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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Painter

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/APainter is a digital art and painting application, from Corel Corporation.N/A

    Frase

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFrase, from the company of the same name in Boston, presents their eponymous platform as an Answer Engine Optimization solution. Frase is designed to improve SEO and drive conversion by using website content to answer visitors' questions.N/A
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    PainterFrase
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    PainterFrase
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    NoNo
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    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    PainterFrase
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    Comparison of SEO features of Corel Painter and Frase
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    Corel Painter
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    Frase
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Page grader00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Corel Painter and Frase
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    Frase
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Corel Painter and Frase
    Feature
    Corel Painter
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    Frase
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    PainterFrase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    PainterFrase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Corel Corporation
    Corel Painter does have a lot of great brushes, and they do emulate real art supplies very well. Especially the thick paint is well done. But unfortunately there are so many functional and UX bugs that overall it is just horrible to work with. When contacting customer support about it, they really seem clueless about the seriousness of the situation, and clueless about what proper UX is in general. They have tried to make it work a bit like Photoshop, which is a good move but then some things are absolutely not intuitive at all and they are definitely missing the mark horribly with so many issues. I would highly recommend using Photoshop instead, though you'll have to download them separately; it also offers a lot of great brushes nowadays and works much much smoother without all those aggravating bugs of Painter. The price of Corel Painter is just not at all worth all these horrible bugs.
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    Frase, Inc
    1. If you are going to write any piece of content for your readers, it will be your great assistant!!
    2. If you want to cover a topic in entirety and from the angle of a reader, you should really go for it.
    3. It also brings you opportunities you can exploit by just integrating it with Google Search Console.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Corel Corporation
    • Watercolor Compatible
    • Multiple variety of Brushes and shapes
    • Captured Dab Library
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    Frase, Inc
    • Create outlines from pages that are already ranking for a particular keyword. It performs SERP analysis to find common headings and sections amongst the pages.
    • Generate content for different types of sections. You can also use custom prompt, or select of the pre-defined types to generate. For e.g., convert features to benefits.
    • Get detailed analysis of website SEO performance from Google Search Console. Find pages that quickly gain/loose ranks.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Corel Corporation
    • Way too many functional bugs, makes it hard to work with
    • Bad UX and usability, too much unintuitive behavior, makes it particularly hard to work with
    • Overall looks and behaves as if it was coded in the '90s, it really needs a complete UX overhaul
    • Did I mention the many bugs yet? Yeah? I'll mention it again because it's bad
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    Frase, Inc
    • UI
    • Content Editor
    • Headings at Glance
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Corel Corporation
    If it wasn't quite clear yet, I'll state it again: the usability of Corel Painter is, simply put, horrid. And I am not talking about rendering, lagging, etc., it is not even all that bad there. I am talking about the weird issues like being unable to move a brush into a custom brush palette when you work on a second screen, like being unable to move the software onto the second screen in the first place unless you separate all the palettes and the windows (and if nobody tells you upfront there is no way of knowing because the manual doesn't state this at all), and then having to drag all your separate windows and palettes over one by one every time your computer wakes up again, and they won't really want to move to the other screen but only through a tiny corner of your screen, and the fact that you have to scroll through lists and lists of fonts but can't search and when you apply this font, add another piece of text the font jumps back to the default font of all the text already applied even when you haven't selected any of the text. Just to name a very small few.
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    Frase, Inc
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    Support Rating
    Corel Corporation
    It was really hard to get them to understand what I was having problems with. It was hard to get the message through that Painter has an unacceptable amount of functional and UX bugs. When I finally talked to someone who was easier to communicate with, he was very stoic about the situation, like they didn't really care about the awful amount of bugs.
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    Frase, Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    Corel Corporation
    Corel Painter has support to multiple OS and across all the devices. Coloring and multi layer imaging works very well. The new enhanced brush settings and the redesigned brush libraries.
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    Frase, Inc
    Well MarketMuse and Frase may seem alternative to one another but we are using both of them in our workflow for different purposes. While MarketMuse is best for Topic Modeling, Frase gives you edge with competitive analysis like Headings, Questions and so on. So yeah some of their features overlap each other but as I told earlier, we are using both of them in complement to each other.
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    Return on Investment
    Corel Corporation
    • Customer support could be improved in my opinion.
    • Multiple bugs while working with layered designing.
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    Frase, Inc
    • We have published around 12 pieces with the guidance of this tool, and we are already ranking on top for around 10 pieces, so we are getting almost 20x ROI
    • Our clients are happy, so here our ROI is 50x
    • We are getting 10x ROI
    Incentivized
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