Blurry vs Blur
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blurry
Easily apply beautiful blur effects to your photos to create custom wallpapers and backgrounds. Choose from various blur styles and colors to achieve your desired look.
- Apply beautiful blur effects
- Create custom wallpapers
- Dark, light, and custom color blur
- Load images from photo library or Files app
- Simple user interface
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Blurry is the go-to image blurring tool to help you apply beautiful blurs for your photos. It is perfect for creating wallpapers, backgrounds, and more. With Blurry, you can customize and apply a blur effect on top of any photos from your photo library to create the perfect background for your wallpaper. Simply load your images from your Photos library, the Files app, or drag an image directly into the app*. Through an extraordinarily simple UI, and a selection of dark blur, light blur, and custom colour blur, you can tweak the image effect however you like and save it when you are satisfied. It's that easy! *Drag and Drop is only available on iPad.
Blur
Easily enhance video privacy by blurring sensitive areas like faces, logos, or objects. Features auto-tracking and manual control with various shapes and adjustable intensity for precise censorship. Perfect for social media content creators.
- Blur faces, logos, and objects
- Auto-tracking for fast blurring
- Manual blur with ellipse/rectangle shapes
- Adjustable blur intensity
- Define blur duration
- Multiple blur areas
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Improve privacy by blurring faces, logos or objects in the background of your video. Includes auto tracking to get your blurring done super fast. Apply blur effects on videos for YouTube video, Tiktok + other social media platforms. This blur video editor is the only answer for all your video editing needs regarding pixelating faces or any other unwanted objects and areas of a video. Unlike other apps you can define more than 1 area to blur/pixelate using ellipse or rectangle shapes with offset so you can easily blur with touch using your finger. Define the duration of each blur area and adjust the intensity. PRO You can subscribe to PRO for unlimited access to pro features, including: Unlocking all object tracking and feathering and No Ads - You'll be able to use all features for the duration of your subscription - Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription Terms of use: http://cushwayapps.com/app-privacy/blurvideo/terms.html Privacy policy: http://cushwayapps.com/app-privacy/blurvideo/privacy.html Have you found a bug, got a suggestion, or want a new feature? Send us an email at support@honkhonkpunch.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blurry at none against Blur's 2. Blurry also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Blur's advantage is ratings volume (14K vs 5). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Blur sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Blurry asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blurry holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blur has 14K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Blurry's written reviews are positive against 93% of Blur's.
Blurry ships an update every 4 months, Blur every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blurry | Blur |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.8 (14K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 14K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shao-Chi Liang | Alan Cushway |
Customer experience
Blurry
Blur
Bugs and requests
Blurry
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Blur
Reported bugs
3 issues- Randomly deletes keyframes
- Saving issues when device storage is low
- Tracking feature sometimes returns errors
Requested features
4 requests- Automatic face/object tracking
- More blur customization options (e.g., color, feathering)
- Ability to save multiple projects
- Zoom in/out functionality for precise editing
In-app purchases
Blurry
No in-app purchases
Blur
- Blur Video Pro$3.991 Month
- Blur Video Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
