Quick Poses vs Image Actions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Poses
This app helps artists improve their drawing skills with timed practice sessions. Users can customize pose durations, select from built-in or custom galleries, and track their progress over time. It's designed to enhance observation, anatomy, and composition skills through gesture drawing.
- Customizable pose durations
- Session time control
- Warm-up delay option
- Built-in and custom galleries
- Gesture drawing focus
- Progress tracking
- Left/right-handed support
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Quick Poses is THE ultimate tool to help artists sharpen their drawing skills by simulating REAL LIFE academic figure drawing sessions. Select your pose duration, choose your favorite photo galleries, and start drawing right away! Train your observation and anatomy skills with Quick Poses. The goal is simple: capture the ESSENCE of each pose within a limited time. As soon as the timer runs out, a new pose appears, keeping you focused and in the flow. At the end of your session, a SUMMARY gives you a clear picture of your progress. Over time, track your improvement in the HISTORY section and see how your skills evolve. This practice, called GESTURE DRAWING, is one of the BEST ways to build confidence, observation accuracy, and dynamic composition. It’s also an excellent warm-up before longer drawing sessions. FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS • CUSTOMIZE pose durations anywhere from 5 SECONDS to INFINITY. • CONTROL your total session time by limiting the number of poses. • ADD a short WARMUP DELAY before each pose to prepare your workspace or materials. • USE your APPLE PENCIL directly on screen, and analyze your sketches after each session. • ACCESS the full TOOL PICKER for longer poses to unleash your creativity with more tools and colors. • SWITCH your drawing side for LEFT or RIGHT-HANDED comfort. • USE iPad MULTITASKING or PICTURE-IN-PICTURE to draw in your favorite app like Procreate with more screen real estate. • APPLY basic IMAGE EFFECTS (monochrome, 2-tones, 4-tones, line overlay, blur) to study poses in a whole new way. • ENJOY 7 BUILT-IN GALLERIES featuring various subjects (people, animals). • ADD your own galleries easily with the integrated GALLERY EDITOR (optional in-app purchase required). • DISPLAY poses in ORDER or RANDOM sequence. • REVIEW your past sessions in the HISTORY SCREEN and MEASURE your progress over time. • EXPORT your best drawings to share, print, or refine further in another app. • YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS – all your data stays on device unless you choose to share it. Master gesture drawing, stay motivated, and see your art grow session after session with Quick Poses.
Image Actions
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Image Actions is a fast, simple way to transform your images using Shortcuts. Create powerful image workflows you can run with a tap, a widget, or an automation. Instead of opening an editor every time, let Image Actions handle the repetitive work for you. Use Image Actions to change the following EXIF properties of your photos: - Add a user comment to a photo - Read a user comment from a photo - Remove a user comment from a photo - Add a location tag to a photo - Read a location tag from a photo - Remove a location tag from a photo - Check if a photo has a location tag - Add a location tag to a photo based on your current location - Add a location tag to a photo based on the latitude and longitude of a location - Mark a photo as screenshot Designed for Shortcuts Image Actions is built specifically to work inside Apples Shortcuts app. Add its actions to your existing shortcuts or build new ones from scratch. Once set up, you can run your image flows from: - The Shortcuts app - Share sheet - Automations, such as after taking a photo or saving a file Examples of what you can automate - After taking a screenshot, add a location tag and save it to a specific folder - Read location data from a photo and add it to the filename Why use Image Actions - Save time on repetitive edits - Keep full control by defining your own workflows - Avoid large file sizes when sharing by mail or chat - Get consistent results across all your images Image Actions turns simple Shortcuts into powerful tools for managing your images, so you spend less time editing and more time creating and sharing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quick Poses at Free against Image Actions's $3.99. Image Actions's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On update cadence, ads, device support 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
Quick Poses is free to download; Image Actions costs $3.99 up front. Quick Poses sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Image Actions asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Poses ships an update every 2 months, Image Actions every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Poses | Image Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (93 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frederic Ruaudel | Wesley de Groot |
In-app purchases
Quick Poses
- Long-time user offerFree
- Add Custom User Galleries$5.99
Image Actions
No in-app purchases








