Helen's Filter vs AnyLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helen's Filter
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Helen's Filter is your new go-to photo filter app, bringing elegant, Pinterest-inspired aesthetic filters to your fingertips. Designed for those who appreciate soft tones, curated visuals, and a high-quality visual feed, Helen's Filter helps you transform your photos effortlessly. Features: Apply exclusive filters like Sunset Pastel, Soft Rose Tone, Creamy Glow, and Neutral Portrait Live filter previews and one-tap application Adjustable exposure, contrast, and brightness with intuitive sliders Long-press to preview the original photo Save directly to your photo library Elegant and minimal UI for a seamless experience Optimized for both portrait and landscape photos Whether you're a content creator, aesthetic lover, or just want your feed to pop, Helen’s Filter gives you pro-level filters with simplicity.
AnyLens
Apply artistic effects to your photos with nine unique lenses and six drawing brushes. Control focus, bokeh, and color looks, or transform images into comic panels, sketches, or watercolors. Process all effects directly on your device.
- Nine live optical lenses
- Six artistic drawing brushes
- Customizable bokeh shapes
- Color looks and film grain
- Focus control (auto, face, subject, manual)
- On-device processing
- Edit photos from library
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Blur the background like a fast lens, or let your photo paint itself like a masterpiece. AnyLens gives you nine optical lenses and six brushes, all live in the camera. Go beyond colour filters: choose what stays sharp, and the light around it falls into soft bokeh, hearts or stars. Or press the shutter and watch the lines draw themselves and the colour fill in, starting where you tapped. NINE LENSES • Aperture: turn the f-stop dial and the background melts away. Stop down and the bokeh turns hexagonal, the way light passes real aperture blades. • Bokeh Shapes: points of light in the background bloom into hearts, stars, circles or hexagons. • Sweet Spot: a crisp centre with edges that swirl. • Miniature: real streets look like a tabletop model. • Zoom Burst: streaks rush outward from your subject. • Spin: the scene whirls around the point you choose. • Panning: your subject holds still while the background streaks past. • Mist: a soft haze settles over the scene. • Prism: light splits into rainbow fringes. AIM WHERE YOU WANT • Auto finds what stands out in the frame. • Face locks onto faces. • Subject finds the person or object you tap and keeps its outline sharp. • Manual: tap or drag the focus anywhere, and pinch to set how much stays sharp. COLOUR AND FILM Lay one of nine colour looks over any lens: Plain, 4 PM, Dinner Table, Night Walk, Clear, Late Summer, B&W Diary, Film 400 and Disposable, with their own grain, glow and light leaks. Add the orange date stamp of a film camera. The look colours the bokeh too, and goes into the photo you save. LET THE PHOTO DRAW ITSELF Six brushes, each one a picture you'll want to post: • Comic: clean ink lines and flat, cel-shaded colour, like a comic panel. • Pencil Sketch: graphite contours and hatching on paper. • Watercolor: soft washes that bleed at the edges. • After Van Gogh: The Starry Night. • After Hokusai: The Great Wave off Kanagawa. • After Munch: The Scream. Every brush previews live in the viewfinder. Press the shutter and the picture draws itself from where you tapped: the lines first, then the colour. Paintings end up in a frame. Save the finished picture, or the whole drawing process as a video. CAMERA OR LIBRARY Use the front or back camera, or open any photo from your library in the editor and give it a new lens or a new brush. ON YOUR DEVICE Every effect is processed on your iPhone. Your photos are never uploaded. No account, no subscription. WHAT IT ISN'T AnyLens is not an AI image generator. It doesn't invent anything that wasn't in your photo, and it doesn't upload your photos anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Helen's Filter at every 2 days against AnyLens's every 2 weeks. Helen's Filter also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Helen's Filter ships an update every 2 days, AnyLens every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helen's Filter | AnyLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guliz Konca Adiller | ReleCompany |
In-app purchases
Helen's Filter
No in-app purchases
AnyLens
No in-app purchases







