Comparison

Lightbloop vs SHADR

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

Head to head
About

Lightbloop

Features
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Lightbloop is a dreamy drawing toy for making glowing color echoes, soft afterimages, and playful visual trips. Draw with your finger and watch simple strokes bloom into luminous trails. Freeze a layer, keep drawing above it, open Dream Lab to tune the mood, or shake your device to randomize the whole trip. When the canvas lands somewhere strange and pretty, save the visible artwork to Photos.

About

SHADR

Transform photos and blank canvases into unique visual art with a variety of creative styles. Refine your creations with expressive controls and discover new directions through generative randomization. Export still images or live photos and videos.

Highlights
  • Diverse and evolving collection of creative visual styles
  • Generative randomization for discovering new directions
  • Focused controls for refining composition, color, texture, and movement
  • Still image export at native resolution
  • Live Photo and video output
  • Local projects and reusable presets
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SHADR is a creative design toolkit for transforming photographs and blank canvases into distinctive visual artwork. Explore a growing collection of styles including ASCII art, dithering, CMYK halftone, pixel stretch, fluted glass, kaleidoscope, flow fields, kinetic typography, shader art, pixel scatter, surveillance graphics, and more. Each style is a focused creative tool inside one consistent editor. Import a photo or begin from a blank canvas where supported, generate new directions, shape the result with expressive controls, and move fluidly between different visual treatments. Features: - A diverse and evolving collection of creative visual styles - Generative randomization for quickly discovering new directions - Focused controls for refining composition, color, texture, and movement - Still image export at native resolution - Live Photo and video output in supported tools - Local projects and reusable presets - Subject-aware treatments in selected tools Five complete tools are available for free. SHADR Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks every current and future tool. Tool parameters, projects, presets, and exports are not restricted.

Screenshots

Lightbloop3 screens
SHADR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lightbloop at none against SHADR's 1. Lightbloop also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SHADR sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lightbloop asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Lightbloop versus SHADR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightbloopSHADR
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcin Denisiewicz伟滔 黄

In-app purchases

None

Lightbloop

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SHADR

One-time1
  • SHADR Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Lightbloop free?
Lightbloop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SHADR free?
SHADR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lightbloop or SHADR have ads?
Neither Lightbloop nor SHADR shows ads.

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