# FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur — user reviews > 311 indexed App Store user reviews of FabFocus by Ghostwheel, rated 4.70/5 from 5,997 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fabfocus-portrait-mode-blur/id1080434313/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fabfocus-portrait-mode-blur/id1080434313.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,968 · 4★ 667 · 3★ 183 · 2★ 77 · 1★ 102 ## What do users think of FabFocus? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Awesome app, superb bokeh effects! - 👍 Using since its release - 👍 Great little tool - 👍 Surprisingly awesome - 👍 Amazing! - 👍 Better then them all - 👍 Fab App - 👍 So far so good! - 👍 Искусственный интеллект! - 👍 Очень хорошо - 👍 Wunderschön - 👍 Ottima app - 👍 Simpel und effektiv - 👍 Excellent app - 👍 Awesome - 👍 BOKEH Baby **Cons** - 🐛 Deleted it after five minutes - 🐛 Don't waste your money - 🐛 What happened?? - 🐛 Inconsistency - 🐛 Blurs everything - 🐛 What happened?! - 🐛 App Doesn't Work, Junk - 🐛 This last update made the app significantly harder to use - 🐛 Must share feature sucks - 🐛 Работает плохо,как скачал сразу зависла,границы лица определяет очень плохо! Пробовал вручную обводить,реагирует плохо!крайне не доволен покупкой! - 🐛 Absolument pas bon - 🐛 Not work anymore - 🐛 Not impressed - 🐛 Некачественное приложение - 🐛 Not accurate - 🐛 Having problems using it. - 🐛 Rubbish - 🐛 No longer Supported - 🐛 Very awkward to use - 🐛 Auto detection is terrible - 🐛 Does a terrible job - 🐛 Poor - 🐛 Worst app - 🐛 Не стоит - 🐛 Poca cosa - 🐛 Leider nicht so toll - 🐛 Ok but a bit handmade - 🐛 Waste of money - 🐛 Мда уж... - 🐛 Limited Functions & Not a High Quality Look **Commonly reported bugs** - The app selected her face but was unable to accurately select her hair - Couldn't save the edited photos - Doesn't recognize animal faces - Crashes - Incompatible with older devices **Most requested features** - Old Version Please - Newest changes - Zoom feature - Zoom - Black and white addition - Live view for the effects - Dark mode option - Advanced analytics dashboard ## Newest reviews (10 of 311) ### 2/5 — Inconsistency *2020-07-17, version 2.0.1* I’m afraid that I’m not happy with this app. In the pictures that I’ve try to blur the background, it blurred most of the background but left spots that were not blurred. There were also pictures that it made people’s hair look funky. ### 3/5 — Newest changes *2020-05-06, version 2.0.1* I preferred the app before, when you could adjust the level of blurriness for the background, and you could discard changes easily. Now I have two pictures that I cannot change back to original:(. ### 2/5 — Must share feature sucks *2020-01-17, version 1.1.3* The tool itself is crude but workable. The must share (or it deletes itself) feature is shameless promotion and sucks. ### 1/5 — Боке *2019-09-23* Работает плохо,как скачал сразу зависла,границы лица определяет очень плохо! Пробовал вручную обводить,реагирует плохо!крайне не доволен покупкой! ### 1/5 — Absolument pas bon *2019-09-04* Si on pouvait l’essayer avant l’achat cette application n’existerait plus ! Effet difficilement modifiable et filtre non naturel. Je déconseille vivement ### 3/5 — Not work anymore *2019-09-02* I paid for it but doesnot work anymore Is there any way we can refund ? ### 1/5 — scam *2019-08-22, version 1.1.3* app charges you $3.99 weekly. do not download ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your money *2019-08-18, version 1.1.3* This is actual trash and it’s so bad don’t even waste your money ### 1/5 — Recommended for iPhone 7 by article *2019-08-16, version 1.1.3* Does not work or iphone 7. Apple must be a good revenue stream for apps that only work with certain iPhones—and for cables that don’t work for new MacBook pros. I know the super rich have fabulous bunkers in New Zealand. Could not one bad thing happen to them? Like painful boils with no medicine to treat? ### 5/5 — Love the app *2019-07-14, version 1.1.3* I’m just wondering why it says photo & video when you can’t access your videos or shoot a video 🤔 I tried to ask for support but it took me to an unrelated link? 😮 I see that it’s just shown in the category. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Deleted it after five minutes *2021-12-28, version 2.0.1* I just wanted to use it for one photo that had a beautiful image of my daughter, but the background needed to be blurred out. The app selected her face but was unable to accurately select her hair. I tried to modify the selection with the tools provided but could not come close to getting an acceptable result. Four bucks wasted. ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your money *2021-02-07, version 2.0.1* Mentioned it’ll detect faces and blur backgrounds but I clearly don’t have a face to detect as it blurred half of my face and not the background!! worst 3.99 spent, deleted in about 30 seconds ### 1/5 — What happened?? *2020-11-05, version 2.0.1* After the last update I have NO idea how to make the background blur happen. There are no instructions and they changed the process. Good god. I can’t do anything. I shouldn’t have to hurt myself figuring it out. Why didn’t you leave the app alone!! ### 1/5 — Used to work before update. *2020-06-15, version 2.0.1* I used to love this app. Then it received an update, and now it’s so buggy I literally cannot use it. ### 1/5 — Great app for those who don’t have “portrait mode” *2020-04-13, version 2.0.1* Update: I don’t know what they did with this most recent update, but the app is no longer worth it. The blurring is harsh and the feathering option is gone. Such a shame - it was a great app. I was really upset when I found out that the iPhone 8 not had portrait mode in the Plus version as I find the Plus phones too large. Then I discovered this app which is just as good, and no longer makes me want to chuck my phone out the window! And while it’s tru what other reviewers have said (that the AI isn’t as good as recognizing bodies or non-human faces), I found the outline function to be super easy and quick to use so this apparent deficiency doesn’t really bother me. ### 1/5 — Blurs everything *2020-04-08, version 2.0.1* This app randomly blurs thing in the photo ( like half of a persons head). Then when you try to fix it manually ( which is a pain ) it doesn’t save your work...so you have to start all over. Can’t believe I payed for this app! ### 1/5 — What happened?! *2020-04-03, version 2.0.1* The newest update has made the app almost unusable. The blur effect has such a crisp definition against the rest of the photo that it looks ridiculous. I used to LOVE this app, hopefully they revert back or update again with a user experience closer to what it used to be. ### 1/5 — Recent update ruined the app *2020-03-04, version 2.0.1* Far less control over the cursor, bokeh effects are too extreme... what happened here??? ### 1/5 — App Doesn’t Work, Junk *2020-03-04, version 2.0.1* Take a photo inside the app and nothing happens. Press Auto and nothing happens. After this latest update in March, the app is trash. Avoid it. ### 1/5 — This last update made the app significantly harder to use *2020-03-01, version 2.0* This last update made the app significantly harder to use by removing the cursor circle and the app went from being great to very terrible. The purple highlight is much harder to see than the bright green highlight. I wish I could downgrade. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — BOKEH *2024-03-31, version 2.0.1* …awesome app, superb bokeh effects! ### 5/5 — Using since its release *2020-10-02* Fab Focus has just amazingly improved over the years. In 2016, it set a benchmark by providing bokeh effect to non-dual camera iphone esp. iphone 6s plus. It was phenomenal in those days. And now it has again set a benchmark by allowing users to capture Google Pixel style portrait bokeh i.e. amazing sharpness n detail. It just burns the native iphone camera app and other apps like Pro-Cam, ProCamera, Halide, PS Camera etc. in terms of portraits. Now on my iphone Xs Max, XR and iPad Pro 3rd gen , it works like charm. Thank you developers 😊😊 ### 5/5 — Old Version Please *2020-05-18, version 2.0.1* Is there any way to get the older version back? I really liked it a lot better than this upgrade. ### 5/5 — Great little tool *2020-01-14, version 1.1.3* Have used it for several months and find it to be on of a few really useful little tools. Does just one thing, and does it very well. ### 5/5 — Love it *2019-12-15, version 1.1.3* Love this app. I have enjoyed using the portrait style with my older iPhone. ### 5/5 — GREAT *2019-12-01, version 1.1.3* I love this app it helps edit so many photos without using portrait mode!!❤️❤️ I love it and so will you!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻😀😃😁😆 ### 5/5 — Ótimo produto *2019-10-29* Meu App preferido para desfocar, porém deveriam melhorar o layout visualmente falando ### 5/5 — Très bonne application *2019-10-25* Super ### 5/5 — Best manual focus app for iOS *2019-09-29* I’m a pro photographer with 30 years experience.. outside using Photoshop on a Mac or PC this was the best I could find.. well done to the developers 👏 ### 5/5 — It works so well *2019-09-01, version 1.1.3* I am so surprised it works so well --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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