Real Halftone 2 vs Pipeline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Pipeline
This open-source application provides a digital compositing and post-processing pipeline for images, shaders, filters, and effects. It allows hobbyist and professional photographers, graphic experts, and programmers to create, design, and extend image manipulation capabilities.
- Digital compositing pipeline
- Image post-processing
- Shader creation and design
- Filter and effect application
- Open-source repository
- Metal Shader development
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Nodef Pipeline is an open-source digital compositing and graphics post-processing Pipeline for photos, images, shaders, filters, and effects. Who is this for? Hobbyist photographers - Apply a wide variety of modern image post-processing techniques to your photos. Professional photographers - Post-process photos with an open-source Digital Compositing Pipeline. Graphic experts - Create, design, test, and invent new image filters, shaders, or animations with a Digital Compositing Pipeline. Graphic programmers - Extend the Open Digital Compositing Pipeline by developing Metal Shaders in our open-source repository. Open Digital Compositing Pipeline https://github.com/Misfits-Rebels-Outcasts/Nodef Open Digital Compositing with Shaders https://github.com/Misfits-Rebels-Outcasts/ShaderMuse This app is available under the Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Real Halftone 2 at 4.9 against Pipeline's 4.0. Real Halftone 2 also leads on ratings volume (23 vs 2). Pipeline's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Real Halftone 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Real Halftone 2 has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Real Halftone 2 ships an update every 3 months, Pipeline fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Real Halftone 2 | Pipeline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tomoki Kobayashi | ConnectCode Pte Ltd |
Customer experience
Real Halftone 2
Pipeline
In-app purchases
Real Halftone 2
No in-app purchases
Pipeline
No in-app purchases








