Shine vs Glitter Sparkle Light Effects
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shine
This app provides a variety of "kirakira" style sparkle effects for photos and videos. Users can customize the intensity, color, and motion of sparkles, and even add them manually. It also includes color filters, beauty options, and reflection effects.
- 20+ sparkle effects for specific objects
- Editable sparkle properties
- Manual sparkle addition and masking
- 30+ color filters and beauty options
- Live and album filtering for photos/videos
- Symmetrical reflection effects
- Music recording and playback
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Shine offers No.1 kirakira styles, features exclusively.It's 100% a high value filter app.No worry for issues you have ever experienced. 【Features】 ◆ 20+ sparkle effects designed for shooting specific objects including jewelry, cloth, food, sea, sky etc. ◆ Effects can be edited for various combinations of sparkle's amount, color, size, motion and sensitivity. ◆ Support adding and masking sparkles manually. ◆ 30+ color filters and face beauty option. ◆ Live filtering video and photo. ◆ Filtering video and photo from Album. ◆ Easy conversion between photo, live photo and video. ◆ Stack multiply sparkle effects at once. ◆ Additional depth blur filters for a better kirakira effect. ◆ Symmetrical reflection effects including Mirror, Glass, Ice, Raindrop, Puddle, Pool, Ocean. ◆ Support music recording and playback. ◆ Suppot sharing to short video platforms: Facebook,Whatsapp, Insta, Tik Tok. 【Notes】 ◆ If you encounter problems like too much or too less sparkles, please reference to the "Tips & Skills" page in the app. ◆ Recorded or converted videos and photos can be found in the System Photos. 【Feedback】 ◆ If you encounter any crash or bug, please contact us with iPhone model and system version information via shine.app@foxmail.com. We are ready to help! ◆ We will be very appreciated if you could rate our app and tell us how you feel about the app. That is a great help to us!
Glitter Sparkle Light Effects
Enhance your photos with a variety of shimmering effects, including glitters, sparkles, and light leaks. Add custom text with different fonts and colors, and easily share your creations.
- Sparkle and glitter decorations
- Apply frames and light leaks
- Add custom text with fonts
- Flip stickers and text
- Delete unwanted elements
- Save and share photos
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Download Photo Glitter Light Effects to decorate your photo with different sparkles , glitters and text. App features Sparkles to decorate photos with glitter & sparkles. Apply frames, light leak. overlays and glitter effects to photos. Text to write messages using different colors and fonts. Flip stickers and text horizontally. Delete unwanted stickers or text from image. Save to photo gallery. Share with your friends and family on any social media.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Glitter Sparkle Light Effects at Free against Shine's $0.99. Glitter Sparkle Light Effects also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.2). Shine's advantage is review sentiment (81% vs 40%) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Glitter Sparkle Light Effects is free to download; Shine costs $0.99 up front. Shine sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Glitter Sparkle Light Effects sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Glitter Sparkle Light Effects holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 109 and 28 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Shine's written reviews are positive against 40% of Glitter Sparkle Light Effects's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Shine ships an update weekly, Glitter Sparkle Light Effects every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shine | Glitter Sparkle Light Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (109 ratings) | 4.4 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 109 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 文杰 胡 | Rajneesh Mishra |
Customer experience
Shine
Glitter Sparkle Light Effects
Bugs and requests
Shine
Reported bugs
15 issues- App doesn't work
- Stamps do not disappear
- Auto-recognition cannot be removed
- Cannot save edits
- Freezes during saving
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- Customization does not work
- Cannot edit existing videos
- Does not select a specific point to shine
- Does not dose the amount of brightness per finger
- Does not save animation
- App crashes when downloading
- Cannot change language
- Paid for upgrade, still seeing watermarks
- Cannot edit album photos
- Paid for upgrade, still watermarks
Requested features
8 requests- Optimize UI design
- Add new special effects
- Option for 4K quality
- Adjustable sparkle size
- Round material options for sparkles
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- Ability to adjust sparkle density
- Option to remove app logo
- More different types of shine
Glitter Sparkle Light Effects
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shine
- Filter Pack - Japan$0.99
- Shine Pro$1.99
- Mirror Reflection Pro$1.99
Glitter Sparkle Light Effects
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$5.991 Year
- One Time Purchase$7.99
Questions
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