Comparison

Wizard Mirror vs Mirror Lab

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

Head to head
About

Wizard Mirror

Transform your device into an interactive magic mirror with fun, silly, and surprising visual filters. Explore effects like stretching, swirling, and pixelating for imaginative play. This app offers pure, ad-free fun for all ages.

Highlights
  • Interactive magic mirror
  • Fun visual filters
  • Child-friendly effects
  • Stretch, swirl, sparkle effects
  • Shuffle button for surprises
  • No ads, accounts, or tracking
Features
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Turn your camera into a magical mirror filled with fun, silly, and surprising effects. It's a perfect toy for toddlers, or anyone who loves to play. Wizard Mirror transforms your device into an interactive “magic mirror” with delightful, child-friendly visual filters. Stretch, swirl, sparkle, mirror, pixelate, crystallize, and discover brand-new combinations and surprises every time you tap the shuffle button! No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Just pure, imaginative fun.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 50+ customizable filters
  • Mirror and kaleidoscope effects
  • Distortion and glitch art filters
  • Animation module for video
  • Adjustable parameters for effects
  • Undo system
Features
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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).

Screenshots

Wizard Mirror3 screens
Mirror Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Wizard Mirror at 5.0 against Mirror Lab's 4.3. Wizard Mirror also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Mirror Lab sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Wizard Mirror asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wizard Mirror holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Wizard Mirror's written reviews are positive against 83% of Mirror Lab's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Wizard Mirror versus Mirror Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWizard MirrorMirror Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.3 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings512 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.217.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChase WesthoffIlixa Ltd.

Customer experience

Wizard Mirror

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mirror Lab

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Wizard Mirror

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Mirror Lab

One-time3
  • Mirror Lab PRO$9.99
  • MirrorLab MAX (upgrade)$19.99
  • Mirror Lab MAX$29.99

Questions

Is Wizard Mirror free?
Wizard Mirror is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mirror Lab free?
Mirror Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wizard Mirror or Mirror Lab?
Wizard Mirror is rated higher. Wizard Mirror averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Mirror Lab averages 4.3 from 12 ratings.
Do Wizard Mirror or Mirror Lab have ads?
Neither Wizard Mirror nor Mirror Lab shows ads.

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