Comparison

PicBlender vs Gradient Magick

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

Head to head
About

PicBlender

Create astonishing photos by blending and fusing two images. Enhance your pictures with various blending modes and adjustable effect strength. Save, print, or share your creations easily.

Highlights
  • Photo blending and fusion
  • 18 blending modes
  • Adjustable effect strength
  • Blend with embedded images
  • Save and share creations
  • Improve HDR photos
Features
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Blend and fusion your photos and pictures with PicBlender and create astonishing photos. PicBlender is the perfect app to improve your photos, and HDR photos, and to fusion 2 differents photos to create astonishing effects. Featured by Apple as New & Noteworthy in the US, French AppStores for its release. Just select 2 photos in your photo library and start blending them; choose a blending mode with the top scroll menu, and adjust the strength of the effect with bottom slider. Save your newly created photos in your photos library, print them out or share them by email, or publish them on social networks. Blend a photo with itself, or your HDR photos with the original ones to improve them (exposure, lights, colors, luminosity...). Select one of the embedded image and blend it with one of your photos to create color tone effects, black and white effect and many other different artistic effects. Special features: - Blending mode: 18 different blending modes to improve your photos (Color, Color burn, color dodge, darken, lighten, difference, exclusion, hue, saturation, hard light, soft light...) - Effect strength: adjust accurately the strength of the effect with the bottom slider - Switch the order of the blending of the photos and get even more possibilities to improve your photos. NOTE: you shall allow the app to access your photo library; if you don't the app won't be able to import and export photos from and to your camera roll. You can change this setting in the Settings app -> Privacy -> Photos. Please don't add your bug reports in your review: send us your bug reports at support@seb-appstore.com and we'll be able to help you and fix the app. The app is compatible with all the listed iDevices; if you experience some issues with your device, send us an email at support@seb-appstore.com. Find out many other great iPhone apps at www.SEB-AppStore.com

About

Gradient Magick

Enhance your photos with stunning gradient effects. Easily share your creations to popular social media platforms and messaging apps. Transform your images with a touch of artistic flair.

Highlights
  • Add gradient effects to photos
  • Share to Mail
  • Share to Instagram
  • Share to Facebook
  • Share to Twitter
  • Share to Line
Features
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Gradient Magick add beautiful gradient effect to your photo. Share to other apps Mail, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Line etc.

Screenshots

PicBlender4 screens
Gradient Magick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gradient Magick at Free against PicBlender's $0.99. Gradient Magick also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). PicBlender's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Gradient Magick is free to download; PicBlender costs $0.99 up front. Gradient Magick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PicBlender asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gradient Magick holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of PicBlender's written reviews are positive against 25% of Gradient Magick's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PicBlender ships an update every 9 months, Gradient Magick every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
PicBlender versus Gradient Magick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicBlenderGradient Magick
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.1 (7 ratings)3.3 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.3% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 8 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastien BUETKenichi Kobayashi

Customer experience

PicBlender

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive35.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative64.7%

Gradient Magick

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative62.5%

In-app purchases

None

PicBlender

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gradient Magick

One-time1
  • Unlock a lot of gradient pattern & Remove Ads$0.99

Questions

Is PicBlender free?
PicBlender costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gradient Magick free?
Gradient Magick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PicBlender or Gradient Magick?
Gradient Magick is rated higher. PicBlender averages 3.1 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Gradient Magick averages 3.3 from 6 ratings.
Do PicBlender or Gradient Magick have ads?
Neither PicBlender nor Gradient Magick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PicBlender or Gradient Magick?
PicBlender ships an update every 9 months, and Gradient Magick every 8 months. Most recently, PicBlender was updated on September 17, 2026 and Gradient Magick on September 19, 2026.

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