Comparison

Photographic Effects vs Slidezilla

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

Head to head
About

Photographic Effects

This app allows you to apply unique artistic effects to your photos. Choose from bass relief, contour, pseudo colors, or deformation to transform your images. Save your creations or take new photos to process.

Highlights
  • Apply Bass Relief effect
  • Create Contour drawings
  • Generate Pseudo Color images
  • Deform images with barrel distortion
  • Select images from archive or camera
  • Save processed images
Features
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Effects is a Digital Image Processor (DIP) for iPad. It allows to select an image from the archive, or to shot a new photo with the internal camera, then process it using one of four different image processing algorythms. The four processing effects are: 1) Bass Relief: creates a new gray scale image with an Embossing effect. It is suitable for any kind of image, provided it has a good contrast. 2) Contour: creates a drawing obtained detecting the border lines between areas with different brightness. Best results are obtained with images with a strong contrast. 3) Pseudo Colors: creates a new colored image, converting different brightness levels of the original picture into different color hues. It can produce many different color combinations on the same image, giving a kind of Kandinskij effect. 4) Deformer: introduces a barrel distortion, compressing some portions of the original image, and inflating other ones. This effect is specially suitable for close-up portraits, and creates very funny variations. When the application starts, you are prompted to choose the image source: archive or camera shot. Once you ha picked an image, you are prompted to choose one of four processing methods. Touch one of the four sampling images to select the type of effect you prefer. When selection is done, the desired effect will be applied to the picked image, and the result shown. If the selected effect is Pseudo Colors, you can change the brightness-to-color translation, simply touching the resulting image one or more times. At this point, if you like the image produced, you can save it in the local archive, pressing the Save Image button. Then, you can get a new image to process.

About

Slidezilla

Transform your photos and videos into engaging slideshow stories with a wide array of filters, transitions, and music. Easily create and share custom animated presentations or let the app randomize for quick, impressive results.

Highlights
  • Photo and video editing
  • Customizable slideshows
  • Hundreds of filters and transitions
  • Add music (yours or app's)
  • Colorful backgrounds
  • Randomize slideshow generator
  • Instant social sharing
Features
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You and your photos and videos deserve to tell a story with transitions, filters, music, and FUN. Slidezilla is the new generation app for your photos and videos that brings them to life and allows you to share your unique slideshow stories instantly. Customize your personal stories with over a hundred FREE filters and transitions, music (yours or ours), colorful backgrounds, and much more! Go to town yourself or tap the Randomize button to automatically generate an awesome slideshow. Create amazing animated slideshows seamlessly with Slidezilla’s user-friendly app. Edit together videos as well as photos to make your creation. Instantly share your creation to your social sites and have others watch your own story. Download Slidezilla NOW to enjoy hundreds of options and customize your own photo slideshow. You have the story—Slidezilla helps tell it.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Slidezilla at 64% against Photographic Effects's 0%. Slidezilla also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.1 vs 1.0). Photographic Effects's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Slidezilla is free to download; Photographic Effects costs $0.99 up front. Slidezilla sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Photographic Effects asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Slidezilla holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slidezilla has 247 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Photographic Effects's written reviews are positive against 64% of Slidezilla's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photographic Effects ships an update every 38 months, Slidezilla every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Photographic Effects versus Slidezilla: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhotographic EffectsSlidezilla
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (4 ratings)4.1 (247 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews63.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4247 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuigi FontiFalstad.com

Customer experience

Photographic Effects

All ratings4 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Slidezilla

All ratings247 ratings
Positive75.7%
Neutral9.3%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral15.9%
Negative20.6%

Bugs and requests

Photographic Effects

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Slidezilla

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App crashes when creating videos
  • Photos and videos not appearing in selection screen
  • Camera roll shows incorrect photo count
  • App freezes on 'Get Started' button
  • Videos appear squished and distorted
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  • Glitchy video editing experience
  • App crashes when adding videos
  • Photos deleted after slideshow creation
  • Cannot post/save videos
  • App crashes after upgrade to pro
  • Videos speed up unexpectedly
  • Photos not displaying in final video
  • App crashes before saving
  • Redownload requires repayment despite same Apple ID
  • App won't load all available photos

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add text overlay capability
  • Import custom music from camera roll
  • More transition options
  • Remove or reduce watermark
  • Ability to use more than 10 photos without upgrade
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  • Video trimming and splitting tools
  • Disable Ken Burns zoom effect
  • Custom transition placement
  • Drag-and-drop media reordering
  • Photo background selection
  • Rearrange media by modification date
  • Shorter photo duration options (less than 1 second)
  • Remove unwanted color filters
  • Expanded music library with popular artists
  • Better tutorial for transition controls

In-app purchases

None

Photographic Effects

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Slidezilla

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$1.99

Questions

Is Photographic Effects free?
Photographic Effects costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slidezilla free?
Slidezilla is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Photographic Effects or Slidezilla?
Slidezilla is rated higher. Photographic Effects averages 1.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Slidezilla averages 4.1 from 247 ratings.
Do Photographic Effects or Slidezilla have ads?
Slidezilla shows ads; Photographic Effects does not.
Which is updated more often, Photographic Effects or Slidezilla?
Photographic Effects ships an update every 38 months, and Slidezilla every 6 weeks. Most recently, Photographic Effects was updated on September 7, 2026 and Slidezilla on September 26, 2026.

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