Comparison

Aestheticam vs Dots on Faces

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

Head to head
About

Aestheticam

This app intentionally degrades your photos with unique filters and effects. It offers presets like deep fry, glitch, and VHS, along with face distortion and random overlays. A chaos slider and shake-to-reroll feature add to the unpredictable, often hilarious, results.

Highlights
  • 10 quality-lowering presets
  • Face detection with distortion effects
  • Random cursed emoji and meme overlays
  • Chaos slider for extreme effects
  • Shake to reroll for new results
Features
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a camera app that takes the worst photos imaginable most camera apps try to make you look better. i didn't do that. i made an app that takes a normal photo and turns it into something you can't show people without an explanation. nobody asked for this garbage. it's not a bug. it's the whole thing. what it does: → 10 presets that lower the quality of your photo in specific ways deep fry compresses it until it looks like a threat. glitch splits the colors apart and rearranges pixels. vhs adds tracking errors from a format that died in 2006. vaporwave puts pink grids on everything. nuclear meltdown is all of them at once and i'm sorry. → face detection that works against you the app finds your face using legitimate technology, and then makes a choice you wouldn't. it adds laser eyes. or copies your face 6-12 times. or melts it downward. it's precise about this, which somehow makes it worse. → overlays cursed emojis. random memes pulled from a folder i named myself. procedural word art with rainbow gradients. vaporwave grids. stars. things you didn't ask for, applied anyway. → chaos slider subtle is fine. normal is reasonable. maximum is for people who say "just do whatever" and then immediately regret it. at maximum the app itself starts glitching. the ui breaks. your phone vibrates. there's music. it's committed to the bit. → shake to reroll if you don't like the result, shake your phone. same photo, different disaster. the randomization is deep enough that you'll never get the same thing twice. accountability is hard.

About

Dots on Faces

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The App does literally what its title claims: take a picture containing faces, and it will place a brightly colored dot over each one. Which by the way, is a direct and pretty literal interpretation of a quote by the Artist himself: I will be remembered as "the artist who put dots over people's faces" Features: "Instant Artification" Snap a selfie, lose your face. Add a dot, become art. Who needs identity when you can have abstraction? Make your friends ask, 'Is this art?' and answer with a smug 'Meeh..'” "Dot Your Selfies" Because why not? Capture your essence, then cover it with a bright circle. Transform ordinary moments into confusing masterpieces. Feel sophisticated, even if it’s just a Tuesday morning. "The Art of Disguise" Why show real faces when you can hide them with a dot? Create enigmatic portraits with a single tap. Because true art is all about giving up your ego, one dot at a time. "This App Will Change Your Life" Not really. It's just another way to pass the time, to distract from the existential dread, to connect with strangers and to share pictures of your lunch. Tap, swipe, and pretend it means something. John Baldessari (1931-2020) Artist, provacateur, and the person who made text art cool. Known for merging painting, photography, and words into something that made people say, 'Is this art?' and then, 'Hell Yes, it is.' He spent over fifty years turning the mundane into the extraordinary, proving that sometimes, art is just a 'dot on a face'.

Screenshots

Aestheticam4 screens
Dots on Faces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dots on Faces at none against Aestheticam's shown. Dots on Faces also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Aestheticam versus Dots on Faces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAestheticamDots on Faces
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNicholas Lee Designs, LLCImaginary Institute s.r.l.

In-app purchases

None

Aestheticam

No in-app purchases

None

Dots on Faces

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aestheticam free?
Aestheticam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dots on Faces free?
Dots on Faces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Aestheticam or Dots on Faces have ads?
Aestheticam shows ads; Dots on Faces does not.
Which is updated more often, Aestheticam or Dots on Faces?
Aestheticam ships an update every 2 days, and Dots on Faces every 2 days. Most recently, Aestheticam was updated on October 26, 2026 and Dots on Faces on October 25, 2026.

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