Comparison

Obscure vs Manual Focus Camera

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

Manual Focus Camera

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Autofocus decides where to focus. Usually it gets it right. Sometimes it locks onto the window, the fence, or a raindrop - and the subject you actually came to photograph is a soft blur behind it. Manual Focus Camera hands that control back. Set the focus yourself, and it stays exactly where you put it. WHEN YOU NEED IT Through glass - shoot from inside a car with rain on the window, or from an airplane seat, with focus on the landscape outside instead of the pane. At distance - hold focus on aircraft and ships far enough away that autofocus gives up and starts hunting. Past obstructions - focus through leaves, branches, cables and wire fencing onto the subject behind them. On approach - track an aircraft landing without the camera re-deciding halfway through the shot. Through binoculars or a spotting scope - set focus once and it holds, instead of the phone switching lenses on you. WHAT'S IN IT Manual focus, from close range out to infinity. Focus peaking - the live preview highlights what is genuinely sharp, so you can confirm the subject is in focus before you press the shutter. Six filters - black and white, retro, sepia, faded and contrast - with neutral, noir, faded and punchy tone presets, plus saturation, brightness and contrast adjustment, all previewed live. High-resolution Apple Pro RAW capture, on iPhone models that support it. NO SUBSCRIPTION Buy it once. No subscription, no account, no sign-up, no ads. The App Store privacy label for this app reads Data Not Collected - nothing is gathered from you, and your photos stay in your photo library. 9 MB. Requires iOS 17 or later. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Obscure4 screens
Manual Focus Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Obscure at $2.99 against Manual Focus Camera's $4.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Obscure costs $2.99 and Manual Focus Camera $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obscure ships an update every 2 months, Manual Focus Camera monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Obscure versus Manual Focus Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObscureManual Focus Camera
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.8 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwift Fox Software LLCSuperAktiv AS

In-app purchases

None

Obscure

No in-app purchases

None

Manual Focus Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obscure free?
Obscure costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Manual Focus Camera free?
Manual Focus Camera costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Obscure or Manual Focus Camera have ads?
Neither Obscure nor Manual Focus Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obscure or Manual Focus Camera?
Obscure ships an update every 2 months, and Manual Focus Camera monthly. Most recently, Obscure was updated on November 11, 2026 and Manual Focus Camera on November 2, 2026.

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