Comparison

Spiral Painter vs Chromatic Edges

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

Head to head
About

Spiral Painter

Create unique spiral art with a specialized brush tool. This app allows for intricate curve designs on your photos and drawings, with features like layers, custom brushes, and gradient support. Achieve impressive results quickly and easily.

Highlights
  • Spiral brush tool
  • Multiple layers
  • Customised brushes
  • Gradient support
  • Transparency support
  • Multiple undo/redo
Features
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The process of painting has never been so easy and exciting. Now, besides the usual brush you can use a spiral brush. With it you can draw such paintings, which are not reproducible by any other doodle or sketch programs! Take a look at the pictures posted above. Each of them were done in less than 2 minutes. Combining the different settings of the spiral brush with its unique features you will be able to draw millions of fancy curves that decorate you drawings and photographs. You'll be amazed with your achieved results! APP's FEATURES: - Multiple drawings; - Multiple layers; - Customised brushes; - Customised gradients for spirals and a background layer; - 3D Touch & touch force support on iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus; - Transparency support; - Multiple undo / redo; etc... More help and details on the Spiral Painter App's page. If you like this App, please, rate it on the AppStore!

About

Chromatic Edges

Enhance your photos with unique, artistic edges inspired by historical photographic processes. This app uses machine learning to generate an unlimited variety of edge styles, allowing for endless creative possibilities.

Highlights
  • Unlimited AI-generated edge styles
  • Inspired by historical photo processes
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Save favorite edges
  • Supports Calotypes, Cyanotypes, Daguerreotypes, and more
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It's all about the Edge! Unlimited edges to make your photography pop! JixiPix takes vintage to a whole new extreme. Gone are the days of having a few tiny choices when it comes to adding flare to your imagery. Chromatic Edges brings back the subtle magic of photo processing with glass, silver and paper plates all with a few taps and your unique photo. It’s all about the edge! There is something artistic about the old days of plate photography. The silky smooth images and fabulously artistic edges are just amazing to look at. Before the days of digital or film photography, photographers had to process their images using glass plates, metal plates, and paper to get their final image. These processes took tremendous skill and passion to produce the final product. Some of the processing techniques even required the processing of the glass plate within minutes of taking the photograph. Boy have times changed! Until today you had only a few choices if you wanted to recreate some of the old-style photo art. You would pick a stock photo and blend it into your photography. And since there are only a few choices you were left with your artwork starting to look oh-so-familiar. Chromatic Edges changes all that and gives you unlimited artistic photography styles while only taking a few steps to create. We at JixiPix have found unique ways to use Machine Learning to generate unlimited edges. Just tap the “Generate” button to see the magic happen. Chromatic Edges will, Quickly and effortlessly, create a completely unique edge. If you find that you love it, its super simple to tap the ‘+’ to save it for later. To create this powerful technology took thousands of artistic man hours of meticulously painting edges. These edges were then processed through our deep learning algorithm and used to teach the ‘machine’ how to create them on its own. Now you, the user, get to use this power to ‘edge’ your photo and never have two of the same edge again. And the great thing is…even if you know nothing about the fabulous photo techniques from a hundred years ago you will still appreciate the possibilities and creativity you can achieve with Chromatic Edges. Chromatic Edges is filled to the brim with styles. Easily create Calotypes, Cyanotypes, Daguerreotypes, Gelatin Silver Plates, Tin Type, Chromogenic film, Autochrome, Ambrotype, Carbon Print, Aristotype, Salted Paper Print, colored edges, and thousands of styles in between.

Screenshots

Spiral Painter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chromatic Edges at 4.9 against Spiral Painter's 3.8. Chromatic Edges also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Spiral Painter's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $12.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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

Spiral Painter costs $3.99 and Chromatic Edges $12.99 up front. Spiral Painter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Chromatic Edges asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chromatic Edges holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Spiral Painter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chromatic Edges's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spiral Painter ships an update every 6 months, Chromatic Edges every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Spiral Painter versus Chromatic Edges: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpiral PainterChromatic Edges
Price$3.99 — better$12.99
Rating3.8 (13 ratings)4.9 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1319 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB407 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnatoly WeinsteinJixiPix Software

Customer experience

Spiral Painter

All ratings13 ratings
Positive69.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.8%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative13.0%

Chromatic Edges

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Spiral Painter

One-time3
  • From 3 to 5 layers$1.99
  • From 5 to 8 layers$2.99
  • From 3 to 8 layers$3.99
None

Chromatic Edges

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spiral Painter free?
Spiral Painter costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Chromatic Edges free?
Chromatic Edges costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spiral Painter or Chromatic Edges?
Chromatic Edges is rated higher. Spiral Painter averages 3.8 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Chromatic Edges averages 4.9 from 19 ratings.
Do Spiral Painter or Chromatic Edges have ads?
Neither Spiral Painter nor Chromatic Edges shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spiral Painter or Chromatic Edges?
Spiral Painter ships an update every 6 months, and Chromatic Edges every 4 months. Most recently, Spiral Painter was updated on September 9, 2026 and Chromatic Edges on July 7, 2026.

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