Pics Lab vs Illusory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pics Lab
Enhance your photos with a wide array of tools. Add text, artwork, filters, and effects. Access a growing library of shapes, textures, and borders to create unique images for social sharing.
- Add typography and artwork
- Apply filters and photo effects
- Incorporate shapes, light FX, and textures
- Add borders and patterns
- Share to social networks
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This is a one stop app for all your image editing. It can do wonders especially when you want to add beautiful typography & artwork, apply stunning filters and photo effects, and add an ever-growing collection of shapes, light FX, textures, borders, patterns, and more to your photos and share them to your favorite social networks!
Illusory
Transform your photos into stunning masterpieces with a wide array of professional editing tools, filters, and effects. Effortlessly enhance images for social media or professional portfolios, making ordinary snapshots extraordinary art.
- Professional editing tools (Exposure, Contrast, Saturation)
- Advanced color correction
- Blurring tools (radial, linear, Gaussian, motion)
- Noise reduction and sharpening
- Diverse filters and effects (Duotone, Color fog, B&W)
- Cropping and composition guidelines
- Customizable frames with shadow effects
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Elevate Your Photo Game to Masterpiece Status! Dive into a world where your photos become breathtaking masterpieces in mere moments. Our app's intuitive design ensures you effortlessly bring your vision to life, no matter your skill level. Unlock a treasure trove of mesmerizing filters, dynamic effects, and powerful editing tools to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Whether you're curating an enviable social media feed or assembling a portfolio that screams professionalism, we've got you covered. Experience the magic of turning your snapshots into pro-level art. Download today and redefine your photo editing journey! PROFESSIONAL EDITING TOOLS - Professional tools for full control over image editing: Exposure, Contrast, Saturation, Vibrance, Tint, and much more. - Advanced color correction tools as Tone curves, Color Matrix, Color Controls, White Balance, Temperature, Gamma. APPLY BLUR - Powerful blurring tools allow adding radial and linear blur, Gaussian and motion blur, as well as placing a blur mask on your photo. REMOVE NOISE - Reduces noise using a threshold value to define what is considered noise. - Increases image detail by sharpening. EFFECTS - Ready to use presets for your selfies, food, and travel photos. - Turn your photo into stylish media content with amazing Duotone filters. - Add some mystery with Color fog effects. - Add dramatic effects with a preset of Black and White filters. - Want to make your photo as an old film frame? Use Film and Sepia Effects. - Pixelate, Stripes, Thermal, XRay, and various Distortion and Halftones filters to make something unique. - Large set of amazing light leaks, shadows and bokeh overlay. TRANSFORM Crop with the aspect ratio that best works for your photo. Apply special guidelines, like "rule of thirds", to the process of composing. FRAMES Various frames with different colors of frame and shadows, including 7 different shadow types. Privacy Policy: https://illusory.app/about/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://illusory.app/about/terms-of-use/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Illusory at 4.6 against Pics Lab's 3.0. Illusory also leads on ratings volume (22 vs 2). Pics Lab's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Illusory holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Illusory has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Pics Lab | Illusory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramalingam Sivaramakrishnan | Yevhenii Zozulia |
Customer experience
Pics Lab
Illusory
In-app purchases
Pics Lab
No in-app purchases
Illusory
No in-app purchases
