Comparison

Finger Focus vs Focos

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

Head to head
About

Finger Focus

Easily create professional-looking blur effects on your photos by simply tracing with your finger. The app intelligently refines borders for a natural look and offers precise zooming for detailed adjustments. Enhance your images with controls for blur size, border, brightness, contrast, and saturation.

Highlights
  • Finger-tracing blur effect
  • Automatic border correction
  • Precise zoom with pinch gesture
  • Adjust blur size and border
  • Brightness, contrast, and saturation controls
  • Undo functionality
Features
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Finger Focus lets you create photos with beautiful blur effects by simply tracing over the image with your fingertip. You can add depth, perspective, and atmosphere that cannot always be captured with the iPhone camera alone. Even if you trace broadly, the blur boundary is automatically adjusted, making it easy to achieve a natural-looking effect. With pinch gestures, you can seamlessly zoom in down to the pixel level, allowing you to carefully bring out subjects with detailed or complex shapes. You can check the result in real time as you trace. ■ How to Use Trace: Trace over the area you want to keep in focus. Pinch with two fingers: Zoom in, zoom out, and move the image. Double tap: Return to 100% view. ■ Main Features - Adjust the blur effect strength (BLUR) - Adjust the blur effect boundary (BORDER) - Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation - Seamless zoom in and zoom out with pinch gestures - Adjustable brush size - Undo and eraser tools - Save the original image when taking photos with the camera Please feel free to send us your requests or feedback. X (Twitter): bbcddc Mail: info@bbcddc.com

About

Focos

Transform your iPhone and iPad photos with DSLR-like bokeh and depth-of-field effects. This app uses computational photography to let you refocus, adjust aperture, and add multiple lights in 3D space, unlocking endless creative possibilities.

Highlights
  • AI-powered depth calculation
  • Adjustable aperture and bokeh effects
  • Refocus photos after capture
  • Add and control multiple 3D lights
  • Simulate lens characteristics
  • 3D depth map visualization
  • Augmented reality preview
Features
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Focos is a big step into the future of computational photography and light-field camera, bringing DSLR-like photography to your iPhone and iPad Pro, with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras. With the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos, focus after the fact, change the aperture repeatedly, and add multiple lights in 3D space, exceeding the limits of any editing tools you’ve known before. The creative potential unleashed by Focos is endless. The Verge, "Focos has long been one of the most ambitious photo-editing apps on iOS, turning any photo into a 'portrait mode'-style image with fully adjustable depth of field, no matter what kind of camera you took it with." MAIN FEATURES - Take photos with shallow depth of field, without manually painting or making selections. - The AI engine can calculate depth of field automatically for all photos. - True 3D imaging. - Simulate large apertures to create real bokeh effects normally only possible with DSLR cameras and expensive lenses. - Import all existing photos and customize the bokeh effect. - Re-focus portrait photos that have already been taken, with a simple tap. - Choose from various simulated aperture diaphragms to generate different bokeh spot effects. - Professional options to simulate lens characteristics, such as creamy, bilinear, swirly, and reflex effects, and more. - Visualize the depth of areas within your portrait photos in a 3D view, and intuitively add depth filters. - Add multiple lights in a 3D space, and adjust the color, brightness and so on for each light. - Check the portrait picture in the real world with augmented reality technique. - It is possible to patch the depth map precisely on iPad with Apple Pencil. - Intuitive and easy to use, with built-in video tutorials. - An essential tool for all iPhones and iPads. Do you have questions or suggestions? Contact us via support @ focos . me.

Screenshots

Finger Focus4 screens
Focos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Focos at Free against Finger Focus's $0.99. Focos also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (51K vs 4). Finger Focus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and review sentiment (76% vs 50%). On 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

Focos is free to download; Finger Focus costs $0.99 up front. Focos sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Finger Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focos holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focos has 51K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Finger Focus's written reviews are positive against 50% of Focos's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Finger Focus ships an update every 3 weeks, Focos every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Finger Focus versus Focos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinger FocusFocos
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (4 ratings)4.7 (51K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.4% of reviews — better50.4% of reviews
Number of ratings451K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1714.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB332 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperbbcddcMosaic S.r.l.

Customer experience

Finger Focus

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews148 reviews
Positive76.4%
Neutral4.7%
Negative18.9%

Focos

All ratings51,408 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews756 reviews
Positive50.4%
Neutral5.2%
Negative44.4%

Bugs and requests

Finger Focus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Focos

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App freezes or crashes when editing certain photos
  • Depth adjustments not saving properly
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between editing modes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save edited photos with depth map
  • More precise brush tools for depth editing
  • Improved hair/fine detail handling
  • Faster processing and loading times
  • Easier organization and management of edited photos

In-app purchases

None

Finger Focus

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Focos

Subscriptions7
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
Show 4 more
  • Weekly Subscription - Standard$3.997 Days
  • Standard Weekly - Free Trial7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle - FT7 Days trial2 variants$9.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle$9.997 Days
One-time2
  • Monthly subscription$1.99
  • Lifetime unlimited access$12.99

Questions

Is Finger Focus free?
Finger Focus costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focos free?
Focos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Finger Focus or Focos?
Focos is rated higher. Finger Focus averages 3.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Focos averages 4.7 from 51K ratings.
Do Finger Focus or Focos have ads?
Neither Finger Focus nor Focos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Finger Focus or Focos?
Finger Focus ships an update every 3 weeks, and Focos every 2 weeks. Most recently, Finger Focus was updated on November 1, 2026 and Focos on November 1, 2026.

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