Portrait vs X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Portrait
Easily separate foreground subjects from their backgrounds and apply creative filters. Enhance your photos with focus effects, background adjustments, black and white options, and skin improvement tools.
- Background separation
- Foreground subject isolation
- Focus filter
- Background adjustment filter
- Black and white filter
- Skin improvement filter
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A very useful tools to separate foreground with background image. It also provide four filters: 1. focus. 2. background. 3. black and white. 4. skin improve. Try it and you will like it. Smartkids Media @2020
X
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X-A/P (X-App/Platform) brings together a variety of mini-apps in one place, ready to help you tackle everything from quick server tasks to a bit of gaming. Whether you need a time lapse camera, a simple SSH client, a route planner to get where you already are, or a tool to track sunrise and sunset times, X-A/P has you covered. With more features in development - from user-suggested ideas to entirely new utilities - this all-in-one app aims to keep things fresh and exciting for everyone. At the heart of X-A/P is a vision for continuous growth, but it’s also a personal passion project. While new features and improvements will come as inspiration (and free time) allow, the pace of updates often depends on feedback, user suggestions, and overall interest in the app. In other words, the more you use and enjoy X-A/P, the more motivation there is to build and refine new mini-apps. Download X-A/P now to see what it can do for you - and perhaps even help shape what it becomes next!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Portrait at none against X's 1. Portrait also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. X sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Portrait asks for nothing beyond the download.
Portrait ships an update every 3 days, X every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Portrait | X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hung-Yao Chen | Sami Salkosuo |
In-app purchases
Portrait
No in-app purchases
X
- Full Access$4.99
