Halftone dot art vs HarmonicArt
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.
HarmonicArt
Transform your photos into unique artistic compositions using dice or Rubik's Cubes. Experiment with various styles, densities, and colors to craft mesmerizing masterpieces. Save and share your creations with ease.
- Photo to art transformation
- Dice and Rubik's Cube styles
- Style, density, and color experimentation
- Save and share creations
- New elements and effects updates
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Turn any photograph into a mosaic made of dice, dominoes, bricks or beads, then get the plan to build it for real. HarmonicArt is not a filter. It is a studio for designing something physical, and it hands you the material list, the finished dimensions and a printable plan to work from. SEVEN MATERIALS Dice: black and white faces, the classic. Six tones from one set, twelve from two. Dominoes: seven tones per set, laid end to end. Cubes: nine stickers each, six colours, a wall of puzzle cubes. Bricks: studded plates in twenty-two colours on a baseplate. Fuse beads: ironed pegboard pixels. Halftone: newsprint dots in the ink of your choice. Typewriter: glyphs standing in for grey. Pick one and the whole picture changes. The preview updates as you choose. A PLAN YOU CAN BUILD FROM Every piece comes with the part nobody else gives you: • What to buy, by the item, "3,200 black dice, 1,600 white", not a list of color codes • Finished size and weight, before you commit to anything • An estimate of how long the placing will take • The backing board you will need • A printable PDF: a shopping list, a method page, a section map with progress boxes, and numbered section pages with coordinates on all four edges and a per-page material tally Print it, take it to the table, and work through it a section at a time. A STUDIO, NOT A BUTTON • A live preview that redraws as you move a slider, no guessing, no waiting • Touch and hold to compare against your original • Detail from a few dozen tiles to tens of thousands • Several palettes per material, from full colour to greyscale • Three ways to handle tone: flat, diffused or screened • Brightness and contrast, when a photo needs a hand Colours are matched in a perceptual colour space, so faces land on believable skin tones instead of drifting green. SEE IT IN THREE DIMENSIONS Orbit a finished piece as real objects, dice with real pips, cubes with real stickers, bricks with studs, lit and shadowed, before you have bought a single one. KEEP AND SHARE • Save to Photos, or export up to 8192 pixels for a gallery print • A gallery that remembers every piece with its settings, so you can reopen one, push the detail up, switch materials and export it again • Share the picture or the build plan PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos are read, mosaicked and saved entirely on your device. There is no account, no server, and nothing is uploaded. Diagnostics are optional and can be switched off in one tap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HarmonicArt at none against Halftone dot art's shown. HarmonicArt also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Halftone dot art's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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, HarmonicArt every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Halftone dot art | HarmonicArt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months — better | Every 32 months |
| 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 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yihang Huang | Seyed Mahmoud Hodaeenia |
Customer experience
Halftone dot art
HarmonicArt
In-app purchases
Halftone dot art
No in-app purchases
HarmonicArt
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Halftone dot art free?
Is HarmonicArt free?
Do Halftone dot art or HarmonicArt have ads?
Which is updated more often, Halftone dot art or HarmonicArt?
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