CMSHT vs Signal Loss
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CMSHT
Transform your photos into stunning design compositions. This tool empowers users to create unique visual art from their existing images.
- Create design compositions from photos
- User-friendly interface
- Photo editing tools
- Unique visual art creation
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CMSHT is your pocket playground for photo experiments Mix effects crafted by a designer and fine-tune each one to make something only you would make. No rules. No perfect edits. Just you, your photos, and a little creative chaos.
Signal Loss
Transform any photo into a navigable 3D point cloud scene. Animate, distort, and record cinematic camera moves with real-time effects. Process images locally with no cloud processing required.
- Photos to 3D point clouds
- Real-time 3D effects
- Cinematic camera moves
- Video export (4K, 8K)
- Local device processing
- LiDAR support for iPhone Pro
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Signal Loss Turn any photo into a living, moving 3D scene. Signal Loss transforms a single image into a dense point cloud that you can move through, animate, distort, and record. Create cinematic camera moves, surreal particle effects, and impossible perspectives from photos that were never captured in 3D. Use a portrait, landscape, room, sculpture, illustration, or archive photo. Signal Loss reconstructs depth directly on your iPhone with no cloud processing and no special hardware required. For iPhone Pro users, LiDAR capture allows you to walk around an object and build glitchy and unaligned point clouds from the real world. // FROM PHOTO TO MOTION Every pixel becomes a 3D point colored from the original image. The result is not a filter applied to a photograph. It's a navigable scene made of particles. Move through the image. Orbit around it. Push into impossible viewpoints. Record camera paths and export finished videos directly from your phone. Render scenes with up to 1 million points in real time. // 32 REAL-TIME EFFECTS All effects run live on the GPU with instant feedback. RAW · FOG · SLICE · CONTOUR · ECHO · BLOOM · FALSE COLOR · WIRE · DUST · WAVE · LINES · SWARM · VEIL · PRISM · RIFT · BORE · DRIFT Transform images into atmospheric fog banks, swarming particle fields, prismatic distortions, structural wireframes, abstract landscapes, and glitch artifacts. //SIGNAL LOSS Every photograph contains missing information. Areas the camera never saw. Signal Loss reconstructs those spaces using procedural particles, atmospheric noise, and generated structure. Choose subtle reconstruction or push scenes into abstraction through multiple artifact modes designed around absence, depth, and collapse. // DRIFT Animate entire point clouds with procedural motion. Create flowing currents, depth-reactive movement, spiraling fields, and organic motion that turns static images into living environments. // CAMERA MOVES & VIDEO EXPORT Signal Loss was built for motion. Create cinematic animations using built-in camera paths including Orbit, Pull In, Pull Out, Sway, Crane, and other movement systems designed specifically for point clouds. Export: • 4K and 8K stills • High-resolution video loops (H.264) • Transparent PNGs with alpha • Point clouds (PLY) for Blender, MeshLab, and CloudCompare • Spatial stereoscopic scenes for Apple Vision Pro // CONTROLS Touch-driven navigation with precise creative control. Adjust density, scale, depth, color, atmosphere, and filter parameters in real time. Customize backgrounds, camera behavior, and scene rendering to create anything from subtle depth photography to fully abstract particle environments. // PRIVACY Everything happens on your device. Photos are processed locally and never uploaded to a server. Signal Loss is experimental creative software. Unexpected results are part of the process.
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Verdict
CMSHT and Signal Loss both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of CMSHT's written reviews are positive against 50% of Signal Loss's. CMSHT also leads on price (Free vs $6.99). Signal Loss's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 months) and chart position (#104 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, 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
CMSHT is free to download; Signal Loss costs $6.99 up front. 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 CMSHT against 5.0 for Signal Loss. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of CMSHT's written reviews are positive against 50% of Signal Loss's.
CMSHT ships an update every 6 months, Signal Loss every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CMSHT | Signal Loss |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #104 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denis Krupin | Inner Circle |
Customer experience
CMSHT
Signal Loss
In-app purchases
CMSHT
No in-app purchases
Signal Loss
No in-app purchases









