Dazed Lens vs CUBE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dazed Lens
Apply a variety of unique holographic and iridescent filters to your photos and videos. Customize filter effects like opacity, grain, and color. Offers various aspect ratios for social media.
- 50 unique holographic filters
- Customizable filter settings
- Video and image modes
- Trim and speed controls for video
- Multiple aspect ratios for social media
- Grain, scanlines, and distortion effects
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Wash your content in 50 unique filters on offer across 10 Packs. Begin your v a p o r w a v e adventure in distortion & color with our free #holo Pack. #holo is a simple, yet beautiful introduction to post-Internet Iridescence. Customise filters with personalised user settings; イ . Opacity ロ . Grain ハ . Scanlines ニ . Displacement ホ . Tint / Blendmode ヘ . Chromatic Aberration チ . Saturation リ . & Border Switch between video / image modes! イ . Trim ロ . Speed ハ . Glitch ニ . Random Crop sizes include - 2:3 / 3:2 / 4:5 / 5:4 / 9:16 / 1.9:1 - to cover all instagram post and storey sizing requirements.
CUBE
Create visually stunning videos and photos with unique, real-time effects inspired by popular movies. Apply motion trails, LiDAR-generated particles, and liquid metal transformations to your content. Easily customize and capture in Full HD.
- Motion Trail Effect
- LiDAR Scanning Effect
- Matrix Effect
- Liquid Metal Effect
- Real-time effect application
- Customizable effects
- Full HD video capture
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Motion Trail Effect: Inspired by "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners", CUBE copies the trail effect when David using the Sandevistan implant. LiDAR Scanning Effect: Sample real-time images and depth maps created by LiDAR Scanner to generate 3D particles (point clouds). Up to 3,000,000 points can be generated. Mixing the 3D particles with real-world scenes will make you feel like entering a surreal world. Matrix Effect: Inspired by Code Rain from the movie "The Matrix". This time, blue pill or red pill? Liquid Metal Effect: Take a trip back to 1991 and become the Terminator T-1000 of the movie "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" by James Cameron. CUBE is an app that combines the powerful capabilities of Metal and ARKit, allowing you to easily create fun videos and photos with real-time effects. Using CUBE, you can: - Instantly switch between effects - Apply effects to people, background or entire image - Customize effects with a range of options - Capture Full HD & High Bitrate Videos Body segmentation is only supported on iPhone XR/XS (A12) and above. LiDAR Scanning is supported on devices with LiDAR Scanner. Support for new features of iOS 16: - Enable HDR by default: HDR is enabled by default on devices running iOS 16, allowing photos and videos to have improved dynamic range. - Introduce 2K photo mode: Photos can be taken at a resolution of 2880 * 1620 for improved clarity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dazed Lens at 4.9 against CUBE's 4.7. Dazed Lens also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Dazed Lens sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and CUBE sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dazed Lens holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Dazed Lens's written reviews are positive against 83% of CUBE's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dazed Lens | CUBE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better | 4.7 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Merriment Ltd | 银凯 朱 |
Customer experience
Dazed Lens
CUBE
In-app purchases
Dazed Lens
- Total Ruin Pack$0.99
- Heatwave Pack$0.99
- Hearth Pack$0.99
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- Radio Smog Pack$0.99
- Pink Frost Pack$0.99
- Green Room Pack$0.99
- Fabric Pack$0.99
- Melt Banana Pack$0.99
- Collapsing Scenery Pack$0.99
- Infinitely Dazed$7.99
CUBE
- Matrix Effect$1.99
- LiDAR Scanning Effect$1.99
- Liquid Metal Effect$1.99








