Comparison

Mega Photo Pro vs Photographic Effects

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

Head to head
About

Mega Photo Pro

Transform your photos and videos with over 1000 real-time effects, including distortions, puzzles, and vintage filters. Play games with your images or create music videos. Share your creations easily with friends.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 real-time effects
  • Photo and video distortion tools
  • Interactive effects
  • In-app games
  • Music video creation
  • Social media sharing
Features
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The most fun you can have with your photos -- Mega Photo Pro is the hilarious app that brings your photos and videos to life. (Formerly Mega Photo Booth Pro) NOTE: If you already have the free version of Mega Photo Booth, and have paid for the upgrade, you don't need this app! You already have all the same effects. Walk through a 3-D maze of your photos, or play games with them! Twist, morph, pinch, and warp your photos and videos into outrageous designs! There are over 1000 effects to choose from and you see them all in real-time. You can take videos with the effects too! You can pause the recording to switch effects in the middle of your video. Make a music video by selecting a soundtrack from your music library! Games include: brick breaker, ninja slicer, three-in-a-row swap, alien invaders, snake, tile puzzle, and circular tile puzzle. Effects include: maze, engraving, cube puzzle, jewel, bouncing balls, glasses, TV, pachinko, waving flag, sketch, tunnel, mosaic, puzzle, hue shift, motion blur, tile, emboss, spinning cube, x-ray, collage, night vision, halftone, light tunnel, and many more. There's also 40 vintage camera effects for a retro feel. Many effects are improved over the free version, like the thermal camera effect that has 8 added variations for you to try. So not only do you get 13 pages of effects, but you get even more effects-within-effects! Mega Photo Pro will transform your photos and videos with amazing effects you won't find in other photography apps. It's the most fun you can have with your photos! TRANSFORM YOUR PHOTOS IN AMAZING WAYS Mega Photo Pro makes your photos and videos as unique as you are. Over 1000 effects are shown to you in real-time. You can play a tile puzzle with a live camera feed, go through a wormhole tunnel, view a spinning globe, and much more! The app can switch from the front to rear facing camera with the touch of a button. You can use the live camera or an image or video - just choose a favorite picture or video from your library or take a new one. Many of the photo effects are interactive so you can personalize it even before taking your picture or video. Tap and drag, zoom with two fingers, rotate, and more to make it your own. SHARE THE FUN WITH FRIENDS Photos are more fun with your friends, and Mega Photo Pro makes it easy. Share your zany and funny photos (like you as the Mona Lisa!) easily. Just tap to email your photo or post to Facebook or Twitter. Are your friends nearby? Snap a photo with all of you using the helpful timer. Set the timer for up to 30 seconds so all your buddies can get in the picture. Don't forget to choose your favorite photo transformation to amaze your friends. INCREDIBLE PHOTO EFFECTS Features of Mega Photo Pro app include: * Transform your photos: Distort, pinch, and change colors of your photos and videos * 1000+ effects: Apply eye-popping effects to your images with just a tap of your finger * Interactive effects: View and change your photo effects in real-time * Share with friends: Easily post your photos to Facebook or Twitter, and email to friends and family. Ready to transform your photos in outrageous ways? Try the Mega Photo Pro app now! NOTE: For Mega Photo Pro to work, you'll need a camera so iPad 1 is not supported. The app is designed for devices with a front camera but also works with back cameras (like 3GS).

About

Photographic Effects

This app allows you to apply unique artistic effects to your photos. Choose from bass relief, contour, pseudo colors, or deformation to transform your images. Save your creations or take new photos to process.

Highlights
  • Apply Bass Relief effect
  • Create Contour drawings
  • Generate Pseudo Color images
  • Deform images with barrel distortion
  • Select images from archive or camera
  • Save processed images
Features
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Effects is a Digital Image Processor (DIP) for iPad. It allows to select an image from the archive, or to shot a new photo with the internal camera, then process it using one of four different image processing algorythms. The four processing effects are: 1) Bass Relief: creates a new gray scale image with an Embossing effect. It is suitable for any kind of image, provided it has a good contrast. 2) Contour: creates a drawing obtained detecting the border lines between areas with different brightness. Best results are obtained with images with a strong contrast. 3) Pseudo Colors: creates a new colored image, converting different brightness levels of the original picture into different color hues. It can produce many different color combinations on the same image, giving a kind of Kandinskij effect. 4) Deformer: introduces a barrel distortion, compressing some portions of the original image, and inflating other ones. This effect is specially suitable for close-up portraits, and creates very funny variations. When the application starts, you are prompted to choose the image source: archive or camera shot. Once you ha picked an image, you are prompted to choose one of four processing methods. Touch one of the four sampling images to select the type of effect you prefer. When selection is done, the desired effect will be applied to the picked image, and the result shown. If the selected effect is Pseudo Colors, you can change the brightness-to-color translation, simply touching the resulting image one or more times. At this point, if you like the image produced, you can save it in the local archive, pressing the Save Image button. Then, you can get a new image to process.

Screenshots

Mega Photo Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mega Photo Pro at 82% against Photographic Effects's 0%. Mega Photo Pro also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 38 months). Photographic Effects's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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

Mega Photo Pro costs $2.99 and Photographic Effects $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mega Photo Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mega Photo Pro has 734 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Mega Photo Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Photographic Effects's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mega Photo Pro ships an update monthly, Photographic Effects every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Mega Photo Pro versus Photographic Effects: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMega Photo ProPhotographic Effects
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.7 (734 ratings) — better1.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings734 — better4
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 38 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#36 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB1 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperFalstad.comLuigi Fonti

Customer experience

Mega Photo Pro

All ratings734 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral2.7%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews188 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative11.7%

Photographic Effects

All ratings4 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Mega Photo Pro

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Drawing bug when fast switch menu on
  • The video gets louder each render, fix it pls?
  • The voice changers don't work on my phone. All it sounds like was an extreme loud volume.
  • Everytime i record a video and save it to see the full clip, the clip itself is zero seconds long! ZERO. FREAKING. SECONDS.
  • The Camera With Voice Changer Works, But Not On Camera Roll. 😖
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  • The voice changer sounds are now messed up because it is so loud
  • every time I try to add a music file it freezes and does nothing!! I've reinstalled the app and restarted my phone and still have this issue.
  • every time I use the voice changer, it gets really loud.

Requested features

4 requests
  • Where is effect 365
  • Can you add effect 365
  • Please fix the static noise in videos
  • pls fix the loud problem while exporting videos in new version

Photographic Effects

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mega Photo Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Photographic Effects

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mega Photo Pro free?
Mega Photo Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photographic Effects free?
Photographic Effects costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mega Photo Pro or Photographic Effects?
Mega Photo Pro is rated higher. Mega Photo Pro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 734 ratings, while Photographic Effects averages 1.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Mega Photo Pro or Photographic Effects have ads?
Neither Mega Photo Pro nor Photographic Effects shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mega Photo Pro or Photographic Effects?
Mega Photo Pro ships an update monthly, and Photographic Effects every 38 months. Most recently, Mega Photo Pro was updated on September 26, 2026 and Photographic Effects on September 7, 2026.

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