Comparison

Lightbloop vs Jankify

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

Head to head
About

Lightbloop

Features
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Lightbloop is a dreamy drawing toy for making glowing color echoes, soft afterimages, and playful visual trips. Draw with your finger and watch simple strokes bloom into luminous trails. Freeze a layer, keep drawing above it, open Dream Lab to tune the mood, or shake your device to randomize the whole trip. When the canvas lands somewhere strange and pretty, save the visible artwork to Photos.

About

Jankify

Features
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Jankify gives you two ways to make a mess: build pixel-art space oddities from scratch, or feed it a photo, GIF, or video and break it beautifully. CREATE SOMETHING FROM NOTHING Roll a seed and get a new piece of a tiny universe: - Backgrounds and deep starscapes - Rocky planets and strange little worlds - Symmetrical creatures and sprites - Ships in six classes, from scouts to dreadnoughts - Pixel effects and animated explosions Every seed makes a repeatable recipe. Keep the part you like, vary the rest, save a PNG, or copy a recipe link to share it. Effects and explosions are properly unruly: the seed changes their shape, motion, detail, and debris instead of merely repainting the same result. EDIT A PHOTO, GIF, OR VIDEO Choose from eight handmade looks. Pixel goes chunky, with optional retro palettes and quantized color. Lite Brite rebuilds your photo as glowing pegs on a black board. ASCII turns it into text, while Emoji makes a mosaic from thousands of real emoji. Want something sketchier? Hatch adds tonal pen-and-ink cross-hatching, and Rough draws loose outlines. Polygon and Voronoi shatter the picture into triangles or cells. Drag a few sliders, hit a button, and see what happens. Save a crisp PNG or export clean SVG vectors from most modes. Pixel mode can also produce box-shadow CSS, an HTML table, Unicode blocks, JSON, or plain text. MAKE IT MOVE Turn an animated GIF or short video into looping pixel art, glowing pegs, ASCII, emoji, hatching, or a rough sketch. Set the duration and frame rate, then export an animated GIF, a PNG sprite sheet, or processed video. Jankify trims and scales long clips to keep things responsive. It bounds animation timing, respects reduced-motion preferences, and warns before producing rapid animation. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU - Create and Edit both work fully offline. - Photos, GIFs, and videos never leave your device. - No account, sign-up, tracking, or ads. - No data collected, full stop. - Universal app for iPhone and iPad. Make a world. Wreck a photo. Keep what gets weird. Made by Luke Steuber.

Screenshots

Lightbloop3 screens
Jankify4 screens

Verdict

The call

Lightbloop and Jankify are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Lightbloop versus Jankify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightbloopJankify
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcin DenisiewiczLanguageCraft

In-app purchases

None

Lightbloop

No in-app purchases

None

Jankify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightbloop free?
Lightbloop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jankify free?
Jankify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lightbloop or Jankify have ads?
Neither Lightbloop nor Jankify shows ads.

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