Pastello vs SnapMotion 5
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.
SnapMotion 5
Easily extract high-quality images from your video files. Rotate or flip videos before capturing, open files directly from various sources including HTTP links, and process thousands of images in batches. Export stills in multiple formats or create GIFs and MP4s.
- Extract images from 4K/8K videos
- Open videos from Finder, Photos, HTTP links
- Rotate and flip videos before capture
- Batch image extraction
- Create GIFs and MP4s from images
- Export images as PNG, JPEG, HEIF, TIFF, GIF, MP4
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Want an easy tool to get images out of your videos? Use SnapMotion — a simple tool to help you get just the visuals you need from your video files. Rotate or flip your videos before capture, open quickly from Finder or Photos, and get as many stills as you like with no delay with SnapMotion. - CAPTURE IN TOP QUALITY Open 4K and 8K videos with no lag and get high quality captures with SnapMotion. Forget about haphazard screenshots that take too much time to capture just right and are blurry more often than not. Get frames from your videos in the highest quality possible with a handy tool such as SnapMotion. - OPEN VIDEOS EASILY Waste no time when opening your videos. Open the files in Finder, Photos, Files directly to SnapMotion. More good news? The app supports services such HTTP videos. You can open your videos to SnapMotion via their links, making your snapping easy and fast — no need to move your files or download in advance. - ROTATE AND FLIP VIDEOS Save even more time with SnapMotion’s built-in rotate and flip feature. No need to re-encode your video before you save your screen captures in the right orientation. Just flip or rotate the video in the app and capture what you need exactly the way it was intended to be viewed. - BATCH PROCESS If you need to capture many images from your video, SnapMotion is up for the task. The app allows you to extract thousands of images from your video in batches. You can also create GIFs or MP4s out of your images. - USE FOR MANY VIDEO FORMATS If your version of QuickTime can play it, SnapMotion can capture it! The app works with numerous video formats and codecs and can export your images as PNG, JPEG, HEIF, TIFF, GIF, and MP4. - GET HELP WITHIN THE APP SnapMotion is designed so that just anyone can pick it up and use it, particularly if you have even a rudimentary knowledge of photography. However, if something isn’t clear, you can submit feedback or ask questions within the app itself. Subscription Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://neededapps.com/legal. Please note that the application is universal. Batch processing and advanced exporting formats are exclusive to the Mac version.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pastello at 79% against SnapMotion 5's 0%. Pastello also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (43 vs 1). SnapMotion 5's advantage is price (Free vs $29.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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
SnapMotion 5 is free to download; Pastello costs $29.99 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 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastello has 43 ratings behind it against 1, 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 SnapMotion 5's.
Pastello ships an update every 3 months, SnapMotion 5 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pastello | SnapMotion 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (43 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JixiPix, LLC | NEEDEDAPPS PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
Pastello
SnapMotion 5
In-app purchases
Pastello
No in-app purchases
SnapMotion 5
No in-app purchases









