Project Indigo vs Sticker Pack Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Project Indigo
This app offers advanced computational photography with manual controls for a natural, SLR-like image look. It captures bursts of photos to create high-quality images with reduced noise and enhanced dynamic range, suitable for both casual and professional users.
- Computational photography pipeline
- Natural image look (SLR-like)
- Full manual camera controls
- Photo and Night modes
- Super-resolution for zoom
- Macro mode
- Live viewfinder with histogram and zebra striping
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Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page. Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads. For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer. A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range. PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted. Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise. NATURAL LOOK Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them. PRO CONTROLS Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray. Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped. SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active. MACRO MODE Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots. VIEWFINDER Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images. LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobile app for editing. In addition, our raw DNG files provide maximum compatibility with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS Technology Previews will be a place where we will offer an early look at technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe’s flagship products, or that already appear in these products in a slightly different form: - AI Denoise is a variant of the AI-based denoising from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a new DNG to your camera roll. - Remove Reflections is a variant of the technology from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a medium-resolution JPEG to your camera roll. It tries to remove reflections when shooting through plate glass windows covering most of the camera field of view. - Face Dewarp corrects warp on faces near the edge of images captured using wide-angle lenses. It uses DNG or JPEG as input and saves a JPEG to your camera roll.
Sticker Pack Studio
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Turn your photos into sticker packs. Pick a photo, choose a look, and Sticker Pack Studio generates a pack of nine stickers — each one a different pose and expression of your subject, cut out and ready to send. A FREE PACK EVERY DAY Your first pack each day is on us — a full nine stickers, no credits spent. Come back tomorrow for another. TWO DIALS, NOT ONE STYLE is how your stickers are drawn: cartoon, kawaii, anime, pixel art, comic book, claymation, graffiti, low poly, and hyperreal. CONCEPT is what the nine are about: all smiles, big feelings, absurd, too cool, cozy, hyped, lovestruck — or Mixed, for a bit of everything. Turn either dial to "every one of them" and get a sampler that spans the whole catalog. Invent your own on either dial: describe a style or a concept in a sentence and the app turns it into a full direction you can save and reuse. MADE FOR MESSAGES Your stickers appear right in the Messages sticker tray, newest pack first. Favorite the best ones to keep your tray curated, or show everything. PUT THEM BACK ON THE PHOTO Compose is a tab of its own. Drop your stickers onto any photo, then drag, pinch, and twist them into place. Save the scene as one flat image that posts anywhere. REMIX WHAT YOU LOVE Take any sticker you've made and spin it into nine new variants — more like this one, or nine fresh ideas from it. Or refine a single sticker on its own. SIMPLE, FAIR PRICING A free pack every day, plus free credits when you sign up. After that, buy credits as you need them — nine credits for a nine-sticker pack, no subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photo is used only to create your stickers and is not kept on our servers. Finished stickers live on your device. No ads, no tracking SDKs, and you can delete your account (and everything with it) any time in Settings. Turn the camera roll into your sticker collection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Project Indigo at none against Sticker Pack Studio's 3. Project Indigo also leads on iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.0). Sticker Pack Studio's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Sticker Pack Studio sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Project Indigo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Project Indigo ships an update every 3 weeks, Sticker Pack Studio every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Project Indigo | Sticker Pack Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (702 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 45.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 702 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 347 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adobe Labs, Inc. | Hsin-Yao Lin |
Bugs and requests
Project Indigo
Reported bugs
2 issues- Shutter sound cannot be disabled
- AI-based features causing loss of detail
Requested features
3 requests- Support for higher resolution photos
- Improved tap-to-focus functionality
- Better optimization for battery and thermal performance
Sticker Pack Studio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Project Indigo
No in-app purchases
Sticker Pack Studio
- Starter · 50 credits$2.99
- Standard · 200 credits$7.99
- Studio · 500 credits$14.99
Questions
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