Comparison

Poster Shine vs Silhouette

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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".

Screenshots

Poster Shine4 screens
Silhouette4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Poster Shine at 4.0 against Silhouette's 3.3. Poster Shine also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (113 vs 21). Silhouette's advantage is review sentiment (48% vs 26%). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Silhouette sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Poster Shine asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Poster Shine holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poster Shine has 113 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of Poster Shine'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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Poster Shine ships an update every 2 months, Silhouette every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Poster Shine versus Silhouette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoster ShineSilhouette
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (113 ratings) — better3.3 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews26.1% of reviews48.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings113 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander Dr. RiegerTAIKI HIRATA

Customer experience

Poster Shine

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

Silhouette

All ratings21 ratings
Positive52.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive48.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative45.2%

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

Silhouette

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Poster Shine

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Silhouette

One-time1
  • Additional Functions$1.99

Questions

Is Poster Shine free?
Poster Shine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Silhouette free?
Silhouette is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Poster Shine or Silhouette?
Poster Shine is rated higher. Poster Shine averages 4.0 out of 5 from 113 ratings, while Silhouette averages 3.3 from 21 ratings.
Do Poster Shine or Silhouette have ads?
Both Poster Shine and Silhouette show ads.
Which is updated more often, Poster Shine or Silhouette?
Poster Shine ships an update every 2 months, and Silhouette every 3 months. Most recently, Poster Shine was updated on October 21, 2026 and Silhouette on October 22, 2026.

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