Silhouettes Underwater vs Silhouette Magic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silhouettes Underwater
Learn to capture stunning underwater silhouettes with expert tips from seasoned professionals. This app offers comprehensive training with narration and illustrative photos, suitable for any camera type.
- Expert tips for underwater silhouettes
- 8 sections of training material
- Full narration
- Illustrative photos
- Zoom capability on images
- Easy menu navigation
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Shoot like the pros! Underwater Silhouettes is one in series of Underwater Photography Training Applications. With 80 years of combined professional experience in underwater photography, David Fleetham and Marty Snyderman share their tips for creating compelling silhouettes underwater. Whether you shoot with a DSLR or a point-and-shoot camera, this easy to use, easy to understand App will quickly improve your underwater photography techniques when shooting silhouettes. This App contains eight sections of training material with narration, and photos taken by David Fleetham and Marty Snyderman to illustrate examples of compelling silhouettes, plus other training slides. • Section 1: Look For Contrast • Section 2: Interesting Shape and Strong Contrast • Section 3: No Strobes • Section 4: Shoot Upward • Section 5: Background Exposure • Section 6: Fast Shutter Speed • Section 7: The Sun Ball • Section 8: Mind the Bubbles Other features: • Full narration • Zoom capability on all training images • Easy menu navigation • Right-to-left, left-to-right swipe technology • One in a series of Underwater Photography Training Applications: Histograms Explained, Natural Light Images, Coordinating Natural Light and Strobes, Using Strobes Effectively, and Silhouettes Underwater
Silhouette Magic
Easily create stunning silhouette effects with an intelligent object masking tool. Apply various decorations like colors, images, and borders to your silhouettes, and compose them with background images for unique artwork. Save your creations as transparent stickers.
- Intelligent one-step object masking
- Apply fill, gradient, and image colors to silhouettes
- Add borders and vignette effects
- Save silhouettes as transparent stickers
- Compose with background images
- Use preset or custom images for silhouettes and backgrounds
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Create amazingly beatiful silhouette effect with powerful object masking tool and tons of silhouette decoration options. • Super intelligent one step object masking. • Create silhouette within just a few seconds. No complex editing needed. • Apply fill color to silhouette. • Apply gradient colors to silhouette. • Apply image to silhouette. • Supports beautiful silhouette image presets. You can also use your own photos. • Apply darkness and vignette effect to silhouette. • Apply border to silhouette. • Save silhouette image as sticker image with transparent background. • Compose silhouette with background image to create stunning artwork. • Supports beautiful background image presets. You can also use your own photos as background.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Silhouettes Underwater at 71% against Silhouette Magic's 25%. Silhouettes Underwater also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Silhouette Magic's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 38 months) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Silhouettes Underwater costs $4.99 and Silhouette Magic $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Silhouettes Underwater holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Silhouettes Underwater's written reviews are positive against 25% of Silhouette Magic's.
Silhouettes Underwater ships an update every 38 months, Silhouette Magic monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silhouettes Underwater | Silhouette Magic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (9 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Newmediasoup, LLC | Dongwook Cho |
Customer experience
Silhouettes Underwater
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In-app purchases
Silhouettes Underwater
No in-app purchases
Silhouette Magic
No in-app purchases
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