Comparison

OilPainting Pro vs PRINT DOT

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

Head to head
About

OilPainting Pro

Transform your photos into stunning oil paintings with expressive brushwork and various canvas styles. This app offers fast, visual editing with a live split preview, curated presets, and the ability to blend effects for subtle or bold results. Save your favorite settings and share high-resolution creations.

Highlights
  • Create oil painting artwork
  • Expressive brushwork
  • Multiple canvas styles
  • Live split preview
  • Curated presets
  • Blend effect with original
  • Save favorite settings
Features
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Create polished oil painting in seconds with OilPainting Pro. Turn favorite photos into painterly artwork with expressive brushwork and multiple canvas styles. 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 • Edit across compact and expanded layouts with keyboard shortcuts • 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

PRINT DOT

Features
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Your photo, freshly printed. PRINT DOT is a small print shop for your photos. The halftone dots you see up close, the color plates sitting slightly off register, the way ink sinks into paper: PRINT DOT rebuilds that feel on top of a picture you already have. ■ Eight dot styles Fine Dot for a delicate screen. Bold Dot for big, poppy dots. Newspaper Dot for coarse monochrome. CMYK Dot for overlapping plates and misregistration. Soft Fade Dot for a gentle bleed. Grain Dot for film-like texture. Line Screen Dot for a poster look. Mono Ink Dot for one clean ink. The same photo comes out differently in every one. ■ Choose the ink Eleven ink palettes, including Vintage Red, Café Brown, Ocean Blue and Mono Black. Quiet one- and two-color runs, or something loud and neon. ■ Choose the paper Seven paper textures: smooth, rough, matte, recycled, newsprint, kraft and aged. Each one changes how the ink settles. ■ Tune it by hand Dot size, screen angle, contrast, ink bleed, paper character. Move the sliders until it looks right, and compare against the original photo at any time. ■ Keep your prints Saved work lines up in the in-app gallery. Favorite it, export it to Photos, or share it straight from there. ■ Everything stays on your iPhone All rendering happens on your device. Your photos are never uploaded. No account, no sign-in, and it works in airplane mode. ■ What's free Four dot styles, five inks and three papers. Pick a photo, adjust it and save it without paying anything. ■ PRINT DOT Premium (one-time purchase) One purchase unlocks all of this: · All eight dot styles · All eleven ink palettes · All seven paper textures · Export at a larger size · No watermark on your work It is not a subscription. You pay once, and on the same Apple ID you can bring it back with Restore Purchases after switching devices.

Screenshots

OilPainting Pro3 screens
PRINT DOT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PRINT DOT at Free against OilPainting Pro's $1.99. PRINT DOT also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). OilPainting Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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

PRINT DOT is free to download; OilPainting Pro costs $1.99 up front. PRINT DOT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. OilPainting Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OilPainting Pro ships an update every 2 months, PRINT DOT every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
OilPainting Pro versus PRINT DOT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOilPainting ProPRINT DOT
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer福恩 毛kazunari aoki

In-app purchases

None

OilPainting Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PRINT DOT

One-time1
  • PRINT DOT Premium$5.99

Questions

Is OilPainting Pro free?
OilPainting Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PRINT DOT free?
PRINT DOT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do OilPainting Pro or PRINT DOT have ads?
Neither OilPainting Pro nor PRINT DOT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OilPainting Pro or PRINT DOT?
OilPainting Pro ships an update every 2 months, and PRINT DOT every 6 days. Most recently, OilPainting Pro was updated on October 30, 2026 and PRINT DOT on October 29, 2026.

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