Comparison

Silhouette Maker vs HLiiC Cam

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

Head to head
About

Silhouette Maker

Effortlessly transform side-view photos into silhouettes using AI. Fine-tune your creations with intuitive editing tools. Unlock advanced features like color and transparent backgrounds through in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • AI-powered silhouette generation
  • Automatic contour detection
  • Eraser and pen editing tools
  • Color customization
  • Transparent background option
  • Save, print, and share silhouettes
Features
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With this app, you can effortlessly create silhouettes from side-view photos of people. The app automatically detects contours and generates silhouettes in no time. If the result is not perfect, the app offers two tools for fine-tuning. Use the eraser and the pen to adjust the silhouette to your liking. In the free version, the silhouette is classic black on a white background. You can unlock color changes with a one-time in-app purchase. Once you've unlocked color changes, you'll also gain access to a transparent background, allowing you to seamlessly integrate your silhouette artwork into your projects. You can save your silhouettes, print them, email them to friends, or easily share them with others. Unleash your creativity and create impressive silhouettes that will astonish your friends and family. Download this app today and experience the magic of digital silhouette art. With a second one-time in-app purchase, you can remove the ads completely and forever.

About

HLiiC Cam

Features
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Before photography was common, a profile was how many people kept a likeness. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettists worked by eye with a pair of scissors, cutting a face in profile from black paper, laying it on a pale ground and setting it in a small frame. Another path led to color. In a lecture in London in 1861, James Clerk Maxwell took three black-and-white pictures made through red, green and blue liquid filters, projected each through its own colored lantern onto one screen, and the colors of a tartan ribbon returned. HLiiC Cam brings both of these early imaging methods to the phone, as two cameras. Profile Studio Point the camera at a face in profile and the viewfinder shows the silhouette live. Press the shutter and the full silhouette is kept in the app's own album, exactly as framed, never cropped for you. Then swipe through the style page to give the same outline another medium; each one names the period or maker it follows: · Historical: cut-paper bust, gold-ground glass (églomisé), shell cameo, jasperware medallion, painted on convex glass, bronzed silhouette, portrait miniature · Media: cyanotype print, photogenic dye print, sun-faded paper, positive–negative pair, Risograph two-color, layered paper relief, neon tube, woodcut, colored shadows, aggregate silhouette · Line & comic: outline (after Lavater), graphite contour, graphite portrait, light-and-shade sketch, manga screentone, low-poly Thirteen mounts complete the picture: black lacquer with gilt liner, papier-mâché with ormolu, wide gilt frame, turned ebony, turned ivory, gold pendant, rope-twist brooch and pendant, octagon card, museum mat, hairline aluminum, rounded sticker and double rule. The nineteenth-century frames are kept for the historical styles and cyanotype; they do not go around a neon tube. In the quick editor, a saved silhouette can take another color scheme or frame, or be flipped, and then exported to Photos. TriColor Lab With the camera fixed on a tripod, change the filter in front of the lens, red, green, blue, and take one black-and-white frame through each. The app aligns the frames and adds them back in their own colors to make one color photograph. Shoot with the iPhone, guided step by step, or pick separation shots from another camera in your library; DNG, HEIC and JPEG originals keep their EXIF. After compositing, the red, green and blue records can be viewed one by one and exported as 16-bit TIFF, and a photograph of a color chart solves a correction matrix for your own set of filters. No filters at hand? Open How it works: the app runs four built-in test frames through the method on the spot, separating, coloring the light and adding, one step at a time. Everything is processed on the device. No sign-up, no ads, no uploads, no data collected. The interface is in English and Simplified Chinese, follows the system language, and can be switched from the home screen. HLiiC is a studio in Nanjing, founded in 2020, devoted to the research and practice of nineteenth-century handmade photography.

Screenshots

Silhouette Maker4 screens
HLiiC Cam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HLiiC Cam at none against Silhouette Maker's 2. HLiiC Cam also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Silhouette Maker sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. HLiiC Cam asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Silhouette Maker versus HLiiC Cam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilhouette MakerHLiiC Cam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (183 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings183 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVitalij SchaeferNanjing Hengli Image Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Silhouette Maker

One-time2
  • Remove ads$17.99
  • Unlock color change$17.99
None

HLiiC Cam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Silhouette Maker free?
Silhouette Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HLiiC Cam free?
HLiiC Cam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Silhouette Maker or HLiiC Cam have ads?
Silhouette Maker shows ads; HLiiC Cam does not.

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