Comparison

Obscure vs Like A Frame

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Obscure

Easily redact sensitive information from your photos before sharing. This app uses AI to automatically detect and obscure faces, text, and personal details, or allows for manual editing. Protect your privacy by blurring or blocking out private portions of images for safe social media sharing.

Highlights
  • Automatic face, text, and info detection
  • Manual redaction editor
  • One-touch email and phone number hiding
  • Batch editing for multiple images
  • Shortcuts integration for automation
  • Blur, pixelate, or block sensitive areas
Features
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Safely and securely share your photos! Obscure lets you quickly blur, pixellate or block out private portions of your images so that they are safe to share on any social platform. - Automatically detect & obscure faces, text, & personal info with advanced on-device AI - Redact all text from an image - Manually obfuscate any part of a picture with the easy to use editor - Find & hide email addresses and phone numbers with one touch - Edit multiple images in batches using the batch editor - Shortcuts action allows for easy redaction automation Just import an image, tap and drag over sensitive parts of the image then tap share. Use two fingers to pan and zoom to redact fine details. Works great for sharing screenshots! Obfuscate faces, license plates, and brand labels. Easily redact private parts of document images that you want to share. Redacted images can then be shared to any other app on your phone, or just save them back to your photo library. Obscure also works with Shortcuts, allowing you to easily setup an automated image processing pipeline. Long press the app icon to get quick shortcuts to your last taken image, the camera, or to paste an image you copied. Obscure is a one time purchase, no ads and no subscriptions! Privacy Policy: https://obscure.app/privacy Terms: https://obscure.app/terms

About

Like A Frame

Easily add professional frames, text, and effects to your photos for social media. This app offers a variety of editing tools to enhance your images and create stunning visual content without complex software. Export your creations in high resolution for both online sharing and print.

Highlights
  • Add photo frame borders and mattes
  • Incorporate text and emoji layers
  • Adjust cropping ratios and corners
  • Apply 3D bevels and shadows
  • Split panoramic photos for carousels
  • Resize photos for sharing
  • Save custom presets
Features
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Edit your photographs into lifelike frames with text layers and share them on social media effortlessly. Like A Frame is crafted by a photographer for photographers and digital artists. Try Like A Frame FREE for 7 days before deciding to purchase a lifetime license. This is required to continue using the app after the trial periods ends. Whether you're adding a photo frame border, matte, rounded corners, 3D bevel, internal and external shadows, or adjusting cropping ratios, with layers and color choices, Like A Frame 4 makes it simple to present your work professionally online without needing additional editing. Incorporate text layers and emojis to design marketing or promotional materials. Transform your photographs into a stunning photo gallery, generate images for multimedia projects, or unleash your creativity. Save your presets and export your compositions at up to 8K resolution for print. Other Features: • Split Panorama: Easily divide your panoramic photos into multiple images to post to social media platforms as scrolling carousels. • Resize Photo: Quickly resize photos for sharing at lower resolutions or to save bandwidth.

Screenshots

Obscure4 screens
Like A Frame4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Like A Frame at Free against Obscure's $2.99. Like A Frame also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (94% vs 80%). Obscure's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Like A Frame is free to download; Obscure costs $2.99 up front. Like A Frame sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Obscure asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Obscure holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 42 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Obscure's written reviews are positive against 94% of Like A Frame's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obscure ships an update every 2 months, Like A Frame every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Obscure versus Like A Frame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObscureLike A Frame
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (30 ratings) — better4.5 (42 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews93.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3042 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwift Fox Software LLCNicholas Bedford

Customer experience

Obscure

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

Like A Frame

All ratings41 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.1%
Negative4.2%

In-app purchases

None

Obscure

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Like A Frame

One-time2
  • 7-Day Free TrialFree
  • Lifetime Purchase$1.99

Questions

Is Obscure free?
Obscure costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Like A Frame free?
Like A Frame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Obscure or Like A Frame?
Obscure is rated higher. Obscure averages 4.8 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Like A Frame averages 4.5 from 42 ratings.
Do Obscure or Like A Frame have ads?
Neither Obscure nor Like A Frame shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obscure or Like A Frame?
Obscure ships an update every 2 months, and Like A Frame every 6 days. Most recently, Obscure was updated on October 26, 2026 and Like A Frame on October 25, 2026.

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