Halftone dot art vs Real Halftone 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Halftone dot art
Transform your photos into striking black and white dot art with over fifty unique dot formats. Customize your creations by setting gradient backgrounds or coloring the dots with gradient hues for an artistic touch, perfect for laser engraving.
- Black and white dot art processing
- Over 50 dot formats
- Gradient background options
- Color dot fill with gradients
- Suitable for laser engraving
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Process photos into black and white dots. There are more than fifty different dot formats, which can be used in laser engraving. You can set the background color of the gradient or paint the black and white dots with the gradient color, which is a pretty artistic picture.
Real Halftone 2
This app generates halftone dots for photomechanical printing. Users can select dot shapes and adjust CMYK color screen angles to create unique halftone photographs, faithfully reproducing moiré patterns.
- Generates halftone dots
- Adjustable CMYK color screen angles
- Faithful moiré pattern reproduction
- Selectable dot shapes
- Adjust CMY gray replacement with black
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Real Halftone 2 is a full-fledged app that generates halftone dots for photomechanical printing. You can select a dot shape and adjust the screen angle of each CMYK color to create a wide variety of halftone photographs. Moiré patterns that appear depending on screen angle combinations are faithfully reproduced as well. [Features] - By adjusting the angle at which the halftone dot screens of each CMYK color are overlapped, the occurrence of moiré can be suppressed. - You can adjust the amount of CMY gray components replaced with black during color separation. - Detailed settings related to halftone dot printing are also available, such as dot shape and screen ruling.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Real Halftone 2 at none against Halftone dot art's shown. Real Halftone 2 also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 22 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Halftone dot art's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Halftone dot art ships an update every 22 months, Real Halftone 2 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Halftone dot art | Real Halftone 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yihang Huang | Tomoki Kobayashi |
Customer experience
Halftone dot art
Real Halftone 2
In-app purchases
Halftone dot art
No in-app purchases
Real Halftone 2
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Halftone dot art free?
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Do Halftone dot art or Real Halftone 2 have ads?
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