Comparison

Demosaic vs qCurving

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

qCurving

Features
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qCurving is a vector graphics editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Draw paths with the pen tool, fine-tune anchor points and handles right at your fingertips, and create logos, icons, diagrams and illustrations with precision, wherever you are. NO MORE TYPING NUMBERS TO RESIZE • Lock lengths to whole-number units while you drag, so rectangles, lines and polygons come out at round sizes right away • Set a polygon's radius or side length to an exact integer, and stop retyping values one by one to fix dimensions afterwards DRAW WITH PRECISION • Pen, pencil, line, rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star • Add, delete and convert anchor points; edit nodes and handles directly • Snap to points; move and rotate in set increments • Connectors between objects (snap to end points and centers; lines follow when shapes move) WORK WITH TYPE • Text panel: font, size, leading, tracking, horizontal and vertical scale, baseline shift • All caps, small caps, superscript, subscript, underline, strikethrough • Paragraph: left, center, right and justified alignment; left, right and first-line indents; space before and after • Convert text to outlines and edit it as paths BUILD SHAPES • Pathfinder (unite, intersect, minus front, exclude) • Outline stroke, offset path, round corners, reverse path direction • Align and distribute, compound paths, stacking order, flip • Layers (show/hide, lock, reorder, merge) • Fill and stroke (RGB / CMYK, width, caps, corners, dashes) • Numeric input for position, size, move, rotate and scale OPEN AND EXPORT • Open and edit SVG and PDF files (choose which pages to import from a multi-page PDF) • Export to SVG, PDF (millimeter units, CMYK supported), PNG / JPEG / BMP, and for the web • Default stroke width is 1 mm in PDF and 1 px in SVG, so dimensions are ready for print and technical drawing DESIGNED FOR EACH DEVICE • Mac: a desktop interface with a menu bar and keyboard shortcuts • iPhone and iPad: a "relative" mode that works like a trackpad, so your finger never hides what you're drawing • iPhone: a top bar fitted to the Dynamic Island and a collapsible bottom panel that leaves more room for your canvas • Connect an iPhone or iPad to an external display or AirPlay to get the desktop interface on the big screen, with a trackpad and shortcut display in your hands COLOR AND BLENDS • Gradient tool: drag on the canvas to set direction and range, and add, move or delete color stops directly • Blend tool: create any number of in-between shapes that interpolate shape, color and stroke width between two objects PAGES AND ALIGNMENT • Multiple artboards (exported as a multi-page PDF) and document tabs • Rulers and guides, unit-based alignment, and alignment to a key object PRIVACY No account required. All processing happens on your device; no data is collected or sent anywhere. GOOD TO KNOW • When opening a PDF, paths (fills and strokes) and colors are imported. Text, images, gradients and clipping are not imported yet. • Full compatibility with other vendors' software is not guaranteed. • CMYK and color handling are our own approximation; no ICC-profile color management is performed. On-screen colors may differ from printed results. Always check your printer's requirements and a proof before printing or submitting files. • Feedback and requests are welcome on the support page.

Screenshots

Demosaic4 screens
qCurving4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Demosaic at Free against qCurving's $5.99. qCurving's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Demosaic is free to download; qCurving costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Demosaic ships an update every 2 months, qCurving every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Demosaic versus qCurving: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDemosaicqCurving
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size456 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer实隆 杨USHIO FUJIMURA

In-app purchases

None

Demosaic

No in-app purchases

None

qCurving

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Demosaic free?
Demosaic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is qCurving free?
qCurving costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Demosaic or qCurving have ads?
Neither Demosaic nor qCurving shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Demosaic or qCurving?
Demosaic ships an update every 2 months, and qCurving every 2 days. Most recently, Demosaic was updated on October 24, 2026 and qCurving on October 24, 2026.

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