DotPress vs Comic Book Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DotPress
This app offers a suite of powerful image editing tools for designers, enabling quick structural edits and graphic effects. Transform images with halftones, outlines, distortions, and metadata editing, all processed directly on your device.
- Halftone generation
- Outline detection
- Image distortion tools
- ASCII art generator
- EXIF metadata editor
- Favorite tools toolbar
- Perspective correction
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Dot Press is a simple, powerful image utility for designers. It gives you fast tools for transforming images in ways the iPhone Photos app doesn’t allow — from quick structural edits to graphic effects. Create halftones, extract outlines, distort images, generate ASCII art, edit metadata, and experiment with graphic transformations in seconds. No accounts. No subscriptions. Just useful image tools. Quick Image Tools Fast adjustments for everyday image work: • invert colors • flip horizontal & vertical • rotate by exact degrees • quick crop • grayscale • hue/saturation • exposure • pixelate Simple tools that make everyday image work faster. Explore the structure of your images: • halftone (circles, squares, plus) • threshold • outline detection • dither • noise • scanlines • ASCII generator Perfect for posters, textures, and graphic experiments. Transform Tools Reshape images quickly: • perspective correction • lens distortion • pinch & bulge • wave distort • mirror canvas Image Utilities Includes practical tools: • EXIF metadata editor • remove metadata • quick export options Favorite Tools Toolbar Build your own quick-access workflow. Save your favorite tools and keep the ones you use most always within reach. Fast & Simple Open an image. Choose a tool. Adjust. Export. Everything runs directly on your device for fast previews and saves.
Comic Book Camera
Transform your photos and videos into comic book panels. Arrange them into pages and albums, add text, and export your creations. Offers a unique live camera filter and a playful, intuitive design for storytelling.
- Live, comics-style camera filter
- Arrange panels into albums and pages
- Add text and captions to panels
- Automatic location and date filling
- Export at mobile or print resolution
- Original graphics technology, no AI filters
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Think inside the box. Serialbox frames the world in panels, live in the viewfinder. Part sketchbook, part graphic novel. Shoot or import, arrange your layout, and add text: a caption, a line of dialogue, a full narrative. Every panel builds the bigger picture—a story, a journal, an album for anything. Share a panel or page whenever you like. • Live, comics-style camera filter • Arrange panels into albums and pages • Panels for text, location, and date; location and date fill in automatically • Export at mobile or print resolution • No generative AI filters: Original graphics technology • Custom font based on the author’s wife’s handwriting • No account, no servers: Runs on your iPhone • Playful & intuitive design SERIALBOX FREE Free to use all major features. Create up to three albums. Exported images are small and carry a watermark. SERIALBOX UNLIMITED One In-App Purchase (or subscription) unlocks everything: • No watermarks • Export your original, unfiltered photos • Auto-save shots to your Photos library • High-resolution export • Back up albums to iCloud Drive • Unlimited albums that you can lock, export, import, and set as your default Screenshots include paid features. Privacy Policy: https://www.tinrocket.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.tinrocket.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Comic Book Camera at Free against DotPress's $1.99. DotPress's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#157 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Comic Book Camera is free to download; DotPress costs $1.99 up front. Comic Book Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. DotPress asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DotPress against 5.0 for Comic Book Camera. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | DotPress | Comic Book Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #157 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Inner Circle | Tinrocket, LLC |
Customer experience
DotPress
Comic Book Camera
In-app purchases
DotPress
No in-app purchases
Comic Book Camera
- Serialbox Unlimited (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Serialbox Unlimited (Yearly)$9.991 Year
- Serialbox Unlimited (Lifetime)$19.99









