LensFlare Optical Effects vs Bimostitch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Over 70 optical effects
- Anamorphic flares
- Natural sunlight effects
- Sci-fi flares
- Moveable and interactive flares
- Fully controllable light effects
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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!
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | LensFlare Optical Effects | Bimostitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (670 ratings) — better | 4.5 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 670 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #197 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Grote | Chomba Bupe |
Customer experience
LensFlare Optical Effects
Bimostitch
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
LensFlare Optical Effects
No in-app purchases
Bimostitch
No in-app purchases
Questions
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