Comparison

Demosaic vs PressInk

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

Head to head
About

Demosaic

Edit RAW and standard images with professional tools on your iPhone or iPad. Offers advanced controls for exposure, color, tone curves, and RAW sensor reconstruction. Supports wide-gamut color spaces and local on-device processing.

Highlights
  • RAW and standard image editing
  • Exposure, contrast, and saturation controls
  • Tone and RGB curves
  • Highlight recovery and shadow adjustment
  • White balance and color tools
  • RAW sensor reconstruction tools
  • Wide-gamut color space support
Features
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Demosaic is a local RAW and image editor for iPhone and iPad. Built around a direct photographic workflow, Demosaic supports both RAW and standard image editing, including: • Exposure, brightness, contrast, and saturation • Tone curves and RGB curves • Highlight recovery and shadow adjustment • Sharpening, denoise, local contrast, and dehaze • White balance and color tools • HSV equalizer and channel mixer • Crop, rotation, perspective, and lens correction • High bit-depth export and wide-gamut workflows For RAW files, Demosaic also provides lower-level sensor and reconstruction tools, including: • Demosaicing controls • RAW black level adjustment • False color suppression • Chromatic aberration correction • Input sharpening • Hot and dead pixel cleanup Supported color spaces include: • sRGB • Display P3 • Adobe RGB • ProPhoto RGB • Rec.2020 All editing is performed locally on-device. Performance Note: Some RAW workflows, including denoise, local tone mapping, and high-quality export, can be demanding on CPU and memory. For a more stable experience, M-series iPads or devices with A17 Pro and newer chips are recommended.

About

PressInk

Transform your photos into realistic prints with various ink and paper textures. Create zines, posters, and explore diverse printing traditions from around the world. Export print-ready files for your creative projects.

Highlights
  • Photo print simulation
  • Zine and poster layout
  • Diverse printing traditions
  • Customizable inks and papers
  • Print-ready PNG export
  • On-device processing
Features
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PressInk turns your photos into prints that could really be made with ink on paper. Not a filter: plates, ink, paper and the marks of a real press, rendered on your iPhone or iPad. PHOTO PRINT Overprint one to three inks with halftone or grain screens on papers from cream to kraft. Start from 14 presets or pick from 259 inks, including 250 traditional Japanese colours. Frame it, then export a print-ready PNG. ZINE Lay out a poster or a two-page spread from 11 templates: your photo, a headline, colour blocks and a print feel such as Riso, Xerox or letterpress. IMPRINT One image, one method, one ink. Rebuild your photo as grainprint, stipple, linepress, glyphs, cyanotype and seven more. RUBBING AND WOODBLOCK 19 printing traditions from 8 countries, each laid out as a full sheet with its inscription, seal and mount: • Rubbing: black-gold and cicada-wing rubbings, cinnabar rubbing, gyotaku, Korean takbon, English brass rubbing • Woodblock: Yangliuqing and Zhuxianzhen New Year prints, ukiyo-e, senjafuda, Đông Hồ, lubok, Épinal, cordel woodcut, wood engraving and more TRAVEL PLATES (BETA) Set a travel photo beside the plate it was printed from: hand-coloured print, cyanotype, postage stamp, ticket and more. In Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every photo is processed on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account. PRESSINK PRO Every studio and every preview is free, and each studio has free processes you can export. PressInk Pro is an optional one-time purchase that unlocks exporting the remaining processes, inks and print-size options. No subscription; Family Sharing supported. Languages: English, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어. PressInk is a creative print simulation. It is not a calibrated separation tool for a specific commercial press.

Screenshots

Demosaic4 screens
PressInk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Demosaic at free against PressInk's free with in-app purchases. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Demosaic against 5.0 for PressInk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Demosaic versus PressInk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDemosaicPressInk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size456 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer实隆 杨deng yongyuan

Customer experience

Demosaic

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PressInk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Demosaic

No in-app purchases

None

PressInk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Demosaic free?
Demosaic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PressInk free?
PressInk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Demosaic or PressInk?
Demosaic and PressInk are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Demosaic or PressInk have ads?
Neither Demosaic nor PressInk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Demosaic or PressInk?
Demosaic ships an update every 2 months, and PressInk every 2 months. Most recently, Demosaic was updated on October 16, 2026 and PressInk on October 21, 2026.

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