Comparison

Live Focus vs Cully

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

Head to head
About

Live Focus

This app allows you to add realistic depth and cinematic focus to any image after it has been taken. You can refocus photos, create background blur, and adjust focus points on existing images, including old photos and AI-generated art. Future updates plan to bring these capabilities to video.

Highlights
  • Refocus photos after shooting
  • Create cinematic background blur
  • Adjust focus point and depth intensity
  • Apply depth to AI-generated images
  • Revitalize old photos and artworks
  • Instant focus change preview
Features
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Shoot first. Focus later: Live Focus lets you add realistic depth and cinematic focus to ANY IMAGE, after it’s already taken. Photos, illustrations, AI-generated images, and even images from decades ago. If it’s an image, Live Focus can bring depth to it. No special camera or device. Just focus everything, reimagined. What you can do: - Refocus photos after shooting - Create cinematic background blur - Adjust focus point and depth intensity - Apply realistic depth to AI-generated images - Bring old photos and artworks back to life - Preview focus changes instantly Live Focus is expanding beyond single images. Support for serial media such as video is planned, bringing the same refocusing and depth experience to moving moments. Through this project, our long-term goal is to reconstruct past moments from ordinary photos and videos, enabling a new kind of spatial vision experience — where depth, perspective, and presence can be explored, even when they were never originally captured.

About

Cully

This app helps you declutter your photo library by presenting photos from a random date across all years. Easily review and delete unwanted pictures, freeing up storage and making your collection more manageable.

Highlights
  • Random date photo browsing
  • Delete duplicates and blurry shots
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
  • Track deleted photos and storage saved
  • Optional gentle reminders
  • Lock screen widget for stats
  • iCloud sync for stats and settings
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Tidy up your photo library. Day by day. Over 20,000 photos and no idea where to start? Cully turns that into something you can actually do. The idea is simple: choose a random date and browse your photos from that day, from all years at once. A different slice of your life, every session. Keep the best, delete the rest. Five minutes a day, and your library feels lighter. HOW IT WORKS • Cully suggests a day. You instantly see all photos from that day, across all years. Not in the mood? Roll again or pick a date in the calendar, where sorted days are marked. • Scroll through your grid. Select photos and zoom in for a closer look. • Every deletion needs your confirmation. Photos go to Recently Deleted and can be restored for 30 days. FEATURES • Privacy first: No account, no server, no tracking. Your photos never leave your device. • Smart random: Prefers days you haven't sorted yet. • Albums: Send a selection straight to an album instead of deleting it. • Finish a day: You decide when a day is done. Sorted days show up in your stats and calendar. • Live Photos & videos: Play them right in the grid. • Share originals: Long-press or right-click any photo to share it in full quality. • Your stats: See how many photos you've deleted and how much storage you've freed up. • Gentle reminders: Optional notifications to help you stay on track. • Widgets: Your deletion stats at a glance. • iPhone, iPad and Mac: Native apps for every screen, stats and settings in sync via your own iCloud. • Free to try: Your first five sorting days are free, meaning five dates whose photos you sort, with no time limit. After that, one purchase unlocks unlimited days on all your devices. No subscription. • Quick actions: Jump straight to a random day, today's date or the last 7 or 30 days. WHY CULLY? In photography, "to cull" means going through your shots and keeping only the best. We built Cully because we had the same problem: a photo library that kept growing, with no good way to clean it up. No account. No AI. No analytics. No subscription. Just open it and get started. Made in Berlin.

Screenshots

Live Focus3 screens
Cully4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cully at 5.0 against Live Focus's 4.0. Cully also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). Live Focus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Cully sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Live Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cully holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cully has 53 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Live Focus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cully's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Focus ships an update every 6 weeks, Cully every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Live Focus versus Cully: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive FocusCully
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (53 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings453 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTae ho LeeYOU&VI UG

Customer experience

Live Focus

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews96 reviews
Positive60.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative32.3%

Cully

All ratings43 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Live Focus

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App crashes when taking or saving pictures (iOS 13)
  • App crashes when taking pictures (various modes)
  • App crashes when trying to upload photos
  • App crashes when trying to use non-default focus modes
  • App crashes when trying to take a photo
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  • App won't load or delete/reinstall
  • Five-point focus adjustment isn't accurate
  • GIF creation is jerky
  • App crashes when trying to take a picture
  • Focusing is incredibly slow
  • Live focus doesn't work
  • Cannot edit saved images
  • Cannot upload photos from camera roll
  • App crashes
  • Doesn't allow adjustment of photos in library
  • Takes ages to take a picture
  • End result is not high quality
  • Subject cannot be moving
  • Took ages to figure out how to use
  • Takes blurry pictures
  • Cannot upload straight from camera roll
  • Focusing is subpar
  • App crashes on iPhone 6+

Requested features

8 requests
  • Portrait mode
  • Support for more complex objects
  • Instructions on how to use the app
  • Ability to edit saved images
  • Improve focus speed
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  • Allow drawing from photo library
  • Fix iOS 13 compatibility
  • Add more advanced features

Cully

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Live Focus

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Cully

One-time1
  • Cully Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Live Focus free?
Live Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cully free?
Cully is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Live Focus or Cully?
Cully is rated higher. Live Focus averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Cully averages 5.0 from 53 ratings.
Do Live Focus or Cully have ads?
Neither Live Focus nor Cully shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Live Focus or Cully?
Live Focus ships an update every 6 weeks, and Cully every 5 days. Most recently, Live Focus was updated on October 29, 2026 and Cully on October 25, 2026.

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