Real Bokeh vs Fx Stencil Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Real Bokeh
Easily add beautiful bokeh and light leak effects to your photos. Customize shapes, sizes, opacity, and colors to create unique and artistic images. Save and share your creations in full resolution.
- 36 bokeh shapes
- 33 light leak effects
- 23 image filters
- Draw multiple bokehs
- Adjust bokeh size and opacity
- Multiple bokeh colors
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Create photo of beautiful light effects with Real Bokeh. Real Bokeh helps you to draw beautiful bokeh effect to your photos. It also enables you to apply beautiful light leak effects and filters to your photos. [Features] - 36 beautiful bokeh shapes - 33 light leak effects - 23 image filters - Draw multiple bokehs with finger touch - Apply multiple bokeh shapes to one photo - Change bokeh size (large, medium, small, tiny and mixed) - Change opacity - Multiple bokeh colors with easy color picker (28 colors) - Easy undo and clear all - Save as full resolution - Share to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and other apps [User Reviews] - "This app is amazing. The features are great and there are so many different kinds of shapes" - "I love the freedom of this editing app" - "So much fun and add creativity and fun to your photos" - "It works very good and is worth it! It makes the pictures look so beautiful" - "Awesome app. Love using it for every picture I take and have"
Fx Stencil Pro
Easily create unique stencil art from your photos. Edit, customize colors, and apply various effects to generate personalized designs for printing on various materials or creating custom gifts. Share your creations instantly.
- Create stencils from photos
- Edit and customize stencils
- Add gradient and custom colors
- Simple drawing tools
- Invert stencil effect
- Save and share creations
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"Fx Stencil Pro" lets you make a stencil from photo you takes or from your photo album.Very simple and quick.You can edit, share on facebook, save to your album or mail it to your friends and family. With a stencil you can use to print on the wall, clothes, fabric or make amazing gifts that imbued with your own personality. New features with version 3.0.0 - Support Dark mode - New Design UI for app - New core processing - More color for stencil - New Gradient stencil - Save your stencil - Share stencil to social networks and some action for stencil - Crop Image - Custom color - More tool - A simple drawing tools to help you edit image stencil. - Invert Stencil Wish you have fun with "Fx Stencil Pro" . Sincerely!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Real Bokeh at 57% against Fx Stencil Pro's 0%. Real Bokeh also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (56 vs 12). Fx Stencil Pro's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.8). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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
Real Bokeh costs $2.99 and Fx Stencil Pro $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fx Stencil Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Real Bokeh's written reviews are positive against 0% of Fx Stencil Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Real Bokeh ships an update every 3 months, Fx Stencil Pro every 30 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real Bokeh | Fx Stencil Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (56 ratings) | 4.4 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 30 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dongwook Cho | Tien Le |
Customer experience
Real Bokeh
Fx Stencil Pro
Bugs and requests
Real Bokeh
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes when loading photos
- Crashes when saving images
- Crashes when applying bokeh effects
- Freezes after opening pictures
- Random crashes during editing
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- Force closes unexpectedly
- Photos don't load or appear on screen
- Orientation glitches (portrait/landscape inconsistency)
- Shape placement too random and imprecise
- Accidental deletion when holding finger too long
- No working undo button despite claims
- Incompatibility with older iOS versions
- iPad landscape mode distorts images
- RealBokeh shapes painted in wrong orientation
Requested features
15 requests- Bring back Mickey head shape
- Landscape mode support
- More shape options (food, fashion, travel, pets, words)
- Text and font options
- Frame and border options
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- Extra small size option
- Undo/redo buttons
- Ability to place bokeh in background only
- Layer support for better composition
- Zoom functionality for precision
- Rotation/twist capability for particles
- Full screen image preview
- Save to camera roll functionality
- Transparency control improvements
- Swipe-to-line feature with shape conversion
Fx Stencil Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Real Bokeh
No in-app purchases
Fx Stencil Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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