Comparison

Grungetastic vs HDR Portrait

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

Head to head
About

Grungetastic

Apply a variety of aggressive and "unwell" textures and tones to your photos. This app offers seven distinct grunge styles with adjustable controls for color, textures, and borders, allowing for unique artistic creations.

Highlights
  • Seven grunge styles
  • Adjustable color, textures, and borders
  • Randomize button
  • Texture and border library
  • Customizable presets
  • High-resolution output
Features
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Rock your Photo with Unwell Textures and Tones Grungetastic cranks your photos to 11 with seven hot and heavy looks: Classic Grunge, Bleached Grunge, Worn Pop, Worn Grunge, Gritty Grunge, Distressed and Pop Grunge. These seven fun and aggressive styles let you get down and dirty with your photos. Faster than you can say "filthy," these styles and Grungetastic's easy, hands-on interface will have you smushing delightfully unwell textures and tones with deeply satisfying contrasts, and explosively pleasurable pops for dangerously-addictive ultra-Grungy art. Grungetastic is for the Photographer that loves everything grungy! Shadows, Rubbing, Scratching, Ripping, Shredding, Stressing, Distressing, Popping, Exploding, Splatters, Smudging, Glowing, Glaring, Smoking – just some of the wildness that Grungetastic hooks you up with. GRUNGETASTIC MAKES DIRTY PHOTOS - REALLY DIRTY PHOTOS! 
SO DIRTY THAT THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LITTLE DIRT STORMS
SWIRLING AROUND THEM—the styles are creative madness—or clearer visions of reality, whatever it is, they go to an artistic place few ever get. You can't get a cooler, hotter photo anywhere! ULTRA-GRUNGE STYLES Classic Grunge, Bleached, Pop Grunge, Pop Worn, Worn, Gritty and Distressed Grunge FEATURES Adjustable control over all aspect of the process: Color, multiple textures and borders INCLUDES Seven grungy styles: Classic Grunge, Bleached, Pop Grunge, Pop Worn, Worn, Gritty and Distressed Grunge "Randomize" button to quickly show off the power of the app A full library of textures and borders Quick, efficient, and very user-friendly interface Support for full-size images Presets with the ability to create custom presets Preview mode for quick workflow (Larger image rendered on save or when emailed) UNIVERSAL FEATURES All JixiPix Apps come with: Superior Customer Service, Support for High-Resolution Images & Output, Undo, Randomize Button, Quick Presets, the ability to create Custom Presets and Quick Preview. Our mobile version can Email and post directly to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr. ‘Like us on facebook’ for tips & tricks, quick announcements and interaction with the Jixi team! https://www.facebook.com/pages/JixiPixcom/338304329530235?ref=hl *************** “JixiPix turns any photo into a masterpiece. The only requirement is art appreciation — we will take care of the rest!” JixiPix.com “Creative Tools for Creative Types” Photography | Artistic | Graphic Apps Mac • iPad • iPhone

About

HDR Portrait

Transform your photos into artistic portraits with AI-powered HDR effects. This app intelligently detects faces, applies expressive HDR to them, and enhances backgrounds with artistic blurs and bokeh. It works on various devices, utilizing advanced sensors when available for superior results.

Highlights
  • AI face detection
  • Expressive HDR portrait effects
  • Artistic background effects
  • Customizable blurs and bokeh
  • Utilizes dual cameras and TrueDepth sensors
  • Pre-set combinations for quick editing
Features
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AlphaPlugins HDR Portrait turns your Apple device into an incredible art portrait machine. This wonderful app uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to detect faces on photos and separate them from the background. Detected faces are processed with expressive HDR effects. Simultaneously, astonishing artistic effects are applied on the background behind the portraits. Lots of impressive focal background effects, such as different kind of blurs, bokeh with various shapes and others, are available. As its name implies, "AlphaPlugins HDR Portrait" is attended to deal with portraits. If your iPhone supports modern dual cameras and TrueDepth sensors, our app uses them to detect a face and achieve better results. If you're using an old device or taking not portrait photos, then our app can work without modern features by using its own neural network facilities. The basic kit contains a lot of prepared settings presets that allow to quickly apply different combinations of settings on taken photos. These settings combinations demonstrate application possibilities and let you obtain various combinations of application features. If you want to experiment with manually parameters settings, you should buy an extended license, then all appТs adjustable parameters will be available.

Screenshots

Grungetastic4 screens
HDR Portrait4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grungetastic at none against HDR Portrait's 1. Grungetastic also leads on ratings volume (187 vs 1). HDR Portrait's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (95% vs 81%). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Grungetastic costs $2.99 and HDR Portrait $2.99 up front. HDR Portrait sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Grungetastic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HDR Portrait holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grungetastic has 187 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Grungetastic's written reviews are positive against 95% of HDR Portrait's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grungetastic ships an update every 6 months, HDR Portrait every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Grungetastic versus HDR Portrait: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrungetasticHDR Portrait
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating4.8 (187 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews95.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings187 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCMaxim Chernousov

Customer experience

Grungetastic

All ratings187 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral0.5%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews301 reviews
Positive81.4%
Neutral5.3%
Negative13.3%

HDR Portrait

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

Bugs and requests

Grungetastic

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to upload/load photos
  • Presets not applying correctly
  • Crashes or freezes on certain devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Undo button
  • More color/hue options
  • Color swapping
  • Higher resolution exports
  • Native iPad support
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  • Ability to stack multiple borders

HDR Portrait

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Grungetastic

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

HDR Portrait

Subscriptions1
  • HDR Portrait premium features$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Grungetastic free?
Grungetastic costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is HDR Portrait free?
HDR Portrait costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grungetastic or HDR Portrait?
HDR Portrait is rated higher. Grungetastic averages 4.8 out of 5 from 187 ratings, while HDR Portrait averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Grungetastic or HDR Portrait have ads?
Neither Grungetastic nor HDR Portrait shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grungetastic or HDR Portrait?
Grungetastic ships an update every 6 months, and HDR Portrait every 11 months. Most recently, Grungetastic was updated on October 13, 2026 and HDR Portrait on October 9, 2026.

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