ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer vs Spektrel Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
Easily open, view, and extract images from popular brush, tool preset, and pattern file formats. Load files from cloud storage or directly from other apps. Export your extracted images to various destinations.
- View ABR, TPL, and PAT files
- Extract images from files
- Load files from cloud storage
- Export images to Photos, Mail, Files
- Drag and Drop support on iPad
- AirDrop support
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Here is a small but polished tool that allows you to open, view and extract images from abr (brushes), tpl (tool presets) and pat (patterns) files. Abr/tpl/pat are the most popular formats to share brushes and patterns, you can find thousands of them in Internet. Features: - support of all available versions of ABR, TPL an PAT files - displaying full Brush list or Stamp / Pattern items only - loading files from any location - both from Cloud Drive and any other cloud service - export selected images to Photos, Mail, Notes, Files etc - support of Drag and Drop on iPad - support of AirDrop - opening files copied to app folder using File Sharing on computer - opening files directly from Safari, Mail or any other app that include 'Open In' option
Spektrel Art
Transform your photos into dazzling, otherworldly art with intersecting lines of light. This app offers powerful adjustments to create unique imagery filled with movement, sparkling life, and divided color spaces.
- Intersecting light lines
- Adjustable taper length and sharpness
- Lighten and brighten controls
- Color boost for enhanced hues
- Dramatic glow effect
- Pre-set styles
- Infinite artistic variations
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Spektrel Art is an extravagant otherworldly display of webbed light that glistens and gleams with intersecting lines of tapered light. Applied to photos, this medium of imaginative and magical art form transcends the ordinary to extraordinary creating something wild with movement, sparkling life and divided color spaces. Powerful adjustments allow you to fine-tune to create your own imagery filled with tapered points of bright intersecting lines, fluid streaming ones, and phantasmal qualities. INCLUDES • Detail slider increases the amount of intersecting lines • Taper Length and Sharpen sliders to add twinkle to the effect • Lighten and Brighten sliders to make it illuminate • Sharpen slider to exaggerate the lines • Smoothing slider to softens lines • Color Boost for enhanced color • Dramatic glow slider to add a dreamy quality • Presets to start you off • Infinite variation to create art with illuminated twinkles, fluid lines or ethereal softness
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spektrel Art at 88% against ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer's 37%. Spektrel Art also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 22 months). ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer costs $1.99 and Spektrel Art $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spektrel Art holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 128 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer's written reviews are positive against 88% of Spektrel Art's.
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer ships an update every 22 months, Spektrel Art every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer | Spektrel Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (53 ratings) | 4.7 (128 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.1% of reviews | 87.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 | 128 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucky Clan | JixiPix, LLC |
Customer experience
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
Spektrel Art
In-app purchases
ABR/TPL/PAT Viewer
No in-app purchases
Spektrel Art
No in-app purchases
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