Decim8 vs Spektrel Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Decim8
Apply a variety of digital effects to your photos and live camera feeds. Save custom effect combinations and explore unique, ever-changing visual transformations.
- 33 digital effects
- Load from photo library
- Live camera input
- Save custom effects
- Unique effect variations
- Effect previews
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APP RATED 9/10 BY WIRED MAGAZINE - 33 insane digital effects - Load images from your photo library or use a live camera - Save your favorite combinations as your own named effects - Effects never exactly the same twice - Effects previews give an idea of what each effect does.
Spektrel Art
Transform your photos into dazzling, otherworldly art with intersecting lines of light. This app offers powerful adjustments to create unique imagery filled with movement, sparkling life, and divided color spaces.
- Intersecting light lines
- Adjustable taper length and sharpness
- Lighten and brighten controls
- Color boost for enhanced hues
- Dramatic glow effect
- Pre-set styles
- Infinite artistic variations
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Spektrel Art is an extravagant otherworldly display of webbed light that glistens and gleams with intersecting lines of tapered light. Applied to photos, this medium of imaginative and magical art form transcends the ordinary to extraordinary creating something wild with movement, sparkling life and divided color spaces. Powerful adjustments allow you to fine-tune to create your own imagery filled with tapered points of bright intersecting lines, fluid streaming ones, and phantasmal qualities. INCLUDES • Detail slider increases the amount of intersecting lines • Taper Length and Sharpen sliders to add twinkle to the effect • Lighten and Brighten sliders to make it illuminate • Sharpen slider to exaggerate the lines • Smoothing slider to softens lines • Color Boost for enhanced color • Dramatic glow slider to add a dreamy quality • Presets to start you off • Infinite variation to create art with illuminated twinkles, fluid lines or ethereal softness
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spektrel Art at 4.7 against Decim8's 3.8. Spektrel Art also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 52%). Decim8's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and chart position (#145 vs unranked). On ratings volume, 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
Decim8 costs $0.99 and Spektrel Art $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spektrel Art holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 149 and 129 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Decim8's written reviews are positive against 88% of Spektrel Art's.
Decim8 ships an update weekly, Spektrel Art every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Decim8 | Spektrel Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (149 ratings) | 4.7 (129 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.7% of reviews | 87.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 149 — better | 129 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #145 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kris Collins | JixiPix, LLC |
Customer experience
Decim8
Spektrel Art
Bugs and requests
Decim8
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on startup or when trying to save
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Inability to access camera roll or photo library
Requested features
5 requests- Add undo/revert functionality
- Improve interface and usability
- Implement better image saving options
- Add support for higher resolution images
- Introduce video processing capabilities
Spektrel Art
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Decim8
No in-app purchases
Spektrel Art
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Decim8 free?
Is Spektrel Art free?
Which has better reviews, Decim8 or Spektrel Art?
Do Decim8 or Spektrel Art have ads?
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