Comparison

Vasoline Lens vs See

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

See

Create unique visual art by layering multiple photos with adjustable transparency. Combine images from your camera, web searches, or saved collections to achieve a novel artistic effect.

Highlights
  • Transparent photo composition
  • Multi-image layering
  • Web image integration
  • Adjustable transparency brush
  • Intuitive editing tools
  • Save to camera roll or collection
Features
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● "Semi-transparent new sensation" Let's make photos transparent and combine them multiple times! ● Transparent composition of photos. The "new art sense" is amazing! ● You can copy and use web images on this app. It's not just a photo background cropping app. You can create various effects just by changing the transmittance. [Features] ・ Transparent composite ・ Multi composite ・ Web image composite ・ Import resolution selection (foreground, background) ・ Stretching, rotating, and moving the background image ・ Fill all similar colors in the foreground ・ Collection Registration of transparent foreground image ・ Intuitive and simple operation ・ Unique app [Available photographic images] ・ Camera shooting ・ Camera roll photo ・ Web image (image search and copy) ・ Collection image ・ Paste image: Copy and paste a web image ・ File sharing: Can be sent from AirDrop, SNS, other apps [Edit operation] ・ Edit Mode: Foreground / background ・ Selection of foreground photo ・ Selection of background photo ・ Transparency / restoration of foreground photos ・ Transparent brush size / transmittance / transmission strength setting ・ Move (drag) / enlarge / reduce (pinch in / out) / rotate (touch rotation) of the background photo ・ Undo ・ Update the foreground photo with a composite photo ・ Save composite photos (save destination: camera roll / collection image folder) ・ Saving a watermarked foreground photo [File sharing] ・ File storage, AirDrop, email, LINE, Twitter, Facebook, memo, Dropbox ...

Screenshots

Vasoline Lens4 screens
See4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Vasoline Lens at Free against See's $2.99. Vasoline Lens also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). See's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 2.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Vasoline Lens is free to download; See costs $2.99 up front. Vasoline Lens sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. See asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

See holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vasoline Lens ships an update every 2 weeks, See every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Vasoline Lens versus See: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVasoline LensSee
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB1 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMerriment LtdMasanori Katsuta

Customer experience

Vasoline Lens

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

See

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Vasoline Lens

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$0.99
None

See

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vasoline Lens free?
Vasoline Lens is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is See free?
See costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vasoline Lens or See?
See is rated higher. Vasoline Lens averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while See averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Vasoline Lens or See have ads?
Neither Vasoline Lens nor See shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vasoline Lens or See?
Vasoline Lens ships an update every 2 weeks, and See every 2 months. Most recently, Vasoline Lens was updated on October 24, 2026 and See on October 30, 2026.

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