TiltShift3 vs Lens Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TiltShift3
This app uses your phone's LiDAR to recreate vintage tilt-shift focusing and lens distortion effects. Adjust the point and plane of focus after taking a photo, and add radial blur with swirl. Enhance images with color presets, custom options, and LUTs.
- LiDAR-powered tilt-shift focus
- Adjustable focus point and plane
- Vintage radial blur (Swirl)
- Color presets and LUT support
- Save custom presets
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Tiltshift recreates the perfectly imperfect look of vintage large format tilt shift focusing and lens distortion. The basic controls help recreate these focusing effects using your phone's LiDAR. Once a photo is taken with this app you can change point of focus and the plane of focus. Swirl adds in a vintage lens radial blurring effect. Keep editing your image with color presets or create your own including using LUTs. Save your presents to reuse your settings. Tiltshift contains a more detailed features documentation within the app.
Lens Lab
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Edit, transform, and export your photos with a complete creative image editor. This app gives you practical photo editing tools in one clean workspace. Add a photo, adjust it, apply visual effects, layer other images on top, and export the final result as JPEG, PNG, HEIC, or PDF. Features: • Photo adjustments Fine-tune brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and sharpness. • Filters Apply classic looks including Mono, Noir, Tonal, Sepia, Chrome, Fade, Instant, Process, Transfer, Vibrant, Invert, Bloom, Comic, Pixel, Frosted, Film Grain, and Halftone. • Glass and surface effects Create stylized glass-based edits with Droplets, Rainy Window, Fogged Glass, Ice Glass, Scratched Lens, Dusty Glass, Condensation, Old Mirror, Cracked Glass, Glass Stain, and Glass Tiles. • Vintage and film effects Add retro looks such as Light Leak, Film Burn, VHS, Polaroid Fade, Expired Film, and Sepia Paper. • Damage effects Give photos a worn or distressed look with Torn Photo, Folded Paper, Crumpled Photo, Burned Edges, Water Damage, and Ink Bleed. • Artistic effects Turn images into creative styles with Oil Paint, Watercolor, Pencil Sketch, Charcoal, Neon Glow, and Duotone. • Modern effects Create bold digital edits with Glitch RGB, Chromatic Aberration, Cyberpunk, Dream Glow, Background Blur, and Vignette Focus. • Adjustable effect controls Many effects include intensity, size, count, blur, grain, glow, distortion, or texture controls, depending on the selected effect. • Image layers Add overlays on top of your photo, including emoji, text, color layers, and additional images. • Glass overlay layers Place one image over another as a glass-style layer. Adjust opacity, glass color, and glass thickness, then move, resize, rotate, crop, or reorder the layer. • Crop and rotate tools Rotate, flip, and crop your image with simple editing controls. • Resize tools Resize images for social media, screens, print, and custom dimensions. Choose stretch, crop, or fit modes with background fill options. • Borders and frames Add solid frames, rounded corners, torn paper edges, ripped edges, scalloped edges, Polaroid-style frames, and vignette borders. • PDF tools Export a single edited image as a PDF, or create multi-image PDF documents with page size, layout, frame, and quality options. • Export options Save or share your final image as JPEG, PNG, HEIC, or PDF. Use quality controls to balance image quality and file size. Whether you want a quick photo adjustment, a glass distortion effect, a vintage film look, layered image composition, or a polished PDF export, this app gives you flexible tools for creative editing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TiltShift3 at Free against Lens Lab's $5.99. Lens Lab's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). On ads, in-app purchases 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
TiltShift3 is free to download; Lens Lab costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | TiltShift3 | Lens Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Rooney | Mikolaj Adamowicz |
In-app purchases
TiltShift3
No in-app purchases
Lens Lab
No in-app purchases









