PicBlender vs ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PicBlender
Create astonishing photos by blending and fusing two images. Enhance your pictures with various blending modes and adjustable effect strength. Save, print, or share your creations easily.
- Photo blending and fusion
- 18 blending modes
- Adjustable effect strength
- Blend with embedded images
- Save and share creations
- Improve HDR photos
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Blend and fusion your photos and pictures with PicBlender and create astonishing photos. PicBlender is the perfect app to improve your photos, and HDR photos, and to fusion 2 differents photos to create astonishing effects. Featured by Apple as New & Noteworthy in the US, French AppStores for its release. Just select 2 photos in your photo library and start blending them; choose a blending mode with the top scroll menu, and adjust the strength of the effect with bottom slider. Save your newly created photos in your photos library, print them out or share them by email, or publish them on social networks. Blend a photo with itself, or your HDR photos with the original ones to improve them (exposure, lights, colors, luminosity...). Select one of the embedded image and blend it with one of your photos to create color tone effects, black and white effect and many other different artistic effects. Special features: - Blending mode: 18 different blending modes to improve your photos (Color, Color burn, color dodge, darken, lighten, difference, exclusion, hue, saturation, hard light, soft light...) - Effect strength: adjust accurately the strength of the effect with the bottom slider - Switch the order of the blending of the photos and get even more possibilities to improve your photos. NOTE: you shall allow the app to access your photo library; if you don't the app won't be able to import and export photos from and to your camera roll. You can change this setting in the Settings app -> Privacy -> Photos. Please don't add your bug reports in your review: send us your bug reports at support@seb-appstore.com and we'll be able to help you and fix the app. The app is compatible with all the listed iDevices; if you experience some issues with your device, send us an email at support@seb-appstore.com. Find out many other great iPhone apps at www.SEB-AppStore.com
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
Easily open, view, and extract images from popular brush, tool preset, and pattern file formats. Load files from cloud storage or directly from other apps. Export your extracted images to various destinations.
- View ABR, TPL, and PAT files
- Extract images from files
- Load files from cloud storage
- Export images to Photos, Mail, Files
- Drag and Drop support on iPad
- AirDrop support
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Here is a small but polished tool that allows you to open, view and extract images from abr (brushes), tpl (tool presets) and pat (patterns) files. Abr/tpl/pat are the most popular formats to share brushes and patterns, you can find thousands of them in Internet. Features: - support of all available versions of ABR, TPL an PAT files - displaying full Brush list or Stamp / Pattern items only - loading files from any location - both from Cloud Drive and any other cloud service - export selected images to Photos, Mail, Notes, Files etc - support of Drag and Drop on iPad - support of AirDrop - opening files copied to app folder using File Sharing on computer - opening files directly from Safari, Mail or any other app that include 'Open In' option
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer at 3.7 against PicBlender's 3.1. ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer also leads on ratings volume (53 vs 7) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). PicBlender's advantage is update cadence (every 9 months vs every 22 months) and chart position (#98 vs unranked). On review sentiment, 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
PicBlender costs $0.99 and ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer has 53 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 37% and 37% positive.
PicBlender ships an update every 9 months, ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PicBlender | ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) | 3.7 (53 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews | 37.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #98 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastien BUET | Lucky Clan |
Customer experience
PicBlender
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In-app purchases
PicBlender
No in-app purchases
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
No in-app purchases
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