Comparison

Pixelate vs Saint Studios

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

Head to head
About

Pixelate

Features
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Pixelate automatically finds and blurs faces in your photos and videos — entirely on your device. Nothing is ever uploaded, tracked, or stored on any server. WHY PIXELATE Sharing photos and videos often means sharing more than you intend — bystanders in the background, your kids in a group photo, faces you'd rather keep private. Pixelate finds every face automatically and lets you blur, mosaic, or block them out in seconds, right on your phone. FEATURES - Automatic face detection for photos and videos - Choose your style: blur, mosaic, or solid block - Fine-tune detection sensitivity and coverage - 100% offline — your media never leaves your device - No account, no sign-up, no tracking PRIVACY BY DESIGN Pixelate was built around a simple rule: your photos and videos are yours. There are no servers, no cloud processing, and no analytics SDKs. Every face detection and blur happens locally using on-device machine learning. WHO IT'S FOR - Parents sharing family photos and videos online - Content creators protecting bystanders before posting - Journalists and researchers anonymizing sources - Anyone who wants more control over what they share PIXELATE PRO Upgrade to Pro to unlock: - Video anonymization - Clean exports with no watermark Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/pixelate-privacy-policy/home Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Saint Studios

A professional, on-device video editor for creators. It offers advanced editing, color grading, and audio tools without cloud processing or account requirements. All footage stays on your device for maximum privacy and control.

Highlights
  • On-device processing for privacy
  • Multi-track timeline editing
  • Advanced color grading tools
  • Comprehensive audio editing suite
  • Keyframe animation for speed and motion
  • On-device caption generation
  • Multiple export presets
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Saint Studios is a professional video editor built for creators who want to get the most out of their cameras, not out of a chatbot. It is free, it asks for no account, and all processing happens on your iPhone or iPad: rendering, color, effects, captions and export run on the device itself, with no cloud service and no third-party processing. Your footage never leaves your device. MADE FOR YOUR CAMERA • Built-in log conversions for Apple Log (iPhone), Sony FX3 and A7S III (S-Log3) and the Insta360 Luna, in Rec.709 and HLG • For everything else, Get Camera LUT opens your maker’s official download (DJI D-Log, Insta360 I-Log, Sony S-Log3, Panasonic V-Log, Fujifilm F-Log) and Saint Studios applies the .cube before or after your grade • A full HDR pipeline (HLG and PQ) with tone mapping to SDR • 4K, 60 fps, ProRes and 10-bit sources; hardware HEVC, H.264 and ProRes export PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no subscription, no watermark • All processing on device: rendering, grading, effects, captions and export are done by your iPhone or iPad, never by a cloud or third-party service • No servers: nothing is uploaded, analyzed remotely or tracked • No generative AI. The on-device tools that help (captions, stabilization, tracking) are conventional computer vision running on your device EDIT • Multi-track timeline with video, audio and title lanes • Trim, ripple, roll, slip and slide; blade tool with a pointer on iPad • Magnetic snapping, markers, to-dos, in/out ranges, groups, compound clips • Sequences as clips, undo history, versions, project templates COLOR • LUTs, white balance, tone and color sliders • Lift, gamma and gain as wheels or per-channel bars, plus offset • Curves, secondary color, and a chroma warper that plots your footage’s colors so you can drag them • Scopes: histogram, waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope TITLES AND GRAPHICS • Titles with animation, styled words, text on a path and templates • Shapes, stickers, drawing on video, overlays • Generators: countdown, stopwatch, timecode, date stamp, progress bar, audio visualizer AUDIO • Real waveforms, per-track mixer, keyframed volume and pan • EQ, compressor, de-esser, noise reduction, echo, reverb, limiter • Ducking, loudness normalization, beat detection, sync audio to video • Voiceover recording and text to speech SPEED AND MOTION • Speed ramps, reverse, freeze frames, optical-flow slow motion • Keyframes on every parameter with easing and curved paths • Stabilization, motion tracking, auto reframe, background removal CAPTIONS • On-device captions with word highlighting, transcript editing, subtitle import and export EXPORT • Presets for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X, or your own, up to 4K with MetalFX upscaling • Still frames, GIFs, audio-only, chapter markers, FCPXML for finishing elsewhere • An export queue with progress on the Lock Screen Designed for iPhone and iPad, with keyboard, trackpad and Apple Pencil support, multiple windows and an external-display feed. Everything is included. Nothing is charged. Nothing is collected.

Screenshots

Pixelate3 screens
Saint Studios4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Saint Studios at none against Pixelate's 3. Pixelate's advantage is 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. Pixelate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Saint Studios asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Pixelate versus Saint Studios: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelateSaint Studios
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaad El MoustarhfirLuis Loyola

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pixelate

Subscriptions2
  • Pixelate Pro$3.991 Month
  • Pixelate Pro$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pixelate Pro$19.99
None

Saint Studios

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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