Comparison

Negative Me vs Image Filters Photo Editor +

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

Head to head
About

Negative Me

Transform photos into striking negative and inverted color images. Explore presets, blend effects, and save your creations in high resolution. This app offers a fast, visual editing experience for unique artwork.

Highlights
  • Negative and inverted color creation
  • Live split preview
  • Curated presets
  • Blend effect with original
  • Save favorite settings
  • High-resolution saving and sharing
Features
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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 • Edit across compact and expanded layouts with keyboard shortcuts • 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.

About

Image Filters Photo Editor +

This app offers a vast array of filters and adjustments to transform your photos. Enhance colors, apply artistic effects, or achieve vintage looks with a wide selection of tools. Perfect for creative photo editing.

Highlights
  • Bokeh, Disc, Gaussian, Motion, Zoom Blur effects
  • Color adjustment and enhancement tools
  • Artistic color effects like invert, posterize, and thermal
  • Halftone and screen effects (CMYK, Dot, Line)
  • Sharpening and unsharp mask for detail
  • Stylize effects including comic, crystallize, and bloom
Features
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Filters: BLUR ◆ Bokeh Blur – Applies a bokeh effect. ◆ Disc Blur – Blurs an image using disc shapes. ◆ Gaussian Blur – Blur and smooth out images. ◆ Morphology Gradient – Finds the edges of an image. ◆ Motion Blur – Blurs an image to simulate the effect of using a camera that moves a specified angle and distance while capturing the image. ◆ Zoom Blur – Simulates the effect of zooming the camera while capturing the image. COLOR ADJUSTMENT ◆ Color Controls – Greatly enhance colors, or remove them for a black & white photo. ◆ Color Threshold – Converts image into high-contrast color. ◆ Exposure Adjust – Brighten up dark photos or darken bright photos. ◆ Gamma Adjust – Darkens or lightens photos. ◆ Hue Adjust – Adjust photo’s hue/color tint. ◆ Vibrance – Make the photo’s color pop without looking fake. COLOR EFFECT ◆ Color Invert – Invert all colors as if image was converted to a negative. ◆ Color Map – Maps the colors from a psychedelic gradient to your image. ◆ Color Monochrome – Remaps colors so they fall within shades of a single color. ◆ Color Posterize – Turn images into posters, i.e. the “Andy Warhol” effect. ◆ Document Enhancer – Enhance a document image by removing unwanted shadows, whitening the background, and enhancing contrast. ◆ False Color – Maps luminance to a color ramp of two colors. ◆ Maximum Component – Returns a grayscale image from max(r,g,b). ◆ Minimum Component – Returns a grayscale image from min(r,g,b). ◆ Photo Effects: - Chrome – Vintage photography film with exaggerated color. - Fade – Vintage photography film with diminished color. - Instant – Vintage photography film with distorted colors. - Mono – Black-and-white photography film with low contrast. - Noir – Black-and-white photography film with exaggerated contrast. - Process – Vintage photography film with emphasized cool colors. - Tonal – Black-and-white photography film without significantly altering contrast. - Transfer – Vintage photography film with emphasized warm colors. ◆ Sepia Tone – Give an old-fashioned look to your photos. ◆ Thermal – Apply a Thermal image effect. ◆ Vignette – Soften photo’s edges and draw attention to its center. ◆ Vignette Effect – More advanced controls than basic Vignette. ◆ X-Ray – Apply a X-Ray style effect to an image. HALFTONE EFFECT ◆CMYK Halftone – Creates a color, halftoned rendition of the source image, using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks over a white page. ◆ Dot Screen – Simulates the dot patterns of a halftone screen. ◆ Hatched Screen – Simulates the hatched pattern of a halftone screen. ◆ Line Screen – Simulates the line pattern of a halftone screen. SHARPEN ◆ Sharpen Luminance – Increases image detail by sharpening. ◆ Unsharp Mask – Sharpen images to make them stand out. STYLIZE ◆ Bloom – Softens edges and applies a pleasant glow to an image. ◆ Comic Effect – Turn images into comic book pages. ◆ Crystallize – Creates polygon-shaped color blocks from image. ◆ Edges – Finds edges in image and displays them in color. ◆ Gabor Gradients – Linear filter used for texture analysis. ◆ Gloom – Dulls the highlights of an image. ◆ Hexagonal Pixellate – Maps an image to colored hexagons. ◆ Highlight and Shadows – Increase or decrease shadows and highlight. ◆ Line Overlay – Creates a sketch that outlines the edges of an image in black. ◆ Pixelate – Makes an image blocky by mapping to colored squares defined by the replaced pixels. ◆ Pointillize – Renders photo in a pointillistic style. Apply image filters in a quick, easy to use interface. Share filtered photos to text messages & save to your phone. Save full size image to Photo Library, Send via Email, Copy into other apps. No Ads! Post to the #ImageFilterApp Hashtag to see other's image filter creations on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook. App will be updated over time with more filters. Supports Light and Dark Modes. Landscape and Portrait orientations supported. Fully Accessible with the VoiceOver screen reader for blind and low vision users.

Screenshots

Negative Me3 screens
Image Filters Photo Editor +4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Negative Me at none against Image Filters Photo Editor +'s 8. Negative Me also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7). Image Filters Photo Editor +'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Image Filters Photo Editor + sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Negative Me asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Negative Me holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 32 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Negative Me's written reviews are positive against 51% of Image Filters Photo Editor +'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Negative Me ships an update every 5 weeks, Image Filters Photo Editor + every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Negative Me versus Image Filters Photo Editor +: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNegative MeImage Filters Photo Editor +
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (57 ratings) — better3.7 (32 ratings)
Positive reviews56.7% of reviews — better50.7% of reviews
Number of ratings57 — better32
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer福恩 毛PaulJAdam.com

Customer experience

Negative Me

All ratings56 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral8.9%
Negative19.6%
Written reviews141 reviews
Positive56.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative36.2%

Image Filters Photo Editor +

All ratings32 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral9.4%
Negative28.1%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive50.7%
Neutral8.0%
Negative41.3%

User reviews

Negative Me

From 57 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✅ Simple and straightforward functionality
  • 🎯 Does exactly what it claims
  • ⚡ Fast and easy to use
  • 🆓 Free with no watermarks
  • 📸 Excellent for black and white negative conversion

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes on various iOS versions
  • ❌ Poor color negative conversion (blue tint)
  • 📱 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • 🔧 Lacks live preview/real-time inversion option
  • 📢 Intrusive ads and premium upgrade prompts

Image Filters Photo Editor +

From 32 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Nice filters
  • 👍 Good for quick edits
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Makes cool infrared pics
  • 👍 Good posterize effect

Room to improve

  • 👎 Can't save or send
  • 👎 Many features behind paywall
  • 👎 Not intuitive
  • 👎 Misleading advertising
  • 👎 Images saved rotated

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

Image Filters Photo Editor +

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Cannot save photos
  • Cannot send photos
  • Images saved rotated 180 degrees
  • App crashes on opening
  • Help menu leads to 404 error
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  • Strange haze around logo on invert
  • Automatic cropping to horizontal rectangle
  • App crashes frequently
  • Cannot open app on older devices (iPod 4)
  • App doesn't start up

Requested features

14 requests
  • Ability to save photos
  • Ability to send photos
  • Built-in save button
  • Fix image rotation on save
  • Add sharpen feature
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  • Make all filters available
  • Improve user interface clarity
  • Allow editing of own photos
  • Add tutorial
  • Fix app crashing
  • Update for iPhone X
  • Add control over filter levels
  • Make all filters available through photo extensions
  • Clear last pic or prevent holding

In-app purchases

None

Negative Me

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Image Filters Photo Editor +

One-time8
  • Disable Ads$0.99
  • Enable All Filters$0.99
  • Blur Filters$0.99
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  • Color Adjustment Filters$0.99
  • Halftone Effect Filters$0.99
  • Sharpen Filters$0.99
  • Stylize Filters$0.99
  • Color Effect Filters$1.99

Questions

Is Negative Me free?
Negative Me is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Image Filters Photo Editor + free?
Image Filters Photo Editor + is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Negative Me or Image Filters Photo Editor +?
Negative Me is rated higher. Negative Me averages 4.0 out of 5 from 57 ratings, while Image Filters Photo Editor + averages 3.7 from 32 ratings.
Do Negative Me or Image Filters Photo Editor + have ads?
Neither Negative Me nor Image Filters Photo Editor + shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Negative Me or Image Filters Photo Editor +?
Negative Me ships an update every 5 weeks, and Image Filters Photo Editor + every 2 days. Most recently, Negative Me was updated on November 1, 2026 and Image Filters Photo Editor + on November 6, 2026.

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