Comparison

Best Photo Editor Effects Pro vs LapseSmooth

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

Head to head
About

Best Photo Editor Effects Pro

This app provides a user-friendly photo editing experience with a variety of tools for adjustments, effects, and creative overlays. It allows for non-destructive editing, easy comparison with originals, and seamless sharing. Advanced features and ad removal are available through a one-time Pro purchase.

Highlights
  • Non-destructive editing
  • One-tap photo effects
  • Adjustments with sliders
  • Rotate and straighten
  • Crop to aspect ratios
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Save custom presets
Features
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Fix dull photos fast and get a polished look without wrestling with complicated controls. Apply photo filters, fine-tune color, crop for posts or stories, and save or share in a few taps. Photo Editor Effects Pro helps you edit photos, apply effects, and export the right crop for everyday sharing. PERFECT WHEN • You want a quick photo editor for a selfie, pet shot, or travel picture using Auto-Enhance, then save it right away. • You need a square post or tall story crop and want the preview to match the final export before you share. • You like trying filters such as Noir, Chrome, Fade, Tonal, Transfer, or Sepia on the exact photo you picked. • You want a clean starting point with built-in Looks like Sunset, Moody Film, Bright & Clean, Warm Portrait, or B&W Cinema. • You need to reopen a photo editor and pick up where you left off with Resume Last Edit. EVERYTHING YOU GET • Pick a photo from the system picker or tap one of your recent photos for a faster start. • See live filter thumbnails so you can compare effects on your own image before you apply one. • Use one-tap Looks including Sunset, Cool Blue, Faded Vintage, Pop Color, and more. • Tap Auto-Enhance for a quick boost, then turn it off in one tap if you want your earlier edit back. • Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, tint, and vignette for a simple photo retouch flow. • Rotate left or right, flip horizontally, and crop to Original, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, or 9:16. • Compare before and after with a press-and-hold gesture or a split compare view. • Save to Photos or share to Messages, Mail, and other apps with post and story export presets. • Use undo and redo for cleaner edit steps while you move sliders. • Check the histogram strip under the canvas while you adjust tone and color. WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE IT It keeps the editing flow simple: Pick, Edit, Compare, Save or Share. Your edits stay tied to the original photo, so you can change filters, crop, rotate, and adjustments without starting over. You can also resume your last edit later, and there is no account to create. PAID FEATURES Go Pro for Curves, HSL color control, premium overlays with opacity and blend choices, sharpen, blur, grain, highlights and shadows, custom saved Looks, export text watermark, basic device-supported red-eye reduction, and an ad-free editor. Free includes core edits, effects, crop, rotate, built-in Looks, Auto-Enhance, social export presets, and Resume Last Edit. Permissions note: the app only reads photos you choose, and it asks to save to your library only when you tap Save. Pick a photo and make it look the way you want in minutes. Terms of Use (EULA) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

About

LapseSmooth

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LapseSmooth repairs one specific problem: unwanted global exposure pulsing in an existing time-lapse or video. Choose a video or run the built-in demo. LapseSmooth reads the temporal luminance curve on your device, shows where brightness changes from frame to frame, and creates a smoother copy only when the analysis is confident. Before exporting, you can: • inspect the original luminance curve • compare the measured curve before and after correction • play the original and corrected videos with synchronized audio • drag a synchronized wipe across both versions • share the corrected copy without changing the source file LapseSmooth is deliberately narrower than a general video editor. It does not promise to remove moving LED bands, rolling-shutter artifacts, localized lights that really turn on and off, intentional scene changes, or compression defects. When a persistent lighting change makes automatic correction unsafe, the app stops instead of forcing an unreliable export. Processing stays on your iPhone. LapseSmooth does not require an account, upload your video, or overwrite the original.

Screenshots

Best Photo Editor Effects Pro4 screens
LapseSmooth3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LapseSmooth at none against Best Photo Editor Effects Pro's shown. LapseSmooth also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Best Photo Editor Effects Pro sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and LapseSmooth sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Best Photo Editor Effects Pro versus LapseSmooth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest Photo Editor Effects ProLapseSmooth
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB3 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperSandeep BhandariArthur Borges

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Best Photo Editor Effects Pro

Subscriptions6
  • Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription Discount7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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  • Yearly Subscription Sale$14.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription Special$19.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Forever Pro Discount$79.99
  • Forever Pro$99.99
1 purchases

LapseSmooth

One-time1
  • LapseSmooth Export Pass$5.99

Questions

Is Best Photo Editor Effects Pro free?
Best Photo Editor Effects Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LapseSmooth free?
LapseSmooth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Best Photo Editor Effects Pro or LapseSmooth have ads?
Best Photo Editor Effects Pro shows ads; LapseSmooth does not.

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