Both draw a picture with a limited set of colours. Halftone varies the size of dots on a regular screen, the way newspapers and posters are printed. Dither keeps every pixel the same size and scatters them, the look of early computer graphics.

Bayer at 2, 4 and 8 cells, clustered, blue noise, Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson and plain noise, with two to eight shades of your ink. The two-colour limit is optional, and From image keeps the picture’s own colours.

Yes. Add an MP4, MOV or WebM and every frame is processed. Stipple uses up to 3 minutes on a capable computer and 20 seconds on a phone. MP4 exports keep the clip’s sound where the browser can encode it, and the result screen tells you if it couldn’t.

Press Export and choose PNG sequence. The paper disappears and only the ink stays, in a ZIP of PNG frames. In After Effects use File, Import, choose the first frame and tick PNG Sequence. MP4 can’t store transparency.

Yes. On a picture, every motion finishes a whole number of cycles, so the last frame runs straight back into the first.

There’s no watermark and no paid version. The first download asks for your email and two quick questions, once across all our tools. A picture can run up to 60 seconds, and exports go up to 4K on a capable computer.

No. Everything runs on your device, and your file never leaves the browser.

Yes. What you make with Stipple is yours, as long as you have the rights to the picture or clip you put in.

Current Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox, on computers and phones. Stipple needs WebGL 2. Firefox and older browsers may record in real time instead of frame by frame, and the result screen says so.