CMSHT vs tone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CMSHT
Transform your photos into stunning design compositions. This tool empowers users to create unique visual art from their existing images.
- Create design compositions from photos
- User-friendly interface
- Photo editing tools
- Unique visual art creation
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CMSHT is your pocket playground for photo experiments Mix effects crafted by a designer and fine-tune each one to make something only you would make. No rules. No perfect edits. Just you, your photos, and a little creative chaos.
tone
Transform your photos into unique stencil-style prints with adjustable colors, halftones, and frames. Explore automatic ink selections or fine-tune every detail for a custom poster or zine look. Save your creations for sharing or printing.
- Convert photos to 1-3 color overprint style
- Halftone dots and grain screening methods
- Automatic ink selection
- Adjustable dot, angle, and density
- Editable margins, frames, and corners
- Paper stock and grain options
- Save custom presets
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tone is a photo app that gives your pictures the character of stencil printing. Pick a photo, and fine halftone dots and overlapping inks turn it into something like a two-color poster or zine page. Layer photos together in one printed composition. Drawings and text can also be added as material for the overprint. In Simple mode, tap the random buttons to explore combinations of colors, halftones, and frames. A guided tour walks you from loading an image to exporting it. Inks that fit your photo can be chosen automatically. Export right away, or fine-tune dot frequency, screen angle, density, and print behavior for each color. Move, scale, and rotate photos directly on the preview. Crop each image and edit its corners and margins on the canvas. Add rounded corners, hand-cut edges, and paper grain to finish it like a poster or card. Save finished artwork to your photo library. For physical production, export print-ready artwork or a separate file for each ink with finished dimensions, bleed, Standard / Japanese crop marks, true-size imposition, and PNG / JPEG / PDF output. tone supports iPad in portrait, landscape, and Split View. On a wide screen, keep the preview and controls side by side and adjust their widths for your workspace. Your latest artwork and editing settings are saved on device and restored automatically the next time you launch tone. Features: - Give photos the character of stencil printing - Layer multiple photos in one overprinted composition - Simple, Customize, and Advanced modes - Two screening methods: halftone dots and grain - Automatic ink selection that fits your photo - Per-color dot, angle, density, and print controls - Five paper stocks, including white, natural, gray, and kraft - Direct move, scale, rotate, crop, corner, and margin editing - Built-in presets and whole-composition custom presets - Step-by-step views of separation, screening, and overprint - Print-ready and per-ink separation export - Bleed, crop marks, and true-size imposition - iPhone and iPad, portrait, landscape, and Split View - Automatic editing-session save and restore - Available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Hong Kong) 7 extra inks, custom preset saving, and 2x/3x high-resolution artwork export are unlocked with the one-time purchase “Ink Set 02”.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CMSHT at none against tone's 1. CMSHT also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). tone's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 3). On price, rating, 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. tone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CMSHT asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CMSHT against 5.0 for tone. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tone has 24 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of CMSHT's written reviews are positive against 88% of tone's.
CMSHT ships an update every 6 months, tone every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CMSHT | tone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 5.0 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denis Krupin | Shikaka, Inc. |
Customer experience
CMSHT
tone
In-app purchases
CMSHT
No in-app purchases
tone
- Ink Set 02$2.99









