PaintMee vs Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Photo to oil painting conversion
- Artistic filter application
- Gallery-worthy print creation
- Versatile functionality
- Fun and entertaining effects
- Fast and efficient processing
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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.
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.
- Thousands of sophisticated effects
- Customizable effects and textures
- Filter editor for unique creations
- Intuitive photo tuning controls
- Effects grouped by style
- Searchable filter library
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | PaintMee | Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (65 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 228 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Mee | Jean Bernard ROUSSILHE |
Customer experience
PaintMee
Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile
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
PaintMee
No in-app purchases
Imagelys Picture Lab Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is PaintMee free?
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