Pixagram vs Pastello
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixagram
Enhance your photos with a wide array of filters, effects, and frames. Add text, adjust image settings, and save your creations in high resolution. Easily share your edited images to social media platforms.
- Color filters (lomo, vintage)
- Light effects and overlays
- Frame borders
- Instafit
- Orton effect
- Add text with 30+ fonts
- Adjust image settings
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Easily create stunning images with Pixagram, and share them to your favorite social network. Add unique filters, effect and frames to create a great design piece! ** Features ** • Color filters as lomo, vintage, ... • Light effects or overlays such as bokeh, leak • Frame borders like instant, grunge, viewfinder, film, ... • Instafit • Orton effect • Add film grain • Adjust contrast, brightness, saturation, exposure, saturation, vibrance, temperature • 30+ fonts to add text to your photos • Vignetting • Save on your device • Share with your friends on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Email, ... • High resolution export You like Pixagram? Please give us 5 stars! Your feedback is very important to our work. Help us to improve Pixagram by sending your bugs or requests on contact@xnview.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/xnview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/xnview G+: http://plus.google.com/+xnview/
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pixagram at $0.99 against Pastello's $29.99. Pixagram also leads on ratings volume (254 vs 44) and device support (3 vs 1). Pastello's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Pixagram costs $0.99 and Pastello $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pastello holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixagram has 254 ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 79% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Pixagram | Pastello |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (254 ratings) | 4.8 (44 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 254 — better | 44 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | pierre gougelet | JixiPix, LLC |
Customer experience
Pixagram
Pastello
Bugs and requests
Pixagram
Reported bugs
7 issues- App freezes during editing
- Cannot save edited pictures
- Text disappears from saved image
- App crashes after update
- Cannot access keyboard for typing
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- App displays photo upside down on iPad
- App not fitting iPhone X format
Requested features
6 requests- Landscape mode for iPad
- More text options (multiple texts)
- Utilize full screen on new iPhones
- Smaller letter fonts
- Gamma adjustment (shadows)
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- More frame options
Pastello
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pixagram
No in-app purchases
Pastello
No in-app purchases









