Comparison

Spektrel Art vs Engraver handmade etching

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

Head to head
About

Spektrel Art

Transform your photos into dazzling, otherworldly art with intersecting lines of light. This app offers powerful adjustments to create unique imagery filled with movement, sparkling life, and divided color spaces.

Highlights
  • Intersecting light lines
  • Adjustable taper length and sharpness
  • Lighten and brighten controls
  • Color boost for enhanced hues
  • Dramatic glow effect
  • Pre-set styles
  • Infinite artistic variations
Features
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Spektrel Art is an extravagant otherworldly display of webbed light that glistens and gleams with intersecting lines of tapered light. Applied to photos, this medium of imaginative and magical art form transcends the ordinary to extraordinary creating something wild with movement, sparkling life and divided color spaces. Powerful adjustments allow you to fine-tune to create your own imagery filled with tapered points of bright intersecting lines, fluid streaming ones, and phantasmal qualities. INCLUDES • Detail slider increases the amount of intersecting lines • Taper Length and Sharpen sliders to add twinkle to the effect • Lighten and Brighten sliders to make it illuminate • Sharpen slider to exaggerate the lines • Smoothing slider to softens lines • Color Boost for enhanced color • Dramatic glow slider to add a dreamy quality • Presets to start you off • Infinite variation to create art with illuminated twinkles, fluid lines or ethereal softness

About

Engraver handmade etching

Transform any photo into a realistic hand-drawn engraving with this app. It offers a powerful engine and curated presets to achieve professional-looking results with ease, making it more than just a toy.

Highlights
  • Create hand-drawn engraving effects
  • Turn any picture into an engraving
  • Powerful image processing engine
  • Curated parameter presets
  • Intuitive interface
Features
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This app is so much fun to play with, but it's much more than a toy. With it, you can create images resembling the hand-made works of a true master who spent painstaking hours over a work of art. The Engraver app lets you turn any picture into an impressive old-style engraving that looks hand-drawn. A powerful, extremely qualitative engine and carefully selected presets of parameters let you choose a wide variety of engraving effects without any extra effort or special knowledge. Features: - The power and productivity of AlphaPlugins EngraverIII pro tool. - The best sets of parameters, specially chosen for you. - Elegant and easy-to use intuitive interface. - 20 years of image processing experience in your hands. Just enjoy with creating!

Screenshots

Spektrel Art4 screens
Engraver handmade etching4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spektrel Art at none against Engraver handmade etching's 2. Engraver handmade etching's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and chart position (#197 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

Spektrel Art costs $2.99 and Engraver handmade etching $2.99 up front. Engraver handmade etching sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Spektrel Art asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Spektrel Art against 4.6 for Engraver handmade etching. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 129 and 65 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Spektrel Art's written reviews are positive against 90% of Engraver handmade etching's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spektrel Art ships an update every 6 months, Engraver handmade etching every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Spektrel Art versus Engraver handmade etching: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpektrel ArtEngraver handmade etching
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating4.7 (129 ratings) — better4.6 (65 ratings)
Positive reviews87.9% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings129 — better65
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#197 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCMaxim Chernousov

Customer experience

Spektrel Art

All ratings129 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.1%

Engraver handmade etching

All ratings65 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral1.5%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

None

Spektrel Art

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Engraver handmade etching

One-time2
  • Engraver Advanced Set$0.99
  • Engraver Profiled Set$0.99

Questions

Is Spektrel Art free?
Spektrel Art costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Engraver handmade etching free?
Engraver handmade etching costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spektrel Art or Engraver handmade etching?
Spektrel Art is rated higher. Spektrel Art averages 4.7 out of 5 from 129 ratings, while Engraver handmade etching averages 4.6 from 65 ratings.
Do Spektrel Art or Engraver handmade etching have ads?
Neither Spektrel Art nor Engraver handmade etching shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spektrel Art or Engraver handmade etching?
Spektrel Art ships an update every 6 months, and Engraver handmade etching every 2 months. Most recently, Spektrel Art was updated on October 12, 2026 and Engraver handmade etching on October 7, 2026.

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