MacroShader vs AstroFinish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MacroShader
Capture incredibly detailed close-up photos with advanced processing. This app enhances image resolution by combining multiple shots and offers manual camera controls for precise adjustments. It includes focus peaking and editing tools for fine-tuning your macro shots.
- Multi-frame super resolution processing
- Focus shutter with tap and hold functionality
- Focus peaking for precise focus
- Manual camera controls
- Size-specific detail enhancements
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A macro and zoom photography app for iPhone. MacroShader maximises image detail by capturing multiple photos and using advanced processing techniques to improve image resolution. Features include: - Multi-frame super resolution processing - Focus shutter: Tap, hold, focus and release to shoot a photo. Also just tap to shoot - Focus peaking - Manual camera controls - Editing tools including size-specific detail enhancements
AstroFinish
Edit astrophotography images directly on your iPhone. Enhance deep-sky objects, clean up skies, and sharpen moon shots with specialized tools. Supports various image formats and offers batch processing for efficient editing.
- Auto Astro Polish
- Deep Sky enhancement
- Moon sharpening
- Nebula and galaxy detail
- Denoise and star reduction
- Batch processing
- RAW and FITS support
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AstroFinish is a darkroom for astrophotography on iPhone. It is built for the shots that come off smart telescopes, backyard rigs, and late-night moon sessions: the ones that are almost there, but need a cleaner sky and a better finish. Start fast with Auto Astro Polish, Deep Sky, Moon Sharp, and other built-in looks. Or dial it in by hand with controls made for space photos, including black point, glow cleanup, nebula reveal, galaxy detail, denoise, star reduction, and moon sharpening. Import from Photos or Files, work with JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, RAW-style images, and FITS sessions, then export finished images or shareable before/after cards. Batch Finish helps run one look across a queue when you came home with more than one keeper. AstroFinish stays local. No account. No cloud upload. No tracking SDKs. Your captures stay on your iPhone unless you choose to share or save them. Built for: Smart telescope captures Deep-sky photos, nebulae, galaxies, star fields, and moon shots Quick fixes when the sky glow gets rude Manual finishing when you want the last word FITS reveal and stack workflows Local exports, share sheets, and before/after cards AstroFinish is for people who would rather be outside collecting photons than fighting a desktop editor at 1 a.m.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AstroFinish at every 4 days against MacroShader's every 4 months. AstroFinish also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MacroShader against 4.9 for AstroFinish. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AstroFinish has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MacroShader ships an update every 4 months, AstroFinish every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MacroShader | AstroFinish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AstroShader Limited | Cody Adams |
Customer experience
MacroShader
AstroFinish
In-app purchases
MacroShader
No in-app purchases
AstroFinish
No in-app purchases









