Comparison

PRINT DOT vs ZiNEY

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

Head to head
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.

About

ZiNEY

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Give your photos the texture of print. ZiNEY turns a photo into something that looks pulled off a press: halftone dots, line screens, ordered dither, film grain and two-colour gradient maps. Tap a preset and it's done. Then use three sliders to make it yours. 8 LOOKS • Circle — concentric halftone. The poster look • Halftone — four-plate CMYK colour halftone • Threshold — two tones plus grain. Photocopier and zine texture • Duotone — no screen, just grain and two colours. For portraits and product shots • Bitmap — 8-bit ordered dither • Dot — newspaper halftone • Line — engraving-style scan lines • Mosaic — pixels plus halftone, for fun 15 PALETTES, PLUS INVERT Indigo Rose, Ink, Acid, Magenta, Tangerine, Cobalt, Brick, Wine, Forest, Sepia, Neon, Flamingo, Sunburst, Mint and Full Color. From classic navy-and-pink to brick red, forest green, sepia, black under fluorescents and pink-on-yellow. Tap Invert to swap the two inks of every palette. THE RECIPE IS VISIBLE Every effect sits in a stack you can reorder, switch off or adjust. "Tone → Halftone → Grain → Gradient Map" reads exactly like what it is, so you can copy it, learn it and push it further. TUNED TO EACH PHOTO ZiNEY analyses brightness and contrast and adds an AUTO tone step so presets land well on the first tap. Threshold levels come from the photo too. EXPORT JPEG or PNG. Save to Photos on iPhone and iPad, export to a file on Mac. The watermark (the ZiNEY mark plus the names of the effects you used) is optional with Pro. FREE AND PRO Free: preview every preset. Export Circle, Halftone and Threshold in Indigo Rose or Ink at up to 1600 px, with the watermark. Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription): every preset and palette, full resolution, watermark optional. Buy once, use on iPhone, iPad and Mac. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Photos are processed on your device. No account, no data collection. For iPhone, iPad and Mac (universal purchase).

Screenshots

PRINT DOT4 screens
ZiNEY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ZiNEY at none against PRINT DOT's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PRINT DOT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ZiNEY asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
PRINT DOT versus ZiNEY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPRINT DOTZiNEY
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkazunari aokiIMAGINATIVE UNDERBAR LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PRINT DOT

One-time1
  • PRINT DOT Premium$5.99
None

ZiNEY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PRINT DOT free?
PRINT DOT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ZiNEY free?
ZiNEY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PRINT DOT or ZiNEY have ads?
Neither PRINT DOT nor ZiNEY shows ads.

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