Comparison

Image Blender vs Silver Halide

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

Head to head
About

Image Blender

Easily combine multiple photos into a single image using masks and various blend modes. Create unique visual effects, add textures, or even watermark your creations with this intuitive tool.

Highlights
  • Image blending
  • Masking tools
  • Multiple blend modes
  • Multi-exposure effects
  • Add textures and overlays
  • Watermarking
Features
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A simplistic and creative app for combining images with masks and different blend modes on your iPhone and iPad. While the use and basic idea is very simple, there's almost an endless list of things you can do with it. Some things worth highlighting are: - Multi Exposure - Choosing where and how much to apply of filter from other apps. - Adding or replacing objects. - Adding textures. - Creating your own personalised filters with overlays - Watermarking or adding logos Image Blender outputs the full resolution without any limits to the size of your source image. If you have any questions before buying, need help to get started or just want to share your work, don't hesitate to send a mail to blender@jhnd.me and I'll do my best to help.

About

Silver Halide

This app transforms a single exposure into a unique instant photograph. Manipulate digital chemicals by tilting your device, or introduce light flares and pressure effects during the thirty-second development process. Embrace destructive editing with no undo options for a truly one-of-a-kind artistic result.

Highlights
  • Single exposure instant photography
  • 30-second digital chemical development
  • Device tilting for chemical pooling
  • Light flares and leaks
  • Pressure bloom and trail effects
  • Destructive editing with no undo
  • Local processing, no ads or tracking
Features
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More art than app. Silver Halide turns a single exposure into an unrepeatable instant photograph. Press the shutter, then wait exactly thirty seconds while the image forms. Your device becomes part of the darkroom. Tilt it to pool digital chemicals along the edges. Move gently to alter color and grain, or make a sharp motion to scar the print. Find bright light for unpredictable flares and leaks. Touch the developing image once to create a pressure bloom, or drag to leave a pressure trail. Stillness leaves its own mark. This is destructive editing. There is no undo, no clean original, and no way back. When development ends, write on the print if you like, then keep it in Photos or discard it forever. HOW TO RUIN IT BEAUTIFULLY Tilt: Angle your phone left, right, or upside down to make the digital chemicals pool along the edges. Move: Shifting the phone gently alters the color and grain, while a sharp jerk will scar the print. Find light: Exposing the camera to bright light during the development process causes unpredictable flares and leaks. Touch once: Tap the screen to create a soft pressure bloom, hold your finger down for a stronger effect, or drag across the screen to leave a wide trail. Wait: The process takes thirty seconds. Both your physical actions and your stillness shape the final photograph. THE FINE PRINT. BRIEFLY. The entire development process happens locally on your iPhone. The app operates completely free of accounts, ads, and analytics tracking. If you don't keep a photo, it's gone forever.

Screenshots

Image Blender4 screens
Silver Halide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Silver Halide at Free against Image Blender's $3.99. Silver Halide also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). Image Blender's advantage is ratings volume (3.4K vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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

Silver Halide is free to download; Image Blender costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Image Blender against 5.0 for Silver Halide. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Image Blender has 3.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Image Blender versus Silver Halide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImage BlenderSilver Halide
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (3.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.4K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJHND i Sverige ABChristopher Weiss

Customer experience

Image Blender

All ratings3,413 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews415 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative12.5%

Silver Halide

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Image Blender

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes while working
  • Watermark application issues
  • Blending text from photos comes out of focus

Requested features

5 requests
  • Masking tool improvements
  • Ability to blend more than 2 photos
  • Undo button
  • Gradient tool
  • Ability to choose certain frames from GIFs

Silver Halide

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Image Blender

No in-app purchases

None

Silver Halide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Image Blender free?
Image Blender costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Silver Halide free?
Silver Halide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Image Blender or Silver Halide?
Silver Halide is rated higher. Image Blender averages 4.9 out of 5 from 3.4K ratings, while Silver Halide averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Image Blender or Silver Halide have ads?
Neither Image Blender nor Silver Halide shows ads.

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