Comparison

iColorama vs Impresso Pro

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

Head to head
About

iColorama

Enhance photos and digital art with over 1000 effects, from simple adjustments to complex transforms. Repaint images with various brushes, and import custom Photoshop brushes, curves, and fonts to create unique artistic pieces.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 image effects
  • Image adjustments
  • Math transforms
  • Repainting with brushes
  • Import custom brushes
  • Import custom fonts
  • Import custom curves
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iColorama is an imaging app for creators interested in enhancing their photos/paintings/drawings and converting them into amazing pieces of art. There are too many effects to be listed, more than 1000 !! The effects go from simple image adjustments to complicated math transforms. Images can also be repainted with different brushes. You can also import your own Photoshop brushes and curves and fonts. Follow Instagram:@icolorama for news and best-featured works!! Jerry Jobe's Tutorials: http://enthusiasmnoted.wordpress.com/?s=icolorama Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Impresso Pro

Transform your photos into stunning Impressionist masterpieces with multi-textured brush strokes. This app offers a pro workflow with smart layers and brushes for blending multiple paint styles, creating captivating, print-worthy artwork.

Highlights
  • Transform photos into multi-textured Impressionist paintings
  • Smart layering system for blending paint styles
  • Library of Edges and Background Paint effects
  • Soft Paint effect for foreground subjects
  • Aged Paint effect for cracked texture
  • Impressionism Paint Effects: Alla Prima, En Plein Air, Tache
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Lucky you, 21st century software wielding seer and lover of beauty—you have Impresso Pro. With the same enduring attention to detail, light, color, and texure, Impresso transforms your photos into multi-textured, stroke-filled Impressionist masterpieces. And keen eyes will love how Impresso maintains the balance of your piece! The result—captivating, print-worthy paintings brimming with passion, life, and beauty. Transform photos into paintings then combine paint effects with layers and brushes for gorgeous print-worthy artwork. Smart Layers and brushes for blending multiple paint styles, a library of Edges that blend beautifully with canvas, a Background Paint effect to create distances, a Soft Paint effect for enhancing foreground subjects, an Aged Paint effect for adding cracked texture, and an ultra-impressionism effect called Tache to cover paintings with broken brush strokes and dabs of color. Impresso Pro has everything an Artist or Photographer will need to create gallery-style paintings with enough detail even for the largest print. Includes: Layers, Brushes, Soft Paint, Background Paint, Aged Paint, Painted Edges and three Impressionism Paint Effects: Alla Prima, En Plein Air and Tache paint styles. Features A pro workflow automatically transforms a photo into a painting and places it on a paint layer along with a canvas. With a smart built-in layering system the photo can then be transformed again when a new paint layer is chosen and placed on the layer above. The layers are ‘smart’ because the settings are retained per layer allowing changes to brush strokes, color finishes and other settings for infinite variation when blending. There are several ways to blend the layers, change the opacity slider to blend the strokes beneath, or to blend color use the brushes to brush-off the paint style or back-on if too much is removed. This powerful feature is great for creating lighter values in distant elements and colorful ones in the foreground. With layers you can also achieve another level of depth (or depth-of-field) by overlapping larger brush strokes with finer ones—all it takes is this simple technique to achieve a highly creative work. Paint Styles and Effects Alla Prima (‘wet-on-wet’ or ‘all-at-once’)—is great for portraits! This beautiful paint style starts by filling the painting with an abundance of brushstrokes. A library of artistic finishes compliments this style by adding light, color and movement. En Plein Air (in open air)—is perfect for landscapes. This stroke-filled effect consists of eight artists’ palettes created by famous impressionists. Use them as they are or edit the paint colors to make your own palette—save preset feature keeps the palette and all the layers intact for future projects. Tache (‘spot’ or ‘blot’)—applies broken brushstrokes throughout the painting. This technique of laying thick patches, flecks and dabs of color is great for making paint look as if it stands out from the surface. Apply a light spackling of strokes or fill the painting with dabs of color. Canvas Layer—supplies the canvas texture and adds a painted edge. NEW—Soft Paint Effect—creates a hard edge when brushed to show contrast from other edges around it—great for foreground objects NEW—Background Paint Effect—recedes objects and scenery when brushed for a natural distant and out-of-focus effect NEW—Aged Paint Effect—cracks paint in a linear or angled fashion with control over crack color, strength, size, angle, spacing and sensitivity NEW—Painted Edges—creates a painted vignette NEW—Signature Layer - Add that personalized touch to your image NEW—CONFORM STROKES This new technology conforms brush strokes, using only a slider, to bring out detail naturally—while still retaining the brushwork.   NEW—BRISTLE STYLES Three bristle styles wield brushwork in an extremely free manner while retaining high quality strokes even up close. NEW—11 NEW BRUSH STYLES

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iColorama at Free against Impresso Pro's $29.99. iColorama also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (256 vs 81). Impresso Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On review sentiment, 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

iColorama is free to download; Impresso Pro costs $29.99 up front. iColorama sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Impresso Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Impresso Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 256 and 81 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of iColorama's written reviews are positive against 73% of Impresso Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iColorama ships an update every 4 days, Impresso Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
iColorama versus Impresso Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriColoramaImpresso Pro
PriceFree — better$29.99
Rating4.5 (256 ratings)4.7 (81 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.6% of reviews — better73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings256 — better81
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS16.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DevelopertalonsodevJixiPix, LLC

Customer experience

iColorama

All ratings256 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews196 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative15.3%

Impresso Pro

All ratings78 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral5.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative13.3%

Bugs and requests

iColorama

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing issues
  • Unable to load photos
  • Watermark overlay issues
  • Incompatibility with newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to save in full quality
  • Improved stability and performance
  • Support for latest iOS versions
  • Restore previous free version

Impresso Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

iColorama

Subscriptions2
  • iColorama PRO3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • iColorama PRO3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • iColorama PRO$14.99
None

Impresso Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iColorama free?
iColorama is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Impresso Pro free?
Impresso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iColorama or Impresso Pro?
Impresso Pro is rated higher. iColorama averages 4.5 out of 5 from 256 ratings, while Impresso Pro averages 4.7 from 81 ratings.
Do iColorama or Impresso Pro have ads?
Neither iColorama nor Impresso Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iColorama or Impresso Pro?
iColorama ships an update every 4 days, and Impresso Pro every 3 months. Most recently, iColorama was updated on October 18, 2026 and Impresso Pro on October 24, 2026.

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