Comparison

DotPress vs DitherCamApp ASCII

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Halftone generation
  • Outline detection
  • Image distortion tools
  • ASCII art generator
  • EXIF metadata editor
  • Favorite tools toolbar
  • Perspective correction
Features
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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.

About

DitherCamApp ASCII

Apply real-time retro camera effects to your photos and videos. Choose from numerous algorithms, cell shapes, and color palettes to create unique vintage looks. Share your custom effect settings as codes, not images.

Highlights
  • 26 dithering algorithms
  • 37 cell shapes
  • 19 color palettes
  • 41 ready-made presets
  • 4 post effects
  • Real-time viewfinder
  • Shareable effect codes
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The viewfinder doesn't show the scene. It already shows the result. DitherCam is a camera app. It redraws the live feed frame by frame, cell by cell, with the algorithms of halftone printing and 1-bit graphics, and saves what you see as a photo or a video. No waiting, no progress bar, no export step: what you frame is what you get. WHAT YOU GET • 26 algorithms — halftone, ordered Bayer dithering, Floyd–Steinberg, Voronoi, hexagonal mosaic and more • 37 cell shapes — circles, squares, crosses, ASCII characters, a page of code, your own text • 19 colour palettes, plus the ones you build yourself • 41 ready-made presets: one tap and the look is there • 4 post effects — chromatic aberration, bloom, CRT, VHS • Aura: coloured rings tracing the subject's outline PHOTO AND VIDEO Shoot up to 2160px, or record up to 60 seconds with the effect already baked in. You can also start from a photo or a clip already in your library — press and hold on the image to compare before and after. SHARE THE SETTINGS, NOT THE PICTURES A look you like becomes a short code — or a QR code — that carries numbers only: grid size, shape, colours, contrast. You send it however you like, the other person pastes it into their app and gets exactly your look. There is no feed, no profile, no server: nothing is published, and no image ever travels with the code. WHAT THE APP DOES WITH YOUR DATA Nothing leaves your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics, no third-party SDK, no tracking: there is nothing to collect, and nothing is collected. Every effect is computed on the device, and the whole app works in Airplane Mode. • Camera: used only to draw the live viewfinder. Frames stay in memory and are never written anywhere unless you take a photo or start recording. • Photo library: read only when you pick a photo or a clip to edit, written only when you save. • Stats and achievements count what you have done on this iPhone, and those counters stay on this iPhone. • iCloud sync is on by default and can be turned off in the menu. It carries your palettes, custom effects, favourites, theme and language between your own devices, inside your own private iCloud. Photos and videos are never uploaded. No subscription and no in-app purchases: the app is complete as it is.

Screenshots

DotPress4 screens
DitherCamApp ASCII4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DitherCamApp ASCII at Free against DotPress's $1.99. On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

DitherCamApp ASCII is free to download; DotPress costs $1.99 up front. 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 DotPress against 5.0 for DitherCamApp ASCII. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
DotPress versus DitherCamApp ASCII: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotPressDitherCamApp ASCII
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInner CircleStefano Fois

In-app purchases

None

DotPress

No in-app purchases

None

DitherCamApp ASCII

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DotPress free?
DotPress costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DitherCamApp ASCII free?
DitherCamApp ASCII is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DotPress or DitherCamApp ASCII?
DotPress and DitherCamApp ASCII are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do DotPress or DitherCamApp ASCII have ads?
Neither DotPress nor DitherCamApp ASCII shows ads.

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