PaintMee 2 vs Imaengine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PaintMee 2
Transform your photos into unique works of art with various styles and a powerful focus system. Experiment with different artistic expressions and create personalized paintings. Save your creations in high resolution or as a movie of the painting process.
- 92 tuned example styles
- Focus point system for expression
- Up to 5 focus points
- Unique results with each use
- Save painting process as movie
- 4K resolution rendering
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True Art happens when your mind is invited into a piece. When there is something intriguing, provoking, ambiguous or incomplete. Now YOU can make true art in an instant – and have fun while doing it. Your tools are STYLE and FOCUS. For a photo, choose a style and set a focus point. Moving the focus point dramatically alters the resulting painting. Use this very powerful tool to make the painting truly yours. Features • 92 carefully tuned example styles. • Styles range from oil paintings through sketches, ink splatter and wood carvings to downright craziness. • Use a powerful focus point system to control expression. • Place up to 5 focus points. • Different results every time, even for the same style. • Watch the painting take shape stroke by stroke. • Advanced users: fine tune styles to get that perfect look. • Advanced users: create your own styles and add them to the list. • Save the entire painting process as a movie. • Render and save painting in 4K resolution.
Imaengine
Transform photos and videos into stylized vector art with various filters and editing tools. Create pop-art effects, remove backgrounds with black and white vectorization, and generate rotoscope-style videos from imported footage.
- Color vectorization
- Pop-art style filters
- Black and white vectorization
- Video and movie import
- Rotoscope-style videos
- User-friendly editor
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Color vectorization, pop-art style filters, black and white for background removing. Video and movie import to get rotoscope-style videos. User-friendly editor with selection tools, brush and eraser. Now we have 3 different vector apps, you can choose the one fit your necessities: - 'Imaengine': filter section with all the vectorization capabilities, with smart controls and clean interface, editor section with only the essential tools. - 'Vector Q': the most powerful, full control over vectorizing with advanced parameters and a complete vector editor. - 'Vinilo': the simpler, only black and white vectorization and single-tool editor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Imaengine at Free against PaintMee 2's $2.99. Imaengine also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). PaintMee 2's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.1) and review sentiment (79% vs 58%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Imaengine is free to download; PaintMee 2 costs $2.99 up front. PaintMee 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Imaengine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PaintMee 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 122 and 35 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of PaintMee 2's written reviews are positive against 58% of Imaengine's.
PaintMee 2 ships an update every 2 months, Imaengine every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PaintMee 2 | Imaengine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (122 ratings) — better | 3.1 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 58.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Mee | Luis Rivas |
Customer experience
PaintMee 2
Imaengine
In-app purchases
PaintMee 2
- High Definition Export$9.99
Imaengine
- Unlimited Sharing$5.99









