Scryer vs (d)effect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scryer
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SCRYER is a scrying eye you play with your expression. A fractal third eye built on computer vision, dithering and procedural generation. Hold a feeling — open your mouth, raise your brows, squint, tilt your head — and a living world opens and moves with you. Image and a generative synth transform together, in real time. Your face is the way in. It's not a filter. It's an instrument — and a window. WAYS TO SCRY • Drift and unwind inside a slow, hypnotic world • Play — feel how every expression bends image and sound • Create audiovisual material for your projects (square 1:1 and vertical 9:16, HD 1080p) • Turn the camera on yourself and perform — your face on screen, governing it all THE ENGINE • Your expressions drive a real-time glitch-dither engine (ordered dithering, chromatic glitch, pixel-melt, kaleidoscope, CRT, bloom, outline) • A generative synth composes the sound from what you feel — each spell its own voice • Tap a Spell to cross into a complete world, each with its own look, motion and sound • Use a built-in design, generate endless new ones, or load your own photo SPELLS — each one a world Séance · Astral · Glitch Hell · Dungeon · Wraith · Inferno · Oracle · Nexus · Void — from calm and wonder to grief, rage and dissolution. EXPORT Square 1:1 or vertical 9:16 in HD, ready to post or drop into your edits. 100% on device. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Just you, your expression, and the eye looking back. SCRYER PRO (one-time unlock) • Remove the watermark • HD 1080p export, no time limit • All spells, all palettes, intensity level 4 • ML subject cut-out for clean backgrounds A single payment. Forever. No subscription. Requires an iPhone with Face ID (TrueDepth camera). Privacy Policy: https://aethyrstudio.com/scryer/privacy Website: https://aethyrstudio.com/scryer
(d)effect
This camera app applies unique, real-time visual effects directly to your photos and videos as you capture them. It offers a variety of artistic filters, allowing for live previews and immediate saving without any post-processing steps. All processing is done on-device, ensuring your content remains private.
- Live filter rendering on viewfinder
- Real-time photo and video capture
- Stackable and adjustable filters
- On-device processing for privacy
- Variety of unique artistic filters
- Random effect generation
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(d)effect is a camera that shows you the effect before you take the shot. Every filter renders live on the viewfinder at full frame rate — no preview, no "apply" step, no waiting. What you frame is what gets saved. THE FILTERS • Riso Print — RGB plate misregistration and grain, like a badly aligned risograph • Dither — 4×4 Bayer ordered dithering, the look of a 1-bit screen • ASCII — the frame rebuilt from coloured glyphs on black • False Color — channel crushing and hue cycling • Halation — the bloom that film gets around highlights • Posterize — hard tonal banding • Exclusion — a solid hue blended straight through the image • Low Res — chunky pixellation that scales with the shot • Slow Shutter — a real exposure change on the camera, so the motion blur is genuine rather than faked Stack them. Adjust contrast, brightness and saturation on anything. Hit Random when you want the machine to decide. PHOTO AND VIDEO Shoot stills or record video with the same effects, with audio, in 4:5. What the viewfinder showed is what lands in your library — filters that are sized in pixels scale with the image, so the saved file matches the preview. YOUR SHOTS STAY YOURS Everything is processed on your iPhone using Metal and Core Image. Nothing is uploaded, stored on a server, or looked at by anyone. There is no cloud gallery and no server-side processing — captures go straight to your own Photos library, into a "(d)effect" album the in-app gallery reads back. We hold one piece of personal data: the email address attached to your sign-in. You can delete your account, and it, from inside the app. — (d)effect is free while in active development — every filter unlocked, no ads, no subscription. If something breaks, tell us at support@d-effect.com and we'll fix it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: (d)effect at none against Scryer's 2. Scryer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Scryer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. (d)effect asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scryer ships an update every 2 days, (d)effect every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scryer | (d)effect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SEBASTIAN E HERNANDEZ CACERES | Joao Campagnolo |
In-app purchases
Scryer
- Scryer Pro2 variants$4.99
(d)effect
No in-app purchases









