Pop Dot Comics vs SelfieMade App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/ *************** “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
SelfieMade App
Capture hands-free photos with motion detection. Simply position your device, trigger the timer with a hand gesture, and strike a pose. Ideal for selfies, group shots, and social media content without touching your phone.
- Motion-activated photo timer
- Hands-free operation
- Adjustable motion sensitivity
- Local photo storage
- Quickstart camera mode
- Offline functionality
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Open the camera in the app and move your hand to the star that appears in the camera image. The photo timer starts, put yourself in pose and boom... a great photo. Take many more photos without having to pick up your phone or tablet. Simply touch the star again and the photo timer starts via motion detection. Also ideal for great Instagram photos or making a group photo where not all would fit in the camera frame. Just put the phone on a wall, lean it on a glass on a table and start the app. The photos are only stored locally on the device in the photo library. There is no transfer to a server on the Internet. You have full control and can share your photos for Instagram or any messenger. The photo timer can be set individually. In Quickstart mode, the app directly opens automatically the camera. The sensitivity of the movement can be adjusted in 10 steps so that the movement is detected optimally. FAQ: 1) Why does the yellow star not appear? Hold the device still or put it down, avoid movements in the upper left area. 2) The photo timer does not start. Change the movement sensitivity in the settings. Change position. 3) The photo timer starts too early. Change motion sensitivity in the settings. Change position. Place the mobile phone or hold it still. 4) Where are the photos saved? Only locally in the photo library on the unit. There is no transfer to an Internet server. The app also works offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SelfieMade App at Free against Pop Dot Comics's $2.99. SelfieMade App also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Pop Dot Comics's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, monetization model 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
SelfieMade App is free to download; Pop Dot Comics costs $2.99 up front. SelfieMade App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pop Dot Comics asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pop Dot Comics ships an update every 4 months, SelfieMade App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pop Dot Comics | SelfieMade App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (179 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 77.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JixiPix, LLC | Marco Seraphin |
Customer experience
Pop Dot Comics
SelfieMade App
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
SelfieMade App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pop Dot Comics
No in-app purchases
SelfieMade App
- Unlimited Fotos$0.99
Questions
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