Comparison

Pastel vs Mockup

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

Head to head
About

Pastel

Easily capture, organize, and use color palettes for your creative projects. Analyze photos to extract dominant colors, or manually select them. Seamlessly sync your library across devices and export colors in various code formats or as pixel bitmaps.

Highlights
  • Capture color palettes from photos
  • Manual color selection
  • Drag and drop colors to other apps
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Export colors in code formats (RGB, hex, Swift)
  • Create custom wallpapers
Features
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Capture and collect color palettes with Pastel! Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects. With drag & drop on iPad, drag colors out into other apps that support dropped colors, like Pages and Keynote, or many third-party apps from your favorite developers, so you can use your Pastel library as your master color collection across apps. Seamlessly sync your library across devices with iCloud. Analyze photos from the photo library or from Files to determine their dominant colors — choosing specific colors manually if you wish — and save their color palettes to Pastel. Includes a variety of color pickers, like wheel, RGB sliders, and crayons, or pick named colors from your color library that you curate yourself. On iPad, drag and drop from the sidebar to any palette. Copy a variety of developer-focused code representations, like RGB, hex, Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI. Paste hex codes into the sliders color picker. Copy a pixel bitmap representation of a palette to paste into your favorite pixel editor, share a screen-sized version to set as your wallpaper or Apple Watch face, or export a palette to Procreate®. Create beautiful, colorful wallpapers in various different 2D & 3D styles using Pastel's wallpaper creator. In the free version, try out the built-in library, and add your own palettes up to a limit of 8 items total. Upgrade to the unlimited version using in-app purchase. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/privacy

About

Mockup

Design professional app screenshots for the App Store with ease. This tool offers templates, device frames, and localization features to create compelling visuals for multiple devices and languages from a single design.

Highlights
  • Responsive design for all devices
  • Localization into 38 languages
  • 3D device frames and clay models
  • Panoramic backgrounds
  • Rich text with emojis
  • Templates and 30+ layouts
  • Store preview for App Store and Play Store
Features
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App Mockup is the design tool to create the most compelling screenshots for the App Store. No account required. Design once, use on all devices. We simplify the process of designing and generating professional screenshots for iOS. From a single responsive design, App Mockup exports all required screenshot sizes for apps on the Apple App Store (including iPhone, iPad, and tablets). We are the only tool who provide localization, panoramic backgrounds, 3D devices, rich text with emojis and much more. All exported in high resolution PNG images on demand, ready for upload. Short on time? Muddling through Sketch, Photoshop or mockup generators? Not sure which screenshot sizes you need? Looking for an easier way? You have just found App Mockup. Functions: * Templates Bring your app screenshots to life faster than ever. App Mockup has templates for every type of app. Update device frames, layouts, gradients, title and subtitle at the click of a button. * Store Preview See how your screenshots will look on the App Store and Play Store for every device. You can even preview in Dark Mode. * Devices Choose real devices, solid color or clay frames. Resize, rotate and position the device anywhere in the screenshot. You can even add two devices. * Layouts There are more than 30 different layout templates you can choose from, with more being added every time. * Background Set your background to a solid color, gradient, image or even a panoramic, like we showed you. * Title & Subtitle With more options than ever, update the Title and Subtitle to match your design goals. * Font Picker Choosing a perfect font with the new stunning Font Picker is a pleasure. You can even preview the screenshot before chooing any of the 960 Google fonts. * Translate Translate, localize and export your screenshots for more countries. Instant translation into 38 languages. Localising your app could help reach an additional 40% of the world! * Export One design, export all the screenshots required by the app store, which is fast and easy to use. So please use App Mockup to create compelling screenshots as soon as possible! For Terms of Use, please visit: https://app-mockup.netlify.app/terms.html For Privacy Policy, please visit: https://app-mockup.netlify.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
Mockup4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pastel at 4.7 against Mockup's 4.3. Pastel also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 46) and chart position (#102 vs unranked). Mockup's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pastel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Mockup sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pastel holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastel has 1.4K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Pastel's written reviews are positive against 65% of Mockup's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pastel ships an update monthly, Mockup every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Pastel versus Mockup: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelMockup
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better4.3 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews — better65.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better46
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#102 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB96 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven Troughton-Smith凯 王

Customer experience

Pastel

All ratings1,443 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews202 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral10.4%
Negative13.4%

Mockup

All ratings46 ratings
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Pastel

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Palettes disappearing after OS updates
  • Delays and freezes when using color wheel
  • Inconsistent behavior on different devices/OSes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Color contrast analysis tools
  • CMYK color support
  • Easier way to copy/paste color codes
  • Improved palette organization and management
  • Integration with more design apps

Mockup

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pastel

Subscriptions2
  • Pastel (One Month)14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pastel (One Year)14 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pastel (Legacy Purchase)$19.99
2 purchases

Mockup

One-time2
  • +50 Exports$9.99
  • Unlimited Screenshots Export$19.99

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mockup free?
Mockup is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pastel or Mockup?
Pastel is rated higher. Pastel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Mockup averages 4.3 from 46 ratings.
Do Pastel or Mockup have ads?
Neither Pastel nor Mockup shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pastel or Mockup?
Pastel ships an update monthly, and Mockup every 11 days. Most recently, Pastel was updated on November 10, 2026 and Mockup on November 7, 2026.

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