Comparison

Blur Shine vs Focos

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

Head to head
About

Blur Shine

Enhance your photos with realistic depth of field effects, mimicking professional camera bokeh. Easily highlight specific areas of your image by blurring the rest, drawing viewer attention to your subject. Save, share, or email your creations.

Highlights
  • Add realistic bokeh effects
  • Adjust blur amount
  • Finger painting for focus areas
  • Zoom and erase tools
  • Import from camera or album
  • Adjust painting circle size
  • Social media sharing
Features
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Let your photos blur shine by adding depth of field to your image. The only app that creates realistic blurs with unsharp circles called Bokeh as if taken with a professional camera. Create impressive images by blur shining your photos. The blur shine effect will draw the viewer's attention to the sharp regions in the image. Creating blur shine images is quick and easy. Take a photo with your camera and apply the blur filter on the image. Use your finger to mask the image regions that should stay in focus. Share your blur 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. Features: + Adjust blur amount + Easy finger painting + Paint, zoom and erase + Take pictures from your camera or photo album + Adjust the size of the painting circle + Share your paints on social nets + Undo function for paint corrections There are no limits on what you can blur shine. Blur shine your car, friends, kids, your dog or your holiday pictures.

About

Focos

Transform your iPhone and iPad photos with DSLR-like bokeh and depth-of-field effects. This app uses computational photography to let you refocus, adjust aperture, and add multiple lights in 3D space, unlocking endless creative possibilities.

Highlights
  • AI-powered depth calculation
  • Adjustable aperture and bokeh effects
  • Refocus photos after capture
  • Add and control multiple 3D lights
  • Simulate lens characteristics
  • 3D depth map visualization
  • Augmented reality preview
Features
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Focos is a big step into the future of computational photography and light-field camera, bringing DSLR-like photography to your iPhone and iPad Pro, with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras. With the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos, focus after the fact, change the aperture repeatedly, and add multiple lights in 3D space, exceeding the limits of any editing tools you’ve known before. The creative potential unleashed by Focos is endless. The Verge, "Focos has long been one of the most ambitious photo-editing apps on iOS, turning any photo into a 'portrait mode'-style image with fully adjustable depth of field, no matter what kind of camera you took it with." MAIN FEATURES - Take photos with shallow depth of field, without manually painting or making selections. - The AI engine can calculate depth of field automatically for all photos. - True 3D imaging. - Simulate large apertures to create real bokeh effects normally only possible with DSLR cameras and expensive lenses. - Import all existing photos and customize the bokeh effect. - Re-focus portrait photos that have already been taken, with a simple tap. - Choose from various simulated aperture diaphragms to generate different bokeh spot effects. - Professional options to simulate lens characteristics, such as creamy, bilinear, swirly, and reflex effects, and more. - Visualize the depth of areas within your portrait photos in a 3D view, and intuitively add depth filters. - Add multiple lights in a 3D space, and adjust the color, brightness and so on for each light. - Check the portrait picture in the real world with augmented reality technique. - It is possible to patch the depth map precisely on iPad with Apple Pencil. - Intuitive and easy to use, with built-in video tutorials. - An essential tool for all iPhones and iPads. Do you have questions or suggestions? Contact us via support @ focos . me.

Screenshots

Blur Shine4 screens
Focos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blur Shine at none against Focos's 12. Blur Shine also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Focos's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (51K vs 5). 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. Focos sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Blur Shine asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blur Shine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focos has 51K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Blur Shine's written reviews are positive against 51% of Focos's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blur Shine ships an update every 2 months, Focos every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Blur Shine versus Focos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlur ShineFocos
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.7 (51K ratings)
Positive reviews35.8% of reviews50.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings551K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — 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
Size8 MB332 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander Dr. RiegerMosaic S.r.l.

Customer experience

Blur Shine

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive35.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative62.3%

Focos

All ratings51,408 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews754 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative44.3%

Bugs and requests

Blur Shine

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Focos

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App freezes or crashes when editing certain photos
  • Depth adjustments not saving properly
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between editing modes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save edited photos with depth map
  • More precise brush tools for depth editing
  • Improved hair/fine detail handling
  • Faster processing and loading times
  • Easier organization and management of edited photos

In-app purchases

None

Blur Shine

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Focos

Subscriptions7
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Focos Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
Show 4 more
  • Weekly Subscription - Standard$3.997 Days
  • Standard Weekly - Free Trial7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle - FT7 Days trial2 variants$9.997 Days
  • Weekly Creator Bundle$9.997 Days
One-time2
  • Monthly subscription$1.99
  • Lifetime unlimited access$12.99

Questions

Is Blur Shine free?
Blur Shine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focos free?
Focos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blur Shine or Focos?
Blur Shine is rated higher. Blur Shine averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Focos averages 4.7 from 51K ratings.
Do Blur Shine or Focos have ads?
Blur Shine shows ads; Focos does not.
Which is updated more often, Blur Shine or Focos?
Blur Shine ships an update every 2 months, and Focos every 2 weeks. Most recently, Blur Shine was updated on October 24, 2026 and Focos on October 25, 2026.

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