Comparison

Shotly vs Pocket Editor

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

Head to head
About

Shotly

Features
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Create beautiful, professional screenshots, photos, and videos for social media in seconds. This app is designed for authors, developers, marketers, and anyone who wants to share screenshots. Key Features: • 800+ backgrounds: solid colors and gradients
 • Popular canvas sizes for social media
 • Screenshot editor with precise positioning and crop
 • Add realistic and popular device frames • Multiple editing photos or videos • Video editing: trim, crop, adjust volume
 • Easy export and instant sharing
 • Save history for quick access
 • Offline app
 Perfect for:
 • Social media posts
 • Product presentations
 • Marketing visuals • UI/UX showcases Make your screenshots stand out with minimal effort!

About

Pocket Editor

Edit photos privately and offline with powerful AI tools. Enhance, restore, and apply filters without uploading your images, ensuring your pictures remain on your device. Enjoy a seamless editing experience anywhere, anytime, with no internet required.

Highlights
  • 100% on-device editing
  • AI-powered photo restoration
  • AI-driven enhancement and upscaling
  • Automatic skin smoothing
  • 11 one-tap filters
  • Manual fine-tuning sliders
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Pocket Editor is a beautiful photo editor that runs entirely on your iPhone. Touch up a selfie, restore an old photo, or give any picture a fresh new look — without ever uploading it anywhere. Most editing apps quietly send your photos to a server somewhere in the cloud. This one doesn't. Every filter, every adjustment, and even the AI runs right on your device. Your photos never leave your phone. They're yours, and they stay that way. And because everything runs on your device, it works anywhere — on a plane, on the subway, or far off the grid. No internet needed. No account to create. No subscription to cancel. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Restore Face (AI) — bring blurry, grainy, or older photos of faces back to life with crisp, natural detail. • Enhance (AI) — sharpen and upscale your whole photo for a clean, high-resolution result. • Beauty — gentle skin smoothing that finds the face automatically, so the background stays sharp. • Filters — 11 one-tap looks, from bright and vivid to timeless black & white. • Fine-tune — exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and sharpness, all on simple sliders. • Auto — one tap to instantly balance color and light. BUILT FOR PRIVACY • 100% on-device — no cloud processing, ever. • Your photos never leave your iPhone. • Works fully offline, even in airplane mode. • No account, no sign-up, no email required. • No ads. No tracking. Nothing about you is collected. • Uses Apple's secure photo picker, so the app never needs access to your whole library. SIMPLE AND FAST • Snap a selfie in the app, or pick any photo from your library. • Press and hold to compare before and after. • Undo and redo any step. • Pinch to zoom in and check every detail. • Save to Photos or share in a single tap. The AI runs on the Apple Neural Engine — the same chip behind on-device intelligence across iPhone — so results are fast and stay completely local. No subscriptions. No hidden paywalls. Just a great photo editor that respects your privacy. Pocket Editor. Your photos. Your phone. Your business.

Screenshots

Shotly4 screens
Pocket Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Editor at none against Shotly's 2. Shotly's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Shotly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Pocket Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Shotly versus Pocket Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShotlyPocket Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnton GeorgievSilverGrid Technology LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Shotly

Subscriptions2
  • Shotly PRO$3.997 Days
  • Shotly PRO$14.991 Year
None

Pocket Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shotly free?
Shotly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Editor free?
Pocket Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shotly or Pocket Editor have ads?
Neither Shotly nor Pocket Editor shows ads.

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