Comparison

Live Focus vs Clips

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

Clips

This camera app helps you keep work-related photos and videos separate from your personal memories. Organize records with tags and notes, and import existing media to maintain a clean photo gallery.

Highlights
  • Dedicated camera for capturing records
  • Separates work photos from personal gallery
  • Organize with tags and notes
  • Import existing photos and videos
  • Clean up stored records easily
Features
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Looking for a memory in your photo gallery, only to find work photos, documents, receipts, and reference images instead? Clips is a camera app designed to help you separate records from memories. Memories in your gallery. Records in Clips. Keep the photos and videos you need for work, study, projects, and daily records in Clips, while leaving your Photo Library for the moments that matter most. Key Features 1. Dedicated Camera for Records Clips is built for capturing records. Store work photos, receipts, documents, reference materials, study notes, project updates, and more directly in Clips. 2. Separate Records from Memories Keep record photos and videos separate from your personal memories. Manage records in Clips and keep your photo gallery focused on the moments you want to remember. 3. Organize with Tags & Notes Add tags and notes to photos and videos. Easily organize, search, and revisit important records later. 4. CleanUp Stored records can also be cleaned up easily. Keep your records safely in Clips while maintaining a cleaner photo gallery. 5. Import Existing Photos & Videos Already have photos in your gallery? Import them into Clips using the Share Sheet and organize them alongside your other records. Perfect For • People who take lots of work-related photos • Anyone whose gallery feels cluttered • Students capturing study materials • People documenting projects and progress • Anyone who wants to separate memories from records Memories in your gallery. Records in Clips. Clips

Screenshots

Live Focus3 screens
Clips4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Clips at 4.6 against Live Focus's 4.0. Clips also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 60%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). Live Focus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Clips sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Live Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clips holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Live Focus's written reviews are positive against 92% of Clips's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Focus ships an update every 6 weeks, Clips weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Live Focus versus Clips: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive FocusClips
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.6 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews92.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings410 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTae ho LeeGibeom Lee

Customer experience

Live Focus

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

Clips

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral5.3%
Negative2.6%

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
Show 3 more
  • Allow drawing from photo library
  • Fix iOS 13 compatibility
  • Add more advanced features

Clips

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Live Focus

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Clips

One-time1
  • Clips Plus$12.99

Questions

Is Live Focus free?
Live Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clips free?
Clips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Live Focus or Clips?
Clips is rated higher. Live Focus averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Clips averages 4.6 from 10 ratings.
Do Live Focus or Clips have ads?
Neither Live Focus nor Clips shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Live Focus or Clips?
Live Focus ships an update every 6 weeks, and Clips weekly. Most recently, Live Focus was updated on November 2, 2026 and Clips on November 5, 2026.

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