh, Ouibak, Moop, Dnaz, Semi, Morkmall, Habaen, Bomber Baba, Herate, Gulbul, Karbad Bob, Cainswoe), 10 film-sensor simulations, and 12 border-framing filters. In-app packages are available and offer multiple extra combinations of filters and user interface skins. They enable me to focus more on the app development and of its functionalities. There is also an experimental editor / post-processor, still in its infancy but offers myriads of creative results. This app was originally developed for my personal experimental photographic works and is constantly being updated: an app from a photographer for photographers. It also lets you use more than one lens at once for dualphotography or multiphotography. Its tens of creative filters are of three types you can combine to your desired effect: - input saturators (aka insaturators) - frame and skins (aka frameskins) - film simulators (aka filmulators) You can also modulate them using the easily accessible color-coded variator. Once taken, the basic whole-screen editor lets you rerender the last photograph with a new filter combination. Image aspect ratios can be changed at capture or at output and you can save three presets for your future shots.

Screenshots

Camare Experimental Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pastello at 79% against Camare Experimental Camera's 0%. Pastello also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Camare Experimental Camera's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $29.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On ads and monetization model 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

Pastello costs $29.99 and Camare Experimental Camera $0.99 up front. Camare Experimental Camera sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pastello asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pastello holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastello has 43 ratings behind it against 6, 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 0% of Camare Experimental Camera's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pastello ships an update every 3 months, Camare Experimental Camera every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pastello versus Camare Experimental Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelloCamare Experimental Camera
Price$29.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.7 (43 ratings) — better4.2 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews78.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings43 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB584 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCLoopr

Customer experience

Pastello

All ratings43 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.1%

Camare Experimental Camera

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pastello

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Camare Experimental Camera

One-time3
  • Luckyfloy Now Pack$0.99
  • Konoff Sevan Pack$0.99
  • Oldlymp Ksa Package$0.99

Questions

Is Pastello free?
Pastello costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Camare Experimental Camera free?
Camare Experimental Camera costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pastello or Camare Experimental Camera?
Pastello is rated higher. Pastello averages 4.7 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while Camare Experimental Camera averages 4.2 from 6 ratings.
Do Pastello or Camare Experimental Camera have ads?
Neither Pastello nor Camare Experimental Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pastello or Camare Experimental Camera?
Pastello ships an update every 3 months, and Camare Experimental Camera every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pastello was updated on October 17, 2026 and Camare Experimental Camera on October 9, 2026.

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