Comparison

Studio Lighting PRO vs Focos

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Studio Lighting PRO

Enhance your photos with professional-grade lighting filters and editing tools. Easily adjust brightness, contrast, and blur to create stunning images in just a few taps. Share your creations instantly to social media or save them to your device.

Highlights
  • One-touch lighting filters
  • Adjustable opacity, brightness, and contrast
  • Blur and focus tools
  • Rotate, crop, and resize
  • Direct social media sharing
  • Save to photo library
Features
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*** Just like a professional photographer! *** Enjoy edit your photo with various lighting filters. No matter you are a professional or a novice, you can make AMAZING pictures in a few taps. You also can share photos on variable SNS service such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. How to use: 1. Take a shot or choose a picture from photo library 2. Apply filters. 3. Save or share! That's it! Features: - Easy-to-use 1-touch lighting filters - Adjust opacity - Adjust brightness - Adjust contrast - Blur and focus - Rotate, crop and resizing - Share to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook - Save to Photo Library - Send photo by mail No registration is required, and there are no limitations to use.

About

Focos

Transform your iPhone and iPad photos with DSLR-like bokeh and depth-of-field effects. This app uses computational photography to let you refocus, adjust aperture, and add multiple lights in 3D space, unlocking endless creative possibilities.

Highlights
  • AI-powered depth calculation
  • Adjustable aperture and bokeh effects
  • Refocus photos after capture
  • Add and control multiple 3D lights
  • Simulate lens characteristics
  • 3D depth map visualization
  • Augmented reality preview
Features
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Focos is a big step into the future of computational photography and light-field camera, bringing DSLR-like photography to your iPhone and iPad Pro, with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras. With the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos, focus after the fact, change the aperture repeatedly, and add multiple lights in 3D space, exceeding the limits of any editing tools you’ve known before. The creative potential unleashed by Focos is endless. The Verge, "Focos has long been one of the most ambitious photo-editing apps on iOS, turning any photo into a 'portrait mode'-style image with fully adjustable depth of field, no matter what kind of camera you took it with." MAIN FEATURES - Take photos with shallow depth of field, without manually painting or making selections. - The AI engine can calculate depth of field automatically for all photos. - True 3D imaging. - Simulate large apertures to create real bokeh effects normally only possible with DSLR cameras and expensive lenses. - Import all existing photos and customize the bokeh effect. - Re-focus portrait photos that have already been taken, with a simple tap. - Choose from various simulated aperture diaphragms to generate different bokeh spot effects. - Professional options to simulate lens characteristics, such as creamy, bilinear, swirly, and reflex effects, and more. - Visualize the depth of areas within your portrait photos in a 3D view, and intuitively add depth filters. - Add multiple lights in a 3D space, and adjust the color, brightness and so on for each light. - Check the portrait picture in the real world with augmented reality technique. - It is possible to patch the depth map precisely on iPad with Apple Pencil. - Intuitive and easy to use, with built-in video tutorials. - An essential tool for all iPhones and iPads. Do you have questions or suggestions? Contact us via support @ focos . me.

Screenshots

Studio Lighting PRO4 screens
Focos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Focos at 4.7 against Studio Lighting PRO's 2.3. Focos also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). Studio Lighting PRO's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 51%) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 14.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Studio Lighting PRO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Focos sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focos holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focos has 51K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Studio Lighting PRO's written reviews are positive against 51% of Focos's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Studio Lighting PRO ships an update every 4 months, Focos every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Studio Lighting PRO versus Focos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStudio Lighting PROFocos
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)4.7 (51K ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better50.5% of reviews
Number of ratings351K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB332 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQuantis,Inc.Mosaic S.r.l.

Customer experience

Studio Lighting PRO

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral66.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Focos

All ratings51,408 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews754 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative44.3%

Bugs and requests

Studio Lighting PRO

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Focos

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App freezes or crashes when editing certain photos
  • Depth adjustments not saving properly
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between editing modes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save edited photos with depth map
  • More precise brush tools for depth editing
  • Improved hair/fine detail handling
  • Faster processing and loading times
  • Easier organization and management of edited photos

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Studio Lighting PRO

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
9 purchases

Focos

Subscriptions7
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
Show 4 more
  • Weekly Subscription - Standard$3.997 Days
  • Standard Weekly - Free Trial7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle - FT7 Days trial2 variants$9.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle$9.997 Days
One-time2
  • Monthly subscription$1.99
  • Lifetime unlimited access$12.99

Questions

Is Studio Lighting PRO free?
Studio Lighting PRO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focos free?
Focos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Studio Lighting PRO or Focos?
Focos is rated higher. Studio Lighting PRO averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Focos averages 4.7 from 51K ratings.
Do Studio Lighting PRO or Focos have ads?
Studio Lighting PRO shows ads; Focos does not.
Which is updated more often, Studio Lighting PRO or Focos?
Studio Lighting PRO ships an update every 4 months, and Focos every 2 weeks. Most recently, Studio Lighting PRO was updated on October 11, 2026 and Focos on October 16, 2026.

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