Comparison

Behold vs CUBE

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

Head to head
About

Behold

This app allows users to shoot and edit videos with a vast array of custom effects and filters. Enhance your content with over 150 unique filters, combine them to create new looks, and add soundtracks for music videos or other projects. It's designed for creative videographers and anyone looking to add a unique touch to their photos and videos.

Highlights
  • Shoot video up to 1080p
  • Combine over 150 unique filters
  • Add and adjust soundtracks
  • Edit existing photos and videos
  • Save custom filter presets
  • Export to file or platforms
Features
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Behold lets you shoot and process video using a huge range of effects and filters. If you’re a video creative or want take your content further than ever, on your phone or iPad and on the go, then Behold is just what you’re looking for. Behold was created to expand the range of mobile tools available for creative videographers and artists, but provides tools for anyone to get creative and playful with their video and still photographic content – music videos, action shots, narrative movies can all be enhanced, tweaked and radically transformed with Behold. CAPTURE Behold is a video camera capturing at up to 1080p. Shoot in different aspect ratios to suit your needs. EDIT Open movies and stills from your library and add effects, then export to file or to your platforms. AUDIO You can add a soundtrack from your library or files to the camera stream or to movies from your library – amazing for shooting music videos! Adjust the cueing and playback speed of your audio track. FILTER Behold allows you to combine over 150 individual filters together to produce any kind of effect. Browse the filters by category – color adjustment, blurs, color effects, composition effects for layering and masking, distortion effects, patterns and shape generators, glitch effects, halftone print effects and tile distortions. You can view the tree of filters in use and change their order of execution. PRESETS Behold comes with over 50 preset combinations of filters – use them to explore the possibilities, change them as you like and save them to use again and achieve consistency in your work. All of Behold’s features are immediately available on purchase – there are no further purchases required to get the full content. We continue to work on Behold to improve and expand its many features.

About

CUBE

Create visually stunning videos and photos with unique, real-time effects inspired by popular movies. Apply motion trails, LiDAR-generated particles, and liquid metal transformations to your content. Easily customize and capture in Full HD.

Highlights
  • Motion Trail Effect
  • LiDAR Scanning Effect
  • Matrix Effect
  • Liquid Metal Effect
  • Real-time effect application
  • Customizable effects
  • Full HD video capture
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Motion Trail Effect: Inspired by "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners", CUBE copies the trail effect when David using the Sandevistan implant. LiDAR Scanning Effect: Sample real-time images and depth maps created by LiDAR Scanner to generate 3D particles (point clouds). Up to 3,000,000 points can be generated. Mixing the 3D particles with real-world scenes will make you feel like entering a surreal world. Matrix Effect: Inspired by Code Rain from the movie "The Matrix". This time, blue pill or red pill? Liquid Metal Effect: Take a trip back to 1991 and become the Terminator T-1000 of the movie "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" by James Cameron. CUBE is an app that combines the powerful capabilities of Metal and ARKit, allowing you to easily create fun videos and photos with real-time effects. Using CUBE, you can: - Instantly switch between effects - Apply effects to people, background or entire image - Customize effects with a range of options - Capture Full HD & High Bitrate Videos Body segmentation is only supported on iPhone XR/XS (A12) and above. LiDAR Scanning is supported on devices with LiDAR Scanner. Support for new features of iOS 16: - Enable HDR by default: HDR is enabled by default on devices running iOS 16, allowing photos and videos to have improved dynamic range. - Introduce 2K photo mode: Photos can be taken at a resolution of 2880 * 1620 for improved clarity.

Screenshots

Behold4 screens
CUBE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Behold at none against CUBE's 3. Behold also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. CUBE sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Behold asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Behold holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Behold's written reviews are positive against 83% of CUBE's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Behold ships an update every 2 months, CUBE monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Behold versus CUBE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeholdCUBE
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.7 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings616 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size335 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter Macdonald银凯 朱

Customer experience

Behold

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CUBE

All ratings16 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Behold

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

CUBE

One-time3
  • Matrix Effect$1.99
  • LiDAR Scanning Effect$1.99
  • Liquid Metal Effect$1.99

Questions

Is Behold free?
Behold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CUBE free?
CUBE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Behold or CUBE?
Behold is rated higher. Behold averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while CUBE averages 4.7 from 16 ratings.
Do Behold or CUBE have ads?
Neither Behold nor CUBE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Behold or CUBE?
Behold ships an update every 2 months, and CUBE monthly. Most recently, Behold was updated on October 7, 2026 and CUBE on October 19, 2026.

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