ByteWave vs TiltShift3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ByteWave
This GPU-powered video editor for iOS allows for on-device processing of clips with real-time effects. It offers advanced features like a custom Shader Editor, Super Resolution, and Motion Blur without requiring uploads or subscriptions. Your footage and data remain private and are never shared.
- GPU-powered on-device video editing
- Unlimited audio track layering
- Real-time effects with Metal
- Custom Shader Editor
- Super Resolution upscaling
- Temporal Noise Reduction
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ByteWave is a free, GPU-powered video editor for iOS. Edit photos and videos, mix audio, and add animated captions, stickers, and real-time Metal effects. Everything runs locally on your device. The video editor works in airplane mode. Bring photos and videos together in one composition with Layout from ByteWave. Fine-tune your footage with Super Resolution upscaling, Motion Blur, Temporal Noise Reduction, and a full filter library. Create your own Metal effects with the custom Shader Editor. Read and remove photo and video metadata before sharing. Inspect content credentials to learn more about where a file came from, including disclosed AI generation. Post videos to your feed, send them directly to friends, and discover what others are creating. An optional personalized algorithm helps recommend posts. It lives on your device, you can edit or delete it anytime, and your interests never leave your phone. Creating a profile lets you choose whether to enable video tagging and personalized recommendations. Both start turned off. Your footage stays on your device unless you choose to share it. We don’t sell your data or share it with advertisers. Every editing tool is available for free.
TiltShift3
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Tiltshift recreates the perfectly imperfect look of vintage large format tilt shift focusing and lens distortion. The basic controls help recreate these focusing effects using your phone's LiDAR. Once a photo is taken with this app you can change point of focus and the plane of focus. Swirl adds in a vintage lens radial blurring effect. Keep editing your image with color presets or create your own including using LUTs. Save your presents to reuse your settings. Tiltshift contains a more detailed features documentation within the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: ByteWave at 50 against TiltShift3's 1. ByteWave also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). 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 ByteWave against 5.0 for TiltShift3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ByteWave has 50 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ByteWave ships an update every 3 days, TiltShift3 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ByteWave | TiltShift3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (50 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 491 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cody Peter | Jeffrey Rooney |
In-app purchases
ByteWave
No in-app purchases
TiltShift3
No in-app purchases









