Comparison

Bluristic vs Pastello

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

Head to head
About

Bluristic

Create stunning long exposure photos with real-time object tracking. This app allows you to capture motion blur in the foreground and background by moving your device or tracking moving subjects after recording. It offers multiple capture modes and high-resolution export options.

Highlights
  • Real-time object tracking
  • Post-capture object tracking
  • Multiple capture modes (Blend, Additive, Negative)
  • JPG and PNG export
  • Capture images in 4K
  • Exposure control
Features
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Long & multi exposure photography with real-time tracking. Track moving or still objects with a real-time preview to create smooth background and foreground blur. You can also record first and apply tracking afterward, which is ideal for faster-moving objects. Combine multiple exposures and step back to remove the last one. Choose between four different capture modes: Blend – smooth, natural long exposure results Additive – bright light trails Negative - creative and experimental dark exposures Zebra - black & white pattern effect Additional features: + three tracking points available + Mirror Mode + long exposure up to 30 minutes + record video during live capture + capture images in 4K + and much more... No subscription. Pay once. Future updates included

About

Pastello

Transform your photos into stunning dry media art, mimicking styles like pastel, charcoal, and colored pencil. This app offers a professional workflow with customizable layers and one-click presets for creating expressive, traditional-looking artwork.

Highlights
  • Photo to Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon conversion
  • Layering of different dry media
  • Customizable stroke direction, size, and volume
  • One-click presets with customization options
  • Traditional sketch styles and DaVinci effect
  • Professional workflow for artists and photographers
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Transform photos into a fine art drawing with Pastel, Pencil, Chalk, Charcoal and Crayon Introducing Pastello, a brand-new companion app to JixiPix’s Impresso Pro. Pastello takes you back in time to the 15th century. Away from brushes and large strokes and into the realm of dry media with color that is both brilliant and subtle. The “Dry color method” made famous by Leonardo da Vinci is so powerful in its simplicity and beauty with its black and red chalk and yellow pastel highlights. Later, artists would paint charming portraits in a smooth heavily blended fashion. Move forward a few centuries later and pastel quickly became filled with brilliant color and crisp detail. Fast forward to today and a digital age has made it so you, the artist, can mix and match media that is difficult or impossible in a traditional setting. Pastello makes it simple and convenient to take an image and change it into Pastel, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Colored Pencil and Graphite drawings. Use alone or combine these medias using powerful layers to produce interesting expressive sketch effects filled with colorful personality and passion. And the best part is Pastello does all the work. With Pastello, photographers and artists can now go beyond the camera to turn image files into creative works that resemble traditional handmade media using a professional workflow that is easy and comfortable to operate. Pastello has a pro workflow that automatically transforms a photo into a pastel drawing and places it on an art paper with options to customize. The Pastel can then be changed to Chalk, Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Graphite, Conte or Crayon using Layer styles. The medias start out delicate like traditional drawings do, then allows you to build them up using fills, shading and detail layers. The medias are beautiful as they are, or mix them for an expressive artwork. Pastello includes plenty of traditional sketch styles as well as a DaVinci effect using a mixed media of pencil, charcoal, crayon and old paper. It’s easy to use! We have mixed the media into one-click presets with all the freedom to customize, blend and fine-tune for your own unique artwork filled with age, depth and timeless beauty as if created by the renaissance artist himself. Pastel Styles: Colored Pencil, Graphite, Charcoal, and Chalk come with a fill and detail option that can be layered for infinite variation. Conte has a dynamic sketch feature that lets you fill in shadows, mid-tones and highlights with crosshatching or scumbling. All with the ability to change stroke direction, size, volume and variation. Pastel—(Soft) is a soft, buttery consistency and intense color. This effect is dense and filled with the grain of the paper. Chalk—(Hard Pastel) is a light dusty effect with little specks of preserved paper. This chalky pastel is known for it’s soft strokes and velvety texture. Charcoal—creates a velvety black charcoal effect with shades of grey. Use it for warming up the under painting of a composition, or to complete a finished charcoal piece. Colored Pencil—creates soft colorful strokes in the drawing that can be layered to build up color then burnished with a light Pencil Layer, or the Smudge tool. Pencil—creates pencil drawings with fluid outlines and soft, limpid tonal shadings for a drawing filled with warmth and charm. Conté—is a beautiful crayon media for enhancing highlights, midtones and shadows in drawings using classic colors. Crayon—creates a colorful waxy base to a drawing, then burnished it with a Conte White for highlights or Bistre for shading.

Screenshots

Bluristic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bluristic at $4.99 against Pastello's $29.99. Bluristic also leads on chart position (#57 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). Pastello's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.8). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Bluristic costs $4.99 and Pastello $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pastello holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 44 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Bluristic's written reviews are positive against 79% of Pastello's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bluristic ships an update every 2 months, Pastello every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Bluristic versus Pastello: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluristicPastello
Price$4.99 — better$29.99
Rating3.8 (27 ratings)4.8 (44 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews78.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2744 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#57 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohannes PfahlerJixiPix, LLC

Customer experience

Bluristic

All ratings22 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral4.5%
Negative31.8%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral5.1%
Negative20.5%

Pastello

All ratings43 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.1%

In-app purchases

None

Bluristic

No in-app purchases

None

Pastello

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bluristic free?
Bluristic costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pastello free?
Pastello costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bluristic or Pastello?
Pastello is rated higher. Bluristic averages 3.8 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Pastello averages 4.8 from 44 ratings.
Do Bluristic or Pastello have ads?
Neither Bluristic nor Pastello shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bluristic or Pastello?
Bluristic ships an update every 2 months, and Pastello every 3 months. Most recently, Bluristic was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pastello on October 21, 2026.

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