Blurry vs Portrait Video
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.
Portrait Video
Easily apply and adjust a depth effect to your selfie videos, creating stunning portrait-style visuals. Preview your edits in real-time before exporting and sharing your creations with a single tap. This app works entirely offline, ensuring your privacy.
- Apply depth effect to videos
- Real-time preview slider
- One-tap export and share
- Offline video editing
- Adjustable blur intensity
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Portrait Mode does wonders to your photos, imagine if your could apply it to selfie videos? Portrait Video allows you to apply and tweak depth effect in selfie videos easily and the results are stunning! -- Real Time Preview Portrait Video allows you to see every frame of your video in Portrait before exporting using the Preview Slider. -- Export with a tap After previewing your effect, just tap the Share Button and share your creation easily. -- Works Offline The whole video editing is done offline using the power of your device's processor. Your data never leaves your device in respect to your privacy. Portrait Video is now available for all iOS devices! *All video footage used to promote this app has been provided by Pexels, as well as the license to use it. The original footage can be found at the following links: https://www.pexels.com/pt-br/video/lindo-bonito-atraente-elegante-4989867/ https://www.pexels.com/pt-br/video/afeicao-carinho-simpatia-barcos-5111547/ https://www.pexels.com/pt-br/video/atraente-encantador-cativante-estante-8199319/ -- Terms of Use: https://portrait-video.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://portrait-video.web.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Blurry at 100% against Portrait Video's 46%. Blurry also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Portrait Video's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (302 vs 5). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Portrait Video sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Blurry asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blurry holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Portrait Video has 302 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 46% of Portrait Video's.
Blurry ships an update every 4 months, Portrait Video weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blurry | Portrait Video |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.5 (302 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 46.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 302 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shao-Chi Liang | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. |
Customer experience
Blurry
Portrait Video
In-app purchases
Blurry
No in-app purchases
Portrait Video
- Portrait Video Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Portrait Video Premium$2.99









