Comparison

Palette Spin vs qCurving

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

Head to head
About

Palette Spin

Features
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Palette Spin is a simple wallpaper maker for turning colors, photos, and text into custom iPhone wallpapers. Start with a palette, spin through color patterns, and preview how your wallpaper looks on an iPhone-style screen. You can add a photo, adjust blend effects, place text, tune colors, and save the result to Photos. Palette Spin is designed for quick visual experiments: ・Spin palettes and color patterns ・Create colorful gradient wallpapers ・Add photos as a background layer ・Adjust blend mode, opacity, scale, and position ・Add text with custom font, color, outline, shadow, and rotation ・Preview portrait and landscape wallpaper layouts ・Save full wallpapers or split designs into tiles Whether you want a bright lock screen, a soft gradient background, or a personal wallpaper with text and photos, Palette Spin helps you make it quickly.

About

qCurving

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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 • Fix lengths to whole units while dragging, so rectangles, lines and polygons come out with round dimensions 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 PHOTOS TO VECTOR • Trace Image: turns a placed image into stacked vector shapes, one per color, with a live preview • Detect Objects: AI guesses what each object is (person, animal, plant, text, graphic, sky) and tunes the trace to match. Every object gets its own group; rename or skip any of them • Split Finely with AI: an on-device model separates plate, table, food and more. Downloaded once (about 86 MB), only after you confirm; your images never leave your device NEW DRAWING TOOLS • Width Tool for strokes that swell and taper; Spiral, Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid tools • 7 distortion brushes: Warp, Twirl, Pucker, Bloat, Scallop, Crystallize, Wrinkle • Distort Path (Zigzag, Roughen, Pucker & Bloat, Twist) and object locking SELECT, FIND AND SAVE • Select every object of the same kind in one step • Find Objects (⌥⌘F): filter by kind, fill, stroke color, width or layer • Save Options: compressed or plain, levels 1 to 9; images are never recompressed DESIGNED FOR EACH DEVICE • Mac: a desktop interface with a menu bar and keyboard shortcuts • iPhone and iPad: a trackpad-like "relative" mode so your finger never hides your drawing; wide-screen iPhones get the iPad layout • External display or AirPlay: the desktop interface on the big screen, a trackpad in your hands COLOR, BLENDS AND PAGES • Gradient and Blend tools; rulers, guides and alignment to a key object • Multiple pages (multi-page PDF export) and document tabs PRIVACY No account required. Your documents and images are never collected or sent anywhere. The only network use is downloading the splitting model, once, when you first choose Split Finely with AI and confirm. 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

Palette Spin2 screens
qCurving4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Palette Spin at $1.29 against qCurving's $5.99. Palette Spin also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 days). 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

Palette Spin costs $1.29 and qCurving $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Palette Spin ships an update daily, qCurving every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Palette Spin versus qCurving: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPalette SpinqCurving
Price$1.29 — better$5.99
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMakoto FukuokaUSHIO FUJIMURA

In-app purchases

None

Palette Spin

No in-app purchases

None

qCurving

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Palette Spin free?
Palette Spin costs $1.29, with no in-app purchases.
Is qCurving free?
qCurving costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Palette Spin or qCurving have ads?
Neither Palette Spin nor qCurving shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Palette Spin or qCurving?
Palette Spin ships an update daily, and qCurving every 2 days. Most recently, Palette Spin was updated on November 5, 2026 and qCurving on November 6, 2026.

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