Aqili Forge vs Mirror Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aqili Forge
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Aqili Forge is your all-in-one AI creative studio. Generate, edit, and finish professional media — images, video, voiceovers, music, and more — from a single app, then let the built-in AI agent chain it all together from one prompt. CREATE ANYTHING - AI Image Generation — photorealistic images, art, and product shots - Photo Studio — AI edits, retouching, background changes - Video Studio — generate cinematic clips and remix them - Auto-Captions — burn synchronized subtitles into any talking video, automatically - AI Avatars — lifelike presenters that speak your script - Blog-to-Video — turn an article or script into a finished video - Icon Generator — crisp app icons and glyphs AUDIO & VOICE - Text-to-Speech in natural voices - AI Music generation - Voice cloning and sound effects - Transcription PRO TOOLS - Background removal, image upscaling, collage maker, text overlay, batch editing - Stock library and ready-made templates - A personal gallery and collections, synced to the cloud ASK AQILI — YOUR AI AGENT Describe what you want — for example, make a 30-second promo video from a blog post with a voiceover and music — and the Aqili agent picks the right tools and builds it, step by step, asking before anything that costs credits. Use your available credits to create, save, and export media from one workspace.
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.
- 50+ customizable filters
- Mirror and kaleidoscope effects
- Distortion and glitch art filters
- Animation module for video
- Adjustable parameters for effects
- Undo system
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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).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aqili Forge at none against Mirror Lab's 3. Aqili Forge also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Mirror Lab sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Aqili Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Aqili Forge | Mirror Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.3 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 16 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aqili, Inc. | Ilixa Ltd |
In-app purchases
Aqili Forge
No in-app purchases
Mirror Lab
- Mirror Lab PRO$9.99
- MirrorLab MAX (upgrade)$19.99
- Mirror Lab MAX$29.99









