Comparison

ByteWave vs TiltShift3

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • GPU-powered on-device video editing
  • Unlimited audio track layering
  • Real-time effects with Metal
  • Custom Shader Editor
  • Super Resolution upscaling
  • Temporal Noise Reduction
Features
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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.

About

TiltShift3

Features
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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.

Screenshots

ByteWave4 screens
TiltShift34 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ByteWave ships an update every 3 days, TiltShift3 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ByteWave versus TiltShift3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterByteWaveTiltShift3
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (50 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings50 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size491 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCody PeterJeffrey Rooney

In-app purchases

None

ByteWave

No in-app purchases

None

TiltShift3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ByteWave free?
ByteWave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TiltShift3 free?
TiltShift3 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ByteWave or TiltShift3?
TiltShift3 is rated higher. ByteWave averages 5.0 out of 5 from 50 ratings, while TiltShift3 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ByteWave or TiltShift3 have ads?
Neither ByteWave nor TiltShift3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ByteWave or TiltShift3?
ByteWave ships an update every 3 days, and TiltShift3 fortnightly. Most recently, ByteWave was updated on October 25, 2026 and TiltShift3 on October 24, 2026.

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