Comparison

PixMaestro vs Image Super Res

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

Head to head
About

PixMaestro

Create unique images by combining existing photos, camera shots, text, and stickers. Enhance your creations with editing tools like color adjustments, filters, and background changes. Save, share, or print your masterpieces.

Highlights
  • Combine photos, text, and stickers
  • Move, scale, and rotate objects
  • Adjust color, brightness, and saturation
  • Apply vintage or black/white filters
  • Change photo background for faces
  • Save and restore editing sessions
  • Add picture frames and lines to labels
Features
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This app allows you to create amazing new pictures from any combination of your old photos, new photos taken by your device's camera, labels, app-provided stickers and/or background images. Furthermore, you may move and scale any of the aforementioned objects, change the font of text labels, and/or rotate stickers or sub-photos to design your perfect masterpiece pictures. Added to the above, the app allows you to change the contrast, brightness and saturation color of your new pictures, and you may apply a vintage or black/white filter to render your new pictures appear as old photos. Moreover, you may change the background image of any photo which depicts human face(s) as main subject. and creating a new photo from that. Once you are done creating your new pictures, you may send them to friends via emails or messages, save them to your device's photo album or print them via your printer. The unique features of the app are: 1. You may scale and place labels, stickers and sub-photos at anywhere in the new picture. 2. You may change the text color, background color, style and opacity of labels. 3. You may add a line to a label to point to any object in the new picture. 4. You may set the color, style and width of each label line. 5. You may change the shape of sub-photos. 6. You may choose from a wide selection of interesting stickers and background images to embellish your new pictures. 7. You may rotate sub-photos. 8. You may add/remove picture frame for sub-photos and the top-level picture. 9. You may save and restore your photo editing sessions. Sessions can be viewed and edited later by the app on IOS or MacOS devices. 10..You may store your saved sessions to iCloud, and access those sessions across your iPhone and iPad. 11. You may lock/unlock the location of sub-photos. text labels and stickers to make it easier to collage them. 12. You may change the background image of any photos that depict human faces, and creating new photos accordingly.

About

Image Super Res

Enhance and enlarge your photos and illustrations using advanced AI. This app supports various image formats and offers multiple AI models for upscaling by 2x or 4x, improving resolution and quality with a simple interface.

Highlights
  • AI-powered image upscaling
  • Supports photos and anime/illustrations
  • 2x and 4x scaling options
  • Multiple AI models
  • Supports GIF, HEIC, JPEG, PNG, WebP
  • Easy-to-use interface
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The app utilizes AI to upscale and enhance images. It supports a variety of image types, including photos and anime/illustrations, with scaling options of x2 and x4. Improve the resolution and quality of your photos with the easy-to-use app. Select images from Photo Library or Files then tap the Upscale button. That's it! Try different AI models to see the differences. Supported Image Formats:  - GIF - HEIC - JPEG - PNG - WebP Supported AI Models: - RealESRGAN x4 Plus: A scale x4 model designed for general images - RealESRGAN x2 Plus: A scale x2 model designed for general images - RealESRNet x4 Plus: A scale x4 model designed for general images - realesr general x4v3: A compact scale x4 model, designed for general images - RealESRGAN x4 Plus Anime: A scale x4 model designed foranime/illustration Acknowledgment: Wang, X., Xie, L., Dong, C., & Shan, Y. (2021).  Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data.  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW).   For further information, see the project's GitHub: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN

Screenshots

PixMaestro4 screens
Image Super Res4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PixMaestro at 75% against Image Super Res's 29%. PixMaestro also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). Image Super Res's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Image Super Res is free to download; PixMaestro costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PixMaestro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of PixMaestro's written reviews are positive against 29% of Image Super Res's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PixMaestro ships an update every 2 months, Image Super Res every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PixMaestro versus Image Super Res: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixMaestroImage Super Res
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.7 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better28.6% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynetix Design Solutions IncNobutaka Yuasa

Customer experience

PixMaestro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Image Super Res

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

In-app purchases

None

PixMaestro

No in-app purchases

None

Image Super Res

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PixMaestro free?
PixMaestro costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Image Super Res free?
Image Super Res is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PixMaestro or Image Super Res?
PixMaestro is rated higher. PixMaestro averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Image Super Res averages 3.7 from 9 ratings.
Do PixMaestro or Image Super Res have ads?
Image Super Res shows ads; PixMaestro does not.
Which is updated more often, PixMaestro or Image Super Res?
PixMaestro ships an update every 2 months, and Image Super Res every 3 months. Most recently, PixMaestro was updated on November 2, 2026 and Image Super Res on October 30, 2026.

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