Comparison

Defaced vs Backdrop

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

Head to head
About

Defaced

Apply surreal, funny, and weird augmented reality filters to your photos and videos. This app helps you create unique content to make your selfies and stories stand out, aiming to entertain and go viral with monthly filter additions.

Highlights
  • Surreal augmented reality filters
  • Funny and weird effects
  • Enhance selfies and stories
  • Monthly new filter additions
  • Create viral video content
Features
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Defaced, the app that brings you the weirdest, funniest, and most surreal augmented reality filters. Whether you're looking to make your selfies stand out or add a touch of humor to your stories, Defaced has you covered. Use Defaced and ruin your followers' perfectly curated algorithm with weird, hilarious, and mind-bending videos they won’t be able to look away from. With new filters added every month, you’ll always have fresh ways to surprise, entertain, and go viral. Post your creations and watch them disrupt the internet one weird filter at a time. Deface your face.

About

Backdrop

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Pick a Look and the camera changes. Point it at a street and the street is already painted in oil, or broken into dots, or drawn by hand. You are not previewing a filter. That is the picture, and the shutter keeps it. THE LOOKS Brush. Painted stroke by stroke, coarse to fine, as you move. Mosaic. Rebuilt from its own colours. Cells split where there is detail. Drawn. The world drawn instead of photographed. Flat colour, inked lines. Matter. The picture as a field of grains that drift and settle. Fur. Combed strands that follow what the camera sees. Dither. Tone traded for dots on one fixed grid, nothing in between. Halftone. Print dots on a square or hex grid, in four shapes. Fluted. Seen through ribbed glass. The world arrives in strips. Water. Refraction and caustics, the scene read through moving water. Code. Digital rain over katakana, lit by whatever the camera sees. The list grows. New Looks arrive in updates. TAP OR HOLD Tap the shutter for a photo. Hold it to record, up to ten minutes. Video renders in the background at full quality, one frame at a time, using the exact settings you shot with. TUNE ANYTHING Every Look has its own knobs. Size, grain, relief, speed, depth, whatever that Look actually has. Drag the handle at the edge of the screen and the picture changes under your thumb. Tap a knob to put it back. BRING YOUR OWN Choose from Photos to run something you already have through a Look. For video, trim it first, pick the frame, then render. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account, nothing to sign in to. No servers. What you shoot sits in the Shelf on your device. Saving a copy to Photos is a switch, off until you turn it on. BACKDROP PREMIUM Dither, Water, Halftone and Drawn are free, and they record video too. Premium opens every Look, including the ones added later, and takes the Backdrop mark off everything you shoot. Monthly and annual. Payment goes to your Apple Accou renews unless you turn it off at least 24 hours befo Manage or cancel in Settings, Apple Account, Subscri Privacy: backdrop.wiki/privacy Terms: backdrop.wiki/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ iPhone. iOS 18 and later.

Screenshots

Defaced3 screens
Backdrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Backdrop at none against Defaced's shown. Defaced's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Defaced sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Backdrop sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Defaced ships an update every 2 days, Backdrop every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Defaced versus Backdrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDefacedBackdrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB131 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMITSUKO MARGOT KUBOTA ONOShekhar Upadhaya

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Defaced

One-time3
  • Mod Noice$1.00
  • So Boily$1.00
  • Cupping Season$1.00
3 purchases

Backdrop

Subscriptions2
  • Backdrop Premium — Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Backdrop Premium — Annual$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Backdrop Premium — Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Defaced free?
Defaced is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backdrop free?
Backdrop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Defaced or Backdrop have ads?
Defaced shows ads; Backdrop does not.
Which is updated more often, Defaced or Backdrop?
Defaced ships an update every 2 days, and Backdrop every 6 days. Most recently, Defaced was updated on November 5, 2026 and Backdrop on November 5, 2026.

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