Comparison

LensFlare Optical Effects vs Bimostitch

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

Head to head
About

LensFlare Optical Effects

Enhance your photos with a wide array of realistic optical effects. Add professional touches like anamorphic flares, sun rays, and sci-fi light effects with just a few taps. Transform your images into stunning works of art.

Highlights
  • Over 70 optical effects
  • Anamorphic flares
  • Natural sunlight effects
  • Sci-fi flares
  • Moveable and interactive flares
  • Fully controllable light effects
Features
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Featured in Wired Magazine “...you don't know what you're missing until you try this app.” - Wired Magazine “...best iPhone app for adding realistic looking flares and optical effects.” - LifeInLofi.com User Reviews: "Incredibly powerful app. Very easy to use. Just a few taps and tweaks and your photos will pop with professional touches. Buy it." "Absolutely stunning. Thanks devs for sharing this with the community. Get it ASAP!!!" -------------------------------- Bring your photos to life with LensFlare. LensFlare is a must have app for any photographer or designer looking for the best in optical effects. With over 70 effects, you can choose from Holywood style anamorphic flares, sci-fi effects, sun rays, and more. Each flare has unique properties and is moveable and interactive. These aren't overlays but fully controllable light effects. Lens Types: - Anamorphic Flares - Natural Sunlight - Sci-fi Flares LensFlare will bring your photos to life turning them into works of art to share with friends and family. Tag your photos with #LensFlareApp for a chance to be featured!

About

Bimostitch

Effortlessly create high-resolution panoramas from your photos or videos. This app automatically stitches overlapping images into stunning wide-view images, offering advanced features for professional results. Share your creations instantly with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Stitch hi-res panoramas (single-row, multi-row, 360°)
  • Stitch 2 to 200+ overlapping photos
  • Automatic crop, exposure balancing, and straightening
  • Video-to-panorama conversion
  • Ultra high output resolution (up to 1 Gigapixel)
  • JPEG or PNG output format
  • Auto-lens calibration for distortion compensation
Features
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Automatically stitch high quality, high-res panoramas on-device, right in the palm of your hands. -- KEY FEATURES -- +Stitch hi-res single-row, multi-row, vertical, horizontal, 360° panoramas or photospheres. +Stitch many (2 to 200+) overlapping photos into impressive wide-view panoramas. +Simple and intuitive yet powerful panorama stitcher app. +Share your awesome panos with family and friends via Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and many more. +Automatic crop with minimal reduction in resolution. +Automatic exposure balancing. +Automatic straightening of panorama. -- PRO FEATURES -- + Fast stitching. + High quality output (Maintains quality of source photos). + No ads. + Ultra high output resolution of up to 1 Gigapixels. + Video-to-panorama for converting videos of panning motion into panoramas. + JPEG or PNG output format. + Compress large panoramas to save space on your device. + Auto-color balancing. + Seam detection modes like optimal cuts for high quality output. + Save previews & load them up later + Adjust seam detection quality + Adjust intensity of auto-exposure/color balancing feature + Control the blending intensity + View source images in panorama while in preview mode + Auto-lens calibration for lens distortion compensation when stitching images captured from wide-angle, ultra-wide angle and fisheye lens. HOW IT WORKS? Simply select/get images or a video in the following ways: > Press the gallery icon then select photos to open the default photo picker, select the images then press done. > Press the gallery icon then select videos to open the video selector, select a video then press done. > Use your favourite camera app to snap overlapping photos. > Use a drone to capture aerial photos. Bimostitch will then automatically match, align and blend together the selected images or video frames into a wonderful panorama using advanced on-device image stitching algorithms. NOTE: You get multiple outputs at once if more than one set of overlapping photos are detected in your selection. All this takes just a few minutes depending on your choice of maximum output resolution and your device’s computational power. You can visit the apps settings page to change properties such as the output album name, maximum resolution and many more choices to suit your needs. You can also shoot a video while panning about a fixed reference point (the camera lens should be the reference point) then select the video in Bimostitch which will automatically merge the key video frames into a panorama. NOTE: At least 4GB RAM required for 1 GigaPixels. WHY USE THIS APP? – Works with photos from any source such as DSLR cameras, downloaded from the web or drones. – Merge vertical, horizontal, multiple rows or a grid of overlapping photos into awesome panoramic images. – Lightweight on your device and will make high quality panoramic photographs. – Create panos conveniently while on the go like on a tour and get immediate high quality results, no need to carry all that equipment anymore and it’s fully an offline app too, no Internet? no problem. – No gyroscope or special sensors needed. It doesn’t matter whether you are a professional or newbie panoramic photographer, this app will work great for you. Hope you enjoy using this panoramic app and that you will make memorable pano shots with it. Enjoy

Screenshots

LensFlare Optical Effects4 screens
Bimostitch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bimostitch at every 3 days against LensFlare Optical Effects's every 2 months. Bimostitch also leads on chart position (#197 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15 vs 18.0). LensFlare Optical Effects's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (670 vs 33). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

LensFlare Optical Effects costs $4.99 and Bimostitch $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LensFlare Optical Effects holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LensFlare Optical Effects has 670 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of LensFlare Optical Effects's written reviews are positive against 83% of Bimostitch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LensFlare Optical Effects ships an update every 2 months, Bimostitch every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
LensFlare Optical Effects versus Bimostitch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLensFlare Optical EffectsBimostitch
Price$4.99 — better$7.99
Rating4.8 (670 ratings) — better4.5 (33 ratings)
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings670 — better33
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#197 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames GroteChomba Bupe

Customer experience

LensFlare Optical Effects

All ratings663 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews348 reviews
Positive80.2%
Neutral6.6%
Negative13.2%

Bimostitch

All ratings33 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative12.1%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative10.4%

Bugs and requests

LensFlare Optical Effects

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes on startup
  • Unable to load or edit photos
  • Flares not positioning correctly
  • Incompatible with newer iOS versions

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more lens flare options
  • Improve layer and masking capabilities
  • Enable rotation and resizing of effects
  • Optimize for larger image sizes
  • Integrate with video editing
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  • Provide AR functionality

Bimostitch

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

LensFlare Optical Effects

No in-app purchases

None

Bimostitch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LensFlare Optical Effects free?
LensFlare Optical Effects costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bimostitch free?
Bimostitch costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LensFlare Optical Effects or Bimostitch?
LensFlare Optical Effects is rated higher. LensFlare Optical Effects averages 4.8 out of 5 from 670 ratings, while Bimostitch averages 4.5 from 33 ratings.
Do LensFlare Optical Effects or Bimostitch have ads?
Neither LensFlare Optical Effects nor Bimostitch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LensFlare Optical Effects or Bimostitch?
LensFlare Optical Effects ships an update every 2 months, and Bimostitch every 3 days. Most recently, LensFlare Optical Effects was updated on November 10, 2026 and Bimostitch on November 11, 2026.

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