Comparison

Rainy Daze vs Formulas

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

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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

About

Formulas

Apply unique, multilayered photo effects and custom frames to your images. Features include vintage emulations, artistic styles, and textured finishes. An intuitive interface and one-tap auto adjust make professional editing easy.

Highlights
  • Custom multilayered photo effects
  • Vintage film emulations
  • Textured and artistic styles
  • Dozens of custom frames
  • One-tap auto adjust tool
  • Intuitive UI
  • Photo editing extension
Features
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*** App Store Best of 2015 *** MIAN FEATURES: Dozens of custom, multilayered photo effects unlike anything available on the App Store, ranging from basic color and tonal to authentic vintage film emulations, textured finishes, and painterly and artistic styles. Built with scientific precision by some of the most talented artists in the mobile photography community, these effects truly deserve the “Formula” accolade. Each is meticulously constructed from components that are expertly-crafted by renowned photographer Dirk Wuestenhagen and that themselves are fully-fledged effects in the traditional sense including textures, filters, gradients, adjustments, and much more. Each formula goes through a vigorous testing process to ensure compatibility with a wide range of scenes, subjects, and editing styles from landscapes and cityscapes to street photography and portraits. Dozens of custom frames expertly-crafted by renowned photographer Dirk Wuestenhagen, which include high quality scans of vintage paper, worn fabric, weathered stone, and a multitude of other materials and substrates that are then refined, blended, and fine-tuned to perfection in an arduous post-processing regimen aimed at exposing naturally occurring character lines, blemishes, and impurities. Moreover, a great deal of attention is given to specific color tones within an overall limited spectrum of earthy hues that are deemed to work best with images. One-tap Auto Adjust tool that automatically analyzes color and tonal levels in an image and makes adjustments accordingly, thereby producing professional results with no effort whatsoever. Beautifully designed and streamlined UI that is intuitive and easy to navigate. A lot of thought and effort went into making the UI appealing to and accessible by users of all skill levels. PHOTO EDITING EXTENSION: Edit your photos right from within your photo library with a fully-fledged photo editing extension that not only provides access to the full functionality of the main app, but also preserves your sessions, allowing you to pick up right where you left off the next time you edit the image. STACKABLES: Think you’ve got what it takes to create your own formulas? Download Stackables from the App Store and start experimenting today. TECHNICAL INFO: High resolution support up to 16MP (4,000 x 4,000 px) on newer devices (iPhone 5 and later, iPad 3 and later). Support for JPEG, lossless PNG, and lossless TIFF formats. URL Scheme "formulas://". SUPPORT: Experiencing issues? Have comments or suggestions for future updates? Please contact us at support@formulasapp.co.

Screenshots

Rainy Daze4 screens
Formulas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rainy Daze at 4.7 against Formulas's 4.2. Rainy Daze also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99). Formulas's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). 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

Rainy Daze costs $0.99 and Formulas $2.99 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 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 114 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 72% and 72% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rainy Daze ships an update every 4 months, Formulas every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Rainy Daze versus Formulas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRainy DazeFormulas
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (53 ratings) — better4.2 (114 ratings)
Positive reviews71.6% of reviews72.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings53114 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB262 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJixiPix, LLCTinkerworks Apps

Customer experience

Rainy Daze

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

Formulas

All ratings114 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews270 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative21.9%

Bugs and requests

Rainy Daze

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Formulas

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App crashes on iPhone iOS 26
  • Crashes when tapping camera icon
  • Cannot save to camera roll
  • Crashes frequently during use
  • Non-functional icons marked as forbidden
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  • App won't run on iPad Pro despite optimization claim
  • Photos extension not working properly
  • Broken external links (App Store, Instagram, websites)
  • In-app purchase system not connecting to App Store
  • Lost access to previously purchased add-ons after update
  • Stackables app crashes repeatedly

Requested features

11 requests
  • Update app for current iOS versions
  • Add landscape mode support
  • Increase number of filter options
  • Separate color and texture controls
  • Adjust opacity independently for colors and textures
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  • Add more texture options (peeling paint, fresco, plaster)
  • Improve Photos extension functionality
  • Restore Stackables app availability
  • Add layering/stacking capabilities
  • Include tutorial videos
  • Add brightness and contrast adjustment controls

In-app purchases

None

Rainy Daze

No in-app purchases

None

Formulas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rainy Daze free?
Rainy Daze costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Formulas free?
Formulas costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rainy Daze or Formulas?
Rainy Daze is rated higher. Rainy Daze averages 4.7 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while Formulas averages 4.2 from 114 ratings.
Do Rainy Daze or Formulas have ads?
Neither Rainy Daze nor Formulas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rainy Daze or Formulas?
Rainy Daze ships an update every 4 months, and Formulas every 3 weeks. Most recently, Rainy Daze was updated on November 1, 2026 and Formulas on November 6, 2026.

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