Comparison

PaintMee vs Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PaintMee

Transform your photos into stunning oil paintings with this original artistic filter app. Featured in the US App Store, it offers creative and beautiful results for gallery-worthy prints. Enjoy versatile functionality and a fun, entertaining experience.

Highlights
  • Photo to oil painting conversion
  • Artistic filter application
  • Gallery-worthy print creation
  • Versatile functionality
  • Fun and entertaining effects
  • Fast and efficient processing
Features
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The original photo-to-oil painting app. Featured under "New and Noteworthy" in the US App Store. You will also want to check out PaintMee 2.

About

Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile

Easily enhance your photos with professional-quality effects and textures. Create unique filters and modify existing ones without coding. Achieve stunning results quickly, even without design expertise.

Highlights
  • Thousands of sophisticated effects
  • Customizable effects and textures
  • Filter editor for unique creations
  • Intuitive photo tuning controls
  • Effects grouped by style
  • Searchable filter library
Features
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Imagelys Picture Lab Photo editing in just a few clicks Turn Your Photos into Stunning Vibrant Images with this Easy-to-Use Photo Enhancing Application for iPad. What is Imagelys Picture Lab? Imagelys Picture Lab is a way of creating an unlimited number of professional quality graphic images in a minimal amount of time. You can create texture and background for your art work, enhance your photos with spectacular effects and much much more. You don't have to be an expert designer to be able to produce truly amazing results. Imagelys Picture Lab generates effect and texture based on automated processes. No filter in the Filter Library can suit your particular needs? A editor allows you to create unique filters and modify existing ones without writing any code. You can apply this filters to your photos to create amazing texture or art work. What can Imagelys Picture Lab do? The Imagelys Filter Library of Imagelys Picture Lab includes effects and textures that you can browse and use in your photographs. ° More thousand of sophisticated effects for you to browse and apply to your images. ° Effects and textures can be easily customized and tuned to your exact needs. ° Effects are grouped into styles to speed workflow. ° Effects can be listed with the search bar of the Toolpalette. ° Continued growth of the Imagelys Filter Library (effects and textures). Imagelys Filter Library effects and textures enable you to enhance the beauty and power of your photos quickly and easily. These controls are carefully crafted to meet the real needs of professional photographers, so you can subty improve your images or quickly add effects to bring your photographic vision to life, simply by moving sliders. ° Intuitive photo tuning controls. ° Many controls to enhance all aspects of the image. ° Intelligently designed to match photographers real needs. ° Customizable Effects and Textures with the Imagelys Filter Editor.

Screenshots

PaintMee4 screens
Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile at Free against PaintMee's $4.99. Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). PaintMee's advantage is ratings volume (65 vs 1). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile is free to download; PaintMee costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PaintMee has 65 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PaintMee ships an update every 5 months, Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PaintMee versus Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaintMeeImagelys Picture Lab Mobile
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (65 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings65 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB228 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStudio MeeJean Bernard ROUSSILHE

Customer experience

PaintMee

All ratings65 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive84.5%
Neutral6.4%
Negative9.1%

Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

PaintMee

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Crashes upon launch
  • Malfunctioning application
  • App is broken
  • App crashes after upgrade
  • Progress meter obstructs controls
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  • Auto rotates pictures incorrectly
  • Faces not showing up correctly after update
  • In-app upgrade not functional
  • App unstable after upgrade
  • App closes on launch

Requested features

14 requests
  • Output to vector PDF for printing
  • Option to turn off paint texture
  • Desktop version
  • Presets like SketchMee Pro
  • Slider for adjusting light source
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  • Facebook sharing option
  • More options for each module
  • Ability to stop progress mid-stream
  • Option to save stopped animation/progress
  • Save work in progress as animated GIF
  • Save animation as a movie file
  • More options overall
  • Way to rotate pictures correctly
  • Ability to choose when painting starts

Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PaintMee

No in-app purchases

None

Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PaintMee free?
PaintMee costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile free?
Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PaintMee or Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile?
Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile is rated higher. PaintMee averages 4.8 out of 5 from 65 ratings, while Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PaintMee or Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile have ads?
Neither PaintMee nor Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PaintMee or Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile?
PaintMee ships an update every 5 months, and Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile every 5 weeks. Most recently, PaintMee was updated on November 6, 2026 and Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile on November 3, 2026.

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