Face Story Pro vs ShadowLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Face Story Pro
Transform your photos and videos by morphing faces with ease. Create fun slideshows and "growing up" movies, turning yourself into celebrities or friends into animals. Share your unique face stories instantly on social media.
- Automatic face detection
- Intelligent face feature extraction
- Easy face morphing
- Real-time preview
- Shareable face story videos
- Create growing up movies
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Turn yourself into Kelly Brook, your best friend into a dog, and make your growing up movie from a baby. Get and tell your face story NOW! - Automatic detect human face. - Intelligent face feature extraction. - Morph between faces with ease. - Share face story video on facebook, instagram, vine and more. - Preview and play final effects in real time.
ShadowLens
Capture high-quality photos and 4K videos instantly with this fast camera app. Easily adjust exposure, flip the camera, and record with simple gestures. Optimized for social media, it allows direct export without quality loss.
- Instant 4K video capture
- High-resolution photo shooting
- Adjustable exposure control
- One-button operation
- Direct social media export
- Gesture-based controls
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ShadowLens is the fastest high quality Camera app so you'll never miss a moment again! Instantly capture 4k videos in either 30, 50 or 60 FPS, or shoot up to 5k photos already perfectly exposed with the press of a single button. Drag up to adjust exposure, double tap to flip the camera, and hold to record - it's all about speed! Optimized for social media apps such as Instagram, TikTok or YouTube shorts, ShadowLens videos and photos can be directly exported without quality loss.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ShadowLens at Free against Face Story Pro's $3.99. ShadowLens also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.8). Face Story Pro's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
ShadowLens is free to download; Face Story Pro costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ShadowLens holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 27 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Face Story Pro's written reviews are positive against 60% of ShadowLens's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Face Story Pro ships an update every 3 months, ShadowLens every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Face Story Pro | ShadowLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (37 ratings) | 4.4 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丽譞 牛 | Marc Rousavy |
Customer experience
Face Story Pro
ShadowLens
Bugs and requests
Face Story Pro
Reported bugs
7 issues- Cannot import photos from camera roll or photo library
- App crashes when accessing photo folders
- Face detection hangs and freezes during processing
- App incompatible with iOS 11.2.5 and older iPhone models
- Incorrect billing - charging for free version
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- Face detection fails on non-frontal facing photos
- Poor performance with multiple faces in single image
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to import photos from iCloud photo share
- Reorder photos within a project without deleting
- Support for horizontal/landscape orientation
- Select individual faces when multiple faces present in one photo
- Batch photo selection from albums
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- Remove mandatory review requirement before feature access
ShadowLens
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Face Story Pro
No in-app purchases
ShadowLens
No in-app purchases
