Montio vs PRINT DOT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Montio
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Montio turns your clips into a finished, post-ready video without building the edit by hand. Montio notices a trip, a big day, an "on this day" memory, a finished month or season, the year, and months full of people, food or places in your Photos, and offers to turn them into a video. Before anything is made you see the clips it picked and can add or remove any. AI Cut finds your best moments, reframes them for vertical video, adds captions, and syncs cuts to the beat. Want a different result? Tap Try another version for a fresh cut from the same footage. SHORTS MAKER Add one long video and Montio pulls out its best moments as a grid of short clips, each reframed to vertical, graded, and captioned. WHAT YOU GET • AI Cut — choose a few clips and a style, then get a finished vertical video • 11 creator styles — Vlog, Punchy, Cinematic, Travel, GRWM, Food, Fitness, Aesthetic, Product Demo, Talking Head, and Family Highlights • Karaoke captions with word-by-word timing • On-device speech captions in 8 languages, plus caption translation • Auto-reframe that follows the subject in vertical video • Beat-synced cuts, color matching, dead-air trimming, and one-tap enhancement • 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 aspect presets with caption-safe positioning • A full manual editor with trim, split, transitions, filters, text, stickers, voiceover, and built-in music PRIVATE BY DESIGN Video analysis, editing, and export run on your iPhone. No account, no footage uploads, no tracking, and no metered "AI credits." Your media stays on your device. Core editing works offline; Apple speech and translation features depend on language support downloaded to the device. MONTIO PRO Free editing includes export up to 1080p at 30 fps with a small watermark. Montio Pro unlocks 4K at 60 fps, watermark-free videos, premium filters, and AI background removal. Available as a weekly or annual subscription. — Montio Pro is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://montio.video/terms Privacy Policy: https://montio.video/privacy
PRINT DOT
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PRINT DOT at every 6 days against Montio's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Montio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and PRINT DOT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Montio ships an update fortnightly, PRINT DOT every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Montio | PRINT DOT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shaozhuang Chen | kazunari aoki |
In-app purchases
Montio
- Montio Pro Weekly7 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Montio Pro Annual$49.991 Year
PRINT DOT
- PRINT DOT Premium$5.99









