Strip Designer vs Cloud Filter

Create amazing comic books with your photos and share with friends and family. Tell exciting stories with balloons, stickers, drawings, and warped 3D lettering. Strip Designer offers the complete comic creation experience on iOS and macOS. And no in-app purchases -- Everything is included! You'll begin by selecting one of the many included comic book page templates or create your own custom layout. Next, you'll add photos from the camera, your album, or create a drawing. Apply filters, or even paint on and mask your photos for atmosphere, style and retouching. Add balloons and text anywhere you want and in any direction and size. Play with the colors and fonts until you get the perfect look. Add stickers like "Boom", "Splash", or "Bang" to spice up the action -- Even create your own library using photos from your photo-album and the built-in masking and drawing tools. Use 3D warped text with thick borders and gradient color-fill to give your comic the extra super-hero feel. Download and add additional free fonts easily within the app, to give your text a unique look! While you work, you can freely pan and zoom to control even tiny details. Once you have finished your masterpiece you can save it to your photo album or share it with your friends. Use PDF to share entire comic books in high-quality. -- All from within Strip Designer. Key Features: • More than a 100 page templates with 1 to 9 photo cells • Multipage books • Create your own panel layout with up-to 12 cells or use one of the standard layouts • Many balloon types with customizable tails and heads • Balloons can have multiple tails and be combined • Flexible text options with per-letter colors and fonts • Adjust ballon size, rotation, color, and transparency • Add text (3D, warped, and perspective) for a superhero vibe • Use any iOS font or install additional fonts for unique touch • More than 150 stickers to insert for additional impact • Page effects to give your pages old look • Dropbox and WebDAV download/upload support • Export to PDF to create real comic books • Import PDFs (for both cells and custom stickers) • Control scale, position, and rotation of photos • Integrated drawing and masking tools to create your own drawings, paint on photos, or make your own stickers • Auto mask and feather photos (to remove background) • Many different cell styles • Photo filters • Fluidly pan and zoom to manage even the smallest details • Insert maps for additional context • iCloud sync across devices • Support for iOS's third party document providers • Layers view to lock or reorder layers • Shared iPad (for education) setup through MDM configuration No in-app purchases -- Everything is included! - What the reviewers say - "Strip Designer is worth every penny it costs, and then some. I would pay a couple more bucks for Lifestrips. It's stable, it's easy, it's fun, and for all that I couldn't come up with anything witty for my comic text, I love the look of my comics. Someone with a better imagination than I apparently have could really do fabulous things with this app. I rate it a solid five stars out of five.", Pamela Flora, iPhoneography - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "We were simply blown away by this application and the detail that has gone into the editing options and templates. We enjoyed the fact that a comic can be created very easily with photos and simple text effects, however there is real opportunities to really drill down into the editing options where the user can explore the apps true potential. There are many comic strip applications available on the Appstore but this is by far one of the best and great value for money. This app comes highly recommended by The Educational Appstore.", - See more at: http://www.educationalappstore.com/app/strip-designer#sthash.2KqjbU5Q.dpuf" --------------------------

Cloud Filter is where technical precision meets artistic melancholy. Inspired by the atmospheric soundscapes of Zaha Zagic, this app is a dual-purpose studio designed for those who value both aesthetic expression and digital solitude. ### Artistic Vision Give your photos a nostalgic, "artistically oblivious" aesthetic that mirrors the depth of memory. Apply curated filter collections that mirror the "Programmer Romance" themes of the Cloud Chaser, Idolatry & Free Will, Temp Sins, and Unspoken music projects. From dreamy, low-exposure looks to retro textures, Cloud Filter gives your images a cinematic, melancholy depth before they are tucked away. ### The Art of Hiding Beyond the surface, Cloud Filter features a sophisticated Secret Mode. Utilizing on-device steganography and encryption, you can embed private text or entire images inside a "cover" PNG file. Share hidden messages with friends through the art of the cover image, keeping your data invisible to the naked eye. ### Key Features: Cinematic Presets: Artist-curated filters including Dreamy, Retro, and Melancholy styles. Live Comparison: Seamless before/after toggles to refine your visual narrative. Steganographic Hiding: Switch to Secret Mode to hide data within the pixels of your photos. Dual Encryption Modes: Choose "Easy Mode" for quick access or "Precise Mode" for high-capacity secure hiding. Local-First Privacy: All processing, filtering, and encryption happen strictly on-device. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking.