Bright Filters vs Sharp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bright Filters
This app uses AI to generate unique photo filters based on any image or music. It offers advanced editing tools for precise adjustments and a wide range of preset filter collections to enhance your photos.
- AI-generated infinite filters
- Music-reactive filters (album cover, genre)
- Advanced photo editing tools (HSL, curves)
- 200+ preset filter collections
- On-device image analysis for privacy
- Text stickers inspired by music
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Bright Filters is a powerful and easy to use editor that allows you to take your photos to the next level. The AI engine can create infinite filters generated by analysing any photo. You can also use Music Filters function to create stunning effects based on the song that you are currently listening. Bright Filters offers advanced editing tools to retouch your photos and a collection of presets to quickly apply unique adjustments to deliver stunning results. BRIGHT FILTERS feature The Bright Filters feature, automatically analyses the shot that you want to edit, and suggests a collection of filters based on our advanced algorithm. We really care about your privacy and therefore every image analysis operation is performed directly on the device, to ensure that no information is collected. • Infinite filters created from AI • A unique and innovative user experience to apply filters MUSIC FILTERS The app analyzes music and creates filters based on the song recognized. • "Album Cover Filter" is a smart filter generated by using the album cover, to give a unique style to your photo. • "Music Genre Filter" is a collection based on the kind of music you are currently listening, to adapt your photos perfectly to your mood. • Apply a text sticker inspired by the song recognized ADVANCED PHOTO EDITOR • Use precision sliders to adjust all your settings like exposure, contrast, highlights, shadow, tint, temperature • Improve the look of your photo with clarity, dehaze, grain functions. • HSL independently adjust the hue, saturation, and luminance of eight different colors red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta • Crop and rotate to improve the composition • 200+ photo filters designed for every kind of photo • Use curves to edit highlights, midtones, shadow PHOTO FILTERS COLLECTIONS Here is a list of some of the filter collections in the app • Sunset • Professional • Cinematic • Black & White • Dark • Portrait • Action • Concert • Travel • Dynamic • Look • Acid • Retro • Snow • Duotone • Fade • Indie • Infrared PRO MEMBERSHIP • New Filters every month • All the filters collections • HSL tool • Curve tool • Advanced correction tools - Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy : https://www.fulvioscichilone.it/privacy-policy-bright-filters/
Sharp
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Shoot the same thing more than once, and Sharp puts the shots together. Six tools, one engine. Nothing here edits a single photograph — everything here takes many frames of the same scene and gives back one picture. FOCUS — sharp from front to back A lens holds one plane in focus, and close up that plane is thinner than the subject. Move the focus between frames and Sharp takes every part of the result from the frame that has it sharpest. Not sure how wide its detail size should be? Choose by Eye stacks a piece of your bracket at four widths, side by side, so you can see which one has no halo. CLEAN — less noise, and long-exposure water Noise is different in every frame and the subject is not, so averaging frames takes it down by the square root of how many you shot: four halve it, sixteen quarter it. Water and cloud move between frames and average into smoothness, while everything that held still stays sharp. VANISH — the people walk out of the picture Take a dozen frames a few seconds apart while the square empties and fills. At each pixel Sharp keeps the frames that agree and throws out the ones that do not, then averages what is left — whoever was walking through is gone, and the noise goes with them. TRAILS — every place the light went A hundred short exposures of a night sky, a torch drawing, headlights on a bend. Sharp keeps the brightest frame at each pixel, so every mark the light made is in the picture and the sky stays as dark as one frame had it. Or keep the darkest instead, and take the passing lights out. BLEND — the shadows and the highlights both An exposure bracket, darker and brighter, into one picture: the sky from the dark frame, the shadows from the bright one, blended without a seam and with no curve to set. PICK — the sharpest frame of the burst Twenty handheld frames, one of them caught between heartbeats. Sharp hands back the one that won, exactly as it came off the camera. BUILT FOR LARGE SETS • Camera RAW, HEIC, JPEG, TIFF and PNG, read straight from Files or Photos • Frames are read a strip at a time, so memory does not grow with the number of frames • Alignment that covers focus breathing, drift and a rolled wrist, and checks its own work • Compare the result with any single frame at exactly the same zoom, beside a map of how each pixel was decided PAINT IT BACK Every one of these tools is a guess made a pixel at a time. Choose the frame that has that part right and paint it back over the result — one finger paints, two move the picture, an Apple Pencil presses harder for more. The repair is re-applied to the 16-bit file at full depth. FREE, AND THEN ONE PAYMENT All six tools run on up to 12 frames free, at full quality: the same alignment, the same merges, the same speed, the same RAW support, and a full-resolution JPEG with no watermark. Nothing about how good the picture is has been held back. The $9.99 unlock adds: • Unlimited frames, for every tool • The retouch brush, with retouches you can reopen and change • 16-bit TIFF, the maps, and every frame aligned for Helicon, Zerene or Photoshop • Every bracket kept as a project, with its settings and its result • Batches of projects run one after another, and long brackets stacked in slabs One payment, shared with your family. No subscription, no account, and not a timed trial. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No analytics, no tracking, no server, and no network of its own. Your photographs are read where they are, and the only thing that goes anywhere is what you share yourself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sharp at fortnightly against Bright Filters's every 6 weeks. Bright Filters's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Bright Filters sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month and Sharp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bright Filters ships an update every 6 weeks, Sharp fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Bright Filters | Sharp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (34 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fulvio Scichilone | Pablo Miranda |
In-app purchases
Bright Filters
- Monthly3 Days trial$3.491 Month
- Yearly$21.491 Year
- One-Time Purchase$33.99
Sharp
- Unlock Sharp$9.99









