Poster Shine vs Fx Stencil
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.
Fx Stencil
Transform your photos into unique stencil art. Easily edit, customize colors, and apply gradients to create personalized designs for printing on various materials or sharing with loved ones.
- Create stencils from photos
- Edit and customize stencils
- Gradient stencil effects
- Save and share stencils
- Simple drawing tools
- Invert stencil option
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Fx Stencil lets you make a stencil from photo you takes or from your photo album.Very simple and quick. You can edit, share on facebook, save to your album or mail it to your friends and family. With a stencil you can use to print on the wall, clothes, fabric or make amazing gifts that imbued with your own personality. New features with version 3.3.0 - Support Dark mode - New Design UI for app - New core processing - More color for stencil - New Gradient stencil - Save your stencil - Share stencil to social networks and some action for stencil - Crop Image - Custom color - More tool - A simple drawing tools to help you edit image stencil. - Invert Stencil Wish you have fun with Fx Stencil. Sincerely!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fx Stencil at 4.5 against Poster Shine's 4.0. Fx Stencil also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (43% vs 26%). Poster Shine's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Fx Stencil sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Poster Shine asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fx Stencil holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fx Stencil has 1K ratings behind it against 113, 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 43% of Fx Stencil's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poster Shine | Fx Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (113 ratings) | 4.5 (1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 43.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Dr. Rieger | Tien Le |
Customer experience
Poster Shine
Fx Stencil
User reviews
Poster Shine
From 113 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎨 Useful for art
- 💡 Good for shading
- ✨ Nice poster effects
- 🖼️ Value map for art
Room to improve
- anúncios Frequent ads
- 🚫 Ads interrupt
- ❌ Ads hard to close
- 🐛 App crashes
- 📉 Limited functionality
Fx Stencil
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Amazing app
- 👍 Love app
- 👍 Stencil app
- 👍 Simple and elegant
- 👍 Great for black and white contrast
Room to improve
- 🐛 Clumsy
- 🐛 Crashes
- 🐛 Buggy
- 🐛 Limited
- 🐛 Doesn't access albums
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
Fx Stencil
Reported bugs
4 issues- Only lets you do one stencil
- App closes when selecting photo
- Zooms in to one corner
- Doesn't display entire picture
Requested features
4 requests- Two-tone image options
- Ability to add more photos
- Bring back old invert option
- Allow access to photo albums
In-app purchases
Poster Shine
No in-app purchases
Fx Stencil
- Remove Watermark$0.99
- Add Picker Color$0.99
- Gradient Stencil$0.99
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- Remove Advertisement$2.99
Questions
Is Poster Shine free?
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