Comparison

Emboss Me Pro vs Photographic Effects

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

Head to head
About

Emboss Me Pro

Easily apply an embossing effect to your photos with a single tap. Adjust depth and direction for custom results. Share your creations directly via print, tweet, or email.

Highlights
  • One-click embossing effect
  • Adjustable embossing depth
  • Adjustable embossing direction
  • Select photos from album
  • Take new photos
  • One-tap print
  • One-tap tweet
  • One-tap email
Features
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Create polished embossed relief in seconds with Emboss Me Pro. Transform photos into dimensional raised-surface artwork with adjustable depth and direction. Designed for fast, visual editing: • Compare the original and edited image with a live split preview • Explore curated presets made for different photo styles • Blend the effect with your original for a subtle or bold finish • Save favorite effect settings in My Looks and reuse them • Share a labeled before-and-after image • Undo, redo, and resume your last edit • Save and share at high resolution • Process photos directly on your device Choose a photo, try a preset, and adjust until the result feels right. The focused editor keeps the image and its transformation visible throughout the process. The paid edition is ad-free, so you can stay focused on your edit.

About

Photographic Effects

This app allows you to apply unique artistic effects to your photos. Choose from bass relief, contour, pseudo colors, or deformation to transform your images. Save your creations or take new photos to process.

Highlights
  • Apply Bass Relief effect
  • Create Contour drawings
  • Generate Pseudo Color images
  • Deform images with barrel distortion
  • Select images from archive or camera
  • Save processed images
Features
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Effects is a Digital Image Processor (DIP) for iPad. It allows to select an image from the archive, or to shot a new photo with the internal camera, then process it using one of four different image processing algorythms. The four processing effects are: 1) Bass Relief: creates a new gray scale image with an Embossing effect. It is suitable for any kind of image, provided it has a good contrast. 2) Contour: creates a drawing obtained detecting the border lines between areas with different brightness. Best results are obtained with images with a strong contrast. 3) Pseudo Colors: creates a new colored image, converting different brightness levels of the original picture into different color hues. It can produce many different color combinations on the same image, giving a kind of Kandinskij effect. 4) Deformer: introduces a barrel distortion, compressing some portions of the original image, and inflating other ones. This effect is specially suitable for close-up portraits, and creates very funny variations. When the application starts, you are prompted to choose the image source: archive or camera shot. Once you ha picked an image, you are prompted to choose one of four processing methods. Touch one of the four sampling images to select the type of effect you prefer. When selection is done, the desired effect will be applied to the picked image, and the result shown. If the selected effect is Pseudo Colors, you can change the brightness-to-color translation, simply touching the resulting image one or more times. At this point, if you like the image produced, you can save it in the local archive, pressing the Save Image button. Then, you can get a new image to process.

Screenshots

Emboss Me Pro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Emboss Me Pro at 2.0 against Photographic Effects's 1.0. Emboss Me Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 38 months) and review sentiment (29% vs 0%). Photographic Effects's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Emboss Me Pro costs $0.99 and Photographic Effects $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Emboss Me Pro holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Emboss Me Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Photographic Effects's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Emboss Me Pro ships an update every 2 months, Photographic Effects every 38 months. Both last shipped on September 7, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Emboss Me Pro versus Photographic Effects: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmboss Me ProPhotographic Effects
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating2.0 (3 ratings) — better1.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 38 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer福恩 毛Luigi Fonti

Customer experience

Emboss Me Pro

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%

Photographic Effects

All ratings4 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Emboss Me Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Photographic Effects

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Emboss Me Pro free?
Emboss Me Pro costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photographic Effects free?
Photographic Effects costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Emboss Me Pro or Photographic Effects?
Emboss Me Pro is rated higher. Emboss Me Pro averages 2.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Photographic Effects averages 1.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Emboss Me Pro or Photographic Effects have ads?
Neither Emboss Me Pro nor Photographic Effects shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Emboss Me Pro or Photographic Effects?
Emboss Me Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Photographic Effects every 38 months. Most recently, Emboss Me Pro was updated on September 7, 2026 and Photographic Effects on September 7, 2026.

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