Comparison

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames vs Core Image Tools

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

Head to head
About

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames

Create aesthetic and Y2K edits with a cute photo editor. Design photo strips, photocards, and collages using thousands of artist-made frames and stickers. Decorate your photos with unique fonts, pens, and filters for a personalized touch.

Highlights
  • Photo booth and photo strip creation
  • 5,000+ artist-made photo frames
  • 1,000+ sticker packs
  • Y2K photo editor tools
  • Photocard and collage maker
  • Community features for inspiration and sharing
Features
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Moshicam is a cute photo editor and kawaii camera for fans, creators and anyone who loves aesthetic, kawaii and Y2K edits. Pose in the photo booth, add artist-made photo frames and stickers, and turn your camera roll into photo strips, photocards and collages you'll want to share. PHOTO BOOTH & PHOTO STRIPS Pick a photo booth frame, start the countdown and pose. Moshicam takes each shot for you, lets you review or retake them, and drops them into the frame you picked, like a classic photo strip. It's a photo booth in your pocket, no booth needed. 5,000+ PHOTO FRAMES BY REAL ARTISTS Choose from more than 5,000 frames you won't find anywhere else: kawaii and coquette frames, Y2K picture frames, polaroid borders, film strips, photo strip layouts and photocard templates. New frames drop every week. 1,000+ STICKER PACKS & PHOTO DECO Decorate every edit with over 1,000 sticker packs from independent artists: cute characters, sparkles, doodles, hearts and fan-favorite themes. Photo deco is what Moshicam is built for, from a birthday edit for your bias to an aesthetic moodboard. Y2K PHOTO EDITOR TOOLS Add captions in cute fonts, draw with purikura-style glitter, heart and sparkle pens, and apply filters with a kawaii, digicam, VHS or instant-film feel. Every tool lives in one photo editor, so you can go from camera roll to finished edit in a minute. PHOTOCARD MAKER & COLLAGE MAKER Make photocards of your favorite idols, your friends or your pets with photocard templates, or put several photos together in a collage. Moshicam is a photocard maker, collage maker and photo frame app in one, made for K-pop fans, lifestyle creators and fan editors. COMMUNITY & ARTIST COLLABS Follow your favorite artists and get notified when they release new frames or stickers. Browse edits from the community for inspiration, and submit your own frames and sticker packs for others to use. SHARE ANYWHERE Share to Instagram Stories or X in one tap, or send your edit to TikTok, Threads and any other app from the share sheet. Create, save and share. FREE & MOSHICAM PLUS Moshicam is free to download and comes with plenty of frames, sticker packs, fonts and filters. Moshicam Plus unlocks premium frames, stickers and backgrounds, with new content every week. Plus is an auto-renewing subscription; prices and plans are shown in the app before you subscribe. LOVED BY FANS & CREATORS Fan editors on X, lifestyle creators on Instagram and creators across Threads and TikTok use Moshicam for their edits. If you've seen a trendy polaroid or photo booth edit on social media, there's a good chance it was made with Moshicam. WHY MOSHICAM? • Thousands of artist-made photo frames and sticker packs • A photo booth, photo strip maker and photocard maker in one cute photo editor • Kawaii, coquette and Y2K styles, with new drops every week • Fonts, pens, filters and collage tools for every kind of photo deco • A community where fans and artists share inspiration every day Download Moshicam and start decorating. Privacy & Terms By using or subscribing to Moshicam, you agree to our Privacy Policy (https://moshi.cam/privacy) and Terms of Use (https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula)

About

Core Image Tools

This app offers over 100 image editing tools with a simple interface for various effects. Easily edit, enhance, resize, and apply filters to your photos across multiple devices. Its intuitive workflow allows for seamless, step-by-step image manipulation without complex file management.

Highlights
  • Over 100 image editing tools
  • Simple and intuitive user interface
  • Multi-platform support (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Vision)
  • Resize images with added pixels
  • Flip and mirror functionality
  • Various blur effects
  • Chroma-keying tools
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Over 100 powerful image editing tools, presented in the simplest user interface. Like most workshops, you use several tools to accomplish a task. Core Image Tools is a large toolbox to reach into, to accomplish many complex effects, one simple step at a time. Lightweight yet Powerful: Edit, enhance, resize, rotate, & add effects to your photos|images from the palm of your hand, while you're on the go, or also from your desktop|laptop. Multi-Platform: Use the same app across your devices - iPhones, iPads, Macs, & Vision. Super-Simple Workflow: Pick a Photos image, apply an effect, tap save - done! Want more? Pick that saved image, apply some other effect to it, tap save - done! Loop the image through as many edits|effects as desired & always have a hardcopy in Photos of each step along the way. Plus you'll always have your original, & never had to type in a single filename throughout the entire process. Resize Images: ACTUALLY resize images, not just crop them down or zoom in. Also, you can ADD color|transparent|semi-transparent pixels to any edge of an image to resize it, or offset it, using 'Border | Underlay'. Flip|Mirror: Quickly mask|mirror a brand name out of your selfie. Flip|mirror an image, horizontally and|or vertically, with one tap. Use 'Skew' to straighten, keystone-correct, zoom, mirror, & crop all at once. Smooth: Use 'Blur, Selfie Smoother' to iron out a few wrinkles, de-focus skin blemishes, or smooth out other unwanted details. Line|Edge Drawn: Make an image look as if it was drawn|sketched using an ink pen, pencil, charcoal, colored pencils, colored chalk, light-pen, watercolored, wax-scratched (scratch-art), or made entirely out of dots|square pixels|points|hex-pixels|or crystalized. Bump Distortion: Kids of all ages (Mom? Dad?) love to swell up, or shrink down, faces & parts of people - give dad a superhero chin, a sibling one big eye & one little one, a bubbled alien-forehead of a friend - endless fun. Wish you had a smaller nose - shrink it. Wish you had bigger biceps or shoulders - pump 'em up. Wonder what implants would look like - find out. Zoom in on, & bring attention to, any feature in an image, especially for technical uses, like highlighting a capacitor on a PCB, or a component of a wiring schematic. Overlay Images: Including resizing, repositioning, & rotating them. Overlay your logo or business card over an image. Also, you can make an entire image of a transparent, or semi-transparent color & overlay that over your image, adding a color filter effect to the entire image. Chroma-Keyers (6 types!): Remove red, green, or blue-screen, or any color. Maybe make transparent overlays out of them? Maybe use 'Polygon | Star' to make color-keyed shapes for transparency masks. Checkerboard: Make checkerboard designs - just pick your colors, including clear|transparent. Blurs: Gaussian Blur, Zoom Blur, Motion Blur, Glow|Bloom, & other blur effects. 3D|Graphics|Cube Images: Make your textures|shaders, tile them, rotate them, make normal|bump maps from them for enhanced lighting effects. Mirrored|seamless tiles, multicolored gradients (linear & radial, plus gradients scale perfectly & tile infinitely from one small image - very efficient). Use 'Alpha as Grayscale' to map out image transparencies for your texture|shader's opacity channel. The best skybox|cube image tools too! Color & Light Adjusters: Many options - brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure, gamma, vibrance, opacity. Try 'Dark Document Enhancer' on a dark document or a scan that you want to enhance. Grayscale Images: Select from 7 grayscale modes each honed for specific imaging challenges. Animated Image Player: Play, pause, slow down, speed-up, & reverse animated images. Kaleidoscopes: Do you like kaleidoscopes? Oh yeah! Gotcha covered there! Over a dozen types. Infinite possibilities just from one image, & the default image is of the most beautifully colored flowers. Developers: Make App Icons, Buttons, & Radio buttons.

Screenshots

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames4 screens
Core Image Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames at Free against Core Image Tools's $0.99. Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames also leads on ratings volume (573 vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18). Core Image Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On rating and update cadence 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

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames is free to download; Core Image Tools costs $0.99 up front. Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Core Image Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames against 5.0 for Core Image Tools. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames has 573 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames's written reviews are positive against 100% of Core Image Tools's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames ships an update weekly, Core Image Tools every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames versus Core Image Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoshicam Photo Editor & FramesCore Image Tools
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.9 (573 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings573 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB60 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMoshicam Studio LLCLino Bailey

Customer experience

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames

All ratings573 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews172 reviews
Positive82.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative9.3%

Core Image Tools

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames

Reported bugs

25 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Photos disappear or glitch during editing
  • Stickers do not load or reload constantly
  • App crashes when scrolling through stickers
  • Download button for stickers disappears or moves
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  • App crashes when trying to download stickers
  • App crashes when trying to save photos
  • Editing progress is frequently lost
  • Photos disappear after editing
  • Editing window pops up randomly
  • Special backgrounds appear as black squares
  • Phone gets very hot while using the app
  • Video editor feature removed
  • Photos become blurry in collages
  • App crashes randomly
  • Template release is delayed
  • App crashes when selecting photos
  • App shows 'something went wrong' error
  • Empty photo album when trying to add photos
  • Photos do not display correctly
  • App freezes or lags
  • App does not register clicks
  • App reverts to subscription screen
  • Cannot open the app after update
  • Cannot select two photos properly

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add video editing capabilities
  • Implement a dark mode option
  • Allow users to control layers
  • Add more Y2K stickers
  • Ability to crop images within the app
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  • Add functionality for frames with both photos and videos
  • Improve loading speed
  • Add a feature to remove watermarks for free
  • Allow users to change the app language to English
  • Add more filter variety
  • Option to disable automatic filters on chosen pictures

Core Image Tools

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames

Subscriptions5
  • Moshicam Plus (Weekly)$4.997 Days
  • Moshicam Plus (Monthly)$7.991 Month
  • Moshicam Plus (Holiday Discount)3 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • Moshicam Plus (Annual)$34.991 Year
  • Moshicam Plus (Annual)3 Days trial$34.991 Year
None

Core Image Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames free?
Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Core Image Tools free?
Core Image Tools costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames or Core Image Tools?
Core Image Tools is rated higher. Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames averages 4.9 out of 5 from 573 ratings, while Core Image Tools averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames or Core Image Tools have ads?
Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames shows ads; Core Image Tools does not.
Which is updated more often, Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames or Core Image Tools?
Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames ships an update weekly, and Core Image Tools every 8 days. Most recently, Moshicam Photo Editor & Frames was updated on November 8, 2026 and Core Image Tools on October 30, 2026.

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