Microscope vs Cartoon Filter by CameraFX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microscope
Transform your iPhone into a high-magnification microscope. Explore the intricate details of everyday objects like skin, eyes, and hair with impressive digital zoom. Amaze others by revealing hidden cellular structures and fine particles.
- High-magnification digital zoom
- Magnify skin and reveal cell structure
- View inner eye details
- Examine hair particles
- Impress friends with detailed views
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Turn your iPhone into a powerful electron microscope! Amaze your friends and trick them into believing that your iPhone also acts as a microscope and is capable of magnifying objects by thousands of times. Point the iPhone camera at your hands, and show your friends how the digital zoom magnifies your skin, revealing the cell structure with the precision and detail offered only by an expensive microscope! Aim the iPhone camera at your eye, and cause amazement when your screen will begin showing the inner parts of your eye, amongst blood vessels and various other filaments and cell. Finally, point the iPhone to your hair, and dazzle your friends as the tiniest particles your hair is made of begin to reveal themselves on the iPhone's screen!
Cartoon Filter by CameraFX
Transform your photos and videos with a variety of artistic filters and effects. Apply styles like cartoon, sketch, or vintage to new recordings or existing media from your library.
- 15 awesome effects
- Underwater, Cartoon, Sketch, Matrix effects
- Vintage, Antique Black & White, Popart styles
- Apply effects to photos and videos
- Use with camera or photo library
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Stunning camera effects and filter for photo and video. The app offers the following features: - Record photo and video with 15 awesome effects - Special effects like Underwater, Cartoon, Sketch, Matrix - Artistic effects like Vintage, Antique Black & White, Popart, and more - Apply effects to pictures from your photo library
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cartoon Filter by CameraFX at 86% against Microscope's 4%. Cartoon Filter by CameraFX also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.0). Microscope's advantage is ratings volume (223 vs 5) and iOS requirement (3.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cartoon Filter by CameraFX holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microscope has 223 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of Microscope's written reviews are positive against 86% of Cartoon Filter by CameraFX's.
Microscope ships an update every 10 months, Cartoon Filter by CameraFX every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Microscope | Cartoon Filter by CameraFX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (223 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.3% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 223 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 3.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LogSat LLC | Daniel Jirku |
Customer experience
Microscope
Cartoon Filter by CameraFX
Bugs and requests
Microscope
Reported bugs
6 issues- Information screen goes black and unresponsive
- Cannot return to main screen from info screen
- Camera recognition fails for non-hand/eye/hair objects
- App shows same image even with camera covered
- Works only once then requires app restart
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- Selection screen doesn't function as intended
Requested features
7 requests- Show actual magnified images of scanned objects
- Real microscope functionality
- Ability to take multiple different pictures
- Clearer description that app is a prank/gag
- Update for iPod Touch with camera compatibility
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- Remove pre-loaded limitation
- Working information/selection screen
Cartoon Filter by CameraFX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Microscope
No in-app purchases
Cartoon Filter by CameraFX
No in-app purchases
Questions
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