Comparison

Grade Recipe Lab vs Anonymize Faces

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

Head to head
About

Grade Recipe Lab

Create and send custom "film looks" to your Ricoh GR camera via Bluetooth. Design your visual style with a tactile editor and share your creations with a community of photographers. Optimize your GR camera's settings remotely.

Highlights
  • Custom film recipe creation
  • Bluetooth camera control
  • Tactile editing sliders
  • Community recipe sharing
  • Remote camera settings adjustment
  • Ricoh GR IV optimization
Features
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GRade turns your Ricoh GR IV into exactly the camera you want to shoot with. Build Image Control "recipes" — the film- looks you love — and send them straight to the camera's custom slots over Bluetooth. No cables, no digging through menus. DESIGN YOUR LOOK A tactile editor with meter-style sliders for contrast, highlight and shadow, saturation, hue, toning, clarity, grain and film-simulation filters. SEND IT TO THE CAMERA Write recipes to the camera's custom slots over Bluetooth. Set white balance, ISO and exposure live, read the mode dial, and even power the camera on or off from your phone. A COMMUNITY OF LOOKS Browse recipes shared by other photographers, download the ones you like, and share your own with an optional sample photo. Browsing and rating stay anonymous. MADE FOR THE GR Everything is tuned for the way the GR shoots — quick, quiet, and ready when you are. GRade is an independent app. It is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd. “RICOH” and “GR” are trademarks of their respective owners.

About

Anonymize Faces

Features
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Most face-blur apps only blur. Anonymize Faces can do that too — but it can also generate a realistic replacement face with on-device AI, so a photo doesn't have to look "censored" to protect the people in it. Pick photos or video, review the faces it finds, and choose how to anonymize each one. Everything runs on your device — nothing is ever uploaded anywhere, and your original photos are never changed. Anonymized copies save to their own separate album. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Blur-only tools leave an obvious black box or mosaic behind. Realistic Face (Pro) uses on-device AI to generate a natural-looking replacement face instead — so the photo still reads as a real photo, not a redaction. HOW IT WORKS • Pick photos or video • Review the faces Anonymize Faces found — toggle any off, or draw a box by hand for anything else that needs covering: a face Vision missed, a license plate, an ID card, a document, a screen • Choose your style and save PIXELATE FACE (Free) Classic mosaic blur, plus Gaussian blur, solid block, eyes bar, and silhouette styles — every face gets its own full-strength coverage, whether it's the only one in the shot or one of a crowd. REALISTIC FACE (Pro) On-device AI generates a new, natural-looking face in place of the original — for when you want the photo to still look candid. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY NEED PRIVACY Journalists protecting sources, protesters, parents, or anyone sharing photos with bystanders in them. • All detection and anonymization happens on your device — nothing is ever uploaded • Manual regions work on anything, not just faces — license plates, ID cards, documents, whiteboards, screens, or a face Vision missed • Originals are never modified — anonymized copies go to their own album • Location, timestamp, and device info are stripped from anonymized copies by default, or replaced with a location/date you choose (Pro) • Video anonymization in Mosaic, Blur, or Solid Block style, with optional voice distortion (Pro) — faces stay covered even if something briefly blocks them mid-clip. Eyes Bar and Silhouette are currently photos-only ANONYMIZE FACES PRO Unlock Realistic Face, on-device video face redaction and voice distortion, custom location/date metadata instead of stripping, and browse your anonymization history. Available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription — see in-app pricing before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account; subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://zanz2.github.io/AnonymizeFacesPage/terms_of_service — Privacy Policy: https://zanz2.github.io/AnonymizeFacesPage/privacy_policy

Screenshots

Grade Recipe Lab4 screens
Anonymize Faces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grade Recipe Lab at none against Anonymize Faces's 2. Grade Recipe Lab also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Anonymize Faces sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Grade Recipe Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grade Recipe Lab versus Anonymize Faces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrade Recipe LabAnonymize Faces
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMike Rene GraumannZan Zagar

In-app purchases

None

Grade Recipe Lab

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Anonymize Faces

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$8.991 Year

Questions

Is Grade Recipe Lab free?
Grade Recipe Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anonymize Faces free?
Anonymize Faces is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grade Recipe Lab or Anonymize Faces have ads?
Neither Grade Recipe Lab nor Anonymize Faces shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grade Recipe Lab or Anonymize Faces?
Grade Recipe Lab ships an update weekly, and Anonymize Faces weekly. Most recently, Grade Recipe Lab was updated on October 1, 2026 and Anonymize Faces on October 13, 2026.

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