Tileodile vs Phosphor Press
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Tileodile
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Build geometric patterns by arranging tiles, lines, and shapes. Snap lines together and watch repeating patterns come to life. No blank canvas pressure, suitable for beginners and seasoned artists alike! Two ways to use it: Start from scratch and make whatever you like. The editor gives you a focused, mobile-first tool for creating vector patterns and motifs. Or if you don't have a design in mind, relax and build your skills by trying a few of the bite-sized activities. Export your designs as PNGs or SVGs to use anywhere: wallpapers, prints, stickers, laser-cuttings, web graphics, or as the starting point for bigger projects. Clean vector output is compatible with all your favorite tools. Whether you want a quick moment of calm or a mobile first design tool, Tilodile meets you where you are. Built with love for idle hands and creative minds. Features * Tile-based pattern creator with rich options for symmetry and connectivity * Simple activities to give you a creative spark and get you over the blank page * SVG export for unlimited, scalable reuse * A relaxed, no-pressure creative space. Doodle more, scroll less!
Phosphor Press
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Phosphor Press turns a photograph into the kind of picture a machine would have shown you before it could show everything: a few tones, a visible grain, and hard pixel edges. Not a filter laid over your photo. The picture is taken apart and rebuilt on a palette of two, four or sixteen colours, with the dithering that made those palettes bearable in the first place. SCREENS AND PRINT Paper โ dark ink on warm paper, four tones. The one to start with. Ink โ the same, at two tones, for a woodcut edge. Amber and Green Terminal โ the monochrome monitors, at two levels or four. Inked 256 โ full colour under hard black outlines. CGA 1984, CGA Outline, EGA Adventure โ the hardware palettes, matched in a perceptual colour space so four colours still look deliberate. Mosaic โ your photo's own colours in big square blocks. CONTROLS THAT DO SOMETHING Pixel size, from a coarse mosaic to a fine grain. Period screen modes keep their original non-square pixels, so 320x200 looks the way it did on a real monitor. Outlines that follow shapes rather than brightness. The app segments the picture into regions and draws the boundaries between them, so a line closes around an object instead of breaking up wherever contrast dips. Even lighting, which divides out the light in a scene so a surface split by a shadow stays one colour instead of becoming two objects. Auto levels, contrast, saturation, flattening, and frame shapes from square to 16:9 with a manual crop. WHAT IT IS GOOD AT Strong shapes and clear contrast: architecture, landscapes, silhouettes, objects against a plain background, anything backlit. A photograph reduced to four tones keeps what a silhouette is made of. It is honest about the rest. Fine texture โ hair, foliage close up, crowds โ is what these palettes have to throw away, and portraits are the hardest subject of all. Monochrome handles them better than the colour palettes do. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no server. The app works with the network switched off entirely. Your photos are read, converted and shown back to you, and they go somewhere else only when you save or share them yourself. FREE, AND PRO Every palette, every dither mode and every frame size are free, forever. Phosphor Press Pro is a single one-time purchase. It removes the signature from exports, adds CRT effects โ scanlines, phosphor glow, aperture grille, vignette โ adaptive palettes picked from your own photo, exports up to eight times the pixel size, and your own saved presets, exportable to another device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tileodile at none against Phosphor Press's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Phosphor Press sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tileodile asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Tileodile | Phosphor Press |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Underway Technologies LLC | MICHAL ZAJIC |
In-app purchases
Tileodile
No in-app purchases
Phosphor Press
- Phosphor Press Pro$2.99
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