ColorVu vs ImagePlus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ColorVu
Enhance your mobile photography with a wide range of live filters. This app offers professional-level effects, including retro, sketchy, and grayscale options, to create dramatic photos. Share your edited images instantly on social media or save them to your device.
- Live photo filters
- Retro, sketchy, grayscale effects
- Texture filters
- Instagram optimization
- Direct sharing to social media
- Save to photo album
- Multi-lingual support
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Classic ColorVu filters, rebuilt for today — with 3 new looks. All of the original ColorVu filters are back, now joined by 3 newly designed filters with a more modern visual style. ColorVu has been completely rebuilt for modern iPhone devices with a new camera and rendering engine. All 38 ColorVu filters are available for free. Features - 38 filters, including 3 newly designed looks - Retro, monochrome, textured, and creative color effects - Real-time filter preview - Take photos directly in ColorVu - Import photos from your photo library - Full-screen photo preview before saving - Save filtered photos directly to your photo library - Share from the full-screen preview - Optional shooting-location metadata - Supports modern iPhone devices and iOS 27 ColorVu has been rebuilt from the ground up while preserving the look and character of its original filters.
ImagePlus
Transform your photos with unique glass-breaking and cartoon effects. Offers a wide range of editing tools including filters, text, stickers, and frames. Easily save and share your creations across multiple social platforms.
- Glass-breaking photo effect
- Cartoonize photos
- Blur & Focus effects
- Tone curve settings
- Photo framing
- Crop, resize, and rotate
- Add text and stickers
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Unlock your creative art! Break your photo like glass broken. Cartoonize selected photo with customized options. Almost all the photo editing tools like crop, rotate, filter, add text, sticker, and frame, etc. Cool and Awesome features: - Crack your photo like the glass is broken. The unique image in the world. Choose a low number to show less effect and choose a high number to show more effect on the photo. - Cartoon effect to your photo - Blur & Focus effect - Tone curve settings - Frame out the photo - Crop, resize and rotate the photo - Gives coloring effect - Add Sticker - Add text to image and customize it with color and font style. - Effect on your photo. Save and Share your photo on Weibo, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, email, and many other your installed apps. Don't worry, we are always there to help on mayihelpu4app@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ImagePlus at 4.8 against ColorVu's 3.7. ImagePlus also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). ColorVu's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. ColorVu sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and ImagePlus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ImagePlus holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively.
ColorVu ships an update every 4 months, ImagePlus every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ColorVu | ImagePlus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Broong, Inc. | Softnoesis |
Customer experience
ColorVu
ImagePlus
In-app purchases
ColorVu
- Filter11$0.99
- Filter15$0.99
- Filter22$0.99
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- Filter26$0.99
- Filter27$0.99
- Filter28$0.99
- Filter29$0.99
- Filter32$0.99
- Filter33$0.99
- Unlock all paid filters$1.99
ImagePlus
- Ads Free$2.99
