# Blear — user reviews

> 30 indexed App Store user reviews of Blear by Sindre Sorhus, rated 4.80/5 from 77 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blear/id994182280/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blear/id994182280.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 69 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1

## Newest reviews (12 of 30)

### 5/5 — App

*2022-04-17, version 2.1.2*

Amo esta aplicación es muy buena la recomiendo 100%

### 5/5 — Simple. Creative

*2022-04-14*

Gets the job done.

### 5/5 — Blessing

*2022-04-11*

This app is a blessing who love to keep their iphone as minimal as possible. Great.

### 5/5 — Simple but Good

*2022-04-09, version 2.1.2*

I like the simplicity of this app. It's easy to use and you can pick from your photo album. Keep it up dev team 👏

### 5/5 — Very simple, nice idea

*2022-04-08*

It's a good addition to be able to blur your own pictures for wallpapers, think it'd be better if the slide starts from no blur to very blurry, cuz the blur when the slide is minimized it's a little too blurry for me.

### 5/5 — Best blur app ever. No ads. Thank you man.

*2022-02-06*

Best blur app ever. No ads. Thank you man.

### 5/5 — Love it

*2021-09-17*

I use it all the time for blurry backgrounds. Even for promo material for my own apps.

### 5/5 — Awesome.

*2021-04-26*

This app is amazing!

### 5/5 — Share extension makes all the difference!

*2020-11-03*

The developer just added a share extension, which makes it so much easier and faster to go from Photos to finished wallpaper. Very nice!

### 5/5 — Excellent app

*2020-04-24*

This app is very easy to use. I just put an image in and blur it. Very beautiful.

### 5/5 — This is a great app

*2020-03-14*

Take a photo and make a blurry image that you can use as a wallpaper. It’s really easy and works!

### 5/5 — Great utility!

*2020-03-09*

Thanks for the recommendation, Federico! 😉

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Hmm.

*2017-04-02, version 1.1.0*

It can make my photos blurry but it crops them into a square. How the heck can I use that as wallpaper? 🙄

### 2/5 — iOS 16.5 works

*2025-10-17*

No reason to require 18.2. For any app where core functionality doesn’t require new api’s, for that matter. Devs need to stop and realize a jailbroken iPhone will always be superior to anything apple will give us in an update. Case in point: I was able to download this app

### 2/5 — Limited Images

*2021-12-29*

The library of images it pulls from is small so you see the same ones over and over.

**Developer response:** The point is to use your own images. The bundled ones are just provided to let you try it out. But sure, be a troll. Users like you are why I don’t want to make free apps anymore.

### 3/5 — Does a nice job, but....

*2016-02-27*

The does a nice job of blurring images, and the slider is very flexible at setting the amount of blur, the only problem is the app saves the image at a reduced resolution of 3.1mp (2048x1536).  The should really save the image at the original resolution, or at least provide options for output resolution.  3.1 mp my be)K for use as screen wallpaper, but is less than desirable for other photo image compositing applications, using the resultant image as a background in a high resolution collage of images.   The low res output can easily be resized, but that is a an extra step, crating an extra image, etc., that frankly should be unnecessary.

**Developer response:** The app description makes it perfectly clear that the app's purpose is to make wallpapers for your phone. I don't think it's fair to rate it badly just because it doesn't work for something it didn't promise it would do.

### 4/5 — Landscape for iPad missing. Otherwise 5stars! :)

*2025-12-31*

I found the app yesterday and installed it directly on my iPhone. Great app. As simple, as great. I love simplicity. 

Just downloaded it on iPad. Would be great if you can add landscape mode. 

Thanks!

### 4/5 — Good simple app

*2025-02-27*

Does what it says. I only knocked off a star because I’d love Shortcuts actions.

**Developer response:** That's not the way to get what you want ;)

### 4/5 — Para quem gosta de fotos Blur

*2022-09-21*

Para quem gosta de fotos Blur como papel de parede poder ser uma opção. O app não apresenta muitas funções.

**Developer response:** No tener muchas funciones es intencional.  Hace exactamente lo que necesita también sin ningún desorden innecesario.

### 4/5 — Minimalist will love this one

*2022-04-12*

Simple functional UI, straight forward app.

### 5/5 — Leads Aesthetic highlights

*2026-04-24*

simple and way too effective for those backgrounds

### 5/5 — Einfache App mit einer tollen Wirkung

*2025-02-18*

Die App ist klein und konzentriert sich auf eine einzige Funktion – aber die hat es in sich! 😊 Stell dir vor, du möchtest in WhatsApp einen schönen Hintergrund, doch störende Details lenken ab. Mit dieser App kannst du dein Bild in Sekundenschnelle verwischen – und das Ergebnis sieht einfach großartig aus! 🎨✨

## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Best app

*2024-02-15*

I love this app， Thanks Sindre

### 5/5 — Best blur wallpaer app i have used so far!

*2023-10-17*

Very simple yet powerful app to produce wonderful blurred wallpapers. I hope it will bring a lot better possibilities with a dark/light layer base blue instead of always a light overlay.

### 5/5 — Quick and simple!

*2023-10-09*

Very quick, very easy to use. I do wish the slider started at 0% because some pictures I want just a little blurred, but for creating very colorful blended pictures it’s awesome.

### 5/5 — Blear

*2022-10-05*

Free and fun 🤩 👍👍🤷🏼‍♂️

### 5/5 — Thanks for making this!

*2022-05-05*

So easy to use and no annoying ads or banners. I like that you can adjust the level of blur.

### 5/5 — Couldn’t ask for anything better

*2022-05-04*

As far as a decent phot blurring style of wallpaper system app, this is by far the best one I’ve come across - and it’s 100% free. Big fan of the developer - he’s very talented and puts his heart and soul in his work. I’ve only used Bleaur a few times but it gets the job done hands down no arguments or complaining.

### 5/5 — So beautiful

*2022-04-29, version 2.1.2*

Full fills me ❤️

### 5/5 — 好用

*2022-04-24*

好软件

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*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 2026-09-04.*