Comparison

Tinge vs Dark Studio

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

Head to head
About

Tinge

Create artistic and inspirational images with unique color filters inspired by fashion and music history. Enhance your photos and videos with effects like duotone, neon, and halftone, and add custom text. Export in high quality for magazine-ready results.

Highlights
  • Duotone Effects
  • High-quality export
  • Portrait Mode editing
  • Photo and video editing
  • Custom font text
  • Neon Stickers
Features
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Tinge let's you create magazine-quality, artistic, inspirational images. Tinge's color filters were carefully designed to make each photo stand out. Inspiration for Tinge came from a deep dive into fashion and music history. It takes hints from the album covers of the 60s, the boldness of 70s punk rock, the 80s and 90s street style. And now with the new release, Neon and Vaporwave styles were added to the mix too. Checkout what they're saying: ------------------------ "The color overlays are well chosen and visually pleasing." --- Life in LoFi "I've been looking for an app like this for years. The results are so beautiful and clean." --- Tinge user "Love the output. does what it does very well and beautifully." -- Tinge user "Pas question d’évoquer toutes les applications photo qui proposent la même batterie de filtres. Mais parfois, une mise à jour intéressante arrive et redonne l’envie d’essayer à nouveau une application originale ou proposant un angle décalé." -- MacPlus.net Features: • Duotone Effects • Export in high quality • Edit Portrait Mode pictures • Edit both photo and video • Add text with custom fonts • Exclusive Rubber Soul effect, inspired from posters from the 60s • Color Halftone effect • Ink Brushes overlays • Neon Stickers • And more Terms of Use: http://tingeapp.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: http://tingeapp.com/privacy-policy/

About

Dark Studio

This app offers a vast collection of dark and color filters for photos and videos. Enhance your media with tinted glass effects, saturation correction, and unique gradients. Create personalized filters and export in high resolution with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Extensive dark and color filter library
  • Saturation correction for time/weather changes
  • Customizable filter creation and saving
  • High-resolution video export (up to 4K)
  • Duotone and glow effects
  • Pixelation and movement effects
Features
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Explore the largest collection of dark filters. Access a unique library of color filters right on your device. Add a tinted glass effect by setting bright colors. Experiment with multi-colored blanks. Saturation correction allows you to completely change the time of day, temperature, or weather in your photo. Choose from a dozen blue effects to achieve twilight or cloudy weather. Choose a sunny orange preset to make your video look like it was shot at sunset or golden hour. The application contains both natural colors that perfectly imitate cloudy weather, a sandstorm and even the underwater world, and neon gradients that will replace the colors in your photos with ultraviolet or sci-fi disco, illuminate light bulbs with a different color or change the color of the moon. Use for photos and videos. Easily process high-quality media content. With a premium subscription, you can export your video masterpieces in their original format, up to 4K resolution. Apply duotone effect to make your video unique and create a retro graphic design. Immerse yourself in a dark atmosphere, like a dark room, with colored lights. Great for night shots. Create your own unique style. Extensive settings allow you to create personalized filters and remember your own collection, adding custom filters to your favorites to use your original colors in any other project. Imagine using sunglasses, become a master of customization, creating unusual dark filters, set any colors, without restrictions. Use the built-in effects, glow - blurs the bright elements in the image to get a fade, like a film camera. Pixelation, movement in a photo or zoom, to give the effect of speed. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tinge4 screens
Dark Studio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dark Studio at 100% against Tinge's 55%. Dark Studio also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4). Tinge's advantage is ratings volume (112 vs 11) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Tinge sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Dark Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dark Studio holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tinge has 112 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Tinge's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dark Studio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tinge ships an update every 4 weeks, Dark Studio every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tinge versus Dark Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTingeDark Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (112 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings112 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJVicoAnatoly Lapshin

Customer experience

Tinge

All ratings112 ratings
Positive82.1%
Neutral5.4%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive55.3%
Neutral10.6%
Negative34.0%

Dark Studio

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tinge

Subscriptions2
  • Tinge Pro Month$1.991 Month
  • Tinge Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time8
  • Tangerine Tango Filter$0.99
  • Oceania Video Filter$0.99
  • Swinging London Video Filter$0.99
Show 5 more
  • Mag Pack$1.99
  • Strawberry Bubblegum Video Filter$1.99
  • Heartbreaker Pack$2.99
  • Surferena Pack$2.99
  • Moonlight$2.99
3 purchases

Dark Studio

Subscriptions3
  • 1-month Premium Access$4.991 Month
  • 1-year Premium Access$19.991 Year
  • Premium Access3 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Tinge free?
Tinge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dark Studio free?
Dark Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tinge or Dark Studio?
Dark Studio is rated higher. Tinge averages 4.4 out of 5 from 112 ratings, while Dark Studio averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Tinge or Dark Studio have ads?
Neither Tinge nor Dark Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tinge or Dark Studio?
Tinge ships an update every 4 weeks, and Dark Studio every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tinge was updated on October 29, 2026 and Dark Studio on October 24, 2026.

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