Palettist vs Image Shift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palettist
Discover a fresh color palette daily to inspire your creative projects. Customize palettes with advanced algorithms or generate your own using neural networks. Save and share your creations as PNG images.
- Daily auto-generated color palettes
- Customizable palette generation algorithm
- Discrete and continuous palette options
- Neural network-based smooth palette generation
- sRGB and Display P3 color space support
- Color filtering by universal categories
- Export palettes as PNG images
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A new color palette every day! Why don't you try to draw something every day with the suggested palette? The generated palettes can be saved or shared as PNG images. Features: * A new auto generated palette everyday. * Customize the algorithm and generate your own palettes. * Discrete (up to 256 bins) and continuous/smooth palettes. * Smooth palettes are generated using a quality-customizable Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), a type of neural network. * Support for both sRGB and Display P3 color spaces. * Compare sRGB and P3 colors in P3 displays. * Work in both linear and gamma spaces. * Filter colors using universal color categories. * Export to arbitrary image sizes.
Image Shift
Transform your photos into unique glitch art with a variety of pixel manipulation effects. Easily create chaotic distortions, wave-like patterns, and mosaic styles with adjustable settings and real-time previews.
- Random Row/Column Shift
- Pixel Sort
- Block Shuffle
- Diagonal Shift
- Mirror Effects
- Adjustable segments
- Real-time preview
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Image Shift lets you create unique glitch art and pixel manipulation effects on your photos. FEATURES Random Row/Column Shift - Randomize segments for chaotic glitch effects Row Shift - Slice your image horizontally and shift segments Column Shift - Slice vertically for a different look Alternating Row/Column Shift - Create wave-like distortion patterns Pixel Sort - Sort pixels by brightness or saturation for that classic glitch aesthetic Block Shuffle - Randomly rearrange image blocks for mosaic-style distortion Block Zoom - Zoom into grid sections for a fragmented, magnified look Diagonal Shift - Shift pixels along diagonal lines with customizable angles Mirror Effects - Vertical, horizontal, and quadrant mirroring with flip options Adjustable segments (1-200) for fine or dramatic effects Customizable shift percentage and oscillation settings Real-time preview as you adjust parameters Customize which effects appear and their order Dark mode support Save processed images directly to your photo library Perfect for creating unique social media content, album artwork, or just having fun with your photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Palettist at Free against Image Shift's $2.99. Palettist also leads on ratings volume (60 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.2 vs 15.1). Image Shift's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Palettist is free to download; Image Shift costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Image Shift holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Palettist has 60 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Palettist ships an update every 10 days, Image Shift every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Palettist | Image Shift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (60 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.2 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Gavilan | Benji Friedman |
Customer experience
Palettist
Image Shift
In-app purchases
Palettist
No in-app purchases
Image Shift
No in-app purchases








