Comparison

PicBlender vs ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Photo blending and fusion
  • 18 blending modes
  • Adjustable effect strength
  • Blend with embedded images
  • Save and share creations
  • Improve HDR photos
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

PicBlender4 screens
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
PicBlender versus ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicBlenderABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating3.1 (7 ratings)3.7 (53 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.8% of reviews37.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings753 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 22 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#98 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastien BUETLucky Clan

Customer experience

PicBlender

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive36.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative63.2%

ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer

All ratings53 ratings
Positive64.2%
Neutral7.5%
Negative28.3%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive37.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative57.1%

In-app purchases

None

PicBlender

No in-app purchases

None

ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PicBlender free?
PicBlender costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer free?
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PicBlender or ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer?
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer is rated higher. PicBlender averages 3.1 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer averages 3.7 from 53 ratings.
Do PicBlender or ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer have ads?
Neither PicBlender nor ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PicBlender or ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer?
PicBlender ships an update every 9 months, and ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer every 22 months. Most recently, PicBlender was updated on October 26, 2026 and ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer on October 24, 2026.

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