Shadow Shine vs Perspective Vision
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadow Shine
Enhance your photos by finger painting colored shadows directly onto the image. Easily add artistic shadow effects to draw attention to specific areas. Save and share your creations on social media or via email.
- Finger painting shadow effects
- Zoom and erase modes
- Use camera or photo album
- Adjustable brush size
- Social media sharing
- Undo function
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Let your photos shadow shine by finger painting the image with colored shadows. Create impressive images by shadow shining your photos. The shadow shine effect will draw the viewer's attention to shadowed spots in the image. Creating shadow shine images is as easy as drawing with your finger. You start by taking a photo with your camera. Use your finger to shadow parts of the image. Zoom into the image for detailed painting or use the erase mode to remove the shadow. Share your shadow shine images on Facebook, Twitter and other social nets. Send an email with the image attached to it or save it in your photo album. Features: - Easy finger painting - Paint, zoom and erase - Take pictures from your camera or photo album - Adjust the size of the painting circle - Share your paints on social nets - Undo function for paint corrections There are no limits on what you can shadow shine. Shadow shine your car, friends, kids, your dog or your holiday pictures.
Perspective Vision
Easily add dynamic perspective effects to your videos and photos. Adjust the intensity and direction of the effect with intuitive touch controls. Correct wide-angle lens distortion and transform ordinary media into something fresh and engaging.
- Add perspective effect to videos and photos
- Adjustable effect size and direction
- Combine horizontal and vertical effects
- Correct wide-angle lens distortion
- Shoot directly or import from camera roll
- Save and share edited media
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The dynamic depth is amazing. It is an app that can add 'Perspective effect' to videos and photos. The size of the perspective effect can be adjusted freely by intuitive operation by touching the screen. The effects are applied independently in the horizontal and vertical directions, and they can be combined. It can also be used to correct warp in videos and photos taken with a wide-angle lens. It supports not only videos and photos stored on your smartphone, but also cameras. Uninteresting, monotonous videos and photos are fun and freshly reborn. [Material] - Camera shooting: video, photo - Camera Roll: Load video and photos [Settings] - Effect direction switch: horizontal / vertical - Storage resolution: 20 to 100% of the original resolution [Touch operation] The effect changes depending on the touch position on the screen image. When the effect direction is horizontal, the effect is determined by the left and right touch positions. When the effect direction is vertical, the effect is determined by the upper and lower touch positions. [Output] - Save to Camera Roll: Video, Photo - Video and photo sharing: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, ...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shadow Shine at Free against Perspective Vision's $0.99. Shadow Shine also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months) and review sentiment (58% vs 33%). Perspective Vision's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On rating, 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
Shadow Shine is free to download; Perspective Vision costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shadow Shine against 5.0 for Perspective Vision. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Shadow Shine's written reviews are positive against 33% of Perspective Vision's.
Shadow Shine ships an update every 3 weeks, Perspective Vision every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shadow Shine | Perspective Vision |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Dr. Rieger | Masanori Katsuta |
Customer experience
Shadow Shine
Perspective Vision
In-app purchases
Shadow Shine
No in-app purchases
Perspective Vision
No in-app purchases
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