Camera Cube vs Portrait Play
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Camera Cube
Capture fun photos and videos with unique 3D cube effects and live filters. Kids can explore how their image transforms within morphing shapes. Save and share your creations easily.
- 3D cube photo capture
- Live morphing filters
- Interactive cube rotation and scaling
- Front and back camera support
- Save and share to Camera Roll
- 12+ unique filters
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Take snapshots and see how you and your friends look inside a cube! The real fun starts when you add filters and the cube morphs into different shapes. Kids will love playing with this and see how their image changes inside the cube! FEATURES 15 amazing filters, all included: • Normal • Mirror • Quadrant • Sobel • Toon • Vignette • Invert • Sepia • Sharpen • Stretch • Sketch • Polka Dot • Swirl • Heat-map • Pinch Mix All: a different filter on every face of the cube! Swipe the cube to rotate it, pinch & zoom to make it bigger/smaller! Play/pause control to tweak cube look before taking a photo! Use front or back camera! Switch between 5 different deformation effects!
Portrait Play
Transform your selfies into artistic masterpieces inspired by famous painters. Explore background information on renowned artists and their works. Experience art in a new, interactive way.
- Selfie to masterpiece transformation
- Master painter styles
- Artist background information
- Interactive art experience
- Explore art collections
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With Portrait Play, magically transform a selfie into a masterpiece in the style of renowned painters. Visit The Phillips Collection’s exhibition Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland, The Staechelin and Im Obersteg Collections and see your selfie take on the bright colors and vivid brush strokes of paintings reminiscent of Edouard Manet’s Head of a Woman (1870) Ferdinand Hodler’s Portrait of Regina (1911) Alexej von Jawlensky’s Self-Portrait (1911) or Marc Chagall’s Self-Portrait (1914). Portrait Play also provides background information about these four major artists and their work. The portraits are on view at the Phillips from October 10, 2015, to January 10, 2106, marking the first occasion selections from the Staechelin and Im Obersteg collections are exhibited together in the United States. This app is brought to you by Switzerland and the City of Basel, where the arts are highly valued. Concept, design and technology are provided by appamics. To find out more about Switzerland and its arts scene, visit our portals Switzerland, Land of Art and Basel—Culture Unlimited. You will be surprised to discover how many of Switzerland’s artistic and architectural treasures can be found in New York, Miami, and San Francisco. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Portrait Play at 5.0 against Camera Cube's 3.4. Portrait Play also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Camera Cube's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 41 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Portrait Play holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Camera Cube has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Camera Cube ships an update every 5 weeks, Portrait Play every 41 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Camera Cube | Portrait Play |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 41 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Andrea Bizzotto | appamics GmbH |
Customer experience
Camera Cube
Portrait Play
In-app purchases
Camera Cube
No in-app purchases
Portrait Play
No in-app purchases









