ColorVu vs Camera 720
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.
Camera 720
Transform your photos with a powerful beauty camera and comprehensive editing tools. Apply real-time beauty effects, filters, stickers, and adjust colors and brightness to create stunning images. This app turns your device into a portable photo studio.
- Real-time beauty camera filters
- Comprehensive photo editing tools
- Photo collage maker
- One-tap enhance
- Fun stickers and text customization
- Magic tools (blur, sharpen, color balance)
- HD effects and frames
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Camera 720 - Photo Editor is a perfect beauty camera, you can take pictures with many amazing effects or selfie with real-time beauty face effects A comprehensive photo editor with many effects, stickers, whiten, blur, and other tools you need. You can turn your mobile device into a small studio for editing photos. Best Features in Camera 720: **************** + Beauty & Makeup with real-time camera filter. + Amazing photo filter make you a master photographer. + Photo collage tool: combine multiple photo into one. + One-Tap Enhance can automatically transform boring photos into masterpieces. + Gorgeous photo with High Definition HD Effect and Frames + Fun stickers. Stickers can be rotated or resized to perfectly fit each photo. + Magic Tools contains: Auto-Levels, Sharpening, Area-Auto-Levels, Blurring and Red-Eyes correction. + Color balance + Crop, rotate, and straighten + Modify brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness with easy tools. + Sharpen and blur + Fully optimized for tablets as well. + Focus and blur function + A drawing tool, with abundant features including artistic brushes and layers to create mobile images that look like real paintings. + Awesome fonts and customizable text, with text color, size, shadow, alignment, and transparency all adjustable. + Edited photo sharing you can do through Email, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. Photo management tools * Use pictures from gallery or take instant pictures from camera. * Edited pictures saved to gallery, so that you can edit and view again. * Viewing is simple, using your finger to swipe and zoom images ( two finger zoom ). Your 5-star ratings will encourage us to create and develop more free apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Camera 720 at 4.7 against ColorVu's 3.7. Camera 720 also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 56%) and ratings volume (167 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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 Camera 720 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Camera 720 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Camera 720 has 167 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of ColorVu's written reviews are positive against 89% of Camera 720's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ColorVu | Camera 720 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (167 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 167 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Broong, Inc. | Dung Le |
Customer experience
ColorVu
Camera 720
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
Camera 720
- Remove Ad$1.99







