Comparison

Selective Color Photo Effect vs Atavistic

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

Head to head
About

Selective Color Photo Effect

Transform your photos by selectively adding color to black and white images. This app allows high-resolution editing with precise brush controls, offering a fast and smooth real-time experience. Create unique artistic wallpapers and save your masterpieces without watermarks.

Highlights
  • High-resolution editing
  • Selective color highlighting
  • Soft and hard brushes
  • Offset brush control
  • Image rotation
  • Undo functionality
  • Wallpaper creation
Features
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You will enjoy editing at high resolution, unlike other apps that force you to work with fuzzy images. Edit in high resolution, save in high resolution. Quickly create dramatic arty results by highlighting parts of an image in color while leaving the rest of the picture in Black & White. Selective Color offers superior editing - fast and smooth in real time with offset control, soft and hard brushes, including Grayscale & Sepia. Create your own arty wallpaper using your photos. Simply choose the Wallpaper size when cropping! Our users are loving the app, check out this review: Just downloaded this great app!!! It does what it says and in the description and I like being able to zoom in much further than other apps allow to achieve perfect color splashes nice job!!!! Oh yea saving in hi Rez is free with no watermarks !!! ***** Features ========= √ Soft & Hard Brushes √ Offset Brush option with adjustment so your finger won't get in the way √ Edit in High Resolution - enhanced zoom in feature offers excellent precision √ Rotate image - ultimate control of image makes it so easy without having to rotate device √ Undo feature! √ Save to Camera Roll in Low or High Resolution √ Wallpaper option √ Instructions available in help So, what are you waiting for? Download now and get coloring:) Selective Color Premium (Optional Subscription) ================================ Unlock all premium color effects and remove all ads with a Selective Color Premium subscription. Two auto-renewing options are available: √ Yearly — billed once per year, with a free trial for eligible new subscribers √ Weekly — billed once per week Current pricing in your local currency is always shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase (or at the end of the free trial, if offered). The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://cushwayapps.com/app-privacy/selectivecolor/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://cushwayapps.com/app-privacy/selectivecolor/privacy.html

About

Atavistic

This app lets you visualize ancient ruins as they once were, superimposed onto your contemporary photos. Capture selfies with historical monuments in their full glory, offering a unique way to experience and share cultural heritage.

Highlights
  • Visualize ancient ruins in photos
  • Augmented reality monument reconstruction
  • Selfie integration with historical sites
  • Explore Rome's archaeological areas
  • Share enhanced cultural heritage photos
Features
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Atavistic: the past has never been so present! Atavistic: a new concept of doing, living and sharing tourism in order to file a worldwide exposure to the most beautiful city in the world, Rome, the muse inspiring “The Great Beauty”. Let’s rock the concept of touristic snapshot in the most important archaelogical area in the world. Atavistic gives you the chance to take a picture of any monument which is now reduced to sta status of an ancient ruin, and see it coming back to it’s ancient greatness in the tourist’s picture, even through a selfie. In other words, Atavistic allows you to take a shot of a selfie ad admire yourself standing in front of the monument (today a ruin), reconstructed in it’s original beauty. Atavistic is innovation: it’s doing something known in a brand new way. Atavistic is esteem of our cultural heritage, enhancing it’s knowledge and making it immediately available to everyone. With a simple click you can take pictures of the monuments nowadays reduced to the status of ancient ruins from 60 differents point of snap, in the archaeological area of Colosseum and Palatinum, and you can see them coming back to life in all their original beauty, as they were in the imperial era. The difference is that the reconstructed monument is now inserted in our contemporary background, even with people in the picture itself. Nothing’s gonna be the same, and the past won’t have never been so present!

Screenshots

Selective Color Photo Effect4 screens
Atavistic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Atavistic at none against Selective Color Photo Effect's shown. Atavistic also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). Selective Color Photo Effect's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 16 months) and review sentiment (85% vs 71%). 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. Selective Color Photo Effect sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Atavistic sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Selective Color Photo Effect ships an update every 5 months, Atavistic every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Selective Color Photo Effect versus Atavistic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelective Color Photo EffectAtavistic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (701 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.4% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings701 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 16 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlan CushwayAtavistic

Customer experience

Selective Color Photo Effect

All ratings692 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews151 reviews
Positive85.4%
Neutral4.6%
Negative9.9%

Atavistic

Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

Selective Color Photo Effect

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Saves images in low resolution
  • Unclear how to apply color

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to save progress when switching photos
  • Option to increase saved image size

Atavistic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Selective Color Photo Effect

Subscriptions2
  • Selective Color Premium Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Selective Color Premium Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
10 purchases

Atavistic

One-time10
  • Tempio di Venere e Roma$0.99
  • Basilica Emilia$0.99
  • Basilica Iulia$0.99
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  • Basilica di Massenzio$0.99
  • Basilica Ulpia$0.99
  • Circo Massimo$0.99
  • Tempio di Vespasiano e Tito$0.99
  • Tempio di Vesta$0.99
  • Anfiteatro Flavio (Colosseo)$1.99
  • Tutti i monumenti$6.99

Questions

Is Selective Color Photo Effect free?
Selective Color Photo Effect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Atavistic free?
Atavistic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Selective Color Photo Effect or Atavistic have ads?
Selective Color Photo Effect shows ads; Atavistic does not.
Which is updated more often, Selective Color Photo Effect or Atavistic?
Selective Color Photo Effect ships an update every 5 months, and Atavistic every 16 months. Most recently, Selective Color Photo Effect was updated on November 6, 2026 and Atavistic on November 2, 2026.

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