FabFocus vs ringFramer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FabFocus
Create professional-looking portrait photos with adjustable background blur and bokeh effects. This app uses advanced image recognition to automatically detect faces and apply artistic enhancements, even without multiple cameras. Refine your portraits with various editing tools for a polished look.
- Automatic face detection
- Intelligent background blur
- Customizable bokeh shapes
- Foreground/background color adjustments
- Manual selection refinement
- Built-in camera interface
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FabFocus is everything you need to capture and create stunning portrait photos. And the best part is, you don’t need multiple cameras to do it! FabFocus works on all devices running iOS 12 and forward and uses advanced image recognition to detect people, and intelligently blurring the background, applying beautiful bokeh effects. ———— The Big 2.0 Update FabFocus 2.0 is a complete rewrite and redesign, with the goal of making it as fast and simple as possible to make stunning portraits. Every last detail has been considered and refined to streamline the experience. We hope you love it as much as we do. ———— Features FabFocus has a lot of different features. Here’s a quick overview. ———— Face Detection FabFocus will automatically detect faces in your photos, use a little computer magic to work out what’s in the foreground and then intelligently blur the background. If a photo contains depth information, that is used that for even faster performance. ———— Camera FabFocus has its own camera interface, that automatically configures itself for portrait capture on supported devices. ———— Editing Tools FabFocus has a whole bunch of tools to help you refine your portraits. • Adjust the amount of blur applied to the background • Chose the shape of bokeh (even set it to love hearts or stars!) • Change the brightness and saturation of the foreground and background independently. • You can also draw to refine the selection of what’s in the foreground, great for tricky situations, or creating portraits of a wide variety of subjects, like pets, plants and more! While editing, you can quickly undo and redo your adjustments, and there are buttons to share and save your photos right away. ———— Take your portraits to the next level with FabFocus ———— For support, please contact hello@ghostwheel.org
ringFramer
Easily add unique, circular frames to your photos. The app automatically generates rings in colors matching your images, creating eye-catching and special visuals. Save your creations as high-resolution images or short, loopable videos.
- Randomly generated circular frames
- Colors chosen from your picture
- Adjustable image border width
- Save animated frames as videos
- Easy usability, no design skills needed
- Save in original resolution
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Make your pictures with unique, circular frames to something very special. ringFramer generates on fingertip randomly arranged rings in matching colors around your pictures. This not only looks extremely cool, but also gives your pictures a focus on the most important image area. And since ringFramer randomly chooses the colors from your pictures, you do not have to spend hours searching for matching color combinations. You just have to decide when you like it best. This leads to cool, surprising and sometimes even crazy results. All you have to do is to play around a bit, until the cool result is there. There is no limit to this with ready-made templates. So, make your pictures unique! Functions: • randomly generated rings as a frame around your pictures • colors are chosen at random from your picture • set the image area to choose colors from after import • infinite ring and color combinations • adjustable image border width • save animated frames as 12 second loopable videos at 1000 x 1000 pixel by tapping the record icon • extremely easy usability • no design skills necessary (just a little good taste ;-)) • save in original resolution plus frame without scaling And now go to the rings! Supports: iPhone 12, iPhone X, iPhone, iPad running iOS 12.0 or higher. Optimized for iOS 15+. Any problems or questions: send mail to support@mirlschnorr.de
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ringFramer at 100% against FabFocus's 63%. ringFramer also leads on price ($1.99 vs $3.99). FabFocus's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On ads, 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
FabFocus costs $3.99 and ringFramer $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FabFocus ships an update every 3 weeks, ringFramer every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | FabFocus | ringFramer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ghostwheel | Ilja Schnorr |
Customer experience
FabFocus
ringFramer
Bugs and requests
FabFocus
Reported bugs
5 issues- The app selected her face but was unable to accurately select her hair
- Couldn't save the edited photos
- Doesn't recognize animal faces
- Crashes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
8 requests- Old Version Please
- Newest changes
- Zoom feature
- Zoom
- Black and white addition
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- Live view for the effects
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
ringFramer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FabFocus
No in-app purchases
ringFramer
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is FabFocus free?
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Do FabFocus or ringFramer have ads?
Which is updated more often, FabFocus or ringFramer?
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