Hikari Draw vs Mirror Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hikari Draw
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Transform your camera into a magic paintbrush — the ultimate AI art camera for dreamers, storytellers, and visual creators. Bring your imagination to life with real-time filters that reimagine the world around you. Whether you’re capturing portraits, landscapes, pets, or everyday scenes, every frame becomes a unique and expressive creation. Key Features • Live AI Art Filters See the world change around you as you move — no editing required. Explore a wide range of styles designed to spark creativity and emotion. • Capture or Upload Take photos on the spot or apply filters to images from your gallery — it’s fast, fun, and intuitive. • Switch Cameras Easily Use the front or rear camera to match your vision. • Unlock More Magic Try premium filters for free. Subscribe or unlock them permanently — your creativity, your choice. • Save & Share Export your art in high quality and share it anywhere your creativity takes you. • Works Offline All processing happens on your device — no internet, no uploads, complete privacy. Powered by AI Each filter is driven by advanced AI trained on real-world visual styles, delivering beautiful transformations instantly and in real time. Private by Design No data is collected. Your photos never leave your device. Try Before You Buy Explore free filters, try premium ones with a free trial, or unlock specific styles forever — your creativity, your rules. Download now and turn your reality into art. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Mirror Lab
Create stunning mirror photos, kaleidoscope art, and distorted images with over 50 customizable filters. This app also features an animation module for smooth video creation and a powerful undo system for endless creative exploration.
- 50+ customizable filters
- Mirror and kaleidoscope effects
- Distortion and glitch art filters
- Animation module for video
- Adjustable parameters for effects
- Undo system
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Mirror Lab aims to be the most fun, easy to use and powerful photo-editing app to creatively enhance pictures, make mirror photos, kaleidoscope images and distort faces and scenery. Mirror Lab now comes with a powerful animation module. Create smooth videos with parameter interpolation between key frames (be sure to activate video from the app settings). Effects Choose from 50+ filters, each with multiple fine-tunable options. - classic symmetries: horizontal and vertical reflections - ripples, whirls, stretching and other distortions - kaleidoscopic and fractal effects - 3D effects - tiny planet effects - triangulation, pixel sort and halftone effects - shape cut-outs, including concentric iterations - glitch art friendly filters such as stripes and broken glass effect - adjust your image's brightness, contrast, saturation, vignetting and more - swipe through 40+ preset options to browse through possibilities in an instant Parameters All filters come with several parameters to adjust, allowing for a large range of varied results. Effects can usually be simply placed by simple touch-drag for position and double-touch-drag for size. Some of the most common parameters you will find: - intensity of effect - dampening of effect (the further from the center of the effect, the lesser the intensity) - rotation angle - aspect ratio Ease of use Compose filters for endless creative options. The + button reapplies an effect immediately - some effects like to be stacked! The app has a powerful undo system allowing you to track back at any time. Please note that the top and bottom toolbars can scroll. There are a lot of effects to the right of the bottom bar! PRO Version Available as an in-app purchase, the PRO version comes with extra filters, extra parameters, higher resolutions and lossless file saving (PNG).
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Verdict
Hikari Draw and Mirror Lab are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Hikari Draw sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Mirror Lab sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Hikari Draw | Mirror Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.3 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joao Canhita | Ilixa Ltd |
In-app purchases
Hikari Draw
- Weekly – 3-day trial3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Weekly subscription$1.997 Days
- Monthly subscription$3.491 Month
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- Quarterly subscription$8.993 Months
- Yearly subscription$24.991 Year
- Hikari Twilight$1.49
Mirror Lab
- Mirror Lab PRO$9.99
- MirrorLab MAX (upgrade)$19.99
- Mirror Lab MAX$29.99









