Poster Shine Pro vs Silhouette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poster Shine Pro
Transform your photos into striking, limited-color posters with a unique "poster shine" effect. Easily apply filters, customize colors, and share your artistic creations across social media or save them to your device.
- Poster shine effect
- Limited color palettes
- Customizable colors (up to four)
- Save and organize images
- Direct sharing to social media
- In-app camera integration
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Let your photos poster shine by turning them into a limited colored poster. ***** On SALE! 50% OFF now - for limited time only Create impressive images by poster shining your photos. The poster shine effect will make your photos look like a poster printed with only a few colors. Creating poster shine images is quick and easy. Take a photo with your camera and apply the poster filter on the image. Share your poster 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. * Pro Features: + Change up to four colors + Save and organize multiple images in a list There are no limits on what you can poster shine. Poster shine your car, friends, kids, your dog or your holiday pictures.
Silhouette
Easily create striking silhouette art from your photos. Merge images, collage patterns, and edit outlines to produce professional-looking designs for social media sharing.
- Create silhouette effects
- Merge photos into silhouettes
- Collage pattern images
- Extract and edit outlines
- Edit silhouette color and transparency
- Edit background color and images
- Create transparent background images
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Let's create Cool Silhouette Art like advertising posters and TV CM! You will be able to create cool silhouette art easily! You will be able to merge photos to silhouette image! You will be able to collage pattern picture to silhouette image! Let's share your cool silhouette art with your friends by using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other SNS! Silhouette - Silhouette Effects Image Blender and Shadow Collage Picture Maker Free Photo Editor Apps - ■Description of App "Silhouette" is the free photo editor apps for creating silhouette effects image and collage picture. You will be able to edit your photo or image and create silhouette effects image easily by this photo collage editor apps. You will be able to create artistic image from your photo or image by blending photo or image from photo album or camera to silhouette effects image. In addition, you can edit silhouette effects image like collage using various pattern image which is incorporated in the apps. *You can save only one image that used blender effect or used pattern image per day. You can remove the restriction by purchasing "Additional Functions" Add-on in In-App Purchase. You can create image with transparent background like stamp from your photo by hiding the background. You can use pattern image of 155 type to edit your photo and image. In addition, you can use pattern image that saved in the photo album of your device. I plan to add new pattern image in the future. ■Function List 1. Extraction of Outline. ○You can extract outline from photo or image. ○Outline is hidden in the initial state. ○When you edit silhouette effects image from the photo with little contrast, you might be able to extract the silhouette relatively cleanly by using outline. ○You can edit outline color and outline width. ○You can hide outline. 2. Create Silhouette Effects Image ○You can create silhouette effects image from your photo or image. ○This is main function of this photo editor apps. ○You can edit silhouette color, silhouette threshold, silhouette transparency and silhouette smoothness. ○You can merge photo or image from photo album or camera as silhouette inner image. ○You can collage pattern image as silhouette inner image. ○You can invert and hide silhouette. 3. Edit Silhouette Background ○You can edit background of silhouette. ○You can edit background color. ○You can merge photo or image from photo album or camera as background. ○You can collage pattern image as background image. ○You can create image with transparent background like stamp from your photo by hiding the background. *You can save only one image that used blender effect or used pattern image per day. You can remove the restriction by purchasing "Additional Functions" Add-on in In-App Purchase. ■How to create Silhouette Effects Image 1. Select image you want to edit from "Camera" Button. 2. When Image was displayed, edit image to the desired image by Edit Items. 3. You can merge photo or image from photo album or camera as background by selecting "Image" button. 4.You can collage pattern image as background image by selecting "Image" button. 5. When you touch "Save" Button, current image will be saved in "Photos (Camera Roll)". *Full Screen Advertising will be displayed, after you have saved the picture. You can hide this Advertising by purchasing "Add-on". *You can save only one image that used blender effect or used pattern image per day. You can remove the restriction by purchasing "Additional Functions" Add-on in In-App Purchase. ■About In-app Advertising Banner Advertising is displayed in Home Screen. Full Screen Advertising will be displayed, after you have saved the picture. You can hide these Advertising by purchasing "Additional Function Add-on".
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Silhouette at Free against Poster Shine Pro's $1.99. Silhouette also leads on review sentiment (48% vs 36%). Poster Shine Pro's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, update cadence and device support 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
Silhouette is free to download; Poster Shine Pro costs $1.99 up front. Silhouette sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Poster Shine Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Poster Shine Pro holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 21 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Poster Shine Pro's written reviews are positive against 48% of Silhouette's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poster Shine Pro | Silhouette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (46 ratings) — better | 3.3 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | 48.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #197 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Dr. Rieger | TAIKI HIRATA |
Customer experience
Poster Shine Pro
Silhouette
In-app purchases
Poster Shine Pro
No in-app purchases
Silhouette
- Additional Functions$1.99
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