Comparison

LensLight Visual Effects vs FabFocus

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

Head to head
About

LensLight Visual Effects

Enhance your photos with a vast array of interactive lighting effects. This app offers dynamic Bokeh, Lens Flares, Light Leaks, Spotlights, and Rainbow Effects, all rendered in real-time with a powerful Optics Engine. Achieve professional-looking results with dynamic light manipulation.

Highlights
  • Interactive lighting effects
  • Bokeh, Lens Flares, Light Leaks
  • Spotlights and Rainbow Effects
  • Real-time Optics Engine rendering
  • Dynamic light manipulation
  • Streaks, glares, and edge bloom
Features
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LensLight Visual Effects is the ultimate app to add beautiful lighting to your photos. You'll get a wide selection of interactive lights: - Bokeh - LensFlares - Light Leaks - Spotlights - Rainbow Effects CUSTOMER REVIEWS "I don't use light effects often, but when I do, I choose LensLight." "This app is great! There are more choices than you'd think, and it adds such a nice touch to pictures. I'm glad I got it." "Really for photo editing apps no one can touch these guys. Brilliant!" The power of LensLight is the Optics Engine for rendering the lights in real time. Many apps have simple filters with glare or grunge. LensLight effects are completely dynamic as you move them around like a real camera lens. You'll see beautiful streaks, glares, and edge bloom to add that final touch to your photos. LensLight uses the same technology as the pro Mac app, LensFlare Studio. Tag your photos with #LensLightApp for a chance to be featured!

About

FabFocus

Create professional-looking portrait photos with adjustable background blur and bokeh effects. This app uses advanced image recognition to automatically detect faces and apply artistic enhancements, even without multiple cameras. Refine your portraits with various editing tools for a polished look.

Highlights
  • Automatic face detection
  • Intelligent background blur
  • Customizable bokeh shapes
  • Foreground/background color adjustments
  • Manual selection refinement
  • Built-in camera interface
Features
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FabFocus is everything you need to capture and create stunning portrait photos. And the best part is, you don’t need multiple cameras to do it! FabFocus works on all devices running iOS 12 and forward and uses advanced image recognition to detect people, and intelligently blurring the background, applying beautiful bokeh effects. ———— The Big 2.0 Update FabFocus 2.0 is a complete rewrite and redesign, with the goal of making it as fast and simple as possible to make stunning portraits. Every last detail has been considered and refined to streamline the experience. We hope you love it as much as we do. ———— Features FabFocus has a lot of different features. Here’s a quick overview. ———— Face Detection FabFocus will automatically detect faces in your photos, use a little computer magic to work out what’s in the foreground and then intelligently blur the background. If a photo contains depth information, that is used that for even faster performance. ———— Camera FabFocus has its own camera interface, that automatically configures itself for portrait capture on supported devices. ———— Editing Tools FabFocus has a whole bunch of tools to help you refine your portraits. • Adjust the amount of blur applied to the background • Chose the shape of bokeh (even set it to love hearts or stars!) • Change the brightness and saturation of the foreground and background independently. • You can also draw to refine the selection of what’s in the foreground, great for tricky situations, or creating portraits of a wide variety of subjects, like pets, plants and more! While editing, you can quickly undo and redo your adjustments, and there are buttons to share and save your photos right away. ———— Take your portraits to the next level with FabFocus ———— For support, please contact hello@ghostwheel.org

Screenshots

LensLight Visual Effects4 screens
FabFocus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FabFocus at 4.7 against LensLight Visual Effects's 4.4. FabFocus also leads on ratings volume (6K vs 134) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). LensLight Visual Effects's advantage is review sentiment (77% vs 63%). On 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

LensLight Visual Effects costs $4.99 and FabFocus $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FabFocus holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FabFocus has 6K ratings behind it against 134, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of LensLight Visual Effects's written reviews are positive against 63% of FabFocus's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LensLight Visual Effects ships an update every 2 months, FabFocus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
LensLight Visual Effects versus FabFocus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLensLight Visual EffectsFabFocus
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.4 (134 ratings)4.7 (6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.6% of reviews — better62.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1346K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames GroteGhostwheel

Customer experience

LensLight Visual Effects

All ratings134 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews522 reviews
Positive76.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.7%

FabFocus

All ratings5,998 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews507 reviews
Positive62.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative30.8%

Bugs and requests

LensLight Visual Effects

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

FabFocus

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • The app selected her face but was unable to accurately select her hair
  • Couldn't save the edited photos
  • Doesn't recognize animal faces
  • Crashes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

8 requests
  • Old Version Please
  • Newest changes
  • Zoom feature
  • Zoom
  • Black and white addition
Show 3 more
  • Live view for the effects
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

In-app purchases

None

LensLight Visual Effects

No in-app purchases

None

FabFocus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LensLight Visual Effects free?
LensLight Visual Effects costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is FabFocus free?
FabFocus costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LensLight Visual Effects or FabFocus?
FabFocus is rated higher. LensLight Visual Effects averages 4.4 out of 5 from 134 ratings, while FabFocus averages 4.7 from 6K ratings.
Do LensLight Visual Effects or FabFocus have ads?
Neither LensLight Visual Effects nor FabFocus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LensLight Visual Effects or FabFocus?
LensLight Visual Effects ships an update every 2 months, and FabFocus every 3 weeks. Most recently, LensLight Visual Effects was updated on November 1, 2026 and FabFocus on November 2, 2026.

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