Silhouette vs PaintMee 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silhouette
Easily create striking silhouette art from your photos. Merge images, collage patterns, and edit outlines to produce professional-looking designs for social media sharing.
- Create silhouette effects
- Merge photos into silhouettes
- Collage pattern images
- Extract and edit outlines
- Edit silhouette color and transparency
- Edit background color and images
- Create transparent background images
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Let's create Cool Silhouette Art like advertising posters and TV CM! You will be able to create cool silhouette art easily! You will be able to merge photos to silhouette image! You will be able to collage pattern picture to silhouette image! Let's share your cool silhouette art with your friends by using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other SNS! Silhouette - Silhouette Effects Image Blender and Shadow Collage Picture Maker Free Photo Editor Apps - ■Description of App "Silhouette" is the free photo editor apps for creating silhouette effects image and collage picture. You will be able to edit your photo or image and create silhouette effects image easily by this photo collage editor apps. You will be able to create artistic image from your photo or image by blending photo or image from photo album or camera to silhouette effects image. In addition, you can edit silhouette effects image like collage using various pattern image which is incorporated in the apps. *You can save only one image that used blender effect or used pattern image per day. You can remove the restriction by purchasing "Additional Functions" Add-on in In-App Purchase. You can create image with transparent background like stamp from your photo by hiding the background. You can use pattern image of 155 type to edit your photo and image. In addition, you can use pattern image that saved in the photo album of your device. I plan to add new pattern image in the future. ■Function List 1. Extraction of Outline. ○You can extract outline from photo or image. ○Outline is hidden in the initial state. ○When you edit silhouette effects image from the photo with little contrast, you might be able to extract the silhouette relatively cleanly by using outline. ○You can edit outline color and outline width. ○You can hide outline. 2. Create Silhouette Effects Image ○You can create silhouette effects image from your photo or image. ○This is main function of this photo editor apps. ○You can edit silhouette color, silhouette threshold, silhouette transparency and silhouette smoothness. ○You can merge photo or image from photo album or camera as silhouette inner image. ○You can collage pattern image as silhouette inner image. ○You can invert and hide silhouette. 3. Edit Silhouette Background ○You can edit background of silhouette. ○You can edit background color. ○You can merge photo or image from photo album or camera as background. ○You can collage pattern image as background image. ○You can create image with transparent background like stamp from your photo by hiding the background. *You can save only one image that used blender effect or used pattern image per day. You can remove the restriction by purchasing "Additional Functions" Add-on in In-App Purchase. ■How to create Silhouette Effects Image 1. Select image you want to edit from "Camera" Button. 2. When Image was displayed, edit image to the desired image by Edit Items. 3. You can merge photo or image from photo album or camera as background by selecting "Image" button. 4.You can collage pattern image as background image by selecting "Image" button. 5. When you touch "Save" Button, current image will be saved in "Photos (Camera Roll)". *Full Screen Advertising will be displayed, after you have saved the picture. You can hide this Advertising by purchasing "Add-on". *You can save only one image that used blender effect or used pattern image per day. You can remove the restriction by purchasing "Additional Functions" Add-on in In-App Purchase. ■About In-app Advertising Banner Advertising is displayed in Home Screen. Full Screen Advertising will be displayed, after you have saved the picture. You can hide these Advertising by purchasing "Additional Function Add-on".
PaintMee 2
Transform your photos into unique works of art with various styles and a powerful focus system. Experiment with different artistic expressions and create personalized paintings. Save your creations in high resolution or as a movie of the painting process.
- 92 tuned example styles
- Focus point system for expression
- Up to 5 focus points
- Unique results with each use
- Save painting process as movie
- 4K resolution rendering
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True Art happens when your mind is invited into a piece. When there is something intriguing, provoking, ambiguous or incomplete. Now YOU can make true art in an instant – and have fun while doing it. Your tools are STYLE and FOCUS. For a photo, choose a style and set a focus point. Moving the focus point dramatically alters the resulting painting. Use this very powerful tool to make the painting truly yours. Features • 92 carefully tuned example styles. • Styles range from oil paintings through sketches, ink splatter and wood carvings to downright craziness. • Use a powerful focus point system to control expression. • Place up to 5 focus points. • Different results every time, even for the same style. • Watch the painting take shape stroke by stroke. • Advanced users: fine tune styles to get that perfect look. • Advanced users: create your own styles and add them to the list. • Save the entire painting process as a movie. • Render and save painting in 4K resolution.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Silhouette at Free against PaintMee 2's $5.99. PaintMee 2's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.3) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Silhouette is free to download; PaintMee 2 costs $5.99 up front. Silhouette sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PaintMee 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PaintMee 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PaintMee 2 has 123 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Silhouette's written reviews are positive against 79% of PaintMee 2's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silhouette | PaintMee 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (21 ratings) | 4.7 (123 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.4% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 123 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TAIKI HIRATA | Studio Mee |
Customer experience
Silhouette
PaintMee 2
In-app purchases
Silhouette
- Additional Functions$1.99
PaintMee 2
- High Definition Export$9.99









