Behold vs CUBE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
CUBE
Apply real-time augmented reality video effects to your photos and videos. Features include LiDAR scanning for 3D particle clouds, liquid metal camouflage, and motion trails. Offers fine-tuning of effects and high-resolution recording.
- Real-time AR video effects
- LiDAR 3D particle cloud scanning
- Liquid metal camouflage effect
- Motion trail effect
- Slit scan for time bending
- Adjustable effects for people/background/frame
- Full HD video recording
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UBE brings real-time AR video effects to your iPhone camera. Built on Metal and ARKit, it lets you shoot eye-catching videos and photos with effects applied live as you film. LIDAR SCANNING CUBE combines the live camera image with the depth map from the LiDAR Scanner to build a 3D particle cloud of up to 3,000,000 points. Blend it with the real world and step into a surreal version of your surroundings. LIQUID METAL CAMOUFLAGE Go back to 1991 and become the T-1000 from James Cameron's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". Your body turns into shimmering, see-through liquid metal that blends into the scene behind you. CODE RAIN Inspired by the falling code from "The Matrix". Blue pill or red pill? MOTION TRAIL Inspired by "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners", CUBE recreates the afterimage trail David leaves behind when he activates his Sandevistan. SLIT SCAN Stretch and bend time by capturing the scene one slice at a time. WITH CUBE YOU CAN - Switch between effects instantly - Apply effects to people, the background or the whole frame - Fine-tune each effect with its own settings - Record Full HD video at a high bitrate - Take high-resolution photos at 2880 × 1620 COMPATIBILITY - Body segmentation requires iPhone XS / XR (A12 Bionic) or later. - LiDAR Scanning requires a device with a LiDAR Scanner.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. CUBE sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Behold asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
Behold ships an update every 2 months, CUBE monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Behold | CUBE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.7 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 335 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Macdonald | 银凯 朱 |
Customer experience
Behold
CUBE
In-app purchases
Behold
No in-app purchases
CUBE
- Matrix Effect$1.99
- LiDAR Scanning Effect$1.99
- Liquid Metal Effect$1.99









