Artstudio Pro vs iconTool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artstudio Pro
This powerful app offers advanced drawing, painting, and photo editing tools for creative professionals and enthusiasts. It features a robust engine, flexible layer system, and an advanced brush engine for realistic strokes. Users can also create animations and import/export various image formats.
- GPU accelerated ArtEngine
- Unlimited layers and large canvas sizes
- Advanced brush engine with 150+ brushes
- Flexible layer system with groups and masks
- Professional photo editing tools
- Animation creation and export
- Import/Export ABR/TPL brush and pattern formats
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Introducing Artstudio Pro, the most powerful painting and photo editing app available for both iOS and macOS. The successor to our famous ArtStudio app has been redesigned bringing many new features and improvements taking full advantage of the latest technologies Metal, iCloud Drive, Apple Pencil, and optimized for 64-bit multi-core processors to achieve the smoothest possible workflow. Powerful engine App is based on the powerful GPU accelerated ArtEngine developed by Lucky Clan. It allows working with multiple documents, supports large canvas sizes and an unlimited number of layers. Incredible optimization ensures smooth work even with large canvases. • Realistic Color Pigment Blending • Canvas size up to 64Mpix • Unlimited layers • Multiple open documents • 27 tools: Move, Select, Crop, Eyedropper, Paint, Wet Paint, Eraser, Bucket/Pattern/Gradient Fill, Smudge, Dodge, Burn, Sponge, Text, Heal, Clone, and more • Full iCloud integration Flexible layer system Artstudio Pro introduces a new layer system with grouping, non-destructive layer effects, and adjustment layers. • Groups • Masks, clipping masks • Adjustment Layers • 9 layer effects: Bevel/Emboss, Stroke, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Color/Gradient/Pattern Overlay, Drop Shadow • Text layers Advanced Brush engine Perfectly optimized, lag free mechanism generating smooth, real looking strokes, making the most of Apple Pencil. • Brush size up to 4000x4000 • 64-bit painting with pattern, double stamp, wet brush, dynamics • Brush editor with over 100 customizable settings • Over 150 built-in brushes divided into multiple groups: Pens, Pencils, Oil Painting, Inking, Charcoals, Airbrushes, Watercolor and many more • Symmetric painting Professional photo editor Photo editing options developed in cooperation with professional photographers. Each feature was tested in several scenarios and light conditions. • 15 adjustments available as non-destructive layer or simple adjustment: Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, Exposure/Gamma, Shadows/Highlights, Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Temperature/Tint, Black and White, Gradient Map and more • 4 auto adjustments: Auto Contrast, Levels, Lightness, Saturation • Transform: Basic, Perspective, Warp • Dozens of filters with realtime preview and the ability to generate seamless patterns • Inpaint, Elastify (Liquify) • Retouching tools: Heal, Dodge, Burn, Sponge and more • Image resize, Canvas resize • Crop and Trim Animation Create animation from layers or groups and finally export it to one of the most popular animation format • Scrollable timeline view with Play/Pause • Onion skin • Customizable Frame duration • Always visible layers • Export to MP4, HEVC, Animated GIF/PNG Import/Export We have implemented many parsers from the most popular assets/images formats and we are especially proud of our ABR/TPL parser which not only reads brush stamps and patterns, but also most settings which are converted to Artstudio Pro brush engine values. Import • Images - PNG, JPEG, PSD, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, PDF, most raw formats • Brushes - ABR, TPL • Color swatches - ASE, ACO • Patterns - PAT • Gradients - GRD • Fonts - TTF, OTF Export • Images - PNG, JPEG, PSD, TIFF, PDF Other features • Floating panels for Colors, Layers, Brushes etc • Screen recording • Customizable Quick menu • Customizable Shortcuts • Snapping to guidelines, dynamic guidelines, grid • Perspective grid assist • Mirror (flipped) view • Support of iPad Drag and Drop, Split View, Sharing Extension, Open In, Clipboard Free version limitations: • locked Saving • canvas size limited to device screen size • layers count limited to 3 • export only to jpg • locked animation export Minimum System Requirements Artstudio Pro for iOS requires iPhone or iPad running iOS 15.0 or above Privacy policy: https://luckyclan.com/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://luckyclan.com/terms-use
iconTool
Preview app logo designs on a simulated home screen environment. Compare your creations side-by-side with competitors to make faster shipping decisions. Get immediate visual feedback on your icon designs.
- Preview app logos on home screen
- Create multiple test icons
- Side-by-side competitor comparison
- Real mobile environment simulation
- Faster shipping decisions
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You won’t know if your App Logo design truly works until you see it on the home screen! iconTool lets you quickly create multiple Logo test icons, preview them in a real mobile home screen environment, and compare them side by side with competitors — helping you decide faster which version is ready to ship. Need help? Visit icontool.cn for support. Thanks to @Liang and @Zion for technical support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Artstudio Pro at Free against iconTool's $0.99. Artstudio Pro also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (4.1K vs 4). iconTool's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (96% vs 74%). On update cadence, ads 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
Artstudio Pro is free to download; iconTool costs $0.99 up front. Artstudio Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per year. iconTool asks for nothing beyond the download.
Artstudio Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Artstudio Pro has 4.1K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Artstudio Pro's written reviews are positive against 96% of iconTool's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Artstudio Pro ships an update monthly, iconTool fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artstudio Pro | iconTool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (4.1K ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews | 95.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.1K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 385 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucky Clan | 涵洋 王 |
Customer experience
Artstudio Pro
iconTool
Bugs and requests
Artstudio Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- Gradient tool not working as expected
- Brush settings not saving properly
- Unexpected canvas resizing and cropping
- Layers disappearing or not rendering correctly
Requested features
6 requests- Add custom brush creation
- Improve canvas resizing and previewing
- Implement better layer and mask management
- Add more blending and color adjustment tools
- Introduce keyboard shortcuts and gesture support
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- Provide a comprehensive user manual or tutorials
iconTool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Artstudio Pro
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$3.491 Year
- Lifetime License$14.99
iconTool
No in-app purchases









