AlphaBlur Image Effects vs Minky's Iridescent Rainbow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlphaBlur Image Effects
This app uses AI to automatically separate foreground and background elements in your photos. It then applies a variety of stunning special effects to the background, with options for blur, focus, bokeh, and distortions.
- AI-powered background/foreground separation
- Special effects for backgrounds
- Dual Camera and TrueDepth hardware support
- Various blur and focus effects
- Customizable bokeh shapes
- Highlight and star effects
- Turbulence distortion effects
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AlphaBlur Effects App uses neural network, artificial intelligence and modern Apple's hardware optical features for smart automatic splitting background and foreground objects on your photos and apply different amazing special effects on background. If your device supports Dual Cameras or TrueDepth hardware features then now AlphaBlur also uses these for supreme quality of background splitting. If you use an old iPhone without modern hardware features then our app can work fine and on these to. Many beautiful high-quality effects are collected in this fine app and can be easily applied by one click on effect's icon. Different kinds of blur and focus effects, bokeh with different shapes of elements, highlights and stars, turbulence distortions and many tenses other special effects are available for you with help of AlphaBlur Effect App presented for you by AlphaPlugins. Main features: - automatically split background and foreground objects with using artificial intelligence - use DualCamera and TrueDepth hardware features if these are available on device. - many kinds of blur and focus effects, include zooming blur, motion blur, radial and etc. - different bokeh effects with different shapes of elements - lot of different highlight and stars effects. - various types of turbulence distortion effects which can be applied on background to Similar like other AlphaPlugins' product the AlphaBlur Effects is high-quality and very intellectually app what gives you a lot of fun.
Minky's Iridescent Rainbow
Transform your photos into magical masterpieces with unique holographic rainbow filters. Apply artistic effects and adjust their intensity for subtle or dramatic results. Enjoy a full suite of creative tools without any ads or in-app purchases.
- 35 unique holographic rainbow filters
- Apply filters to new or existing photos
- Adjust filter intensity
- Create magical photo masterpieces
- No ads or in-app purchases
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Minky’s Iridescent Rainbow photo filters turns your photos into creative magical masterpieces! 35 unique holographic rainbow filter effects are perfect for your social media & digital album photos. Snap a photo or choose one from your photo library. Then try a variety of artistic filter effects and pick one you like. You can adjust the intensity of the photo filter effects to give more subtle & natural rainbow gradient effects. No ads, No in-app purchases, No subscriptions! Have all of these dreamy photo filters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Minky's Iridescent Rainbow at 100% against AlphaBlur Image Effects's 14%. Minky's Iridescent Rainbow also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). AlphaBlur Image Effects's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 5) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ads, monetization model, 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
AlphaBlur Image Effects costs $2.99 and Minky's Iridescent Rainbow $3.99 up front. AlphaBlur Image Effects sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Minky's Iridescent Rainbow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Minky's Iridescent Rainbow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AlphaBlur Image Effects has 32 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of AlphaBlur Image Effects's written reviews are positive against 100% of Minky's Iridescent Rainbow's.
AlphaBlur Image Effects ships an update every 2 months, Minky's Iridescent Rainbow daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AlphaBlur Image Effects | Minky's Iridescent Rainbow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (32 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxim Chernousov | Minkyung Chung |
Customer experience
AlphaBlur Image Effects
Minky's Iridescent Rainbow
In-app purchases
AlphaBlur Image Effects
- Bokeh & Stars$0.99
- Turbulenses$0.99
Minky's Iridescent Rainbow
No in-app purchases
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