Comparison

Pocket Editor vs Tonefold

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Tonefold

This photo editor offers a suite of AI-powered tools and one-tap styles to enhance your images. All edits are performed offline, ensuring your privacy and data remain on your device. Refine colors, apply artistic looks, or make precise adjustments with ease.

Highlights
  • Offline AI editing tools
  • One-tap style 'Looks'
  • Color and light adjustments
  • Transform and crop tools
  • Brush and mask refinement
  • Export to PNG, JPEG, HEIC
Features
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Tonefold is a fast, private photo editor that runs fully offline on your iPhone. Open a photo, restyle it with Looks, refine color and light, or run one-tap AI effects — all without an account or internet. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Offline AI tools — cut out subjects, portrait bokeh, background blur, sky replace, skin smooth, denoise, and more • Looks — cinematic, golden hour, teal & orange, film noir, neon night, soft portrait, and more one-tap styles • Color & light — brightness, contrast, warmth, exposure, curves, HSL, sharpen, and grain • Transform — rotate, flip, crop to social ratios, straighten, and resize • Brush & mask refine — paint on photos or clean up cutout edges • Export — save PNG, JPEG, or HEIC to your Tonefold album, or share instantly WHY TONEFOLD • Fully offline — edits stay on your device • Built for speed — live previews while you drag sliders • Simple tools with clear tips when you need them • Recent edits so you can jump back in Take a photo or pick from your library and make it feel a little more you — with Tonefold.

Screenshots

Pocket Editor4 screens
Tonefold4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pocket Editor and Tonefold are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pocket Editor against 5.0 for Tonefold. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pocket Editor versus Tonefold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket EditorTonefold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSilverGrid Technology LLCVinh Tam Tan

Customer experience

Pocket Editor

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tonefold

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Editor

No in-app purchases

None

Tonefold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Editor free?
Pocket Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tonefold free?
Tonefold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Editor or Tonefold?
Pocket Editor and Tonefold are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Pocket Editor or Tonefold have ads?
Neither Pocket Editor nor Tonefold shows ads.

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