Noodle Camera vs Photo Editor Express+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noodle Camera
This AI-powered camera app applies unique filters to your photos using on-device processing. It prioritizes user privacy by not sending images to remote servers. Experience creative visual transformations directly on your phone.
- AI-powered camera filters
- On-device processing
- Privacy-focused design
- GPU and CPU optimization
- Creative visual transformations
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Noodlecamera is a camera filter based on artificial intelligence.Through our research and optimization,these deeplearning algorithms all runs on the phone's gpu and cpu.There is no need to transfer photo to the remote server,we believe Privacy is priceless. Noodlecamera is our first artificial intelligence product,any feedback is welcomed(noodlecamera@163.com).thanks for helping us to make more AI product realized.
Photo Editor Express+
Enhance your photos with advanced color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, and background editing. Reshape elements, add text, and apply creative filters to achieve professional-looking results. Basic tools are free, with premium features available via subscription.
- Advanced color and lighting adjustments
- Portrait retouching and skin smoothing
- Automatic background separation and replacement
- Creative reshaping and distortion tools
- Text and drawing capabilities
- Preset photo filters with adjustable intensity
- Crop, rotate, and flip options
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Bring out the best in your photos with precise color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, background editing, and creative reshaping tools. COLOR AND LIGHT • Enhance local contrast with adjustable Auto Enhance. • Fine-tune exposure, brightness, contrast, and gamma. • Balance highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. • Adjust saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, and hue. • Control individual color ranges with HSL. • Adjust overall brightness and individual color channels with RGB Curves. • Color-grade shadows, midtones, and highlights separately. PORTRAIT RETOUCHING • Reduce small blemishes with the healing brush. • Smooth skin while preserving texture. • Explore Skin Tone presets with adjustable shade, intensity, and redness reduction. • Zoom in for detailed brush work. BACKGROUND EDITING • Automatically separate a person from the background. • Create a transparent background. • Replace the background with a solid color. • Blur the background to draw attention to your subject. RESHAPING AND GEOMETRY • Liquify — push, expand, pinch, and twirl selected areas with an adjustable brush. • Portrait Liquify — reshape a person while protecting the surrounding background, with an editable person mask. • Mesh Warp — reshape your photo by dragging grid control points. • Distort — adjust width and height independently. • Perspective — correct horizontal and vertical perspective. • Lens Correction — adjust barrel and pincushion distortion. DETAIL AND EFFECTS • Refine sharpness and structure. • Reduce luminance and color noise. • Adjust haze with Dehaze. • Add glow, fade, vignette, and film grain. • Create selective blur with Tilt Shift. • Apply preset photo filters with adjustable intensity. CROP, DRAW, AND ADD TEXT • Crop using different shapes and aspect ratios. • Rotate, straighten, and flip your photos. • Draw directly on a zoomable photo. • Add text with customizable fonts, bold styling, size, color, and placement. CAPTURE AND SHARE • Take photos with the built-in camera or import them from your library. • Compare your edits with the original. • Save and share your finished photos. Basic adjustment tools and the first five photo filters are free. Cropping, drawing, text, portrait retouching, Skin Tone, background editing, HSL, RGB Curves, reshaping tools, and additional filters require Premium access through an in-app purchase. - Terms of service: https://appsupport.store/terms/ - Privacy policy: https://appsupport.store/privacy/
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Verdict
Noodle Camera and Photo Editor Express+ both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Noodle Camera's written reviews are positive against 52% of Photo Editor Express+'s. Noodle Camera also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.4). Photo Editor Express+'s advantage is ratings volume (217 vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Photo Editor Express+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Noodle Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
Photo Editor Express+ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Photo Editor Express+ has 217 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Noodle Camera's written reviews are positive against 52% of Photo Editor Express+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Noodle Camera ships an update every 5 days, Photo Editor Express+ every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Noodle Camera | Photo Editor Express+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 4.6 (217 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 51.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 217 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 华明 毛 | SERGEI BEZDENEZHNYKH |
Customer experience
Noodle Camera
Photo Editor Express+
Bugs and requests
Noodle Camera
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Photo Editor Express+
Reported bugs
5 issues- Unable to restore purchases
- Not able to save changes
- Crop feature not working properly
- App selects a different photo than selected
- Sending photos not working on iPad (resolved in July 2024 update)
Requested features
4 requests- Provide instructions or a help section
- Add landscape mode for iPad
- Improve crop functionality
- Allow users to turn off crop feature
In-app purchases
Noodle Camera
No in-app purchases
Photo Editor Express+
- Premium Week3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Premium Month3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Premium Annual3 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime$9.99
Questions
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