Pocket Editor vs Photium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Photium
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Photium turns the thousands of photos you never look at again into something you'll love coming back to. Most of your library is forgotten the moment it's taken. Photium quietly studies your photos on your device and brings the best moments back as beautiful, curated memory channels — the people you love, your trips, the seasons, those busy days, and the ones you'd completely forgotten. Then you just lean back and watch. Swipe through memories like Reels: photos breathe, Live Photos come alive, and there are no decisions to make — only the flow. WHAT MAKES PHOTIUM DIFFERENT • Curated memory channels — forgotten ones, favorites, trips, people and seasons, rebuilt every time you open the app • A Reels-style feed — swipe up through your memories, one story at a time • Concepts — Photium understands what's in your photos (nature, happy, family, concert, travel…) so you can browse any theme as its own feed • People — faces are grouped on your device; you just give them names • Explore — your trips quietly become a map you can travel back through, with playful levels and badges • Search — find any moment by person, place, year, season or concept • Home screen widget — a daily memory, right where you'll see it PRIVACY, FOR REAL Everything happens on your device. No account. No tracking. No ads. No servers receive your photos, faces or locations — because there are no servers. Your memories never leave your phone. (Photium only ever asks Apple for a place name using coordinates, and only if you turn that on.) Photium is free. We build it for the love of it — and to keep making thoughtful, private little apps.
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Verdict
Pocket Editor and Photium are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Pocket Editor | Photium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SilverGrid Technology LLC | Emre Harman |
In-app purchases
Pocket Editor
No in-app purchases
Photium
No in-app purchases





