Negative Me vs Lumenoscope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Negative Me
Transform your photos by converting them between color negative and positive images with a single click. Easily develop color negatives or create color negatives from existing photos. Save and share your transformed images directly from the app.
- Color negative to positive conversion
- Positive to color negative conversion
- One-click negative film developing
- One-click color negative creation
- Select photos from album or camera
- Save and share results
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Create polished negative and inverted color in seconds with Negative Me. Create classic film negatives, monochrome inversions, and striking reversed-color artwork. 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. Start creating for free in this ad-supported edition.
Lumenoscope
This app reveals the invisible spectrum of color, augmenting visual perception through virtual reality and interactive modes. Explore new dimensions of color and capture unique images and videos.
- VR headset compatibility
- Touch and slide interaction
- Full screen mode
- Half screen mode
- Magical transition mode
- Take pictures
- Record videos
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"I dreamed of a technological breakthrough for painting. But, I never imagined achieving a parallel dimension of color." Luis Merchan Normal color perception is incomplete. The human eye receives only part of the color that travels along spectrum of light. The other part is absorbed by matter and is invisible. Lumenoscope augments the perception of color and reveals this hidden dimension. It is a VR pictorial technology for Luis Merchan's artistic production. Each of his works expands its materiality into a virtual dimension that increases the associations and relationships of the pictorial image. *************** FEATURES: Five modes in real time: - VR. Use with Cardboard or VR Headset for smartphones -Touch & Slide. Slide your finger on the screen - FULL. Full screen - HALF. 50-50 - MAGICAL. On/Off the transition ***NEW*** New features!!! -Take a picture -Record a video
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lumenoscope at 100% against Negative Me's 57%. Lumenoscope also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Negative Me's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (56 vs 4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lumenoscope holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Negative Me has 56 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Negative Me's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lumenoscope's.
Negative Me ships an update every 3 weeks, Lumenoscope every 12 months. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Negative Me | Lumenoscope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (56 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 福恩 毛 | Luis Merchan |
Customer experience
Negative Me
Lumenoscope
Bugs and requests
Negative Me
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes when selecting or loading photos
- Incompatible with iOS 11 and newer versions
- Crashes when tapping 'No' on premium upgrade prompt
- Save functionality broken or inaccessible
- App no longer works after Apple OS updates
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- Crashes on older devices
- Photo quality degradation after inversion
- Inconsistent performance across different iOS versions
Requested features
10 requests- Live camera preview with real-time inversion
- Color correction for C-41 and C-22 film
- Image rotation capability
- Advanced color adjustment filters
- Remove or hide original image during editing
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- Better UI/UX design for saving functionality
- Video inversion support
- Pinch-to-zoom and standard iOS photo manipulation
- Batch processing for multiple images
- iOS 11+ and current iOS version compatibility
Lumenoscope
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Negative Me
No in-app purchases
Lumenoscope
No in-app purchases
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