PhotoVu vs Pattern HD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhotoVu
Apply vintage and dramatic live filters to your photos in real-time to achieve professional-quality results. Easily share your enhanced images across popular social media platforms.
- Live photo filters
- Vintage photo effects
- Dramatic filter effects
- High-resolution photos
- Social media sharing
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InstaVu has been renamed to PhotoVu. In addition, five free filters (No. 41~ No. 45) have been added. Enjoy the vintage photo effects with PhotoVu! ==================== A whole new live photo filter app - PhotoVu PhotoVu is a live photo filter app that enables to get high-resolution professional photos. Using dramatic filter effects through the 1st filters and the 2nd filters, you can be a professional photographer. Share your high quality photos through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and so on.
Pattern HD
Design unique patterns, backgrounds, and wallpapers using a vast library of stickers and colors. Customize scale, spacing, and rotation for personalized phone cases and home screens. Save and share your high-quality creations.
- Create custom patterns and wallpapers
- Millions of stickers and background colors
- Adjust pattern scale, spacing, and rotation
- Save creations in HD and Ultra HD
- Create phone cases
- Support for iPad and easy sticker editing
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Create cool patterns, backgrounds, wallpapers, and home screens with Pattern HD. Pick from millions of cool stickers, hundreds of beautiful background colors, and endless pattern options. Save your amazing creations on a high-quality phone case. With Pattern HD you can make a background and wallpaper for iPhone really really cutest. ==== Features ==== ■ Create a phone case cutest. ■ Create a patterned wallpaper for iPhone. ■ Choose a pattern from millions of cool stickers or from your photos. ■ Adjust the pattern’s scale, spacing, rotation. ■ Save your pattern in HD, Ultra HD for high quality. ■ Save to your photos. ■ Share on Instagram, Facebook, etc or save to Photos. ==== New Features ==== ■ Support iPad. ■ Easy to edit stickers. ■ Easy to edit colors with RGB, HEX, HSV... What are you waiting for? Try Patter HD - Create the cutest background now and impress your friends with your cutest background, wallpapers! ==== Love Pattern HD ==== If you enjoy using Pattern HD, would you mind taking a moment to rate it? Share and review apps. Thanks for your support. ==== Pattern HD Contacts ==== Please follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cheepapps-684007881726733 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patternhd/ Email: cheepapps@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pattern HD at 4.8 against PhotoVu's 4.0. Pattern HD also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 67%). PhotoVu's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). 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. PhotoVu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pattern HD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pattern HD holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of PhotoVu's written reviews are positive against 76% of Pattern HD's.
PhotoVu ships an update every 2 months, Pattern HD every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhotoVu | Pattern HD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (11 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 76.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Broong, Inc. | Duong Bac |
Customer experience
PhotoVu
Pattern HD
Bugs and requests
PhotoVu
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pattern HD
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes frequently
- Parameters misconfigure when changing another
- Flip changes orientation of all elements
- Scaling image saves at lower resolution
- App crashes when trying to do something
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- App crashes when editing stickers
- App crashes when trying to save
- App crashes when importing photos on iPad
- App crashes when clicking search online
- App crashes when selecting any sticker
- App closes by itself when clicking anything
- App crashes when trying to click wallpaper or stickers
Requested features
10 requests- Ability to use emoji as stickers
- Ability to import own background image
- Ability to change sticker opacity
- Fix crashing issues
- Fix parameters misconfiguration
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- Fix resolution loss on scaling
- Fix flip changing orientation of all elements
- Fix online sticker search
- Fix transparent picture functionality
- Update the app
In-app purchases
PhotoVu
- Pack of 2nd Filters$0.99
Pattern HD
- Remove watermark$1.99
Questions
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