Comparison

(d)effect vs Finger Frame

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

Head to head
About

(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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Finger Frame

Features
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Make a frame with your fingers. A live look appears inside the hand window. Finger Frame is the gesture camera filter for people done with face-only effects. Form an O with thumb and index, or an L with both hands — the area inside your fingers becomes a live window of comic, noir, soft focus, and more. Instant. On your device. No account to start. HOW IT WORKS • Hold an O or L — hand tracking follows your fingers • Pick a look — comic, noir, and other live camera effects run inside the frame • Hit record — save a finger-frame video to Photos FREE LOOKS Soft Focus, Negative, Noir, Sepia, Chrome, Comic — enough to film friends and ship a clip the same night. UNLOCK FOREVER One-time Unlock adds advanced looks (Pixels, Glitch, Painterly, Bloom, Ink, Halftone), Fill a frame with a photo, Match a reference look, and chrome-free recordings (video + FX only — no outline or badges). Base looks stay free. WHY IT’S DIFFERENT • Effects live in the hand window — not glued to your face • Built for short, shareable clips • These looks are processed on your device Open Finger Frame. Frame the shot with your hands. Record the moment.

Screenshots

(d)effect4 screens
Finger Frame4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: (d)effect at none against Finger Frame's 1. Finger Frame's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price and ads 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. Finger Frame sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. (d)effect asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
(d)effect versus Finger Frame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter(d)effectFinger Frame
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoao CampagnoloPhillip Paul

In-app purchases

None

(d)effect

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Finger Frame

One-time1
  • Finger Frame Unlimited$0.99

Questions

Is (d)effect free?
(d)effect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Finger Frame free?
Finger Frame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do (d)effect or Finger Frame have ads?
Neither (d)effect nor Finger Frame shows ads.

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