Comparison

FabFocus vs ringFramer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Automatic face detection
  • Intelligent background blur
  • Customizable bokeh shapes
  • Foreground/background color adjustments
  • Manual selection refinement
  • Built-in camera interface
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

FabFocus4 screens
ringFramer4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

FabFocus costs $3.99 and ringFramer $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FabFocus ships an update every 3 weeks, ringFramer every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FabFocus versus ringFramer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFabFocusringFramer
Price$3.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.7 (6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGhostwheelIlja Schnorr

Customer experience

FabFocus

All ratings5,998 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews507 reviews
Positive62.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative30.8%

ringFramer

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 3 more
  • Live view for the effects
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

ringFramer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

FabFocus

No in-app purchases

None

ringFramer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FabFocus free?
FabFocus costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ringFramer free?
ringFramer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do FabFocus or ringFramer have ads?
Neither FabFocus nor ringFramer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FabFocus or ringFramer?
FabFocus ships an update every 3 weeks, and ringFramer every 2 months. Most recently, FabFocus was updated on November 6, 2026 and ringFramer on November 6, 2026.

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