Comparison

Pop Dot Comics vs Comicish

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

Head to head
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

About

Comicish

Transform your videos and pictures into comic strips with this tool. Add dialogue, stickers, and filters to create unique stories, then export them for printing or sharing on social media.

Highlights
  • Create comics from videos/photos
  • Add dialogue boxes and stickers
  • Apply filters and color adjustments
  • Over 80 page templates
  • Multipage project support
  • Export to JPEG or PDF
Features
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Comicish is a simple tool that allows you to turn your own ideas and favorite videos/pictures into a comic strip in as little time as possible . How it works: Every video clip contains many frames of your memories. Now you can take advantage of its features (actors, scenes and locations) to direct your own story in a fun way! 1- Begin by selecting one of the many included comic templates 2- Then extract specific frames from the clips or pictures in your iPhone photo albums. 3- Add dialogue boxes, text messages as well as stickers to your stories. Play with the fonts and colors available to make your stories truly shine. 4- Apply filters and color adjustments. 5- After creating your great artwork, it’s time to share! Comicish’s powerful export engine provides you with high resolution canvases, which can be printed or shared through your social media. Features: In-app guide More than 80 page templates Multipage projects Extracting video frames Control scale, position, and rotation of frames/images Different dialogue box shapes Cool fonts with adjustable text colors Change dialogue boxes size, rotation, color and transparency More than 50 emojis & stickers Filters that make your stories look more comicish Export to JPEG or PDF to create comic books Easy to publish on Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox Easy to save in your photo gallery

Screenshots

Pop Dot Comics4 screens
Comicish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pop Dot Comics at 78% against Comicish's 33%. Pop Dot Comics also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (177 vs 10). Comicish's advantage is chart position (#191 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pop Dot Comics costs $2.99 and Comicish $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pop Dot Comics holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pop Dot Comics has 177 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Pop Dot Comics's written reviews are positive against 33% of Comicish's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Pop Dot Comics versus Comicish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPop Dot ComicsComicish
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.9 (177 ratings) — better3.4 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews77.7% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings177 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#191 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCShahed Mohseni Zonoozi

Customer experience

Pop Dot Comics

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

Comicish

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Bugs and 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

Comicish

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pop Dot Comics

No in-app purchases

None

Comicish

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pop Dot Comics free?
Pop Dot Comics costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Comicish free?
Comicish costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pop Dot Comics or Comicish?
Pop Dot Comics is rated higher. Pop Dot Comics averages 4.9 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while Comicish averages 3.4 from 10 ratings.
Do Pop Dot Comics or Comicish have ads?
Neither Pop Dot Comics nor Comicish shows ads.

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