EdgeDetectionCamera vs Portrait Drawing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EdgeDetectionCamera
Easily transform photos and camera feeds into manga-style line drawings. Adjust line thickness and transparency for custom backgrounds. Export your creations to share with other applications.
- Extract line drawings from photos
- Real-time line drawing from camera
- Adjustable line thickness
- Make white areas transparent
- Export and share images
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Must-see for manga makers! Landscape images from photos and cameras as manga backgrounds! It is an application that can easily extract line drawings. [How to use] Photo selection You can select a photo and make it a line drawing. You can adjust the thickness of the tip with the slider. You can also make the white part transparent. Camera image Line drawing is extracted in real time from the camera image. It can be adjusted and made transparent with the slider. share You can export images and transfer them to each application. It is an application that can easily extract line drawings. [How to use] Photo selection You can select a photo and make it a line drawing. You can adjust the thickness of the tip with the slider. You can also make the white part transparent. Camera image Line drawing is extracted in real time from the camera image. It can be adjusted and made transparent with the slider. share You can export images and transfer them to each application.
Portrait Drawing
Transform your photos into artistic portraits with this app. It automatically detects faces, isolates them from backgrounds, and applies an artist-drawn effect. Get unique, stylized images from your existing pictures.
- Artist-drawn portrait generation
- Automatic face detection
- Background isolation
- Photo library integration
- Unique artistic effects
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Portrait Drawing is an app that allows you to get an artist-drawn person face image. Simply take a photo or select a photo from the photo library on your iPhone, the the app will detect a person's face, isolate it from background and generate an artistic portrait drawing image. * Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ** The first photo shown above is Rafaella Mendes Diniz on https://unsplash.com ** The second photo shown above is by Alex Perez on https://unsplash.com ** The third photo shown above is by Clem Onojeghuo on https://unsplash.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Portrait Drawing at 100% against EdgeDetectionCamera's 47%. Portrait Drawing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). EdgeDetectionCamera's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (17 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. EdgeDetectionCamera sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Portrait Drawing sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Portrait Drawing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EdgeDetectionCamera has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of EdgeDetectionCamera's written reviews are positive against 100% of Portrait Drawing's.
EdgeDetectionCamera ships an update every 3 months, Portrait Drawing every 22 months. Both last shipped on August 28, 2026.
| Parameter | EdgeDetectionCamera | Portrait Drawing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 172 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mitsuhiro Hashimoto | Hikaru Tsuyumine |
Customer experience
EdgeDetectionCamera
Portrait Drawing
In-app purchases
EdgeDetectionCamera
- Premium3 Days trial$1.997 Days
Portrait Drawing
- Ad-free$0.991 Month
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