Comparison

Poster Shine vs Image Filter Photo Editor Tool

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Posterize photos
  • Limited color effect
  • Apply filters
  • Share to social media
  • Save to device
  • Use camera
Features
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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.

About

Image Filter Photo Editor Tool

Enhance your photos with a vast array of artistic filters and editing tools. Transform images into comic book pages, apply vintage effects, or adjust colors with precision. Save and share your creations easily.

Highlights
  • Extensive filter library
  • Color controls
  • Vintage effects
  • Comic book transformation
  • Exposure and gamma adjustment
  • Sharpen and blur options
  • Watermarking
Features
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Amazing Photoshop like filter effects on your iPhone & iPad! ◆ Color Controls – Greatly enhance colors, or remove them for a black & white photo. ◆ Comic Effect – Turn images into comic book pages. ◆ Color Invert – Invert all colors as if image was converted to a negative. ◆ Color Map – Maps the colors from preset gradients or add your own gradient color stops. ◆ Color Monochrome – Remaps colors so they fall within shades of a single color. ◆ Color Posterize – Turn images into posters, i.e. the “Andy Warhol” effect. ◆ Crystallize – Creates polygon-shaped color blocks from image. ◆ Dot Screen – Simulates the dot patterns of a halftone screen. ◆ Edges – Finds edges in image and displays them in color. ◆ Exposure Adjust – Brighten up dark photos or darken bright photos. ◆ Gamma Adjust – Darkens or lightens photos. ◆ Gloom – Dulls the highlights of an image. ◆ Gaussian Blur – Classic blur filer we all love. ◆ Hatched Screen – Simulates the hatched pattern of a halftone screen. ◆ Highlight and Shadows – Increase or decrease shadows and highlight. ◆ Hue Adjust – Adjust photo’s hue/color tint. ◆ Line Screen – Simulates the line pattern of a halftone screen. ◆ Motion Blur – Blur by angle and distance. ◆ Photo Effects: - Chrome – Vintage photography film with exaggerated color. - Fade – Vintage photography film with diminished color. - Instant – Vintage photography film with distorted colors. - Mono – Black-and-white photography film with low contrast. - Noir – Black-and-white photography film with exaggerated contrast. - Process – Vintage photography film with emphasized cool colors. - Tonal – Black-and-white photography film without significantly altering contrast. - Transfer – Vintage photography film with emphasized warm colors. ◆ Pixellate – Makes an image blocky by mapping to colored squares defined by the replaced pixels. ◆ Pointillize – Renders photo in a pointillistic style. ◆ Sepia Tone – Give an old-fashioned look to your photos. ◆ Sharpen Luminance – The classic sharpen filter. ◆ Straighten – Rotate the image. ◆ Temperature and Tint – Change the colors of the image. ◆ Thermal – Apply a Thermal image effect. ◆ Unsharp Mask – Sharpen images to make them stand out. ◆ Vibrance – Make the photo’s color pop without looking fake. ◆ Vignette – Soften photo’s edges and draw attention to its center. ◆ Vignette Effect – More advanced controls than basic Vignette. ◆ Watermark – Add text in a custom font on top of the image to protect your copyright. ◆ X-Ray – Apply a X-Ray style effect to an image. ◆ Zoom Blur – Simulates the effect of zooming the camera while capturing the image. *More filters with free future updates! Apply image filters in a quick, easy to use interface. Share filtered photos to text messages & save to your phone. Save full size image to Photo Library, Send via Email, Copy into other apps. Post to the #ImageFilterApp Hashtag to see other's image filter creations on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook. This app will be updated over time with many more filters added. App supports Light and Dark Appearance Modes. Landscape and Portrait orientations are supported. Fully Accessible with the VoiceOver screen reader for blind and low vision users.

Screenshots

Poster Shine4 screens
Image Filter Photo Editor Tool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Image Filter Photo Editor Tool at 88% against Poster Shine's 26%. Image Filter Photo Editor Tool also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). Poster Shine's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (112 vs 11). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Image Filter Photo Editor Tool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Poster Shine asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Image Filter Photo Editor Tool holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poster Shine has 112 ratings behind it against 11, 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 88% of Image Filter Photo Editor Tool's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Poster Shine ships an update every 2 months, Image Filter Photo Editor Tool every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Poster Shine versus Image Filter Photo Editor Tool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoster ShineImage Filter Photo Editor Tool
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (112 ratings)4.6 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.1% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings112 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander Dr. RiegerPaulJAdam.com

Customer experience

Poster Shine

All ratings113 ratings
Positive78.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative19.5%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive26.1%
Neutral6.5%
Negative67.4%

Image Filter Photo Editor Tool

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

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

Image Filter Photo Editor Tool

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Poster Shine

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Image Filter Photo Editor Tool

One-time1
  • All Filters$4.99

Questions

Is Poster Shine free?
Poster Shine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Image Filter Photo Editor Tool free?
Image Filter Photo Editor Tool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Poster Shine or Image Filter Photo Editor Tool?
Image Filter Photo Editor Tool is rated higher. Poster Shine averages 4.0 out of 5 from 112 ratings, while Image Filter Photo Editor Tool averages 4.6 from 11 ratings.
Do Poster Shine or Image Filter Photo Editor Tool have ads?
Poster Shine shows ads; Image Filter Photo Editor Tool does not.
Which is updated more often, Poster Shine or Image Filter Photo Editor Tool?
Poster Shine ships an update every 2 months, and Image Filter Photo Editor Tool every 2 days. Most recently, Poster Shine was updated on October 23, 2026 and Image Filter Photo Editor Tool on October 22, 2026.

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