Comparison

Blend Photos vs Preview mini

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

Head to head
About

Blend Photos

Easily create unique blended photo artwork with premade templates and advanced editing tools. Enhance your images with creative filters, overlays, and AI-powered background removal. Share your professional-looking creations instantly.

Highlights
  • Blend editing templates
  • Automatic background removal
  • Advanced blend mode adjustment
  • Shape mask for overlays
  • Gradient blend
  • Crop & rotation
  • HD resolution saving & sharing
Features
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Add a touch of creativity to your image with beautiful effects using Blend Photos. Create your own unique blending artwork in just a few taps with our premade templates. With Blend Photos, you can access to a full range of featues and controls to quickly and easily level up your pictures. Discover the power of creativity an unleash your artistic touch with Blend Photos. It offers a range of features at your fingertips - from the basics like cropping and rotating your photos to more complex tools like adding creative filters and overlays. With the selection of highly customizable effects, you can craft photos that look proffesional and polished in just a few seconds. Features - Various blend editing templates - Automatically remove object background - Blend mode advanced adjustment - Add shape mask for overlay photo - Gradient blend for object and background photo - Crop & rotation - HD resolution saving & sharing Quickly and easily share your creation to your friends, family or any social media directly from the app. With intuitive navigation and a clutter-free interface, Blends Photos is sure to make your editing experience a joy. In addition to its ease of use, Blend Photos is also an incredibly powerful tool with its smart AI technology. This is an advanced mobile photo editing app that help you make your photo dreams come true. Privacy Policy: https://tapuniverse.com/policy/ Terms of Services: https://tapuniverse.com/terms/

About

Preview mini

Edit and annotate images and PDFs with a desktop-like experience on your iPhone and iPad. Offers advanced features for viewing, converting, and managing files, inspired by macOS.

Highlights
  • Image editing and cropping
  • PDF annotation and editing
  • File conversion
  • Drag and drop support
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Password protection for PDFs
Features
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Preview mini is a powerful tool for working with images and PDFs on iPhone and iPad. Inspired by macOS. Created for iOS.  Preview mini combines the convenience of editing images and PDFs into a single application, offering advanced features for viewing, annotating, and converting files. The macOS-inspired desktop experience, featuring the brand-new File Desktop, familiar window controls, drag and drop, keyboard interaction, and even more to fall in love with. IMAGE EDITING – Highlight and crop image fragments – Rotate, flip, and resize – Add text, notes, and shapes – Support for blank templates with resolution selection PDF HANDLING – Edit and annotate PDF documents – Highlight text and create custom annotations* – Duplicate, convert, and manage PDF pages* – Add and remove passwords to protect files* IMPORT, EXPORT, AND INTEGRATION – Export images in HD quality* – Export JPEG/PNG with file size preview* – Support for keyboard shortcuts and trackpad for convenient use* *Features available in the full version of the application. Using Preview mini significantly simplifies the processing of images and PDF documents. You can quickly edit files, highlight important details, fill out forms, and add signatures without the need to switch between different applications. This saves you time, increases productivity, and makes working with documents convenient and intuitive! Download Preview mini and manage images and PDFs with macOS convenience on your iPhone and iPad! ––– Legal notice This application is NOT an Apple product. Preview mini is an independent development, inspired by macOS but not affiliated with Apple Inc. Images in the screenshots are provided by artists: Pok Rie (https://www.pexels.com/de-de/@pok-rie-33563) Fabian Wiktor (https://www.pexels.com/de-de/@fabianwiktor)

Screenshots

Blend Photos4 screens
Preview mini4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Blend Photos at 4.8 against Preview mini's 4.3. Blend Photos also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Preview mini's advantage is review sentiment (63% vs 41%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Blend Photos sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Preview mini sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blend Photos holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 468 and 212 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Blend Photos's written reviews are positive against 63% of Preview mini's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blend Photos ships an update every 6 weeks, Preview mini every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Blend Photos versus Preview mini: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlend PhotosPreview mini
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (468 ratings) — better4.3 (212 ratings)
Positive reviews40.7% of reviews63.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings468 — better212
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size183 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTAPUNIVERSE LLCMarian Koenig

Customer experience

Blend Photos

All ratings460 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive40.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative59.3%

Preview mini

All ratings212 ratings
Positive80.7%
Neutral4.7%
Negative14.6%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral10.3%
Negative26.5%

User reviews

Blend Photos

From 468 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 🎨 Variety of templates and customization options
  • ✨ Impressive AI-powered results
  • 🎯 Straightforward and impactful functionality
  • 💪 Powerful photo composite creation tools

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription-only model (no one-time purchase)
  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing issues
  • ❌ Blank screen/white screen on startup
  • ⚠️ Misleading free trial billing practices
  • 🔄 App becomes unresponsive during image processing

Preview mini

From 212 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Useful application, replaces MS Paint
  • 💡 Video tutorials are helpful
  • 🚀 Makes life easier
  • 👍 Wonderful and powerful iPad app
  • 👍 Great replacement for Preview (almost)

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Changes not saved on iPad
  • 🐛 Does not export PDF as picture
  • 🐛 Difficult to use on iPad
  • 🐛 Crashing the app on large PDFs
  • 🐛 Only allows acting on one page at a time

Bugs and requests

Blend Photos

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes after updates
  • Blank/white screen preventing app usage
  • Freezing on progress wheel during image import
  • Unable to upgrade app functionality
  • Image creation feature stops working
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  • App becomes unresponsive and requires force shutdown
  • Data loss after crashes

Requested features

5 requests
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Ability to add custom overlays beyond templates
  • AI-powered generative fill for blank spaces
  • Additional templates (starry night sky, beach scenes)
  • More advanced editing options and features

Preview mini

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Changes not saved when attaching to email
  • App errors out on large PDFs and crashes
  • App shuts down during photo editing, unsaved work lost
  • Cannot type the letter 'y' in documents
  • Payment issues with Apple, requires new credit card data
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  • Pro version not activated after deduction, amount not refunded
  • Errors when trying to buy the full version
  • Small glitch with 'cut' upon install
  • PDF cropping is not the same as Preview
  • Cannot paste as shown in preview videos
  • App hangs during PDF editing, lost entire work
  • No difference found between free and full version after purchase
  • File export only works with paid version

Requested features

27 requests
  • Split-screen or slide-over capability
  • Export PDF as picture (JPG, etc.)
  • Ability to paste one image on top of another
  • Ctrl-Z for quick undo
  • Straight line option for markup
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  • Tiled printing option
  • Export multiple edited images at once
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Ability to add PDF to share sheet
  • Copy & Paste transparent objects
  • More advanced image editing options
  • Slide show functionality
  • Presentation modes for PDFs
  • Ability to rotate and crop PDFs
  • Full screen slide mode
  • PDF filling functionality
  • Selectable fonts
  • Improve PDF cropping
  • Use in extension window for quick edits
  • Allow users to quickly edit inside the extension window
  • Support for share dialog
  • Improve light UI mode
  • Allow users to do to PDF what can be done to images (rotate, cut, add text)
  • Ability to change font size
  • Ability to remove highlighting
  • Better file management applet

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Blend Photos

Subscriptions2
  • Blend Photos+3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Blend Photos+3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Blend Photos+ Lifetime$29.99
1 purchases

Preview mini

One-time1
  • Preview mini PRO$4.99

Questions

Is Blend Photos free?
Blend Photos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Preview mini free?
Preview mini is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blend Photos or Preview mini?
Blend Photos is rated higher. Blend Photos averages 4.8 out of 5 from 468 ratings, while Preview mini averages 4.3 from 212 ratings.
Do Blend Photos or Preview mini have ads?
Neither Blend Photos nor Preview mini shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blend Photos or Preview mini?
Blend Photos ships an update every 6 weeks, and Preview mini every 10 days. Most recently, Blend Photos was updated on November 7, 2026 and Preview mini on November 3, 2026.

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