Vasoline Lens vs See
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!
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.
- Transparent photo composition
- Multi-image layering
- Web image integration
- Adjustable transparency brush
- Intuitive editing tools
- Save to camera roll or collection
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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 ...
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Vasoline Lens | See |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| 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 | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Merriment Ltd | Masanori Katsuta |
Customer experience
Vasoline Lens
See
In-app purchases
Vasoline Lens
- Pro Upgrade$0.99
See
No in-app purchases









