Comparison

Grungetastic vs Mirror Lab

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

Mirror Lab

Create stunning mirror photos, kaleidoscope art, and distorted images with over 50 customizable filters. This app also features an animation module for smooth video creation and a powerful undo system for endless creative exploration.

Highlights
  • 50+ customizable filters
  • Mirror and kaleidoscope effects
  • Distortion and glitch art filters
  • Animation module for video
  • Adjustable parameters for effects
  • Undo system
Features
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Mirror Lab aims to be the most fun, easy to use and powerful photo-editing app to creatively enhance pictures, make mirror photos, kaleidoscope images and distort faces and scenery. Mirror Lab now comes with a powerful animation module. Create smooth videos with parameter interpolation between key frames (be sure to activate video from the app settings). Effects Choose from 50+ filters, each with multiple fine-tunable options. - classic symmetries: horizontal and vertical reflections - ripples, whirls, stretching and other distortions - kaleidoscopic and fractal effects - 3D effects - tiny planet effects - triangulation, pixel sort and halftone effects - shape cut-outs, including concentric iterations - glitch art friendly filters such as stripes and broken glass effect - adjust your image's brightness, contrast, saturation, vignetting and more - swipe through 40+ preset options to browse through possibilities in an instant Parameters All filters come with several parameters to adjust, allowing for a large range of varied results. Effects can usually be simply placed by simple touch-drag for position and double-touch-drag for size. Some of the most common parameters you will find: - intensity of effect - dampening of effect (the further from the center of the effect, the lesser the intensity) - rotation angle - aspect ratio Ease of use Compose filters for endless creative options. The + button reapplies an effect immediately - some effects like to be stacked! The app has a powerful undo system allowing you to track back at any time. Please note that the top and bottom toolbars can scroll. There are a lot of effects to the right of the bottom bar! PRO Version Available as an in-app purchase, the PRO version comes with extra filters, extra parameters, higher resolutions and lossless file saving (PNG).

Screenshots

Grungetastic4 screens
Mirror Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mirror Lab at Free against Grungetastic's $2.99. Grungetastic's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On review sentiment, 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

Mirror Lab is free to download; Grungetastic costs $2.99 up front. Mirror Lab sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Grungetastic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grungetastic holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grungetastic has 188 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Grungetastic's written reviews are positive against 83% of Mirror Lab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Grungetastic versus Mirror Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrungetasticMirror Lab
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (188 ratings) — better4.1 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings188 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCIlixa Ltd

Customer experience

Grungetastic

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

Mirror Lab

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

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

Mirror Lab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Grungetastic

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Mirror Lab

One-time3
  • Mirror Lab PRO$9.99
  • MirrorLab MAX (upgrade)$19.99
  • Mirror Lab MAX$29.99

Questions

Is Grungetastic free?
Grungetastic costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mirror Lab free?
Mirror Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Grungetastic or Mirror Lab?
Grungetastic is rated higher. Grungetastic averages 4.8 out of 5 from 188 ratings, while Mirror Lab averages 4.1 from 14 ratings.
Do Grungetastic or Mirror Lab have ads?
Neither Grungetastic nor Mirror Lab shows ads.

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