Pointillist vs Auto Sticker Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pointillist
Transform your photos into pointillist art in seconds. Select an image from your device or camera, and the app will render it into a unique dot-patterned masterpiece. Adjust and share your creations easily.
- Photo to pointillism conversion
- Select photos from album or camera
- Zoom in/out to view artwork
- Adjust painting to taste
- Save, mail, print, and share creations
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As you may know, pointillism is a form of painting developed in the late 19th century branching from Impressionism, in which small dots are applied in patterns to form a picture. And a pointillist, who paints with pointillism, usually needs to spend months to paint the hundreds of thousands of tiny dots. But now with the Pointillist, you can "paint" your photo into a work of pointillism art just in seconds. With it, you can select a photo from the album or the camera, and the Pointillist will render the photo into pointillism for you. Zoom in/out to view your artwork and adjust the painting according to your flavor. When finished, you can save, mail, print, or share your masterpiece on Facebook and Twitter. Make your iPhone/iPad a pointillism art master!
Auto Sticker Maker
Easily create custom stickers from your photos using advanced AI. Add borders, shadows, and filters to personalize your creations before sharing them directly in iMessage.
- Create stickers from photos
- Add borders and shadows
- Apply beautiful filters
- Share directly in iMessage
- Save and share stickers
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[Auto Sticker] enables you to create stickers from your photos with powerful iOS photo AI and use them in your iMessage in single step. - Create sticker from photo in single step. - Add border to sticker. - Add shadow to sticker. - Apply beautiful filter to sticker. - Share stickers in iMessage in single step. - Save or share stickers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pointillist at 63% against Auto Sticker Maker's 0%. Pointillist also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and ratings volume (13 vs 3). Auto Sticker Maker's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.2) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Pointillist costs $0.99 and Auto Sticker Maker $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Auto Sticker Maker holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Pointillist's written reviews are positive against 0% of Auto Sticker Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pointillist ships an update every 7 months, Auto Sticker Maker every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pointillist | Auto Sticker Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.2 (13 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 志明 丁 | Dongwook Cho |
Customer experience
Pointillist
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In-app purchases
Pointillist
No in-app purchases
Auto Sticker Maker
No in-app purchases
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