Pastelgraf vs Start Here by Tinrocket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pastelgraf
Enhance your photos and videos with a soft, creamy pastel aesthetic. Choose from 30 unique filter presets or fine-tune your edits with comprehensive adjustment tools and overlay effects.
- 30 pastel-toned filter presets
- Exposure, contrast, temperature adjustments
- Shadow and highlight enhancement
- Vignette and chromatic aberration effects
- Color filter, tint, and sunset glow overlays
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Inspired by bright and creamy instagram feeds, Pastelgraf will give a soft pastel vibe to your photos + videos. ● Filter Presets Pastelgraf offers 30 pastel-toned presets, each with its own unique colorway and vibrancy. Each filter brings dreamy tones to any edit. ● Adjustment Tools You can alter the exposure, contrast, temperature, tint, and clarity, enhance shadows and highlights, add vignette and chromatic aberration, and much more. ● Overlay Effects You can create your own look by combining the overlays provided. Overlays include color filter, color tint and sunset glows.
Start Here by Tinrocket
Easily set a specific starting point for your videos to capture attention instantly. The app preserves video quality and allows for precise trimming, ensuring your content looks its best when shared on social platforms.
- Set custom video start points
- Preserves video quality
- Built-in trim control
- Seamless looping
- Preview starting point
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Grab your audience before they scroll away. Start Here lets you cut to the chase by making it easy to “time-shift” your video posts: Simply load your movie, mark the action, and share. Your video will begin at the best spot when it appears on Instagram or Twitter, and the full video will seamlessly loop when playback repeats. FEATURES: • Video data is preserved when saving for no loss of quality or recompression • Quickly set and preview a new starting point for your video • Built-in trim control for fine-tuning • From Tinrocket, creator of Waterlogue (App Store Best of 2014), This by Tinrocket (App Store Best of 2016), Olli (App Store Best of 2017) KEEP UP WITH TINROCKET: • Follow @Tinrocket on Instagram and Twitter for the latest! • We’re here to help: If you have a question or need assistance, you can always email us at support@tinrocket.com • If you like Start Here, please consider leaving an App Store review or rating. Every review counts and helps indie developers like ourselves. “Grab your audience” and “Grab your audience before they scroll away” are trademarks of Tinrocket, LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pastelgraf at 5.0 against Start Here by Tinrocket's 4.3. Pastelgraf also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Start Here by Tinrocket's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (35 vs 3). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Pastelgraf costs $2.99 and Start Here by Tinrocket $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pastelgraf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Start Here by Tinrocket has 35 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pastelgraf's written reviews are positive against 70% of Start Here by Tinrocket's.
Pastelgraf ships an update monthly, Start Here by Tinrocket every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pastelgraf | Start Here by Tinrocket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.3 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seohyeon Lee | Tinrocket, LLC |
Customer experience
Pastelgraf
Start Here by Tinrocket
In-app purchases
Pastelgraf
No in-app purchases
Start Here by Tinrocket
No in-app purchases
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