Lumix Photo vs Sharp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Lumix Photo
This app uses AI to enhance and restore photos, Live Photos, and videos. It can enlarge images without pixelation, fix lighting and detail issues, and even add new light sources after the shot. It also offers a wide range of filters, blur effects, and editing tools.
- AI image enlargement
- Photo and video enhancement
- AI relighting effects
- Film and AI filters
- Lens blur with bokeh styles
- Pro adjustments with AI masks
- Object removal and cutout tools
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Blurry, too small, badly lit โ Lumix brings back the shots you had written off. Enlarge them, repair them, relight them. And not only photos: your Live Photos and videos get the same treatment, frame by frame. ENLARGE โ DETAIL, NOT STRETCHED PIXELS A neural model rebuilds edges and texture instead of stretching pixels. Small, cropped or saved-from-the-web images come back sharp enough to print. Photos ยท Live Photos ยท Video ENHANCE โ FOUR FIXES, ONE TAP Enhance rebuilds lost detail. Denoise clears grain. Sharpen rescues soft focus. Lighten opens up dark frames. Slide to compare with the original at any time. Photos ยท Live Photos ยท Video AI RELIGHT โ LIGHT IT AFTER YOU SHOT IT Place directional, spot, area and point lights into a finished photo. Set color, beam angle, falloff, cast shadows and atmosphere โ or start from 79 presets and save your own. Photos ยท Live Photos ยท Video ALSO INSIDE โข 201 film and cinema filters in 8 collections, plus AI filters that read the image for you โข Lens Blur with true depth: 19 bokeh styles, tap to focus, automatic subject lock โข Pro adjustments โ HSL, color grading, clarity, grain โ with AI masks for subject, sky, face and clothing โข 117 Color Match looks, or copy the color of any photo you like โข Cleanup: tap a detected object and it is gone โข Cutout with hair-level refine, new backgrounds and transparent PNG export Filters, Lens Blur, adjustments and Color Match run on video and Live Photos too. Cleanup and Cutout are for still images. Lumix VIP unlocks every tool โ monthly, yearly, or one-time lifetime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Requires iOS 18 or later. Terms of Use: https://lumix.youthpe.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://lumix.youthpe.com/privacy
Sharp
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Shoot the same thing more than once, and Sharp puts the shots together. Six tools, one engine. Nothing here edits a single photograph โ everything here takes many frames of the same scene and gives back one picture. FOCUS โ sharp from front to back A lens holds one plane in focus, and close up that plane is thinner than the subject. Move the focus between frames and Sharp takes every part of the result from the frame that has it sharpest. Not sure how wide its detail size should be? Choose by Eye stacks a piece of your bracket at four widths, side by side, so you can see which one has no halo. CLEAN โ less noise, and long-exposure water Noise is different in every frame and the subject is not, so averaging frames takes it down by the square root of how many you shot: four halve it, sixteen quarter it. Water and cloud move between frames and average into smoothness, while everything that held still stays sharp. VANISH โ the people walk out of the picture Take a dozen frames a few seconds apart while the square empties and fills. At each pixel Sharp keeps the frames that agree and throws out the ones that do not, then averages what is left โ whoever was walking through is gone, and the noise goes with them. TRAILS โ every place the light went A hundred short exposures of a night sky, a torch drawing, headlights on a bend. Sharp keeps the brightest frame at each pixel, so every mark the light made is in the picture and the sky stays as dark as one frame had it. Or keep the darkest instead, and take the passing lights out. BLEND โ the shadows and the highlights both An exposure bracket, darker and brighter, into one picture: the sky from the dark frame, the shadows from the bright one, blended without a seam and with no curve to set. PICK โ the sharpest frame of the burst Twenty handheld frames, one of them caught between heartbeats. Sharp hands back the one that won, exactly as it came off the camera. BUILT FOR LARGE SETS โข Camera RAW, HEIC, JPEG, TIFF and PNG, read straight from Files or Photos โข Frames are read a strip at a time, so memory does not grow with the number of frames โข Alignment that covers focus breathing, drift and a rolled wrist, and checks its own work โข Compare the result with any single frame at exactly the same zoom, beside a map of how each pixel was decided PAINT IT BACK Every one of these tools is a guess made a pixel at a time. Choose the frame that has that part right and paint it back over the result โ one finger paints, two move the picture, an Apple Pencil presses harder for more. The repair is re-applied to the 16-bit file at full depth. FREE, AND THEN ONE PAYMENT All six tools run on up to 12 frames free, at full quality: the same alignment, the same merges, the same speed, the same RAW support, and a full-resolution JPEG with no watermark. Nothing about how good the picture is has been held back. The $9.99 unlock adds: โข Unlimited frames, for every tool โข The retouch brush, with retouches you can reopen and change โข 16-bit TIFF, the maps, and every frame aligned for Helicon, Zerene or Photoshop โข Every bracket kept as a project, with its settings and its result โข Batches of projects run one after another, and long brackets stacked in slabs One payment, shared with your family. No subscription, no account, and not a timed trial. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No analytics, no tracking, no server, and no network of its own. Your photographs are read where they are, and the only thing that goes anywhere is what you share yourself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lumix Photo at every 2 days against Sharp's fortnightly. Lumix Photo also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Lumix Photo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Sharp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lumix Photo ships an update every 2 days, Sharp fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lumix Photo | Sharp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days โ better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 โ better | 27.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 652 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ๅทง้ ่ฉน | Pablo Miranda |
In-app purchases
Lumix Photo
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$24.99
Sharp
- Unlock Sharp$9.99









