Comparison

Zeus Focus Stacking vs Aeblyz

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Zeus Focus Stacking

This app transforms your iPhone into a macro photography studio. It captures multiple images at varying focus points and intelligently blends them into a single, razor-sharp photo from front to back. Advanced features allow for precise control over capture and editing, with an optional Pro upgrade for enhanced capabilities.

Highlights
  • Precision focus bracketing
  • Automatic focus sweep
  • Intelligent alignment engine
  • Built-in adjustable editor
  • AI object removal (Pro)
  • 2x Super Resolution (Pro)
  • Full-resolution export (Pro)
Features
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Every Pixel. Razor Sharp. Zeus Focus Stacking turns your iPhone into a professional macro lab. Capture multiple frames at different focus distances, blend them into one perfectly sharp image — front to back. PRECISION CAPTURE • Focus Range — set Near and Far brackets on the live preview, so each stack sweeps only the depth you want • Tap to rack focus straight to any subject plane • Automatic focus bracketing — sweep from near to far in seconds • 10 or 20 frames per stack (20 with Pro) • Linear or macro-biased focus distribution for optimal coverage (macro with Pro) • Capture Speed — Max Speed, Balanced, or Max Quality for the focus bracket (Pro) • Ultra 48 MP — capture the whole bracket at the sensor's full resolution, on iPhones with a 48 MP-class sensor (Pro) • Lossless 12 MP zoom via the wide camera • Shoot in portrait or landscape — your photo always comes out the right way up INTELLIGENT ENGINE Advanced focus-stacking built for iPhone. Smart alignment holds your frames in register through hand-held movement, lens breathing and focus shifts, and the engine renders them into a single image with finer detail and cleaner edges than any Zeus release before it — clean outlines where your subject meets the background, no glow around bright points, and no doubling when something shifts between shots. Core stacking runs on-device; optional iCloud sync and showcase uploads stay under your control. BUILT-IN EDITOR • Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, color and vignette — every change stays adjustable, and your original stays safe • Crop and straighten • AI object removal — paint over a distraction and it disappears (Pro) • 2× Super Resolution — double the resolution for galleries and large prints (Pro) PRO • Capture Speed — pick Max Speed for near-instant brackets (lighter per-frame processing) or Max Quality for the most per-frame detail; every stack exports at full resolution • iCloud Sync — projects and original frames across all your devices GALLERY THAT KEEPS UP • Original frames preserved for every project — re-stack with newer engines anytime • HEIC and JPEG export, native Photos sharing • Picture of the Week — submit your best focus stacks to the gallery TUNED TO EACH iPHONE Each iPhone model gets its own calibration profile, so the stacking engine knows exactly how your lens behaves. Sharper alignment, no manual tweaks. Macro photography. Product shots. Jewelry. Watches. Coins. Insects. Botanical specimens. Forensic detail. Whatever the subject — Zeus Focus Stacking handles depth so you don't have to. Free to download. Pro upgrade unlocks full-resolution export, Ultra 48 MP capture, AI object removal, 2× Super Resolution, iCloud sync, Capture Speed control, and 20-frame brackets. Privacy Policy: https://zeusfocusstacking.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://zeusfocusstacking.com/terms

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Aeblyz

Features
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Aeblyz Studio brings uncompromising, desktop-class focus stacking and advanced macro metrics straight to iPhone, iPad, and Mac under a single Universal Purchase. Built exclusively on native Apple frameworks, Aeblyz directly unleashes the GPU power of modern Apple Silicon to merge focus brackets into single, high-fidelity master images with infinite depth of field and pristine edge-to-edge sharpness. ZERO-COPY WORKFLOW & NATIVE RAW FORMATS Aeblyz reads your asset files directly from their source paths (Files app or Photos library) without copying or duplicating data. It natively ingests high-megapixel formats supported by the underlying Apple platform: HEIF, CR2, NEF, FFF, and more. Computations are dynamically throttled to regulate thermal profiles safely, protecting your hardware and battery health. CORE COMPUTATION ENGINES: Zero-Allocation Tiling: Splits heavy images (up to 100MP+) into chunks, processing them in isolated sub-batch windows to keep memory usage flat. Precision Focus Heatmap: Fuses pixel-level sharp edge winners into a high-contrast spectrum overlay. Heatmap colors match your filmstrip thumbnail borders to identify exact frame source pixels. Decoupled Analytics Telemetry: An independent, orthogonal background pipeline. Toggle it off for rapid silent blending, or on to populate a real-time data ledger tracking Focus Coverage (%), Depth Expansion multiplier (x), and frame-by-frame contributions. All settings, presets, and adjustments are baked straight into exported file metadata. To restore your entire darkroom setup, simply pick that single focus-stacked image to reload parameters automatically. ADVANCED ADJUSTMENTS & TIMELINE SEQUENCING Standard presets work brilliantly out of the box, while comprehensive manual tools allow total macro control: Target Scene Profiles: Toggle between Standard, Low Light, Outdoor, and High Contrast.Exposure Tuning: Refine the stacked image exposure by precise 1/2 or 1/3 EV steps .Pre-Stacking Alignment: Hardware-accelerated Translation, Affine, and Homography registration models with built-in Deghosting to eliminate artifact shifts. Stacking Domain Priorities: Favor Blended Media, Text, Bokeh, or Sharp Graphics. Tactile Sequencing Carousel: Drag-and-drop unique color-coded, #numbered frames to rearrange your stacking order instantly, or untick individual checkboxes to exclude problematic images from the calculation. iPhone & iPad Touch Canvas: Gesture-isolated touch target zones override tablet multi-window cross-talk, ensuring silky-smooth multi-touch pinch magnification, panning, and long-press original reveals. Export masterworks in uncompressed 16-Bit Adobe RGB TIFF or 10-Bit Display P3 HEIF with Adaptive Alpha Conditioning—selectively stripping alpha bytes from opaque photos to slash file decoding sizes by 50% on disk.Transform your focus brackets into macro masterpieces with the raw performance and thermal protection of Aeblyz Studio. Terms of Use (EULA):Aeblyz utilizes the standard Apple Licensed Application End User License Agreement. You can review the complete terms and conditions by visiting: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Zeus Focus Stacking4 screens
Aeblyz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Zeus Focus Stacking at weekly against Aeblyz's every 3 weeks. Zeus Focus Stacking also leads on iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.1). Aeblyz's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zeus Focus Stacking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Aeblyz sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zeus Focus Stacking ships an update weekly, Aeblyz every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Zeus Focus Stacking versus Aeblyz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZeus Focus StackingAeblyz
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.5 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoberto SartoriProtolys Inc.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Zeus Focus Stacking

Subscriptions2
  • Zeus Pro · Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Zeus Pro · Yearly$24.991 Year
2 purchases

Aeblyz

Subscriptions1
  • Premium monthly subscription1 Month trial$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Aeblyz full purchase$14.99

Questions

Is Zeus Focus Stacking free?
Zeus Focus Stacking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aeblyz free?
Aeblyz is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Zeus Focus Stacking or Aeblyz have ads?
Neither Zeus Focus Stacking nor Aeblyz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zeus Focus Stacking or Aeblyz?
Zeus Focus Stacking ships an update weekly, and Aeblyz every 3 weeks. Most recently, Zeus Focus Stacking was updated on October 1, 2026 and Aeblyz on October 10, 2026.

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