Picture Editor vs Filter Editor use Effects Tool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Picture Editor
Enhance and transform your images with a comprehensive suite of editing tools and effects. Easily import photos, apply filters, adjust colors, crop, rotate, and add creative elements like stickers and text. Perfect for sharing your edited masterpieces on social media.
- Extensive editing tools and effects
- Import photos from Camera Roll
- Apply gorgeous photo effects and frames
- Adjust brightness, saturation, and contrast
- Crop, rotate, and straighten images
- Add stickers, text, and create memes
- Sharpen, blur, fix redeye, remove blemishes
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Features: • Picture Editor express yourself with many editing tools and effects you want edit on your photos in this totally app. • Picture Editor Easily import photos from Camera Roll. • Picture Editor Enhance any photo with gorgeous photo effects and frames • Picture Editor Adjust Brightness, Saturation and Contrast. • Picture Editor Crop, rotate, and straighten your photos • Picture Editor Draw,add fun stickers, add text, create your own memes • Picture Editor Sharpen and blur, fix redeye, remove blemishes and whiten teeth • Picture Editor Share photo to Facebook,Twitter,Message,Email....
Filter Editor use Effects Tool
Enhance your photos with a variety of editing tools. Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and more to create unique and fun images. Save and share your masterpieces with ease.
- Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation
- Apply color temperature and shadows
- Add text to photos
- Choose photos from camera or albums
- Instant filter effect preview
- Save and share edited photos
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This app allows you to change your photos with Filter Editor: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, ColorTemp, HightLight, Shadow, Color, Text on the boring photos and make them more beautiful & funny. Features such as: • Choose the photo from the camera or your albums. • Editing your photos by yourself with the filters. • Click the different filter button and set it up to the appropriate value. • Instant preview filter effect of the photos. • Remove the previous settings of the filters. • Save and share the edited photos. So much fun to play with your ordinary photos and what you need to do is to use your fingers. Enjoy it now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Picture Editor at every 5 weeks against Filter Editor use Effects Tool's every 9 months. Picture Editor also leads on ratings volume (280 vs 13) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Filter Editor use Effects Tool's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4). 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. Picture Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Filter Editor use Effects Tool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Filter Editor use Effects Tool holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Picture Editor has 280 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Picture Editor ships an update every 5 weeks, Filter Editor use Effects Tool every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Picture Editor | Filter Editor use Effects Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (280 ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 280 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 国文 李 | 惠满 贺 |
Customer experience
Picture Editor
Filter Editor use Effects Tool
Bugs and requests
Picture Editor
Reported bugs
4 issues- Ads won't let user X out
- Ads cause app restart
- App loads sideways
- Cannot change text color or move text
Requested features
2 requests- More emoticons and stickers
- Option to delete ads after 20 seconds
Filter Editor use Effects Tool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Picture Editor
- Remove Ads$1.99
Filter Editor use Effects Tool
- Remove Ads$1.99
Questions
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