tone - photos, printed

Photos, printed.

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Pick a photo and get a two-color print — halftone dots, overlapping inks, slight misregistration, and paper grain. tone is a photo app that gives your pictures the character of stencil printing. Pick a photo, and fine halftone dots and overlapping inks turn it into something like a two-color poster or zine page. In Simple mode, tap the random buttons to explore combinations of colors, halftones, and frames. A guided tour walks you from loading an image to exporting it. Inks that fit your photo can be chosen automatically. Export right away, or fine-tune dot frequency, screen angle, density, and print behavior for each color. Margins and frames are freely editable too. Add rounded corners, hand-cut edges, and paper grain to finish it like a poster or card. Save finished artwork to your photo library. For physical production, export print-ready artwork or a separate file for each ink with finished dimensions, bleed, Standard / Japanese crop marks, true-size imposition, and PNG / JPEG / PDF output. tone supports iPad in portrait, landscape, and Split View. On a wide screen, keep the preview and controls side by side and adjust their widths for your workspace. Your last source image and editing settings are saved on device and restored automatically the next time you launch tone. Features: - Convert photos into a 1–3 color overprint style - Simple and Customize modes - Two screening methods: halftone dots and grain - Automatic ink selection that fits your photo - Per-color dot, angle, density, and print controls - Five paper stocks, including white, natural, gray, and kraft - Margin, aspect ratio, corner radius, and hand-cut edge editing - Built-in and custom presets - Step-by-step views of separation, screening, and overprint - Print-ready and per-ink separation export - Bleed, crop marks, and true-size imposition - iPhone and iPad, portrait, landscape, and Split View - Automatic editing-session save and restore - Available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Hong Kong) 7 extra inks, custom preset saving, and 2x/3x high-resolution artwork export are unlocked with the one-time purchase “Ink Set 02”.

  • 4.9
    out of 5
    9 Ratings

tone 1.2.1 adds export resolution controls, Korean, and Chinese. Halftone quality has been improved. With very fine dots, certain combinations of FREQ and output resolution can cause the image pixels and halftone pattern to interfere, producing unintended moiré. tone now automatically chooses a resolution suited to the configured dot detail, while also letting you select the BASE resolution manually. Use the actual-resolution preview to inspect the dots and export your intended print-like texture more consistently. Other changes - Added Korean and Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, and Hong Kong). The app follows your device language - Detailed export settings no longer reset every time you export. Mode, format, finished size, bleed, crop marks, imposition, and halftone processing stay as you left them - Halftone dots and grain now keep the same scale on screen, in image exports, and in print-ready output - Fixed an issue where thin color lines could appear along image edges when exporting with FRAME (margin) set to 0

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    The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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    Seller
    • Shikaka, Inc.
    Size
    • 8 MB
    Category
    • Graphics & Design
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 4 more
    • English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 pnly