Cerulean vs KiKi Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cerulean
A collection of minimalist utility tools designed for simplicity and ease of use. Provides various small functions to help with everyday tasks. Feedback is welcomed for improvements and new ideas.
- Multiple utility tools
- Minimalist design
- Simple to use
- User feedback welcome
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多种小功能整理，极致简约。 如在使用中遇见任何问题或有新的创意，欢迎发送邮件反馈至我的邮箱cerulean_log@163.com，我会尽快处理哒。~~~
KiKi Tools
This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for both video and image manipulation. Enhance your videos with watermarks and doodles, extract or remove background music, and convert videos to live photos. Create unique wallpapers from text or images using various artistic styles.
- Video editing with watermarks and doodles
- Extract or delete video background music
- Convert video to Live Photo
- Generate word cloud wallpapers
- Create polygon, block, ASCII, pixel, and blur wallpapers from images
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Tool box for video and image. Features: *** Video tools *** * Video Edit - Add watermarks and doodles to your videos * Get BGM - Export video background sound * Delete BGM - Delete video background sound * LivePhoto - Convert video to livephoto *** Image tools *** * Word Cloud Wallpaper - Enter keywords to automatically generate large poster art wallpapers * Polygon Wallpaper - Generate polygon card wallpaper based on the image * Square Wallpaper - Generate block style wallpapers based on images, via AI * Ascii Wallpaper - Generate character style wallpapers based on images, giving you different surprises * Pixel Wallpaper - Generate pixel style wallpapers based on images, through algorithms * Blur wallpaper - Adjust the blur degree according to the picture, generate fuzzy frosted glass wallpaper
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cerulean at none against KiKi Tools's shown. Cerulean also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (392 vs 80). KiKi Tools's advantage is review sentiment (96% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Cerulean against 4.9 for KiKi Tools. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 392 and 80 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Cerulean's written reviews are positive against 96% of KiKi Tools's.
Cerulean ships an update every 2 months, KiKi Tools every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Cerulean | KiKi Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (392 ratings) | 4.9 (80 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews | 96.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 392 — better | 80 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丹 张 | 子琪 权 |
Customer experience
Cerulean
KiKi Tools
User reviews
Cerulean
From 392 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Very interesting and useful
- 👍 Great and free to use
- 👍 No ads, clean interface
- 👍 Very comprehensive toolset
- 👍 Good and simple
Room to improve
- ❓ Limitation unclear, is it free?
- ❓ App is entirely in Chinese, no English option
- ❓ Ruler function has issues on iOS 17
- ❓ Volume is too low for sound-related features
- ❓ Search functionality is poor
KiKi Tools
From 80 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Very easy to use
- 👍 Highly recommended
- 👍 Good functionality
- 👍 Fast processing speed
- 👍 Free to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Ads cannot be closed
- 🐛 Software is broken/useless
Bugs and requests
Cerulean
Reported bugs
9 issues- Ruler function has issues on iOS 17
- Volume is too low for sound-related features (metronome, call simulation)
- Search functionality is poor
- Calculator button missing on iPad Pro
- Ruler is inaccurate on 12 mini
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- Widget background is white, hard to see text
- Text to speech and keyboard issues on iPhone X
- Image stitching (chat history) missing on iPhone 12
- Widget support removed for iOS 13
Requested features
4 requests- Add more small features
- Add currency conversion function
- Add data and Chinese uppercase number conversion
- Consider adding various unit conversion functions
KiKi Tools
Reported bugs
2 issues- Ads are unclosable
- Software is completely broken and unusable
Requested features
1 request- Continue developing new features
In-app purchases
Cerulean
No in-app purchases
KiKi Tools
No in-app purchases
