Comparison

Inkling vs PRINT DOT

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

Head to head
About

Inkling

Transform your photos into unique spot-ink prints with various artistic styles. Create custom layouts, add text or drawings, and enhance your prints with tactile paper effects. Save your creations as high-resolution images or PDFs.

Highlights
  • Multiple print styles (Risograph, Line Cut)
  • Customizable ink colors and boldness
  • Photo framing and cutout tools
  • Layout creation for cards and photo strips
  • Tactile paper, deboss, and foil effects
  • Offline photo editing
Features
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Turn your photos into spot-ink prints, and make a keepsake of your own. • Preview eight print styles on your photo, including Risograph, Line Cut and Curved Weave. Choose your inks and adjust the result from soft to bold. • Frame your favourite detail with Cutout. Drag and zoom, choose a natural outline, then carry the same crop and inks into a layout. • Make a card, photo strip or page of memories. Arrange up to four photos, add a date, a few words or a drawing, and print them together. • Add tactile paper, deboss or foil. Tilt your phone in the app to watch light move across the surface. Your saved prints stay in the Press Room, ready to share or edit as copies. START FOR FREE Use basic print styles, framing, circle and oval outlines, and save standard PNGs with a small stamp. Preview full-version styles, inks and special outlines on your photo before buying. ONE LIFETIME PURCHASE Unlock every print process and ink, all layouts and outlines, high-resolution saves without a stamp, separation PDFs and print animations. No subscription. High-resolution output follows your photo's resolution; it does not add detail to a small source image. Your photos are processed on your device. No account or analytics. Photo editing works offline; purchasing and restoring use the App Store.

About

PRINT DOT

Features
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Your photo, freshly printed. PRINT DOT is a small print shop for your photos. The halftone dots you see up close, the color plates sitting slightly off register, the way ink sinks into paper: PRINT DOT rebuilds that feel on top of a picture you already have. ■ Eight dot styles Fine Dot for a delicate screen. Bold Dot for big, poppy dots. Newspaper Dot for coarse monochrome. CMYK Dot for overlapping plates and misregistration. Soft Fade Dot for a gentle bleed. Grain Dot for film-like texture. Line Screen Dot for a poster look. Mono Ink Dot for one clean ink. The same photo comes out differently in every one. ■ Choose the ink Eleven ink palettes, including Vintage Red, Café Brown, Ocean Blue and Mono Black. Quiet one- and two-color runs, or something loud and neon. ■ Choose the paper Seven paper textures: smooth, rough, matte, recycled, newsprint, kraft and aged. Each one changes how the ink settles. ■ Tune it by hand Dot size, screen angle, contrast, ink bleed, paper character. Move the sliders until it looks right, and compare against the original photo at any time. ■ Keep your prints Saved work lines up in the in-app gallery. Favorite it, export it to Photos, or share it straight from there. ■ Everything stays on your iPhone All rendering happens on your device. Your photos are never uploaded. No account, no sign-in, and it works in airplane mode. ■ What's free Four dot styles, five inks and three papers. Pick a photo, adjust it and save it without paying anything. ■ PRINT DOT Premium (one-time purchase) One purchase unlocks all of this: · All eight dot styles · All eleven ink palettes · All seven paper textures · Export at a larger size · No watermark on your work It is not a subscription. You pay once, and on the same Apple ID you can bring it back with Restore Purchases after switching devices.

Screenshots

Inkling4 screens
PRINT DOT4 screens

Verdict

The call

Inkling and PRINT DOT are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Inkling sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PRINT DOT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inkling ships an update every 4 days, PRINT DOT every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Inkling versus PRINT DOT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInklingPRINT DOT
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer亚 张kazunari aoki

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Inkling

One-time1
  • Inkling Full$3.99
1 purchases

PRINT DOT

One-time1
  • PRINT DOT Premium$5.99

Questions

Is Inkling free?
Inkling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PRINT DOT free?
PRINT DOT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Inkling or PRINT DOT have ads?
Neither Inkling nor PRINT DOT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inkling or PRINT DOT?
Inkling ships an update every 4 days, and PRINT DOT every 6 days. Most recently, Inkling was updated on October 31, 2026 and PRINT DOT on October 31, 2026.

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