Jankify vs SHADR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jankify
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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.
SHADR
Transform photos and blank canvases into unique visual art with a variety of creative styles. Refine your creations with expressive controls and discover new directions through generative randomization. Export still images or live photos and videos.
- Diverse and evolving collection of creative visual styles
- Generative randomization for discovering new directions
- Focused controls for refining composition, color, texture, and movement
- Still image export at native resolution
- Live Photo and video output
- Local projects and reusable presets
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SHADR is a creative design toolkit for transforming photographs and blank canvases into distinctive visual artwork. Explore a growing collection of styles including ASCII Art, Dithering, CMYK Halftone, Pixel Stretch, Fluted Glass, Kaleidoscope, Flow Field, Kinetic Typography, Light Cast, Pixel Scatter, Glow Matrix, Path Blur, Surveillance Aesthetic, Glitch Art, Geometric Abstraction, Low Poly, Mirror Mosaic, Slice Effect, Out of Bounds, Linocut, Paper Marbling, Color Reconstruction, Contact Sheet, and Rebus. Each style is a focused creative tool inside one consistent editor. Import a photo or begin from a blank canvas where supported, generate new directions, shape the result with expressive controls, and move fluidly between different visual treatments. Features: - A diverse and evolving collection of creative visual styles - Generative randomization for quickly discovering new directions - Focused controls for refining composition, color, texture, and movement - Still image export - Live Photo and video output in supported tools - Import a video and apply effects to it; selected tools can track what moves in the clip - A built-in sample on every tool, ready to try - Local projects and reusable presets - Subject-aware treatments in selected tools Privacy Policy: https://shadr.studio/privacy Terms of Use: https://shadr.studio/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jankify at none against SHADR's 2. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. SHADR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Jankify asks for nothing beyond the download.
Jankify ships an update fortnightly, SHADR every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jankify | SHADR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LanguageCraft | 伟滔 黄 |
In-app purchases
Jankify
No in-app purchases
SHADR
- SHADR Pro Annual$9.991 Year
- SHADR Pro Lifetime$24.99









