Vasoline Lens vs Wide Conversion Lens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vasoline Lens
Easily apply soft focus blur effects to any part of your photos using adjustable brush tools. Control brush size, intensity, and shape for precise editing. Recreate the vintage aesthetic of smeared lens filters.
- Adjustable brush tool for selective blur
- Control brush size and intensity
- Multiple brush shapes for fine control
- Simulates soft focus lens effect
- Apply blur to foreground, background, or mid-ground
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Simply use the brush tool to apply light or heavy amounts of blur effect to any portion of your photo - foreground, background and mid-ground. Adjust the brush size and intensity. And select from a number of brush shapes from the editor for fine picture control. Vasoline Lens is inspired by soft focus, a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred. To recreate this effect people would smear petroleum jelly on a clear filter or on the front element or even the back element of the lens itself. Messy times!
Wide Conversion Lens
Apply a wide-angle lens effect to your videos and photos, adjusting the distortion to your liking. You can capture new content with your device's camera or edit existing media from your camera roll. The app allows for touch-based control of the distortion center and offers various output and sharing options.
- Wide-angle effect adjustment
- Touch to change distortion center
- Camera shooting (video/photo)
- Load from Camera Roll
- Aspect ratio setting
- Save and share media
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It is an app that can edit videos and photos as if shot with a wide-conversion lens camera. The size of the wide-angle effect is adjustable. It supports not only videos and photos stored on your smartphone, but also cameras. [Material] - Camera shooting: video, photo - Camera Roll: Load video and photos [Settings] - Wide-angle effect setting - Aspect ratio setting - Storage resolution: 20 to 100% of the original resolution [Touch operation] Touch on the screen image to change the center position for wide angle. The further away from the center of the image, the greater the image distortion. [Output] - Save to Camera Roll: Video, Photo - Video and photo sharing: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, ... [Note] It just makes it look as if it was shot with a wide-angle lens. For example, shooting a tall building from a short distance cannot be used in the same way as a real wide-angle lens.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Vasoline Lens at Free against Wide Conversion Lens's $1.99. Vasoline Lens also leads on rating (2.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Wide Conversion Lens's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (17% vs 0%). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Vasoline Lens is free to download; Wide Conversion Lens costs $1.99 up front. Vasoline Lens sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wide Conversion Lens asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vasoline Lens holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Vasoline Lens's written reviews are positive against 17% of Wide Conversion Lens's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Vasoline Lens ships an update every 2 weeks, Wide Conversion Lens every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vasoline Lens | Wide Conversion Lens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Merriment Ltd | Masanori Katsuta |
Customer experience
Vasoline Lens
Wide Conversion Lens
In-app purchases
Vasoline Lens
- Pro Upgrade$0.99
Wide Conversion Lens
No in-app purchases
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