Dark Studio vs ZiNEY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dark Studio
This app offers a vast collection of dark and color filters for photos and videos. Enhance your media with tinted glass effects, saturation correction, and unique gradients. Create personalized filters and export in high resolution with a premium subscription.
- Extensive dark and color filter library
- Saturation correction for time/weather changes
- Customizable filter creation and saving
- High-resolution video export (up to 4K)
- Duotone and glow effects
- Pixelation and movement effects
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Explore the largest collection of dark filters. Access a unique library of color filters right on your device. Add a tinted glass effect by setting bright colors. Experiment with multi-colored blanks. Saturation correction allows you to completely change the time of day, temperature, or weather in your photo. Choose from a dozen blue effects to achieve twilight or cloudy weather. Choose a sunny orange preset to make your video look like it was shot at sunset or golden hour. The application contains both natural colors that perfectly imitate cloudy weather, a sandstorm and even the underwater world, and neon gradients that will replace the colors in your photos with ultraviolet or sci-fi disco, illuminate light bulbs with a different color or change the color of the moon. Use for photos and videos. Easily process high-quality media content. With a premium subscription, you can export your video masterpieces in their original format, up to 4K resolution. Apply duotone effect to make your video unique and create a retro graphic design. Immerse yourself in a dark atmosphere, like a dark room, with colored lights. Great for night shots. Create your own unique style. Extensive settings allow you to create personalized filters and remember your own collection, adding custom filters to your favorites to use your original colors in any other project. Imagine using sunglasses, become a master of customization, creating unusual dark filters, set any colors, without restrictions. Use the built-in effects, glow - blurs the bright elements in the image to get a fade, like a film camera. Pixelation, movement in a photo or zoom, to give the effect of speed. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ZiNEY
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Give your photos the texture of print. ZiNEY turns a photo into something that looks pulled off a press: halftone dots, line screens, ordered dither, film grain and two-colour gradient maps. Tap a preset and it's done. Then use three sliders to make it yours. 8 LOOKS • Circle — concentric halftone. The poster look • Halftone — four-plate CMYK colour halftone • Threshold — two tones plus grain. Photocopier and zine texture • Duotone — no screen, just grain and two colours. For portraits and product shots • Bitmap — 8-bit ordered dither • Dot — newspaper halftone • Line — engraving-style scan lines • Mosaic — pixels plus halftone, for fun 15 PALETTES, PLUS INVERT Indigo Rose, Ink, Acid, Magenta, Tangerine, Cobalt, Brick, Wine, Forest, Sepia, Neon, Flamingo, Sunburst, Mint and Full Color. From classic navy-and-pink to brick red, forest green, sepia, black under fluorescents and pink-on-yellow. Tap Invert to swap the two inks of every palette. THE RECIPE IS VISIBLE Every effect sits in a stack you can reorder, switch off or adjust. "Tone → Halftone → Grain → Gradient Map" reads exactly like what it is, so you can copy it, learn it and push it further. TUNED TO EACH PHOTO ZiNEY analyses brightness and contrast and adds an AUTO tone step so presets land well on the first tap. Threshold levels come from the photo too. EXPORT JPEG or PNG. Save to Photos on iPhone and iPad, export to a file on Mac. The watermark (the ZiNEY mark plus the names of the effects you used) is optional with Pro. FREE AND PRO Free: preview every preset. Export Circle, Halftone and Threshold in Indigo Rose or Ink at up to 1600 px, with the watermark. Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription): every preset and palette, full resolution, watermark optional. Buy once, use on iPhone, iPad and Mac. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Photos are processed on your device. No account, no data collection. For iPhone, iPad and Mac (universal purchase).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ZiNEY at none against Dark Studio's 3. Dark Studio's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Dark Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ZiNEY asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Dark Studio | ZiNEY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anatoly Lapshin | IMAGINATIVE UNDERBAR LLC |
In-app purchases
Dark Studio
- 1-month Premium Access$4.991 Month
- 1-year Premium Access$19.991 Year
- Premium Access3 Days trial$24.991 Year
ZiNEY
No in-app purchases









