Poster Shine vs Subtilizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poster Shine
Transform your photos into striking, limited-color poster art. This app offers a quick and easy way to apply a unique poster filter, making your images look like professional prints. Share your artistic creations across social media or save them directly to your device.
- Posterize photos
- Limited color effect
- Apply filters
- Share to social media
- Save to device
- Use camera
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Let your photos poster shine by turning them into a limited colored poster. 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. There are no limits on what you can poster shine. Poster shine your car, friends, kids, your dog or your holiday pictures.
Subtilizer
This application allows users to apply subtle image processing effects like posterization, detail filtering, and edge enhancement. It transforms images into a more refined aesthetic. The tool is designed for creative image manipulation.
- Posterization effect
- Detail filtering
- Edge enhancement
- Subtle image conversion
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Posterization, filtering detail and edge enhance and convert to a little subtle image. Subtilizer is such an application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Subtilizer at 100% against Poster Shine's 26%. Subtilizer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). Poster Shine's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (113 vs 5). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Subtilizer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poster Shine has 113 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Poster Shine's written reviews are positive against 100% of Subtilizer's.
Poster Shine ships an update every 2 months, Subtilizer every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poster Shine | Subtilizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (113 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Dr. Rieger | Itoh Tomoaki |
Customer experience
Poster Shine
Subtilizer
Bugs and requests
Poster Shine
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes on open
- App crashes when sharing
- Can't get out of ads
- App crashes when opening a photo
- Page goes blank after saving
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- Original colors are lost
- Difficulty selecting a photo
- App shuts down when sharing
Requested features
8 requests- Allow more than four colors
- Improve resolution
- Add tutorial
- Allow selection of color range
- Toggle to adjust intensity of effect
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- More sophisticated color options
- Ability to select which color layer to change
- Premium version to remove ads
Subtilizer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Poster Shine
No in-app purchases
Subtilizer
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Poster Shine free?
Is Subtilizer free?
Which has better reviews, Poster Shine or Subtilizer?
Do Poster Shine or Subtilizer have ads?
Which is updated more often, Poster Shine or Subtilizer?
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