Fun Mirror vs Penreel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fun Mirror
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Make everyday photos a little more playful. Fun Mirror brings animal stickers, cute looks, retro pixels, mirror distortions and color filters together. Take a new photo or pick an image from your library and give it a different look. ADD EARS, BLUSH OR RETRO PIXELS Try kitten, bunny and little bear decorations, or change the mood with rosy cheeks and soft glow. Animal decorations adjust to one detected face in the image. Explore pixel blocks, an 8-bit arcade look and a retro handheld palette. All eight new effects are free to use. PREVIEW BEFORE YOU CAPTURE See effects through the camera and switch between the front and rear cameras. Try stretch, compress, fisheye, convex, concave and mirror effects on portraits or the things around you. REIMAGINE YOUR PHOTOS Choose an image with the system photo picker, apply an effect and save the result to your photo library. Image processing happens on your device, with no account required. EXPLORE NINE CATEGORIES • Animal friends: kitten, bunny and little bear. • Cute looks: rosy cheeks and soft glow. • Pixel studio: pixel blocks, 8-bit arcade and retro handheld. • Portrait: stretch, compress, widen and slim. • Mirror: fisheye, convex, concave, sphere, horizontal and vertical mirrors. • Filter: black and white, vintage, vivid and cool tones. • Wave: swirl, horizontal and vertical waves, twist and rainbow twist. • Creative: pixelation, skew, split and kaleidoscope. • Artistic: oil painting and neon edges. START FREE, UPGRADE WHEN YOU CHOOSE Animal friends, Cute looks, Pixel studio, Portrait, Mirror and Filter are free. Wave, Creative and Artistic require Pro. Choose a weekly, monthly, three-month or yearly auto-renewable subscription. All plans provide the same Pro access while active. Existing lifetime customers retain their original Pro access without a new subscription and can restore their purchase. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Your local price is shown by the App Store in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Renewal charges are normally made within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel through the subscription management option in the app or your App Store account settings. After cancellation, access continues until the paid period ends. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ON-DEVICE PHOTO PROCESSING Photo effects work without uploading your images. Face detection used to position decorations runs on your device. Its temporary position data is not stored separately, uploaded or used to identify you. There are no ads or third-party analytics SDKs. Camera access is used to take photos; permission to add to your photo library is requested when you save. Importing an image uses the system photo picker.
Penreel
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Penreel puts a pen inside your camera. While you film, you can draw straight onto the shot — everything you draw, write or stick is burned into the video in real time. What you see is exactly what you get, with no editing app required. ▸ Draw while you record — 6 brushes Pen, marker, pencil and more, with adjustable size, color and opacity, plus a neon glow effect. Made a wrong stroke? Tap the floating undo button to remove just the last one — every other stroke stays intact. ▸ Privacy brushes: mosaic & blur Not a static sticker — paint mosaic or blur straight onto the live camera feed, exactly where your finger moves. Hide passersby, license plates, IDs or kids' faces, with strength from a soft touch to a full block. ▸ Segmented recording — no editing Pause anytime mid-recording, change the scene, then resume. Clips are automatically stitched into one continuous video, with the paused gaps removed, and exported as a single MP4. ▸ Shape masks Circle, rounded rectangle, star, heart and triangle — the inside stays clear while the outside is covered with a color of your choice, for spotlight or vintage viewfinder effects. ▸ Text, stickers & emoji Up to 6 independent text items, each with its own font, size, color and position. Separate slots for photo stickers and emoji, both freely scaled and placed. ▸ Info overlay (HUD) Optionally show date, time, a recording timer, GPS speed and altitude — great for sports and travel. ▸ Cinematic LUT color Built-in LUT filters, plus your own .cube files, applied live as you record. Made for short-video creators, vloggers, tutorials, and family or travel memories. What you see is what your video becomes — saving you a whole round of post-production. — Purchase info — Penreel is free to try. After your free exports are used up, a one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited saving to your photo library and sharing. It is a permanent unlock, not a subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fun Mirror at none against Penreel's 1. Fun Mirror also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.4). 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. Penreel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fun Mirror asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Fun Mirror | Penreel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 毕威 曾 | CHENG YANG KUO |
In-app purchases
Fun Mirror
No in-app purchases
Penreel
- Unlock Pro Saving$1.99









