# Fore Photo — Smart portrait editor

> AI-powered portrait editor for adding artistic depth and background blur. (iPhone/iPad app by Henry Lee.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fore-photo/id1143698388 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Henry Lee](https://appshunter.io/developer/1019294106)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.60/5 from 172 App Store ratings · 255 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 38 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2016-10-16
- Data updated: 2026-06-11
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fore-photo/id1143698388/reviews.md

## What is Fore Photo?

Fore is a smart portrait editing app. With Fore, you can add an artistic depth effect to your portraits. Fore uses a neural network to automatically blur the background of your photos, an effect similar to that from an expensive professional camera and lens.

Features:
• Automatically adds depth effects ('bokeh') to your photos.
• Tools to fix up the results when Fore doesn't get things quite right. It tries to be smart, but sometimes it needs a bit of help.
• Multiple blur settings to make sure every photo looks just right.

## Key features

- Automatic depth effect ('bokeh')
- AI background blur
- Manual adjustment tools
- Multiple blur settings

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remove Watermark | $1.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Fore Photo?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- ✨ Excellent automatic bokeh/depth effect detection
- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- 💰 Free to use with optional watermark removal
- 🎯 Produces professional-looking portrait effects
- ⚡ Fast processing of images
- 🖼️ Works on phones without dual cameras

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes
- ❌ Editing tools don't save changes properly
- 🎨 Manual editing brush/eraser too large and imprecise
- 📱 Incompatible with iOS 13 and newer versions
- 🔧 Fine-tuning features broken or non-functional
- 💧 Produces blotchy, patchy results with halos
- 🚫 Inaccurate foreground/background detection
- 📧 Unresponsive developer support
- 💳 Misleading watermark removal pricing
- ⚠️ Zoom function causes editing misalignment

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes during editing on various iOS versions
- Edits don't persist after clicking Done
- Zoom function resets or causes misalignment
- Brush and eraser tools malfunction
- Automatic detection fails on newer iPhone models
- Watermark removal purchase doesn't work
- Photo compression reduces quality significantly
- Incompatibility with iOS 13+
- Manual selection mode doesn't work properly
- App crashes when switching between tools

**Most requested features**

- Undo/redo functionality for brush edits
- Adjustable blur strength slider
- Ability to zoom in further for precise editing
- Smaller, more precise brush and eraser tools
- Built-in camera with portrait mode
- Preserve photo metadata and location info
- Grid overlay for pixel-perfect alignment
- Cursor for editing instead of finger-based selection
- Batch processing for multiple photos
- Adjustable feathering and edge detection

## Recent user reviews (10 of 255)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fore-photo/id1143698388/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Trash

*2022-12-06, version 1.5*

It automatically does it, then allows you to “paint” afterward which is pointless. Looks terrible

### 1/5 — Worst App

*2022-09-20, version 1.5*

I can not pick the zone to focus

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2022-05-18, version 1.5*

Doesn’t work! Useless!

### 2/5 — Used to be great

*2022-05-09, version 1.5*

But lately it won’t save any of the blur and keeps overwriting changes.

### 1/5 — Not the useful app it once was.

*2022-01-06, version 1.5*

This app used to work like a dream. Doesn’t look like there’s been any updates in four years and it shows. Fine-tuning is nonexistent. Whatever you first get is what you’re pretty much stuck with. Hopefully the developer will get around to fixing this someday.

### 2/5 — Hi

*2021-12-30, version 1.5*

I want to delete this am I am panicking what should I do

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2021-07-16, version 1.5*

The app doesn’t accurately make the background blurry. It mistakes part of the foreground for the background and part of the background for the foreground, but when I try to use the brush feature to adjust it never fixes it.

### 2/5 — Fallas

*2021-02-27, version 1.5*

En esta última versión tiene muchos errores, no se puede modificar en modo manual, la aplicación prácticamente hace lo que quiere. No se puede seleccionar y mantenerlo. Antes funcionaba bien.

### 1/5 — Péssimo

*2020-12-08, version 1.5*

Quando Salva a foto, fica tudo desfocado

### 5/5 — Pets

*2020-11-28, version 1.5*

It’s not as if the world needs another depth effect camera app.
But this is a good one.
You know what the world DOES need?
A camera app with a shutter sound that sounds like a cat. Or a squeaky toy. Or a dog barking.
Something to alert pets that the lens is over here, and I need your attention.
So many AI apps try to find the human face in the field of view, but animals are basically invisible.
You’ve built a great app. Now use that as a platform for an app. One that serious pet photographers would use, but that pet owners would enjoy!

## Frequently asked questions about Fore Photo

### What does Fore Photo do?

Fore Photo is a smart portrait editing app that uses a neural network to automatically add an artistic depth effect, also known as 'bokeh', to your portraits. It intelligently blurs the background of your photos to make your subject stand out, similar to the effect achieved with professional camera equipment.

### What are the key features of Fore Photo?

The app's main feature is its ability to automatically add depth effects and blur backgrounds to photos. It also includes tools to manually fix or refine the results when the AI needs a little help, and offers multiple blur settings to customize the look of each photo.

### Is Fore Photo free to use?

The application is free to download and use. However, it does offer in-app purchases, suggesting that some advanced features or additional options may require a purchase.

### What kind of photos is Fore Photo best for?

This app is specifically designed for editing portraits. It excels at creating a professional look by isolating the subject and applying a pleasing background blur, making your portraits more visually striking and artistic.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5 — 2018-01-02

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

• iPhone X support!
• Completely redesigned & retrained neural network for foreground/background computation. Should be far more accurate.
• Moved from Caffe to CoreML. The app now runs faster, but new versions are limited to iOS 11.

I'm working on a complete app redesign that expands the bokeh features and takes advantage of depth maps from dual-lens iPhones. Stay tuned throughout 2018!

### 1.3 — 2016-12-02

• Minor updates to the neural network. You may notice slightly better accuracy.
• Pricing for the watermark removal purchase is now shown, without having to initiate a purchase.

### 1.2 — 2016-11-01

Big quality improvements: 

• Patch outputs images at full-resolution now. (Previously was limited to 1080 pixels on the long side).
• Improved the overall quality of the blur.
• Edge quality improvements. The edge between sharp & blurry should look much better.
• Brush size changes: the largest brush is now much larger, and the smallest brush is smaller.


If you enjoy the app, please consider leaving a review!

### 1.0.1 — 2016-10-27

Some important improvements to the blur quality in this update:

• Fixed the 'glow' problem around in-focus objects. Edges should look more natural now.
• Improved the overall quality of the blur.
• Decreased the blur amount at all settings. The biggest setting was too blurry. 

If you enjoy the app, please consider leaving a review!

### 1.0 — 2016-10-16

No release notes.

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All apps by Henry Lee: https://appshunter.io/developer/1019294106

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