Pocket Editor vs Tonefold
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.
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.
- 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
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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 start a blank canvas and stack photos as layers — all without an account or internet. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Blank canvas — pick a preset size or set your own, choose a white, black, gray, or transparent background, then place photos on the page • Photo layers — add more than one photo, move, pinch to resize, rotate with two fingers, and drag a handle to resize. Reorder, hide, lock, duplicate, flip, align, and flatten • 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 • Works in portrait and landscape • Simple tools with clear tips when you need them • Recent edits so you can jump back in Take a photo, pick from your library, or start a new canvas — and make it feel a little more you, with Tonefold.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pocket Editor at none against Tonefold's shown. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Pocket Editor | Tonefold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SilverGrid Technology LLC | Vinh Tam Tan |
Customer experience
Pocket Editor
Tonefold
In-app purchases
Pocket Editor
No in-app purchases
Tonefold
No in-app purchases









