FotoDa vs Chromatic Edges
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FotoDa
Transform your photos into unique abstract art with this app. Easily create stunning collages from your existing pictures and share your artistic visions.
- Generate abstract art collages
- Use photos from your phone
- Save creations
- Share artwork
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Instantly generate abstract photo collages from pictures on your phone. Save and share your creations.
Chromatic Edges
Enhance your photos with unique, artistic edges inspired by historical photographic processes. This app uses machine learning to generate an unlimited variety of edge styles, allowing for endless creative possibilities.
- Unlimited AI-generated edge styles
- Inspired by historical photo processes
- Easy-to-use interface
- Save favorite edges
- Supports Calotypes, Cyanotypes, Daguerreotypes, and more
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It's all about the Edge! Unlimited edges to make your photography pop! JixiPix takes vintage to a whole new extreme. Gone are the days of having a few tiny choices when it comes to adding flare to your imagery. Chromatic Edges brings back the subtle magic of photo processing with glass, silver and paper plates all with a few taps and your unique photo. It’s all about the edge! There is something artistic about the old days of plate photography. The silky smooth images and fabulously artistic edges are just amazing to look at. Before the days of digital or film photography, photographers had to process their images using glass plates, metal plates, and paper to get their final image. These processes took tremendous skill and passion to produce the final product. Some of the processing techniques even required the processing of the glass plate within minutes of taking the photograph. Boy have times changed! Until today you had only a few choices if you wanted to recreate some of the old-style photo art. You would pick a stock photo and blend it into your photography. And since there are only a few choices you were left with your artwork starting to look oh-so-familiar. Chromatic Edges changes all that and gives you unlimited artistic photography styles while only taking a few steps to create. We at JixiPix have found unique ways to use Machine Learning to generate unlimited edges. Just tap the “Generate” button to see the magic happen. Chromatic Edges will, Quickly and effortlessly, create a completely unique edge. If you find that you love it, its super simple to tap the ‘+’ to save it for later. To create this powerful technology took thousands of artistic man hours of meticulously painting edges. These edges were then processed through our deep learning algorithm and used to teach the ‘machine’ how to create them on its own. Now you, the user, get to use this power to ‘edge’ your photo and never have two of the same edge again. And the great thing is…even if you know nothing about the fabulous photo techniques from a hundred years ago you will still appreciate the possibilities and creativity you can achieve with Chromatic Edges. Chromatic Edges is filled to the brim with styles. Easily create Calotypes, Cyanotypes, Daguerreotypes, Gelatin Silver Plates, Tin Type, Chromogenic film, Autochrome, Ambrotype, Carbon Print, Aristotype, Salted Paper Print, colored edges, and thousands of styles in between.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FotoDa at Free against Chromatic Edges's $12.99. FotoDa also leads on ratings volume (139 vs 22) and device support (3 vs 1). Chromatic Edges's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 59%). On ads 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
FotoDa is free to download; Chromatic Edges costs $12.99 up front. FotoDa sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chromatic Edges asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chromatic Edges holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FotoDa has 139 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of FotoDa's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chromatic Edges's.
FotoDa ships an update every 8 months, Chromatic Edges every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | FotoDa | Chromatic Edges |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (139 ratings) | 4.9 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 139 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 407 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zevan Rosser | JixiPix, LLC |
Customer experience
FotoDa
Chromatic Edges
Bugs and requests
FotoDa
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes on launch with spinning spiral
- Crashes when uploading or selecting photos
- Freezes when scrolling through photo library
- Crashes when saving or tapping too quickly
- Crashes after recent iOS updates
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- App won't rotate from portrait to landscape
- Photos are zoomed/cropped incorrectly
- Right half of photos cut off after updates
- Unable to access previously selected images
- Real-time editing feature non-functional
- High-res image generation broken
- IAP (In-App Purchase) not working properly
- App incompatible with iOS 12 and older devices
- Slow performance on iPad Air and older models
- Undo function not clearly documented
Requested features
15 requests- Landscape/horizontal output format support
- Higher resolution export options
- Individual layer blending mode controls
- Ability to reposition and resize images
- Photo transparency adjustment controls
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- Layer-by-layer effect customization
- Single-tap hide/show image toggle
- More transparent UI menu design
- Clear/reset function for starting over
- Ability to select single photo for blending
- Batch processing capabilities
- Save to multiple folders functionality
- Better photo library organization and sorting
- Comprehensive user documentation/FAQ
- Landscape mode rotation support on iPad
Chromatic Edges
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FotoDa
- FotoDa Advanced Features$2.99
Chromatic Edges
No in-app purchases









