Facemakr vs QuickRedact
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Facemakr
Create unique, high-quality avatars with a vast array of customizable parts. Its intuitive multitouch controls allow for precise scaling and rotation of over 600 elements, including eyes, hair, and accessories. Save your creations and express your artistic vision.
- Create custom faces and avatars
- Over 600 customizable parts
- Multi-touch scale and rotate controls
- Position and color parts
- Save created faces
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Definitely check it out. - Appolicious / AppVee Facemakr is a clever toolkit for making faces & avatars. Its intelligent multitouch controls and vast number of parts make it ideal for creating unique high quality faces, quickly. "The genius in Facemakr is that it lets you customise your faces to an infinite degree." - T3 Here's a run down of Facemakr: Multi-touch scale & rotate from over 600 parts for detailed Avatars. Position and color parts like: eyes, hair, ears, hats, piercings etc. Save faces. "I recommend Facemakr for budding avatar artistes out there, it’s easy to use and comes with a complete feature set and robust graphics engine." - Nine Over Ten "I have done a number for my family and its pretty darn good!" - app.itize.us Facemakr comes highly recommended as an essential part of anyones app collection.
QuickRedact
Automatically detect and obscure faces in your photos with various effects like blur or emojis. Process multiple images offline with advanced customization and privacy-focused features. Enjoy a one-time purchase for permanent access.
- Automatic face detection
- Multiple photo processing
- Emoji, blur, and shape effects
- Offline on-device processing
- Metadata removal
- Share and Photo Editing Extensions
- Apple Intelligence/Shortcuts support
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Hide any number of faces in your photos automatically. Here are some of the reasons making QuickRedact unique: - State-of-the-art, robust face detection. Automatically detects any face in your photos. Yes, even hundreds. - Multiple photo support. You can import as many photos as you like and have them processed all at once. - Advanced customization options. Add Emojis, Blur, Pixellation or Shape effects to faces. You can even mix and edit them for each face separately. - Lightning fast on-device image processing. Get realtime previews of the final results, thanks to your device's GPU, Neural Engine & Metal. What you see is truly what you get. - Completely offline. No network connection required. Your device is perfectly capable for this job, so NOTHING is ever transmitted to internet. - Privacy first. As a privacy-focused app, automatically makes sure that ALL metadata is removed from the edited photos, including location, camera information, filenames etc. - No tracking / analytics services. Nothing... just an app that is focused on a single task. - Crystal clear pricing. No subscriptions, in-app purchases or any hidden fees. Just one time purchase for all your devices, forever. - Share Extension. You can easily import any photos to QuickRedact from any app. - Photo Editing Extension. You can redact your images inside Photos app by using the editing extension - fully featured. - Apple Intelligence / Shortcuts support. Create custom workflows by using the shortcut. Ready for Apple Intelligence. QuickRedact is a work of a single developer. If you need help, want to provide feedback or ask for a new feature then please contact me at info@quickredactapp.com. All messages will be responded. * All media used in screenshots are under CC0 license. All screenshots have been captured in-app, no external editing applied.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: QuickRedact at 5.0 against Facemakr's 3.8. QuickRedact also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Facemakr's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (34 vs 2). On 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
Facemakr costs $2.99 and QuickRedact $1.99 up front. Facemakr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. QuickRedact asks for nothing beyond the download.
QuickRedact holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Facemakr has 34 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Facemakr's written reviews are positive against 100% of QuickRedact's.
Facemakr ships an update every 3 months, QuickRedact every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Facemakr | QuickRedact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #73 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hawken King | Vasileios Akoinoglou |
Customer experience
Facemakr
QuickRedact
In-app purchases
Facemakr
- Facemakr Plus$2.99
QuickRedact
No in-app purchases









