iSoftBox vs Blink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iSoftBox
This creative lighting tool allows photographers to illuminate subjects and add accent colors using their mobile devices. Explore dramatic effects with multiple devices or image stacking for enhanced still photography.
- Key light illumination
- Accent light for colors
- Multiple device synchronization
- Image stacking for dramatic effects
- Creative lighting control
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iSoftBox turns your iPhone or iPad into a clean, controllable light source for photography. Use the display you already have to illuminate small subjects, digitize film, create calibration frames, or paint with light. A Clean, Full-Screen Light The selected color fills the entire display without permanent controls, toolbars, or status indicators contaminating the light. Choose HSB to shape hue, saturation, and brightness, or switch to CCT to fine-tune white light through temperature, tint, and intensity. A temporary visual readout appears only while you make an adjustment. Made for Real Photography • Product and Macro Lighting — Use one device as a key, fill, rim, or accent light for small subjects. Combine multiple devices when your setup needs more coverage or separation. • Film Digitizing — Place a negative carrier over a neutral white screen to create a practical backlight for camera scanning. • Astrophotography Flat Frames — Rest the device over an upward-facing telescope aperture and use its uniform screen to capture flat-field calibration frames. • Light Painting — Move a colored screen through a long exposure to create broad, expressive trails that are difficult to achieve with a point light. Controls That Stay Out of the Shot Each color mode has its own gesture assignments. Customize which one- and two-finger swipes adjust each property and choose the drag direction that increases its value. Double-tap to open precise controls for the active mode. When your setup is ready, lock gestures to prevent accidental changes while positioning a subject, film carrier, or other equipment. Choose a Brightness Curve that suits how you want adjustments to respond. Enable Preserve Settings when you want iSoftBox to restore your Color Mode or Color Adjustments the next time it opens. Built-in Color Accuracy guidance identifies display settings that can affect color consistency. iSoftBox keeps the display awake while the light is active. When the app leaves the foreground, it restores your original system brightness. Accessible and Private All gesture-driven adjustments are also available through standard controls for VoiceOver and Switch Control users. iSoftBox requires no account and includes no analytics or tracking identifiers. Your preferences remain on your device. Whether you are building a careful tabletop setup or experimenting outdoors after dark, iSoftBox gives you a simple photographic light that is always close at hand.
Blink
Transform your photos with AI-powered filters and effects. Create unique comic, anime, and retro game-style avatars from a single image. Explore a variety of popular styles and continuously updated templates.
- AI-powered photo filters
- Comic and anime style generation
- Retro game effects
- Multiple popular style templates
- Continuous template updates
- Easy one-tap operation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iSoftBox at none against Blink's 5. iSoftBox also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Blink's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks). On price 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
Both are free to download. Blink sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. iSoftBox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iSoftBox has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of iSoftBox's written reviews are positive against 67% of Blink's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iSoftBox ships an update every 5 weeks, Blink every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iSoftBox | Blink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Haoyuan Xia | Beijing Jianchang Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
iSoftBox
Blink
In-app purchases
iSoftBox
No in-app purchases
Blink
- Blink会员连续包月$2.991 Month
- Blink会员连续包年$24.991 Year
- Blink会员 [ 7天会员,一次性付费 ]$1.99
- Blink会员 [ 月会员,一次性付费 ]$9.99
- Blink会员 [ 年会员,一次性付费 ]$59.99








