Comparison

TiltShift3 vs Atelier Easel

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • LiDAR-powered tilt-shift focus
  • Adjustable focus point and plane
  • Vintage radial blur (Swirl)
  • Color presets and LUT support
  • Save custom presets
Features
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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.

About

Atelier Easel

Features
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Paint, draw, and edit images with layers, brushes, and filters, by touch or with Apple Pencil on iPad. Easel is an image editor for iPhone and iPad. Paint with your finger, or with an Apple Pencil on iPad that responds to pressure and tilt. Work in layers with masks and groups, and edit photos directly from the Photos app. Files - Open Easel images, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, Photoshop (.psd), and Pixelmator Pro (.pxd) files - Save as an Easel image, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or Photoshop (.psd) with layers, masks, and groups - Export presets that save a format, a quality, and a maximum size, and export several at once - Edit a photo from the Photos app's Edit menu - Preview Easel and Pixelmator Pro images in Files Painting and Drawing - Brushes, an eraser, fill and gradient tools, and an eyedropper - Round, pencil, calligraphy, airbrush, and chalk brush tips, with paper grain - Save your own brushes by name, alongside a few built-in ones - A ruler you move, turn, and stretch with your fingers, so you can draw straight lines along it - Vector shapes, lines, and arrows, plus a pen tool, node editing, and combining shapes by unite, subtract, intersect, and exclude - Text, including text along a path - Symmetry drawing: vertical, horizontal, or both - Swatches saved with each image Apple Pencil on iPad - Pressure and tilt shape each stroke - Shade with a tilted pencil, and turn the calligraphy nib as you lean it - See the brush outline under a hovering Apple Pencil or pointer Retouching - Smudge, blur, mosaic, heal, and clone - Liquify to push and pull pixels - Fill a selection from its surroundings - Remove the background, keeping the subject - Adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, hue, sharpness, and vignette Selecting and Transforming - Rectangle, ellipse, lasso, color-based, and object selection, including selecting a subject - Move, crop, rotate, and flip - Distort a layer in perspective or warp it on a grid - Guides, rulers, and snapping to help line things up Layers - Layers with blend modes, groups, and masks - Filters and adjustments on a layer: black and white, sepia, saturation, brightness, contrast, levels, curves, color balance, gradient map, mosaic, noise reduction, and Gaussian, motion, zoom, and lens blur - Change the canvas size, and place the artwork by an anchor, scale it to fit, or stretch it to fill Shortcuts - Resize images, convert their format, and remove their background with Shortcuts actions you can chain together Working Faster - Keyboard shortcuts with a hardware keyboard to copy, paste, nudge layers, size brushes, and zoom - A history panel to go back to any step and compare with the original

Screenshots

TiltShift34 screens
Atelier Easel4 screens

Verdict

The call

TiltShift3 and Atelier Easel are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TiltShift3 versus Atelier Easel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiltShift3Atelier Easel
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.226.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeffrey RooneyJustin Xin

In-app purchases

None

TiltShift3

No in-app purchases

None

Atelier Easel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TiltShift3 free?
TiltShift3 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Atelier Easel free?
Atelier Easel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TiltShift3 or Atelier Easel have ads?
Neither TiltShift3 nor Atelier Easel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TiltShift3 or Atelier Easel?
TiltShift3 ships an update fortnightly, and Atelier Easel fortnightly. Most recently, TiltShift3 was updated on October 31, 2026 and Atelier Easel on November 5, 2026.

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