censor photo vs Appstar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
censor photo
Easily obscure sensitive parts of your photos with a mosaic blur effect. This tool allows you to crystallize specific areas, hide faces, and adjust blur intensity and brush size for precise editing. Share your edited images directly to social media.
- Import photos from camera or library
- Apply mosaic blur effect
- Adjust blur intensity and brush size
- Hide faces
- Zoom and pan for precise editing
- Save and share edited photos
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Crystallise a portion of your photos and hide unwanted contents underneath it using our photo crystalliser. Touch and give your images a mozaic blur effect. Features: * Import photo from Camera, Files app or from Photo library * Change crystallisation or mozaic blur intensity and brush size * Zoom and Pan photo to precisely crystallise photo portions * Hide faces from censored photos * Save, Mail, Share crystallised photos * Share crystallised photos on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter
Appstar
Express yourself with quick, emotional text fragments instead of long messages. Create custom meme image packs directly from your keyboard to enhance any conversation.
- Expressive text fragments
- Meme creation
- Custom image packs
- Keyboard integration
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A keyboard for people who speak in moments. Instead of long messages, it lets you send quick, expressive fragments that feel more like emotion than text. With Appstar, you can turn any situation into a meme right inside your keyboard and even create your own image packs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Appstar at none against censor photo's shown. Appstar also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 11 months). censor photo's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Appstar holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Appstar has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of censor photo's written reviews are positive against 75% of Appstar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
censor photo ships an update every 11 months, Appstar weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | censor photo | Appstar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 247 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sounak Sarkar | DT Technology Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
censor photo
Appstar
In-app purchases
censor photo
No in-app purchases
Appstar
No in-app purchases
