ToonPAINT is FREE for a limited time

Above: This shot was created with ToonPAINT and the optional in-app purchase "ToonColor".As the developer says, "ToonPAINT allows you to easily create awesome looking cartoon-paintings with your own photos.

Even if you have never drawn or painted before, ToonPAINT sets you up for quick success by providing a "MagiSketch" that you can simply color-in. It's as easy as "paint-by-numbers", but using your own personal images. Unlike other photography apps, ToonPAINT is not just an image filter -- it's a smart-painting application that enables you to express your creativity and obtain compelling results without requiring you to take Art classes.

Simply import a photo, create an "automagic" sketch of the photo, color-in at your leisure, and you're done."

App Store Link: ToonPAINT; Sale Price: FREE

Comments

[Skip Hunt]

I bought this a year ago. This is actually a pretty cool app. If it converted the toon to vector art & saved as PDF it'd be a powerful production tool. Still very cool as is. Recommended!

[Gordon Keenan]

It's always nice to see something getting made available for free, but when you have already paid for it, you tend to think it would be nice for the creators to thanks the people who passed some cash into their pockets!

[espekayen]

I love this app. There is nothing else quite like it that I have seen and it produces some great results. Good job, guys.

[Geoff]

It's good but I don't think paying extra for other effects is really right,there apps about there that do some pretty incredible updates for free and some that just want more money,I won't be paying for the in app purchase,just my opinion tho.

[Skip Hunt]

@Gordon I agree 100% that really bugs me too. I'm getting to where I just don't buy apps so any more... just wait for them to go free.

[espekayen]

I agree with the last two posts. Some IAPs are just not worth the money (however small the amount); I know ToonPaint is free right now, but it normally costs £1.49/$1.99 so making an additional charge for features which really should already be available to paying customers, is a bit of a slap in the face. Personally, I wouldn't mind paying for the IAPs as I got the app for free, but I definitely won't have paid for the app knowing what the developer are like with unreasonable IAPs.

[Skip Hunt]

I now feel kinda sick that I actually recommended this app. I hadn't noticed they added IAPs after I paid for the app. What a slap in the face!

Apple shooed crack down on all these increasing unscrupulous , unfair and unethical dev practices and false clams. Eventually these devs are going to realize they've shot themselves in the foot by screwing over paying customers.

[Glyn Evans]

Hey guys, the dev introduced these in-app optional purchases a long time ago. What you are getting here for FREE is the original app, as it was when it first hit the App Store. You then have the option to buy the extras that the dev introduced, if you want to. I have no problem with dev's adding optional in-app purchases to help support the continued development of their app, provided the original app remains as was.

[Geoff]

I bought this app along time ago before they introduced the IAP then the new update came with it so just with me anyway like hipstamatic they lost me.

[Skip Hunt]

@Geoff I feel the same. When apps I paid for & supported by spreading the word... then go free and start charging for new features, they leave me cold.

@Glynn, do you actually have to buy any of these apps? For those of us who pay for apps, it really feels like a slap in the face when they go free with new IAPS added. When I bought ToonPaint, there were no IAPS & I thought it was a cool app that would be worth buying & looked forward to the app evolving. Now, they make what I paid for FREE & new features they want me to pay again? Sorry, but no thanks.

[Glyn Evans]

@Skip until promo codes became usable in the UK App Store, I bought every app that I featured on the blog. Now I buy about 75% of them, which has included ToonPAINT when it first came out. If I like an app, then I'm happy to support the dev by buying extras, after all most extras cost no more than a bar of chocolate.

[Skip Hunt]

@Glynn it doesn't bother you when an app you paid for goes free? When I bought snapseed at full price, it went free within a couple days. Love the app but this practice of going free & adding IAPS, etc. feels like bait & switch to me.

Also, do you know if anyone at Apple is even making sure these devs app claims are even true? It's not such a big dal when free apps don't do what they claim, but paid ones that simply don't live up to claims seems to be a growing trend. The recent iDarkroom says full resolution supported as does the Big Lens app. But they both down res your image unlike apps that really do support full res like photoforge2 & filterstorm.