Spiral Painter vs Apate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Spiral brush tool
- Multiple layers
- Customised brushes
- Gradient support
- Transparency support
- Multiple undo/redo
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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!
Apate
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Bring your hand creations to life. Apate is a hand pose recording app built for animators, linguists, and ML engineers. For Animators Record a hand pose session and export in the format that fits your workflow: - Hand skeleton video (.mov) — clean animation ready for compositing - GIF — shareable looping preview (free, with watermark) - PNG Sequence — frame-by-frame export for full control - AE Keyframe Data — 21 joint keyframe files for After Effects - FCP XML — sync raw video and hand video directly in Final Cut Pro For ML Engineers Live confidence scores for all hand joints are displayed during capture, making it easy to debug Vision framework output and evaluate detection quality. Free & Pro GIF export is free. Unlock all export formats with Apate Pro — $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Feedback Use the in-app feedback button to reach the developer directly, or shoot an email - fractia@gmail.com Apate was the goddess of deceit, trickery, and guile — one of the spirits released from Pandora's Box, daughter of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness). Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Apate at Free against Spiral Painter's $3.99. Spiral Painter's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 45 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Apate is free to download; Spiral Painter costs $3.99 up front. Spiral Painter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Apate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Spiral Painter ships an update every 6 months, Apate every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spiral Painter | Apate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 45 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anatoly Weinstein | Peter Macias |
In-app purchases
Spiral Painter
- From 3 to 5 layers$1.99
- From 5 to 8 layers$2.99
- From 3 to 8 layers$3.99
Apate
- Apate Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Apate Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
