Comparison

LensLight Visual Effects vs Rainy Daze

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

Rainy Daze

Enhance your photos with realistic rain effects. Add mist, drops, or downpours to evoke emotion and atmosphere. Customize rain intensity, angle, and length for artistic expression.

Highlights
  • Dynamic rain effects
  • Adjustable rain angle and length
  • Three unique rain styles
  • Customizable presets
  • Darken sky with clouds
  • Easy-to-use slider controls
Features
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The JixiPix Rainy Daze photo app puts the power, emotion and uses of rain at your fingertips. With it, you have the power to envelop your photos in a soft mist's romantic glow, wash your landscapes clean of imperfection, and bring drops of meaning, large and small, fast or smooth, to your personal expression. Is it possible for a photo to make your body ache? Or pull on your heartstrings? Give you hope? Well … is there rain in your photo? Because, along with the moisture, rain drops emotion - strong, instinctive emotions. It’s not something anyone needs to be taught - we just feel it. And since there are as many emotions of rain as there are types of rain, the artistic uses for your photography are virtually endless. Some things you might like to shoot for: bright and clean, regenerative, renewing, glistening; powerful, ominous, thunderbolt and lightening, cascading in waves – horizontal. Or, sweet-smelling soft dreaminess, romance and peace - a delicate kiss alight in the air. Whether you're a graphic artist, professional photographer, or a budding iPhoneographer, use Rainy Daze to bring some rain to your photos and the response from your viewers will be subconscious, immediate, and visceral. Pretty handy. The Rainy Daze photo app comes loaded with three powerful styles: Rain Shower, Romantic Rain and Vintage Rain. Each unique style applies an advanced tonal technique to give your photos the feel of a rainy day. Rain Shower slightly darkens the scene for an appearance of an overcast day, Romantic Rain brings a soft romantic glow, and Vintage Rain gives a toned, aged appearance. Each style allows you to adjust the rain from a light drizzle to a heavy shower, change the angle of the rain, and change the length of the rain from short drops to long streaks. You can (do a rain) dance if you want to, but it's not necessary. Just head to the App Store and – Make it rain. Rainy Daze delivers: •Dynamic rain, length and angle •The ability to darken the sky with clouds •Loads of presets, to get you started fast •The ability to create personal-favorite custom presets using the "Save" menu •The addictive JixiPix Randomizer – so much fun! •Easy-to-use slider controls to adjust light, contrast and texture just how you want it •Superfast preview mode to immediately see edit results, with large image rendered at save •You can save to the photo roll and/or email or post to Facebook. Share your masterpieces! •Works with Hi-Res images for top-quality results •Superior customer support and updates – we're committed to your long-term satisfaction

Screenshots

LensLight Visual Effects4 screens
Rainy Daze4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rainy Daze at 4.7 against LensLight Visual Effects's 4.4. Rainy Daze also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). LensLight Visual Effects's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and chart position (#154 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Rainy Daze $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rainy Daze holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 134 and 53 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of LensLight Visual Effects's written reviews are positive against 72% of Rainy Daze'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, Rainy Daze every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
LensLight Visual Effects versus Rainy Daze: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLensLight Visual EffectsRainy Daze
Price$4.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.4 (134 ratings)4.7 (53 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.9% of reviews — better71.6% of reviews
Number of ratings134 — better53
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#154 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames GroteJixiPix Software

Customer experience

LensLight Visual Effects

All ratings134 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews316 reviews
Positive75.9%
Neutral7.3%
Negative16.8%

Rainy Daze

All ratings53 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive71.6%
Neutral6.8%
Negative21.6%

In-app purchases

None

LensLight Visual Effects

No in-app purchases

None

Rainy Daze

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LensLight Visual Effects free?
LensLight Visual Effects costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rainy Daze free?
Rainy Daze costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LensLight Visual Effects or Rainy Daze?
Rainy Daze is rated higher. LensLight Visual Effects averages 4.4 out of 5 from 134 ratings, while Rainy Daze averages 4.7 from 53 ratings.
Do LensLight Visual Effects or Rainy Daze have ads?
Neither LensLight Visual Effects nor Rainy Daze shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LensLight Visual Effects or Rainy Daze?
LensLight Visual Effects ships an update every 2 months, and Rainy Daze every 4 months. Most recently, LensLight Visual Effects was updated on September 24, 2026 and Rainy Daze on September 4, 2026.

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