Comparison

InkPalette vs Patternify

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

Head to head
About

InkPalette

Instantly identify fountain pen ink shades from your surroundings using your camera or photos. Discover personalized ink recommendations, explore a vast library of inks with detailed profiles, and save your favorites. It's the ultimate tool for fountain pen enthusiasts to find their next perfect ink.

Highlights
  • Camera-based ink color matching
  • Personalized ink recommendations
  • Extensive ink library with detailed profiles
  • Save favorite inks and search history
  • Community reviews and writing samples
  • In-app blog on fountain pen culture
Features
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InkPalette turns the colors you love into the perfect fountain pen ink, instantly. See a shade in a sunset, a painting, or a favorite sweater? Point your camera and discover inks that match. It's the easiest way to find your next favorite ink. _____________________________ COLOR MATCHING Point your camera, pick from a photo, or use the color wheel to find matching inks. A precision loupe helps you nail the exact shade. PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS Get ink suggestions with writing samples and descriptions of how each ink looks and feels on paper. EXPLORE & DISCOVER Browse thousands of inks across hundreds of brands - shimmer, iron gall, shading, and colors you never knew existed. DETAILED INK PROFILES Swatches, best uses, similar inks, and community reviews for every ink in the library. FAVORITES & HISTORY Save inks you love and revisit past color searches. Sign in with email, Google, or Apple to sync across devices. BLOG Read articles about inks, writing, and fountain pen culture, right inside the app. JAPANESE LOCALIZATION Full Japanese language support throughout the app. _____________________________ Whether you're searching for a new everyday writer or chasing a color you spotted in the wild, InkPalette makes the journey easy and delightful.

About

Patternify

Features
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Patternify turns a single shape into a seamless pattern you can use anywhere - a phone wallpaper, a desktop background, wrapping paper, or a print for the wall. Pick a traditional motif, crop a photo from your gallery, or draw your own shape with your finger. The app repeats it into a pattern that tiles perfectly in every direction, with no visible seams and no design skills needed. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Start from 16 traditional motifs: cherry blossom, camellia, plum blossom, chrysanthemum, leaf, maple, bamboo, hemp leaf, blue waves, cloud, crane, koi, seven treasures, star, diamond and dot - Turn any photo into a motif. Pan and zoom to choose the part you want, and the app builds a seamless tile out of it - Draw your own motif by hand. A live strip under the canvas shows how your strokes repeat while you are still drawing - Mix up to four shapes in one pattern. Spread them alternating, checkered or at random, or overlay them stacked in the same cell - Borrow a shape from any of the built-in patterns to drop into your mix - Choose from 12 traditional color palettes, or pick your own colors by hand - Shape the repeat with six symmetries: grid, brick, mirror, four fold kaleidoscope, six fold kaleidoscope and diamond - Drag the canvas to spin and resize the motif, and slide to change the repeat count, the scale and the position of the symmetry axis - Preview your pattern at real size on A5 to A3 paper, shown in both centimetres and inches, so you know exactly how it prints - Export at 2048 pixels as a PNG, ready for a wallpaper, a print, fabric or stationery NOTHING TO SAVE Every pattern you touch is recorded in your library on its own. There is no save button to forget. Keep adjusting and the same pattern updates instead of piling up drafts, so you can come back to any of them later to rename, remix or export again. 111 PATTERNS TO START FROM The library is full from the very first launch. Open any starter pattern, remix it, and it becomes the base of something of your own. MADE FOR - Wallpapers and backgrounds for phones, tablets and desktops - Wrapping paper you designed yourself - Fabric, sticker and stationery prints - Journals, scrapbooks and collage work - Anyone who likes traditional Japanese and Korean pattern craft Pick a shape, slide the axis, and watch a pattern unfold. Download Patternify and make something worth repeating.

Screenshots

InkPalette4 screens
Patternify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Patternify at 3 against InkPalette's 1. Patternify also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.5). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
InkPalette versus Patternify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInkPalettePatternify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB28 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRyuji GanahaJUHWAN LEE

In-app purchases

None

InkPalette

No in-app purchases

None

Patternify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is InkPalette free?
InkPalette is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Patternify free?
Patternify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do InkPalette or Patternify have ads?
Neither InkPalette nor Patternify shows ads.

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