# Anamorphic Cinematic Filters — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of Anamorphic Cinematic Filters by James Grote, rated 4.80/5 from 200 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/anamorphic-cinematic-filters/id1247287369/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/anamorphic-cinematic-filters/id1247287369.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 170 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (12 of 42) ### 2/5 — Exceptional… *2026-02-14* … too SAD, in a negative Sense! I DO own 75% of James‘s (grrreat!) APPS, and scince i use‘m OFTEN, i gave this one a try. BUT: I‘m a classical educated Photographer (Darkroom, Nikon F, Plaubel) scince 50 Years, and in the „digital Chapter“ scince 2007/iOS 1.0. Too sad TOO… that there is NO manual of ANY kind! This App WILL do some great ideas, BUT; it‘s hard to guess, how s lot of Tools REALLY work! Example MASK: The PREVIEW when i draw a Mask isn‘t precise! I you want to mask EYES, you wanna pinch IN… but that can hurt your mask! It‘s too little Space in here, and my english isnt the best. But… i PAID, cause i LOVE the other Apps and… TRUST James! This one… is really „EXCEPTIONAL“. For the (good!) IDEAS behind the App… it gets TWO instead one Star. Still a Fan… ### 4/5 — Love it *2020-09-23* But it takes forever to save a processed photo on iOS14. I mean it’s been 5 minutes, the “saving” circle is still rotating but the photo has not been saved yet, and I assume it won’t. It must be a bug on iOS14. It worked like a charm on iOS13. ### 4/5 — A MUST for photo editors *2020-05-14* Huge improvement with the new update , the more subtle the effect , the smaller nuances , is when the image really becomes beautiful. Compression (mostly from the filters) is the only problem I’ve had that I would like to see improved . Great work ! ### 4/5 — Indica bien para que móvil vale *2019-01-19, version 1.4* Aprender inglés no cuesta nada Si tu móvil no hace fotos con efecto profundidad no vale. La gente critica y es por ignorancia La app funciona bien ### 4/5 — Great App! *2018-09-07, version 1.3* It is great for editing the depthmap far beyond iOS standar capabilities. Still room for improve, would be great to have different bokeh shapes and would be great to be able to export the depth map greyscale picture. ### 3/5 — Pretty good *2018-08-01* Not a bad app. But there is a little ghosting on parts of the image are refocused. A couple of things I’d like to see. Feather depth to create a nice gradient to blur Change softness of bokeh. I do find it a bit harsh for some shots and I’d like more control over what the bokeh actually looks like. Bokeh shapes. Finer controls to filters (change brightness, contrast, curves, shadows, highlights etc.) A great start though. ### 3/5 — Good Effects, but App not Stable *2018-07-13* The app provides a lot of capabilities to adjust the bokeh, contrast, etc. but it quits repeatedly. I get thru 2 photos before this happens. Developer responded suggesting reboot of phone (done) turn off iCloud library (tried). Still quits unexpectedly, repeatedly, no matter the settings. iPhone X iOS 12.4.1 ### 4/5 — Love this app but would love more precision *2017-12-01* This is app is fantastic for taking portrait mode photos or editing ones taken with the native camera app, however, they are times that there are areas with no blur, for instance between fingers or through a hole in the object. Being able to manually paint in the mask to add a blur to these areas would be great. Other than that, great app. ### 3/5 — A bit simplistic *2017-11-23* Editing “portrait”photos is a great capability but the choice of controls and the amount of flexibility is limited. I hope it will get better with more abilities but for now, I’ll use another camera app with a richer set of features. ### 4/5 — Bien *2017-11-22, version 1.2* Funciona bien pero tiene errores de adaptación con el iPhone X. Además hay fotos importadas en las que lee mal el depth map ### 4/5 — Sweeet! *2017-10-14* Love it!! I wish that there was way to have more control over the shape. ### 3/5 — Anamorphic what? *2017-10-09* First version had lots going for it , then an updated version made this app a waste of time and money. You were on right track and went backwards. Why ? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Good ideas, but… *2025-11-17, version 3.6* Colossal image compression, for example from 30mp this app goes to 2,5mp. This is refund ### 1/5 — Used to work *2020-11-24* But now can’t open pic from library? Completely unusable. Have tried re-installing app too.. ### 1/5 — WAS a great App... *2020-09-16* But since they updated it it endlessly Crashes when trying to Upload an Image to edit OR Whilst trying to Save an Edited image. Annoying. ### 1/5 — So Bad!! *2020-07-04* What a waste of $6.99. The bokehs look so cheezsy and unprofessional!! Save your money. ### 1/5 — what happened *2020-06-04* did this camera app suddenly become a photo app? used to be able to capture no? now all it does is process your photos **Developer response:** We are sorry for the disappointment. Please contact us at support@brainfevermedia.com so we can help! ### 1/5 — Bring back previous style depth edit! *2020-04-05, version 3.0* Current version of “Depth Editing” is the way too complicated. Bring back the previous style editing! The previous version is much better and much easier. The depth data also the way worse than original Portrait mode in iPhone (particularly edge blending) prefer the previous version. ### 1/5 — No funciona en el iPhone 5 *2018-07-08, version 1.3* Se cierra nada más abrirla, si no, va fatal y al poco rato se bloquea. Podrían indicar que para el iPhone 5 no va. Solo dicen que para iOS debes tener al menos el 10 pero nada del mínimo de móvil... Dinero a la basura ### 1/5 — Bought it, can’t use it,Crash, Crash, Crash... *2018-05-09, version 1.3* Please fix this app, I will change my review if so. ### 1/5 — FAKE *2017-10-06, version 1.1* I'm using iPhone 7 Plus (with Dual Camera). And there is no option Depth Map, like ur screenshot app. Why ??? ### 1/5 — La aplicación casca *2017-09-30, version 1.1* Pues eso es abrirla y casca 3,50€ tirados ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Anamorph Senior *2024-08-15* Mit nunmehr 80 Jahren gehöre ich zum alten Eisen. Dennoch bin ich begeistert von der App, welche für mich als Fotoamateur viele Möglichkeiten verbirgt! Sehr gute App, danke. H.M., Stuttgart, Germany ### 5/5 — Is there video editing? *2022-07-14* App works perfectly fine. A few bugs but really good overall. But I’m curious to see if there’s a way to edit videos in this app as well. Would be greatly appreciated if so. ### 5/5 — Superb app *2020-06-08* I love this app it’s my go to, to add that slight a cinematic feel to my photos.Well done. ### 5/5 — What Happened?? *2020-03-28* Absolutely loved this App. Just opened it and there’s a complete restructure and it’s hideous. No where near the same level of intuitive-ness. And the picture that you’re editing is now half the size!!?? Detail is lost. Controls are clunky. I’m so disappointed. ### 5/5 — Look no further. *2018-07-30* My most used app...period. ### 5/5 — Fantastic app! *2018-02-11* Works great, easy to understand and makes gorgeous photos. Highly recommended! ### 5/5 — The Airbrusher *2018-01-30* The more you play around with this the better it gets.... ### 5/5 — Realistic *2017-12-28* The look it produces is beautiful. Nicely done! It would be even better if I could focus on a object in the middle so that it creates bokeh on both foreground and background. ### 5/5 — Muy buena *2017-11-22, version 1.2* Consigue unos desenfoques realmente buenos! La recomiendo como fotógrafo ### 5/5 — Nice App *2017-11-18* Like Lytro Desktop, but more promising. Would be nice to have a color picker to paint from and a histogram with sliders to normalize depth maps, but that’s about it. Invert button is a great idea. Refocusing by tapping would be amazing, worth a future IAP. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-23.*