Comparison

Blur Shine vs Focos Live

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 Live

Create professional-looking cinematic videos with advanced editing tools. Achieve DSLR-like depth effects and bokeh, with precise control over focus and aperture. Enhance your footage with multi-layer editing, speed ramping, and chroma key.

Highlights
  • Cinematic video with depth data
  • Adjustable aperture up to f/1.4
  • Continuous focus point change
  • Simulated aperture diaphragms for bokeh
  • Multi-layer video editing
  • Speed ramping and video reverse
  • Industrial-grade chroma key
Features
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Take cinematic videos same as iPhone 13 for all dual / triple / LiDAR camera iPhones and iPads. Focos Live offers master class video editing capability, amplified flexibility, and more functionality than any App that you may have tried before. With keyframe and adjustment layers for all options and easily navigable options for both beginners and experts. With the functionality of taking cinematic videos with wide aperture and bokeh effect for dual camera & triple camera iPhone, Focos Live is the next big thing when it comes to computational photography. With Focos Live, you can make limitless customization of any cinematic video that you create, and you can even change the aperture as many times as you wish. MAIN FEATURES - Cinematic video-capable, with depth data on dual camera, triple camera, LiDAR and front Face ID camera. - Taking videos with the aperture up to f/1.4. - Focus point continuous change functionality for tracking object and aperture size. - Multi-choice simulated aperture diaphragms for generating different bokeh spot effects - Multi-layer feature for fitting at least 4 different videos on a single screen. - Adjustment layer for each option. - Speed ramping and video reverse capability for creating custom-made videos. - Industrial-grade chroma key can perfectly knockout the hair & feather for the green/blue screen video. - Video stabilizer can remove the shaking issue for all existing videos. - Mask, Blur, Bokeh and Tilt-shift effects. - Text animations can make your videos look cooler. - Standalone audio editor for managing music and sounds. - Video export feature; for exporting videos as screenshot, animated GIF, or 4K&60fps. - Eligible for importing 3DL and CUBE files as custom files. - Essential tool for iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro & iPad Pro with LiDAR. Focos Live is an App that should be on everyone's iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Blur Shine4 screens
Focos Live4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blur Shine at none against Focos Live's 10. Blur Shine also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Focos Live's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (5.5K vs 5). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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 Live sells 10 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focos Live has 5.5K 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 56% of Focos Live'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 Live monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Blur Shine versus Focos Live: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlur ShineFocos Live
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.5 (5.5K ratings)
Positive reviews35.8% of reviews56.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB175 MB
Age rating4+9+
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 Live

All ratings5,462 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral3.0%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews1,265 reviews
Positive56.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative37.9%

Bugs and requests

Blur Shine

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Focos Live

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Sound not recording in some videos
  • Imported videos not recognized as portrait mode
  • Editing tools becoming unresponsive
  • Exported videos losing quality and focus
  • Inconsistent performance across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add slow motion video capture
  • Improve text and title editing tools
  • Implement autosave and project backup
  • Allow adjusting aperture in post-processing
  • Expand audio editing capabilities

In-app purchases

None

Blur Shine

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Focos Live

Subscriptions8
  • Focos Live Pro Weekly7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Focos Live Premium$2.997 Days
  • Focos Live with Free Trial7 Days trial$2.997 Days
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  • Focos Live Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Focos Live Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly no Free Trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly with Free Trial7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Bundle with Free Trial7 Days trial$9.997 Days
One-time2
  • Monthly subscription$1.99
  • Lifetime unlimited access$14.99

Questions

Is Blur Shine free?
Blur Shine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focos Live free?
Focos Live is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blur Shine or Focos Live?
Blur Shine is rated higher. Blur Shine averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Focos Live averages 4.5 from 5.5K ratings.
Do Blur Shine or Focos Live have ads?
Blur Shine shows ads; Focos Live does not.
Which is updated more often, Blur Shine or Focos Live?
Blur Shine ships an update every 2 months, and Focos Live monthly. Most recently, Blur Shine was updated on November 10, 2026 and Focos Live on November 11, 2026.

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