Comparison

GhostCam vs Bricolage

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

Head to head
About

GhostCam

Create "fake" ghost photographs with customizable ghost elements. Adjust the number, opacity, and size of ghosts, and precisely position them to fit your scene. Save your spooky creations directly to your device's photo library.

Highlights
  • Create fake ghost photos
  • Customize ghost number, opacity, and size
  • Select ghost placement area
  • Save photos to library
Features
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By using this GhostCam, you can take "Fake" ghost photographs. [Main Features] - Enable to specify number, opacity and size of ghosts. - Enable to select the area of ghost conforming with the scene of photographies. - Enable to save your ghost photographies to your photo library.

About

Bricolage

Create professional visual effects for photos and videos using a node-based compositing system. Chain over 150 effects to achieve unique looks, from subtle color correction to complex distortions and animations. Supports HD video processing and real-time playback.

Highlights
  • Node-based compositing
  • Over 150 effects
  • Video and photo processing
  • Real-time playback
  • Customizable templates
  • Face recognition integration
  • Bezier curve shape cutting
Features
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Bricolage is a powerful special-effects toolbox for tricking out your photos and movies like the Hollywood pros do. Pipe your video through a chain of basic effects, each processing the picture in a different way. With over 150 to choose from it is easy to create completely unique looks and effects. And now its mature 3DTV tools shine with the perfect stereo of the Vision Pro. Mix multiple images and animate special effects to give your videos the finishing touches they need, from subtle regional color correction or exposure adjustment, to wild cartoon colors or funhouse-mirror distortions. Just bring in a video (or photo!) and drop effects between the input and the output. Bricolage takes advantage of the powerful graphics hardware in your iPad or iPhone to deliver smooth playback and responsive controls. You can even zoom into your video while it's playing. And when you've built a great effect, you can save it for reuse with other projects. Bricolage uses the industry-standard technique known as 'node-based compositing' to build complex effects from a chain of simple building blocks. You'll combine different layers using photoshop-style blending modes or black & white masks. Make different versions of an image and combine them back together to blur or darken the edges of an image, or selectively recolor the sky or ground. Use animated transitions to switch video streams or overlay text and graphics. Cut out shapes from pictures using Bezier curves. Apply image distortions and move them around the video, or use Apple's Face Recognition technology to mark or cover faces detected in your video. Place, scale and animate video overlays or shapes and gradients. Process your shots to look like a desert, or add film grain and a vintage photo process. You can even add titles or overlay time code on your movies. Bricolage uses custom Metal programs to process HD video in real time directly on the graphics processor. If you have an older device, don't worry, Bricolage offers half- and quarter-resolution 'proxy' modes, so you can get a preview of most effects with responsive controls even at HD, while still producing a full-resolution movie. Despite its great power, Bricolage is quite simple to use. Just build a chain of effects for your images to flow through from the inputs to the output. Drag effect nodes to 'kiss' the output of one to the input of another to form a connection. Or press and hold a link to insert a new node in the middle. With a zooming, scrolling canvas, you can organize your flows the way you like. Immediate feedback in the nodes makes it easy to experiment, while the full-screen node editor lets you perfect a single effect with enhanced tools. Features: Process still images or videos, pick stills from video Combined preview and node editing lets you create with live feedback Pre-built templates to make advanced effects easy to give you a head start on your own awesome creations. Save your node flows as templates and import them into other projects Built-in help with inline descriptions of nodes and their parameters Infinite undos, and for the indecisive, re-dos. Playback proxies at reduced resolution for more responsive editing on older devices Zoom and pan photos and videos, even while playing Multiple output resolutions Over 127 standard Core Image Effects Many more custom effects including: Map Generator Path Move Recolor Tilt Shift Edge Outlines Lens Distortion 360° Spherical VR Unwrap Stipple Semantic Segmentation Node Saliency Detector Bricks pattern Radial Grid Four-Up node ASCII Art Green Screen Remover* Fractal Noise* Film Grain* Text* Face Mask Relative Crop Fade Over Switcher Multi-mixer Color Bands Depth Key, Fog, Mix, Blur HSL/YUV/HWB Convert Time Code Overlay Red-Blue and Split-Screen Stereoscopic composite Primary, Secondary, 3D LUT Color Correction Flipbook/Sprite Atlas player *Fully functional effect, in-app purchase removes watermark

Screenshots

GhostCam3 screens
Bricolage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bricolage at 3.6 against GhostCam's 2.3. Bricolage also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 3). GhostCam's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and price ($0.99 vs $6.99). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

GhostCam costs $0.99 and Bricolage $6.99 up front. Bricolage sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. GhostCam asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bricolage holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bricolage has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of GhostCam's written reviews are positive against 48% of Bricolage's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GhostCam ships an update every 15 months, Bricolage every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
GhostCam versus Bricolage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhostCamBricolage
Price$0.99 — better$6.99
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)3.6 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.5% of reviews — better48.1% of reviews
Number of ratings316 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB81 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTahito AokiPixelSplincher

Customer experience

GhostCam

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive53.5%
Neutral10.9%
Negative35.7%

Bricolage

All ratings16 ratings
Positive56.3%
Neutral25.0%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive48.1%
Neutral33.3%
Negative18.5%

In-app purchases

None

GhostCam

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Bricolage

One-time5
  • Noise Pack$0.99
  • Greenscreen Remover$1.99
  • Shapes$1.99
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  • Cutouts$1.99
  • Title Pack$1.99

Questions

Is GhostCam free?
GhostCam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bricolage free?
Bricolage costs $6.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GhostCam or Bricolage?
Bricolage is rated higher. GhostCam averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Bricolage averages 3.6 from 16 ratings.
Do GhostCam or Bricolage have ads?
Neither GhostCam nor Bricolage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GhostCam or Bricolage?
GhostCam ships an update every 15 months, and Bricolage every 4 months. Most recently, GhostCam was updated on November 6, 2026 and Bricolage on November 6, 2026.

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