LensLight Visual Effects vs Photoaster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Photoaster
Easily enhance your photos with a variety of creative tools. Apply filters, adjust lighting, and add unique textures like film grain or CRT effects. Achieve professional-looking edits with minimal effort.
- 60+ high-quality filters
- 10 types of grain effects
- Exposure, shadows, contrast controls
- Bloom and soften effects
- Detail enhancement (Pop)
- Pixellate effect
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Photoaster, the photo toaster, is a photo editing app that produces great quality photo edits with little effort! Drop in your photo and choose your toast style, then top it with effects and grain to garnish. Enjoy! Your new toaster is equipped with tons of features: – 80+ high quality filters – 10 types of "grain", ranging from film grain to printer ink to CRT TVs. – Controls for exposure, shadows, contrast, etc – Bloom: Make the highlights in your photo have a film-like glow – Soften: remove that "digital" look with a natural looking blur – Pop: enhance details in the photo And more, for free! No ads or in app purchases. Happy toasting! If you enjoy the app, please drop a review!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Photoaster at Free against LensLight Visual Effects's $4.99. Photoaster also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Photoaster is free to download; LensLight Visual Effects costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Photoaster holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 134 and 63 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of LensLight Visual Effects's written reviews are positive against 100% of Photoaster's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LensLight Visual Effects | Photoaster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (134 ratings) | 4.9 (63 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 134 — better | 63 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Grote | Michael Shillingburg |
Customer experience
LensLight Visual Effects
Photoaster
In-app purchases
LensLight Visual Effects
No in-app purchases
Photoaster
No in-app purchases
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