Comparison

Negative Me Pro vs Pastello

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

Head to head
About

Negative Me Pro

Easily convert photos to color negatives or develop color negatives into positive images with a single click. This app simplifies the process of image manipulation, allowing you to save and share your creations instantly.

Highlights
  • One-click negative film developing
  • One-click color negative creation
  • Convert between negative and positive images
  • Select photos from albums
  • Take photos with built-in camera
  • Save and share results
Features
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Create polished negative and inverted color in seconds with Negative Me Pro. Create classic film negatives, monochrome inversions, and striking reversed-color artwork. Designed for fast, visual editing: • Compare the original and edited image with a live split preview • Explore curated presets made for different photo styles • Blend the effect with your original for a subtle or bold finish • Save favorite effect settings in My Looks and reuse them • Share a labeled before-and-after image • Undo, redo, and resume your last edit • Save and share at high resolution • Process photos directly on your device Choose a photo, try a preset, and adjust until the result feels right. The focused editor keeps the image and its transformation visible throughout the process. The paid edition is ad-free, so you can stay focused on your edit.

About

Pastello

Transform your photos into stunning dry media art, mimicking styles like pastel, charcoal, and colored pencil. This app offers a professional workflow with customizable layers and one-click presets for creating expressive, traditional-looking artwork.

Highlights
  • Photo to Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon conversion
  • Layering of different dry media
  • Customizable stroke direction, size, and volume
  • One-click presets with customization options
  • Traditional sketch styles and DaVinci effect
  • Professional workflow for artists and photographers
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Transform photos into a fine art drawing with Pastel, Pencil, Chalk, Charcoal and Crayon Introducing Pastello, a brand-new companion app to JixiPix’s Impresso Pro. Pastello takes you back in time to the 15th century. Away from brushes and large strokes and into the realm of dry media with color that is both brilliant and subtle. The “Dry color method” made famous by Leonardo da Vinci is so powerful in its simplicity and beauty with its black and red chalk and yellow pastel highlights. Later, artists would paint charming portraits in a smooth heavily blended fashion. Move forward a few centuries later and pastel quickly became filled with brilliant color and crisp detail. Fast forward to today and a digital age has made it so you, the artist, can mix and match media that is difficult or impossible in a traditional setting. Pastello makes it simple and convenient to take an image and change it into Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Colored Pencil and Graphite drawings. Use alone or combine these medias using powerful layers to produce interesting expressive sketch effects filled with colorful personality and passion. And the best part is Pastello does all the work. With Pastello, photographers and artists can now go beyond the camera to turn image files into creative works that resemble traditional handmade media using a professional workflow that is easy and comfortable to operate. Pastello has a pro workflow that automatically transforms a photo into a pastel drawing and places it on an art paper with options to customize. The Pastel can then be changed to Chalk, Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Graphite, Conte or Crayon using Layer styles. The medias start out delicate like traditional drawings do, then allows you to build them up using fills, shading and detail layers. The medias are beautiful as they are, or mix them for an expressive artwork. Pastello includes plenty of traditional sketch styles as well as a DaVinci effect using a mixed media of pencil, charcoal, crayon and old paper. It’s easy to use! We have mixed the media into one-click presets with all the freedom to customize, blend and fine-tune for your own unique artwork filled with age, depth and timeless beauty as if created by the renaissance artist himself. Pastel Styles: Colored Pencil, Graphite, Charcoal, and Chalk come with a fill and detail option that can be layered for infinite variation. Conte has a dynamic sketch feature that lets you fill in shadows, mid-tones and highlights with crosshatching or scumbling. All with the ability to change stroke direction, size, volume and variation. Pastel—(Soft) is a soft, buttery consistency and intense color. This effect is dense and filled with the grain of the paper. Chalk—(Hard Pastel) is a light dusty effect with little specks of preserved paper. This chalky pastel is known for it’s soft strokes and velvety texture. Charcoal—creates a velvety black charcoal effect with shades of grey. Use it for warming up the under painting of a composition, or to complete a finished charcoal piece. Colored Pencil—creates soft colorful strokes in the drawing that can be layered to build up color then burnished with a light Pencil Layer, or the Smudge tool. Pencil—creates pencil drawings with fluid outlines and soft, limpid tonal shadings for a drawing filled with warmth and charm. Conté—is a beautiful crayon media for enhancing highlights, midtones and shadows in drawings using classic colors. Crayon—creates a colorful waxy base to a drawing, then burnished it with a Conte White for highlights or Bistre for shading.

Screenshots

Negative Me Pro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Negative Me Pro at $2.99 against Pastello's $29.99. Negative Me Pro also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). Pastello's advantage is review sentiment (79% vs 35%) and rating (4.7 vs 1.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Negative Me Pro costs $2.99 and Pastello $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pastello holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastello has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Negative Me Pro's written reviews are positive against 79% of Pastello's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Negative Me Pro ships an update every 5 weeks, Pastello every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Negative Me Pro versus Pastello: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNegative Me ProPastello
Price$2.99 — better$29.99
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (43 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.3% of reviews78.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings143 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer福恩 毛JixiPix Software

Customer experience

Negative Me Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive35.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative64.7%

Pastello

All ratings43 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.1%

In-app purchases

None

Negative Me Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Pastello

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Negative Me Pro free?
Negative Me Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pastello free?
Pastello costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Negative Me Pro or Pastello?
Pastello is rated higher. Negative Me Pro averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Pastello averages 4.7 from 43 ratings.
Do Negative Me Pro or Pastello have ads?
Neither Negative Me Pro nor Pastello shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Negative Me Pro or Pastello?
Negative Me Pro ships an update every 5 weeks, and Pastello every 3 months. Most recently, Negative Me Pro was updated on September 7, 2026 and Pastello on June 1, 2026.

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