Comparison

Template Planner for Instagram vs Auto Blur Background

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

Head to head
About

Template Planner for Instagram

Create visually appealing Instagram content with a vast library of customizable templates for feeds, stories, and galleries. Enhance your posts with unique fonts, illustrations, and animations to design a professional and captivating social media presence.

Highlights
  • 850+ IG layouts and designs
  • Customizable illustrations, fonts, and templates
  • Feed, Story, and Gallery templates
  • Animated templates
  • Customization tools
  • Story planner tool
Features
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Meet Template – the Instagram template app with 850+ IG layouts and designs for your photos & videos. Customize your Instagram feed with Template’s vast selection of customizable illustrations, fonts, templates & more. Sleek, modern & always in style – Template’s vast selection of Instagram layouts are specially designed to fit your unique aesthetic. Whether you’re looking to create more captivating Insta Stories, single-feed posts, or Galleries, Template makes it easy to design, plan & customize every aspect of your IG feed. Made for influencers, content creators, e-shops, & small businesses to perfect their feed & create professional-looking social media content. It’s never been easier to create an Instagram feed that’s uniquely you. Create, design & captivate with Template today. TEMPLATE FEATURES FEED TEMPLATES • Design your perfect Instagram feed with ease on Template • Handpick your favorite template from 200+ feed layouts that fit your IG aesthetic • Add background textures, stickers & fonts to create an Insta collage masterpiece STORY TEMPLATES • Make your Instagram Stories come to life like never before • Select an IG Story template from our library of 200+ modern Story layouts • Add additional elements like fonts, stickers, gifs & more GALLERY TEMPLATES • Create stunning Instagram Galleries with just a few taps • Choose from 100+ swipeable Gallery templates that fit your unique style • Make seamless Gallery layouts with smooth transitions at every swipe ANIMATED TEMPLATES • Bring your IG feed to life with animated templates • Template offers 15+ animated templates of all different styles • Captivate your followers with moving images & gifs to make a lasting impression CUSTOMIZATION • Template puts you in full control over your IG layout design • Select from 70+ unique & captivating fonts • Design & customize every detail of your template with custom brushes • Add customizable illustrations like stickers to your layout to give it your personal touch • Plan and organize your IG stories using the story planner tool (only available with Template Premium subscription) Design your perfect Instagram feed with Template. TEMPLATE PLUS Many of the features are free to use, but Template always wants to provide you with the best & freshest template designs. With Template Plus, you get access to all 850+ Template designs, fonts, & more. TEMPLATE PREMIUM You can also unlock all features in Template with Template Premium. This subscription unlocks all of our customizable tools including the ability to import custom colors, fonts, stickers, and logos. You can also create your own templates from scratch and unlock the story planner to organize and plan your IG stories. This subscription is ideal for those who want more creative freedom on their templates and for businesses. You can choose to subscribe monthly or annually. Annual subscription billing will start after a 3-day trial period and will automatically renew each year. Monthly billing will start immediately and auto-renew each month. Payments will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. If you subscribe before a free trial period ends, the remainder of the trial period will be forfeited. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by you & auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://templateapp.co/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://templateapp.co/privacy-policy/ Have a question? Reach out to us at hello@filmm.co or go to https://templateapp.co/support/ Follow us on Instagram at @templateapp

About

Auto Blur Background

Easily create professional-looking photos with a DSLR-like blur effect. This app automatically detects the focus area and offers various blur styles and manual editing tools to achieve stunning bokeh effects.

Highlights
  • Automatic focus detection
  • Dozens of blur effects
  • Manual brush editing
  • DSLR-like bokeh effects
  • Adjustable blur intensity
  • Emoji effects
Features
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Auto blur background is fast and easy to use app to create amazing blur background effect pictures. Features - Smart focus and automatically recognize the focus area. - Background Blur effect app offers dozens of blur effects. - Offer manual brush tool to edit the blur area. - Bokeh effects like DSLR camera - Unlimited emoji effects, more emoji more fun. - Picture Blur intensity adjustment adjust the image blur intensity, in order, to give a bigger blur effect, to the picture to be blurred, using this blur pic editor or speed blur app. - Create the most realistic blur effect with various aperture styles just like DSLR camera. Portrait photography app has lots of photo blurring, effects and tools. Using them you can easily make your own DSLR Bokeh Effect. Auto blur background is an effective blur photo editor, which can be used, to give your picture background, a blurry effect. Blur unwanted portions of a pic effectively, and give it a blur effect, using the blur photo filters, of this blur picture editor or blur pic editor.blurry pictures, photo background editor, camera focus, focus camera, dslr camera effect, dslr photography. Give a Blur DSLR photograph foundation look to your picture, It will make your picture to look same as obscure dslr camera yield. Blur image background is an effective blur photo editor, which can be used, to give your picture background, a blurry effect. Blur unwanted portions of a pic effectively, and give it a blur effect, using the blur photo filters, of this blur picture editor or blur pic editor. Bokeh Effects app is your ultimate blur effect app. Now, you don't need a DSLR camera or you don't need be a professional photographer to make a DSLR Style Blur Background effect on your photo. DSLR Camera Blur Effects is perfect combination of beauty and functionality. And it is Ideal for creating AfterFocus Photo, Focus Photo, Blur Background Pictures, Blur Pictures, Point Blur Picture and many more. Try Now!!

Screenshots

Template Planner for Instagram4 screens
Auto Blur Background4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Template Planner for Instagram at 79% against Auto Blur Background's 0%. Template Planner for Instagram also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 56). Auto Blur Background's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Template Planner for Instagram sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Auto Blur Background sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Template Planner for Instagram holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Template Planner for Instagram has 2.1K ratings behind it against 56, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Template Planner for Instagram's written reviews are positive against 0% of Auto Blur Background's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Template Planner for Instagram ships an update every 6 weeks, Auto Blur Background weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Template Planner for Instagram versus Auto Blur Background: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTemplate Planner for InstagramAuto Blur Background
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better4.4 (56 ratings)
Positive reviews79.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.1K — better56
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size337 MB194 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMidtone LLCBui Dinh Nguyen

Customer experience

Template Planner for Instagram

All ratings2,073 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews404 reviews
Positive79.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative14.1%

Auto Blur Background

All ratings56 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Template Planner for Instagram

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes and loses work
  • Inability to restore purchases
  • Paid templates not working as expected
  • Subscription issues and incorrect charges

Requested features

7 requests
  • More free template options
  • Ability to reposition elements within templates
  • Integration with other photo editing apps
  • Option to change template order in stories
  • More font and design customization options
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  • Video template support
  • Improved stability and performance

Auto Blur Background

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Template Planner for Instagram

Subscriptions5
  • Template+$4.991 Month
  • Template Premium$9.991 Month
  • Template+3 Days trial$26.991 Year
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  • Template+1 Year trial$26.991 Year
  • Template Premium3 Days trial$54.991 Year
One-time5
  • Paper Pack$2.99
  • Craft Pack$2.99
  • Minimal Pack$2.99
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  • Film$3.99
  • Instant Pack$3.99
4 purchases

Auto Blur Background

One-time4
  • Bokeh Effect$0.99
  • Emoji Effect$0.99
  • Remove Ads$0.99
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  • Manual select blur area$1.99

Questions

Is Template Planner for Instagram free?
Template Planner for Instagram is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Auto Blur Background free?
Auto Blur Background is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Template Planner for Instagram or Auto Blur Background?
Template Planner for Instagram is rated higher. Template Planner for Instagram averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Auto Blur Background averages 4.4 from 56 ratings.
Do Template Planner for Instagram or Auto Blur Background have ads?
Neither Template Planner for Instagram nor Auto Blur Background shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Template Planner for Instagram or Auto Blur Background?
Template Planner for Instagram ships an update every 6 weeks, and Auto Blur Background weekly. Most recently, Template Planner for Instagram was updated on November 7, 2026 and Auto Blur Background on November 3, 2026.

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