Selective Color Photo Effect vs Silver Halide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- High-resolution editing
- Selective color highlighting
- Soft and hard brushes
- Offset brush control
- Image rotation
- Undo functionality
- Wallpaper creation
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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
Silver Halide
This app transforms a single exposure into a unique instant photograph. Manipulate digital chemicals by tilting your device, or introduce light flares and pressure effects during the thirty-second development process. Embrace destructive editing with no undo options for a truly one-of-a-kind artistic result.
- Single exposure instant photography
- 30-second digital chemical development
- Device tilting for chemical pooling
- Light flares and leaks
- Pressure bloom and trail effects
- Destructive editing with no undo
- Local processing, no ads or tracking
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More art than app. Silver Halide turns a single exposure into an unrepeatable instant photograph. Press the shutter, then wait exactly thirty seconds while the image forms. Your device becomes part of the darkroom. Tilt it to pool digital chemicals along the edges. Move gently to alter color and grain, or make a sharp motion to scar the print. Find bright light for unpredictable flares and leaks. Touch the developing image once to create a pressure bloom, or drag to leave a pressure trail. Stillness leaves its own mark. This is destructive editing. There is no undo, no clean original, and no way back. When development ends, write on the print if you like, then keep it in Photos or discard it forever. HOW TO RUIN IT BEAUTIFULLY Tilt: Angle your phone left, right, or upside down to make the digital chemicals pool along the edges. Move: Shifting the phone gently alters the color and grain, while a sharp jerk will scar the print. Find light: Exposing the camera to bright light during the development process causes unpredictable flares and leaks. Touch once: Tap the screen to create a soft pressure bloom, hold your finger down for a stronger effect, or drag across the screen to leave a wide trail. Wait: The process takes thirty seconds. Both your physical actions and your stillness shape the final photograph. THE FINE PRINT. BRIEFLY. The entire development process happens locally on your iPhone. The app operates completely free of accounts, ads, and analytics tracking. If you don't keep a photo, it's gone forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Silver Halide at none against Selective Color Photo Effect's 3. Silver Halide also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Selective Color Photo Effect's advantage is ratings volume (692 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Selective Color Photo Effect sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Silver Halide asks for nothing beyond the download.
Silver Halide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Selective Color Photo Effect has 692 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Selective Color Photo Effect | Silver Halide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (692 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 692 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alan Cushway | Christopher Weiss |
Customer experience
Selective Color Photo Effect
Silver Halide
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
Silver Halide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Selective Color Photo Effect
- Selective Color Premium Weekly$0.997 Days
- Selective Color Premium Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Remove Ads$1.99
Silver Halide
No in-app purchases
Questions
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