Fx Stencil vs Imaengine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fx Stencil
Transform your photos into unique stencil art. Easily edit, customize colors, and apply gradients to create personalized designs for printing on various materials or sharing with loved ones.
- Create stencils from photos
- Edit and customize stencils
- Gradient stencil effects
- Save and share stencils
- Simple drawing tools
- Invert stencil option
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Fx Stencil lets you make a stencil from photo you takes or from your photo album.Very simple and quick. You can edit, share on facebook, save to your album or mail it to your friends and family. With a stencil you can use to print on the wall, clothes, fabric or make amazing gifts that imbued with your own personality. New features with version 3.3.0 - Support Dark mode - New Design UI for app - New core processing - More color for stencil - New Gradient stencil - Save your stencil - Share stencil to social networks and some action for stencil - Crop Image - Custom color - More tool - A simple drawing tools to help you edit image stencil. - Invert Stencil Wish you have fun with Fx Stencil. Sincerely!
Imaengine
Transform photos and videos into stylized vector art with various filters and editing tools. Create pop-art effects, remove backgrounds with black and white vectorization, and generate rotoscope-style videos from imported footage.
- Color vectorization
- Pop-art style filters
- Black and white vectorization
- Video and movie import
- Rotoscope-style videos
- User-friendly editor
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Color vectorization, pop-art style filters, black and white for background removing. Video and movie import to get rotoscope-style videos. User-friendly editor with selection tools, brush and eraser. Now we have 3 different vector apps, you can choose the one fit your necessities: - 'Imaengine': filter section with all the vectorization capabilities, with smart controls and clean interface, editor section with only the essential tools. - 'Vector Q': the most powerful, full control over vectorizing with advanced parameters and a complete vector editor. - 'Vinilo': the simpler, only black and white vectorization and single-tool editor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fx Stencil at 4.5 against Imaengine's 3.1. Fx Stencil also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 35). Imaengine's advantage is review sentiment (59% vs 36%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Fx Stencil sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Imaengine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fx Stencil holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fx Stencil has 1K ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Fx Stencil's written reviews are positive against 59% of Imaengine's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fx Stencil ships an update every 2 months, Imaengine every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fx Stencil | Imaengine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1K ratings) — better | 3.1 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.9% of reviews | 58.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tien Le | Luis Rivas |
Customer experience
Fx Stencil
Imaengine
Bugs and requests
Fx Stencil
Reported bugs
4 issues- Only lets you do one stencil
- App closes when selecting photo
- Zooms in to one corner
- Doesn't display entire picture
Requested features
4 requests- Two-tone image options
- Ability to add more photos
- Bring back old invert option
- Allow access to photo albums
Imaengine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fx Stencil
- Remove Watermark$0.99
- Add Picker Color$0.99
- Gradient Stencil$0.99
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- Remove Advertisement$2.99
Imaengine
- Unlimited Sharing$5.99
Questions
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