Rainy Daze vs Oilist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rainy Daze
Enhance your photos with realistic rain effects. Add mist, drops, or downpours to evoke emotion and atmosphere. Customize rain intensity, angle, and length for artistic expression.
- Dynamic rain effects
- Adjustable rain angle and length
- Three unique rain styles
- Customizable presets
- Darken sky with clouds
- Easy-to-use slider controls
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The JixiPix Rainy Daze photo app puts the power, emotion and uses of rain at your fingertips. With it, you have the power to envelop your photos in a soft mist's romantic glow, wash your landscapes clean of imperfection, and bring drops of meaning, large and small, fast or smooth, to your personal expression. Is it possible for a photo to make your body ache? Or pull on your heartstrings? Give you hope? Well … is there rain in your photo? Because, along with the moisture, rain drops emotion - strong, instinctive emotions. It’s not something anyone needs to be taught - we just feel it. And since there are as many emotions of rain as there are types of rain, the artistic uses for your photography are virtually endless. Some things you might like to shoot for: bright and clean, regenerative, renewing, glistening; powerful, ominous, thunderbolt and lightening, cascading in waves – horizontal. Or, sweet-smelling soft dreaminess, romance and peace - a delicate kiss alight in the air. Whether you're a graphic artist, professional photographer, or a budding iPhoneographer, use Rainy Daze to bring some rain to your photos and the response from your viewers will be subconscious, immediate, and visceral. Pretty handy. The Rainy Daze photo app comes loaded with three powerful styles: Rain Shower, Romantic Rain and Vintage Rain. Each unique style applies an advanced tonal technique to give your photos the feel of a rainy day. Rain Shower slightly darkens the scene for an appearance of an overcast day, Romantic Rain brings a soft romantic glow, and Vintage Rain gives a toned, aged appearance. Each style allows you to adjust the rain from a light drizzle to a heavy shower, change the angle of the rain, and change the length of the rain from short drops to long streaks. You can (do a rain) dance if you want to, but it's not necessary. Just head to the App Store and – Make it rain. Rainy Daze delivers: •Dynamic rain, length and angle •The ability to darken the sky with clouds •Loads of presets, to get you started fast •The ability to create personal-favorite custom presets using the "Save" menu •The addictive JixiPix Randomizer – so much fun! •Easy-to-use slider controls to adjust light, contrast and texture just how you want it •Superfast preview mode to immediately see edit results, with large image rendered at save •You can save to the photo roll and/or email or post to Facebook. Share your masterpieces! •Works with Hi-Res images for top-quality results •Superior customer support and updates – we're committed to your long-term satisfaction
Oilist
Transform your photos into unique, genuine works of art with this app. It analyzes your images using computer vision and simulates real painting techniques with customizable styles and brush strokes. Save your creations in high-resolution for printing.
- AI-powered art generation
- Unique, non-repeating results
- 48 customizable styles
- Real-time painting simulation
- 4k resolution output
- Adjustable brush strokes and moods
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Oilist: the Artist in your pocket. Make Fine Art based on your pictures! "Oilist is an artist in your phone, one that you watch sketch, paint, and craft a unique version of a photo you’ve shot." - MacStories, May 2017 "App of the week: Oilist review - Hypnotic, engaging, with a longevity that escapes most filter apps, and with high-res output so you can use it to create real-world art." - Stuff Magazine, April 2017 Give Oilist an image, and it will automatically generate a genuine and unique work of art based on it. Painted for you in real time! Participate or spectate it's up to you, Oilist will delight! All saved at canvas-worthy 4k resolution. Oilist comes with 48 infinitely customizable styles; from photo-realist to impressionist, to abstract. Every style except for our photo-realist style offers three different levels of abstraction. Oilist is not a photo filter. Unlike most filter apps, Oilist will never generate the same results twice, and in fact, each brush stroke is unique. Instead of applying a fixed formula to an image as photo filters typically do, Oilist analyzes the supplied image using computer vision technology, then paints simulated paint particles that are applied using various brush strokes and techniques. At any time during the painting process, 4k resolution images may be captured as often as desired. When Oilist is painting, styles can be infinitely customized with 17 different presets (these were called Styles in previous versions of Oilist), 13 different painting moods, 15 different brushes, setting brush options such as the size and spacing, and by splashing paint with our exciting Chaos tool. Control paint gravity by tilting your device and brush angles by yawing (rotating) the device. Obtain new and exciting results by alternating settings with new settings painted on top of the previous settings. For instance, first, paint a layer using the Warm mood followed by a layer using the Cool mood. The use of large brushes tend to create more abstract artwork, and smaller brushes work best for high definition detail. Oilist will automatically provide smaller brush strokes and greater photo-realism to detected faces. Check out #oilist and follow us @3dtopo on Instagram and Twitter!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Rainy Daze at none against Oilist's shown. Rainy Daze also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Oilist's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (3.8K vs 53). On rating, 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
Rainy Daze costs $0.99 and Oilist $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Rainy Daze against 4.8 for Oilist. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oilist has 3.8K ratings behind it against 53, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Rainy Daze's written reviews are positive against 82% of Oilist's.
Rainy Daze ships an update every 4 months, Oilist every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rainy Daze | Oilist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (53 ratings) | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.6% of reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 | 3.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #108 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JixiPix, LLC | 3DTOPO Inc. |
Customer experience
Rainy Daze
Oilist
Bugs and requests
Rainy Daze
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Oilist
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when trying to save finished paintings
- Certain style options don't work as expected
- White splotches or marks appear in final paintings
Requested features
4 requests- Add progress indicator or notification when painting is complete
- Provide more guidance or information on the different style options
- Improve performance and reduce battery drain
- Offer a desktop version or integration with other art apps
In-app purchases
Rainy Daze
No in-app purchases
Oilist
No in-app purchases









