Comparison

Vintage Camera for iPad vs Pop Dot Comics

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

Head to head
About

Vintage Camera for iPad

Transform your iPad into a retro camera with unique filters and effects. Easily capture and style photos with a vintage aesthetic, then share your creations instantly.

Highlights
  • Retro design inspired by vintage cameras
  • Adjustable flash and camera selection
  • Import photos from iPad album
  • Apply unique vintage filters
  • Share photos to social media
  • In-app purchase for additional effects
Features
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Vintage Camera has over 7 million users worldwide! Turn your iPad into a genuine vintage camera! Vintage Camera is a new reference application for iPad. Add fully original and striking effects to your photos and give them style. ◉ The application offers a nice retro design inspired by cameras from the last century. ◉ Take photos fast by configuring the Flash option (Auto, On, Off) and the camera (back or front) in the interface. You can also import photos directly from the iPad photo album. ◉ Once you’ve taken a photo using the integrated module, you can immediately apply a filter to give your photo style. Select from a number of "Vintage" filtered effects available to make your photos look even better and stylish! ◉ All of the effects have been carefully created for this application to make your photos more expressive and life-like. Not available anywhere else! ◉ Professional Edition: You can upgrade the application through an in-app purchase to get 4 new photo effects (Hollywood, Watermelon, Rockstar and Morning) and remove ads. You will be able to save your photos using these 4 photo effects. ◉ Use the integrated functionalities to share your creations with your friends on Twitter and Facebook right from the application. ◉ The gallery, in a roll of film format, saves and stores all the photos you take using the application. ◉ Let your creative side shine through in your photos, and share them using the application. ◉ Ideal for photographers wishing to use the iPad as a professional, practical and efficient camera. Thank you for taking the time to report any bug or to request an enhancement to Vintage Camera application. Feedback is very important to us. We will do our best to answer queries. Email us at support@presselite.com

About

Pop Dot Comics

Transform your photos into vintage comic book illustrations with bold outlines, vibrant colors, and classic halftone dots. Add speech bubbles and sound effects to create fun, newspaper-worthy art.

Highlights
  • Create comic book style illustrations
  • Apply thick outlines and bold colors
  • Add benday dots and halftone effects
  • Include speech bubbles and sound effects
  • Choose from 5 comic styles
  • Adjust outlines, color, and borders
  • Save and share creations
Features
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Create a comic worthy of the Sunday newspaper or your favorite pulp-fiction cover. Pop Dot Comic is a fun way to create comic-book style illustrations from your snapshot or ones taken of your friends and family. Pop Dot Comic applies thick outlines, bold colors, and plenty of benday dots to newsprint or pulp papers to give every creation the look of one that’s been printed or published. In the past, halftones were tediously inked in by cartoon artists or created in darkrooms. With Pop Dot Comic you can easily and quickly convert your photo into a comic book drawing that’s worthy enough for the Sunday newspaper or your favorite pulp-fiction cover. With a library of included “Fun Stuff”, custom messages can be added to speech bubbles and sound effects will give your creation “POW”. When your finished creating a comic book photo save it to your library or post them to your friends and family for funny moments. 

COMIC STYLES
 • Sunday Comics — Creates a Cartoon Photo 
 • Halftone — Transforms a photo into a Halftone Newspaper Photo
 • Pop Comics — Converts photos into a bright Pop Art Lichtenstein-style Cartoon
 • Pulp Comics — Renders a Cartoon with Vintage Color on Aged Pulp Paper
 • Noir Comics — Creates a contrasted toned or blk/white Comic with selective color like those used in the Sin City series Pop Dot Comics is a professional cartoon effect that can be done directly on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. •Convert all your images and pictures into cartoon-style effect quickly •Choose a preset for a quick start •Use large photos for a high-end result! •Crop your photo to remove unwanted parts of an image •Choose between 5 comic styles: Sunday Comics, Halftone, Noir Comics, Pop Comics, Pulp Comics •Make adjustments to outlines, color, border width, border inset and pulp papers •Choose between Dots, Lines and Halftones •Edit and resize “Fun Stuff” and “Bubbles” with an easy one-finger gesture •Share via Email, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr •Save to Camera Roll Easy to Use •Tap to edit type in speech & thought bubbles •Long Press to delete fun stuff and bubbles •Pull edges of fun stuff and speech bubbles to resize •Touch and hold center to move FEATURES
 Benday Dots — like those used in the traditional printing process. Benday Dots are two (or more) different small, colored dots combined to create a third color. Back in the day, pulp comic books used Benday Dots in primary colors to inexpensively create the secondary colors such as flesh tone.

 Fully adjustable control on all aspects of the process: Dot or Line size, Outline size, Color variation, Border: Width, Inset, Color & Corner Radius. 

INCLUDES
 Newsprint and Pulp Papers

 UNIVERSAL FEATURES 
All JixiPix Apps come with: Superior Customer Service, Support for High-Resolution Images & Output, Undo/Redo, Randomize Button, Quick Presets and the ability to create Custom Presets, Cropping with the ability to specify aspect ratio, Quick Preview, Email, Print, and the ability to post directly to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr. We also have an online art gallery and invite our user’s to display their artistic creations on it: http://www.flickr.com/groups/jixipixcreations/

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 “JixiPix turns any photo into a masterpiece. All that is required of you is the appreciation — we’ll take care of the rest!” JixiPix.com “Creative Tools for Creative People" Photography | Artistic | Graphic Apps
 MAC • iPad • iPhone

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pop Dot Comics at 78% against Vintage Camera for iPad's 30%. Pop Dot Comics also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Vintage Camera for iPad's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On update cadence and ads 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

Vintage Camera for iPad is free to download; Pop Dot Comics costs $2.99 up front. Vintage Camera for iPad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pop Dot Comics asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pop Dot Comics holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pop Dot Comics has 179 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Vintage Camera for iPad's written reviews are positive against 78% of Pop Dot Comics's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vintage Camera for iPad ships an update every 3 months, Pop Dot Comics every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Vintage Camera for iPad versus Pop Dot Comics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVintage Camera for iPadPop Dot Comics
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.9 (179 ratings) — better
Positive reviews30.3% of reviews77.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2179 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexandre MorcosJixiPix, LLC

Customer experience

Vintage Camera for iPad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive30.3%
Neutral12.1%
Negative57.6%

Pop Dot Comics

All ratings177 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.1%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews269 reviews
Positive77.7%
Neutral8.2%
Negative14.1%

Bugs and requests

Vintage Camera for iPad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pop Dot Comics

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes frequently during text editing
  • App crashes when saving or rendering images
  • Photos fail to load from gallery on some devices
  • High-resolution export produces pixelated images
  • Saved images appear different from in-app preview
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  • App crashes when adding and moving text elements
  • Rendering hangs or gets stuck
  • Crashes on iPhone 5 and older devices
  • Text editing causes app to close unexpectedly
  • Stability issues on iPhone 4S
  • Gallery import functionality broken on some devices
  • Occasional freezing during effect application

Requested features

17 requests
  • More speech bubble and caption options
  • Ability to adjust colors in specific areas (e.g., faces, lips)
  • Multi-cell page layouts and storyboard creation
  • Vaporwave aesthetic filter option
  • Text without word bubbles option
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  • Ability to rotate paper textures
  • Easier text size and rotation controls
  • Zoom capabilities
  • Brightness, saturation, and contrast user controls
  • Ability to import custom elements
  • Double dialogue bubbles
  • Direction control for speech bubbles
  • Larger halftone dot options
  • More varied caption directions
  • Simultaneous editing of multiple photos
  • Storyboard functionality
  • Better style preview with consistent sample images

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Vintage Camera for iPad

One-time1
  • Professional Edition$0.99
None

Pop Dot Comics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vintage Camera for iPad free?
Vintage Camera for iPad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pop Dot Comics free?
Pop Dot Comics costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vintage Camera for iPad or Pop Dot Comics?
Pop Dot Comics is rated higher. Vintage Camera for iPad averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Pop Dot Comics averages 4.9 from 179 ratings.
Do Vintage Camera for iPad or Pop Dot Comics have ads?
Neither Vintage Camera for iPad nor Pop Dot Comics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vintage Camera for iPad or Pop Dot Comics?
Vintage Camera for iPad ships an update every 3 months, and Pop Dot Comics every 4 months. Most recently, Vintage Camera for iPad was updated on November 1, 2026 and Pop Dot Comics on November 6, 2026.

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