PixelSense for iPad vs Nitro Photo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PixelSense for iPad
A professional photo editor designed exclusively for iPad, offering desktop-class features like RAW editing, advanced color adjustments, and AI-powered tools. Enhance your photos with selective masks, bokeh effects, and sky replacement.
- RAW photo editing
- Advanced curves tools
- Bokeh effects
- Selective masking
- AI-powered enhancements
- Sky replacement
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Pixelsense is a complete and professional photo editor. It's designed exclusively for iPadOS and provides a series of desktop-class photo editing features. It supports editing RAW camera files. Desktop-class photo editing experience • RAW Editing: Open and tweak RAW camera files, save non-destructively, or export as JPG. • Curves Tools: RGB Curves, Lab Curves, CMYK Curves, Hue Curves(Hue Vs Hue, Hue Vs Sat, Hue Vs Lum, Lum Vs Sat, Sat Vs Sat). • Bokeh Effects:Bringing DSLR-like photography to you with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with a professional large aperture camera. • Selective masks: Brush, Radial, Linear, Mirror, Color, Luminance. • Adjustment Layer: Blending those extensive adjustment tools with Blend Modes, and apply to a special color channel or all color channels. • Face Beautify: Skin-Smoothing, Skin-Whitening, Facial Reshaping, Facial Enhancement, and more. • Photo Correction: Crop, Rotate, Flip, Straighten, Camera Correction(Stretch, Wide, Fisheye, Zoom), Horizontal Skew, Vertical Skew, Transformation Tools. • Batch Processing: Apply edits to many photos at once. • History Actions: Undo/Redo and re-editing your edits, Copy Edits, Paste Edits, Apply Last Edits, Revert to original. Extensive adjustment tools • Light Adjustments: Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks. • Color Adjustments: Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, Saturation, Hue, Skin Tone, Fade. • Color Grading: Selective Color, Color Wheels, Split Toning, Color Balance, HSL Adjustment, Color Toning, Replace Color, Levels, Channel Mixer, Black & White & Monochrome, Match Color, Color Lookup(LUT). • Details Enhancement: Clarity, Dehaze, HDR, Sharpen, Bloom, Denoise, Denoise Color. • Effect Tools: Neon Effect, Grain, Vignette, Fringing. Exclusive AI Tools Super Resolution, Low light Enhancement, Photo Restoration, Repair Tools, and more. Sky Replacement Replace the sky in one click. Easy to make your new sky look lifelike and stunning. Choose from an ample built-in collection of skies or import your own. UNLIMITED ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION - You can subscribe for unlimited access to all features and content offered for purchase within Pixelsense. - Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually at the rate selected depending on the subscription plan. Alternatively a one time payment plan is available (this is not a subscription). - Subscriptions auto-renew at the cost of the chosen package, unless cancelled 24-hours in advance prior to the end of the current period. The subscription fee is charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. You may manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Per Apple policy, no cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Once purchased, refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. - Terms of use: https://pixelsense.cc/TermsOfService.pdf - Privacy policy: https://pixelsense.cc/PrivacyPolicy.pdf
Nitro Photo
This powerful photo editor and manager offers flexible storage, extensive camera support, and advanced editing tools. It allows for AI-powered masking, object removal, and a wide range of professional adjustments to enhance your images.
- Flexible storage options (Files.app, external, Photo Library)
- AI-generated masks and object removal
- Extensive camera RAW support
- 16 professional adjustment tools
- Presets, LUTs, and copy/paste adjustments
- Smart album creation
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Introducing Nitro, the brand new photo editor and manager from the developer of RAW Power. Nitro is designed for every photographer and every photograph. Try Nitro for free for 7 days without any obligation. No subscription signup, no nonsense. Requires iOS 16 or later. Easy, Powerful, Fast. Built with the latest technologies, Nitro has exceptional integration with iOS, including the most control over Apple’s RAW decoder. Its combination of flexible storage options, camera support, and editing tools is unmatched by any app. If you liked Aperture or RAW Power, you’ll love Nitro. Flexible Storage Options * Store your images in Files.app, external storage, or use Apple’s Photo Library * Rate, flag, and filter your images by 11 criteria, including rating, orientation and file type * Add keywords to images in the file system, manually or with AI assistance * With Photos, ratings, edits, and smart albums sync over iCloud * With Files.app and external storage, ratings and edits are stored in XMP sidecars * Move originals, ratings, and edits between the Photo Library and Files.app * UGreen NAS is not compatible with Nitro (bug reported to UGreen) Thoughtful purchasing and trial options * Try the app with absolutely no obligation. No signup, no unexpected charges. * Buy the app once, or get an inexpensive monthly and annual plan * All purchases include all platforms: macOS, iPhone, and iPad! Stop waiting for camera support * Supports more cameras than Photos, Darkroom, or Photomator, including compressed Fujifilm, Nikon HE and GoPro RAWs * By far, the most control over Apple’s RAW decoder. Fine tune your RAWs with noise reduction, moire, ProRAW tone mapping, and more. Seeing is Believing * View detailed metadata side-by-side * Synchronized Pan and Zoom of up to 4 images at once (iPad only) * Comparison mode helps you pick your favorites from a burst * Light and Dark user interface modes Masking with AI * AI-generated masks to quickly isolate a subject or background * Linear and radial gradients with invert and control over the ramp * Brushes provide full control over your mask, including softness, strength, and size * Edge Aware brushes automatically follow contours * Fine tune AI and gradients with brushes for maximum control Quick Fixes * Remove objects using Generative AI * Clone * Spot/Wire Removal * Highlight Recovery * Auto Enhance 16 Professional Adjustments * Tone, Enhance, White Balance, RAW * Crop, Lens Correction, Perspective * Levels, Curves, HSL, Split Toning * Detail, Depth, Black and White, Vignette, Channel Mixer * Apply most adjustments to masks including Levels, Curves, Blur, HSL, and Fringe control Presets, LUTs, and Copy/Paste * Quickly enhance images with a large set of presets and LUTs * Import your own LUTs and make your own presets * Advanced Copy and Paste of adjustments * Camera presets let you apply adjustments automatically by camera model Do More with the Photo Library * Make Smart Albums with complex queries * Search by file name, file type (including RAW+JPEG), and more * Sync everything over iCloud * Edit inside Nitro or with the included Photo Editing Extension Do More with the File System * Rate, flag, and edit non-destructively * All data is stored in XMP sidecars next to your originals * Search by file name, camera, lens, ISO, and more Workflow the way you want * Batch processing of presets, rotation and export * Export with control over size, compression, format, and metadata * Launch other apps after export for custom workflows * Integrated watermarking with both images and text * RAW Power edits are 100% compatible with Nitro After the trial, you need to purchase the app or subscribe to use all the features. Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/68647707 Terms of Use: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nitro Photo at 4.8 against PixelSense for iPad's 4.2. Nitro Photo also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 75%) and ratings volume (63 vs 10). PixelSense for iPad's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. PixelSense for iPad sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Nitro Photo sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Nitro Photo holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nitro Photo has 63 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of PixelSense for iPad's written reviews are positive against 86% of Nitro Photo's.
PixelSense for iPad ships an update every 6 days, Nitro Photo every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | PixelSense for iPad | Nitro Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) | 4.8 (63 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 299 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 巧霞 詹 | Gentlemen Coders |
Customer experience
PixelSense for iPad
Nitro Photo
Bugs and requests
PixelSense for iPad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Nitro Photo
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when processing large batches of photos
- Incompatibility with older devices
- Editing controls not always responsive
Requested features
4 requests- Luminosity masks
- Keyboard navigation
- Folder thumbnails
- Location and time editing
In-app purchases
PixelSense for iPad
- MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION$1.991 Month
- YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION$11.991 Year
- LIFETIME UNLIMITED ACCESS$23.99
Nitro Photo
- Monthly (RAW Power Discount)$2.991 Month
- Monthly Plan$3.991 Month
- Annual (RAW Power Discount)$19.991 Year
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- Annual Plan$29.991 Year
- 7 Day Free TrialFree
- Full Version (RP - No Discount)$79.99
- Lifetime (RAW Power Discount)$79.99
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- Full Version (No discount)$99.99
- Nitro Lifetime Purchase$99.99
Questions
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