Stencil app comparisons

We make one of these tools — Stencil AI, built by working tattoo artists, with its quality standards set by an award-winning artist and convention judge of three decades — and every comparison below names the cases where a different tool is the right choice, because a comparison that does not is worth nothing to you. Competitor figures come from their own listings, with the date we checked them on each page.

Comparisons

• Stencil AI vs GhostlineThe comparison we get asked for most. Output on realism, retouch and printing — and where Ghostline wins on price.
• Stencil AI vs ProcreateNot really a competition: one is a drawing app, the other converts references. When to use each.
• Free converters vs Stencil AIWhen free is genuinely enough, and the four costs nobody mentions until the stencil is printed.
• Ghostline vs ProcreateNeither of them is us. A converter against a drawing app — which one a tattoo artist actually needs, and when the answer is both.
• Ghostline alternativesFive ways to make stencils if Ghostline is not the fit — including the case for staying put.

How we compare things

Every claim about another tool comes from its own store listing or website, with the date we checked at the top of each page. We do not speculate about how anyone else's software works internally, and we do not publish screenshots of competitors' output. Where a comparison depends on the result rather than a feature list, we say so and suggest you run the same reference through both.