Grungetastic vs Pick Paint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grungetastic
Apply a variety of aggressive and "unwell" textures and tones to your photos. This app offers seven distinct grunge styles with adjustable controls for color, textures, and borders, allowing for unique artistic creations.
- Seven grunge styles
- Adjustable color, textures, and borders
- Randomize button
- Texture and border library
- Customizable presets
- High-resolution output
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Rock your Photo with Unwell Textures and Tones Grungetastic cranks your photos to 11 with seven hot and heavy looks: Classic Grunge, Bleached Grunge, Worn Pop, Worn Grunge, Gritty Grunge, Distressed and Pop Grunge. These seven fun and aggressive styles let you get down and dirty with your photos. Faster than you can say "filthy," these styles and Grungetastic's easy, hands-on interface will have you smushing delightfully unwell textures and tones with deeply satisfying contrasts, and explosively pleasurable pops for dangerously-addictive ultra-Grungy art. Grungetastic is for the Photographer that loves everything grungy! Shadows, Rubbing, Scratching, Ripping, Shredding, Stressing, Distressing, Popping, Exploding, Splatters, Smudging, Glowing, Glaring, Smoking – just some of the wildness that Grungetastic hooks you up with. GRUNGETASTIC MAKES DIRTY PHOTOS - REALLY DIRTY PHOTOS! SO DIRTY THAT THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LITTLE DIRT STORMS SWIRLING AROUND THEM—the styles are creative madness—or clearer visions of reality, whatever it is, they go to an artistic place few ever get. You can't get a cooler, hotter photo anywhere! ULTRA-GRUNGE STYLES Classic Grunge, Bleached, Pop Grunge, Pop Worn, Worn, Gritty and Distressed Grunge FEATURES Adjustable control over all aspect of the process: Color, multiple textures and borders INCLUDES Seven grungy styles: Classic Grunge, Bleached, Pop Grunge, Pop Worn, Worn, Gritty and Distressed Grunge "Randomize" button to quickly show off the power of the app A full library of textures and borders Quick, efficient, and very user-friendly interface Support for full-size images Presets with the ability to create custom presets Preview mode for quick workflow (Larger image rendered on save or when emailed) UNIVERSAL FEATURES All JixiPix Apps come with: Superior Customer Service, Support for High-Resolution Images & Output, Undo, Randomize Button, Quick Presets, the ability to create Custom Presets and Quick Preview. Our mobile version can Email and post directly to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr. ‘Like us on facebook’ for tips & tricks, quick announcements and interaction with the Jixi team! https://www.facebook.com/pages/JixiPixcom/338304329530235?ref=hl *************** “JixiPix turns any photo into a masterpiece. The only requirement is art appreciation — we will take care of the rest!” JixiPix.com “Creative Tools for Creative Types” Photography | Artistic | Graphic Apps Mac • iPad • iPhone
Pick Paint
This app allows for quick and easy daily use of finger painting tools. Users can customize the appearance and properties of each tool, including skin, color, size, and opacity. It's designed to be lightweight and compatible with a wide range of iPad models.
- Customizable tools
- Adjustable color, size, and opacity
- Lightweight design
- Compatible with iOS 9 and later
- Animated graphical user interface
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FingerPaints has been designed for a quick daily use. For this reason, FingerPaints is unique in his category: for each tool displayed on screen you can customize the skin, the color, the size and the opacity. FingerPaints has been optimized to be a lightweight app and has been optimized to be compatible with all new iPad models with iOS 12 and even with the old ones with iOS 9, keeping always the same nice animated graphical user interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pick Paint at Free against Grungetastic's $2.99. Pick Paint also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Grungetastic's advantage is ratings volume (187 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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
Pick Paint is free to download; Grungetastic costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pick Paint holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grungetastic has 187 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Grungetastic ships an update every 6 months, Pick Paint every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grungetastic | Pick Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (187 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JixiPix, LLC | Batsu |
Customer experience
Grungetastic
Pick Paint
Bugs and requests
Grungetastic
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to upload/load photos
- Presets not applying correctly
- Crashes or freezes on certain devices
Requested features
6 requests- Undo button
- More color/hue options
- Color swapping
- Higher resolution exports
- Native iPad support
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- Ability to stack multiple borders
Pick Paint
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Grungetastic
No in-app purchases
Pick Paint
No in-app purchases
Questions
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