Comparison

Image Filters Photo Editor + vs Abstractify

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

Head to head
About

Image Filters Photo Editor +

This app offers a vast array of filters and adjustments to transform your photos. Enhance colors, apply artistic effects, or achieve vintage looks with a wide selection of tools. Perfect for creative photo editing.

Highlights
  • Bokeh, Disc, Gaussian, Motion, Zoom Blur effects
  • Color adjustment and enhancement tools
  • Artistic color effects like invert, posterize, and thermal
  • Halftone and screen effects (CMYK, Dot, Line)
  • Sharpening and unsharp mask for detail
  • Stylize effects including comic, crystallize, and bloom
Features
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Filters: BLUR ◆ Bokeh Blur – Applies a bokeh effect. ◆ Disc Blur – Blurs an image using disc shapes. ◆ Gaussian Blur – Blur and smooth out images. ◆ Morphology Gradient – Finds the edges of an image. ◆ Motion Blur – Blurs an image to simulate the effect of using a camera that moves a specified angle and distance while capturing the image. ◆ Zoom Blur – Simulates the effect of zooming the camera while capturing the image. COLOR ADJUSTMENT ◆ Color Controls – Greatly enhance colors, or remove them for a black & white photo. ◆ Color Threshold – Converts image into high-contrast color. ◆ Exposure Adjust – Brighten up dark photos or darken bright photos. ◆ Gamma Adjust – Darkens or lightens photos. ◆ Hue Adjust – Adjust photo’s hue/color tint. ◆ Vibrance – Make the photo’s color pop without looking fake. COLOR EFFECT ◆ Color Invert – Invert all colors as if image was converted to a negative. ◆ Color Map – Maps the colors from a psychedelic gradient to your image. ◆ Color Monochrome – Remaps colors so they fall within shades of a single color. ◆ Color Posterize – Turn images into posters, i.e. the “Andy Warhol” effect. ◆ Document Enhancer – Enhance a document image by removing unwanted shadows, whitening the background, and enhancing contrast. ◆ False Color – Maps luminance to a color ramp of two colors. ◆ Maximum Component – Returns a grayscale image from max(r,g,b). ◆ Minimum Component – Returns a grayscale image from min(r,g,b). ◆ Photo Effects: - Chrome – Vintage photography film with exaggerated color. - Fade – Vintage photography film with diminished color. - Instant – Vintage photography film with distorted colors. - Mono – Black-and-white photography film with low contrast. - Noir – Black-and-white photography film with exaggerated contrast. - Process – Vintage photography film with emphasized cool colors. - Tonal – Black-and-white photography film without significantly altering contrast. - Transfer – Vintage photography film with emphasized warm colors. ◆ Sepia Tone – Give an old-fashioned look to your photos. ◆ Thermal – Apply a Thermal image effect. ◆ Vignette – Soften photo’s edges and draw attention to its center. ◆ Vignette Effect – More advanced controls than basic Vignette. ◆ X-Ray – Apply a X-Ray style effect to an image. HALFTONE EFFECT ◆CMYK Halftone – Creates a color, halftoned rendition of the source image, using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks over a white page. ◆ Dot Screen – Simulates the dot patterns of a halftone screen. ◆ Hatched Screen – Simulates the hatched pattern of a halftone screen. ◆ Line Screen – Simulates the line pattern of a halftone screen. SHARPEN ◆ Sharpen Luminance – Increases image detail by sharpening. ◆ Unsharp Mask – Sharpen images to make them stand out. STYLIZE ◆ Bloom – Softens edges and applies a pleasant glow to an image. ◆ Comic Effect – Turn images into comic book pages. ◆ Crystallize – Creates polygon-shaped color blocks from image. ◆ Edges – Finds edges in image and displays them in color. ◆ Gabor Gradients – Linear filter used for texture analysis. ◆ Gloom – Dulls the highlights of an image. ◆ Hexagonal Pixellate – Maps an image to colored hexagons. ◆ Highlight and Shadows – Increase or decrease shadows and highlight. ◆ Line Overlay – Creates a sketch that outlines the edges of an image in black. ◆ Pixelate – Makes an image blocky by mapping to colored squares defined by the replaced pixels. ◆ Pointillize – Renders photo in a pointillistic style. Apply image filters in a quick, easy to use interface. Share filtered photos to text messages & save to your phone. Save full size image to Photo Library, Send via Email, Copy into other apps. No Ads! Post to the #ImageFilterApp Hashtag to see other's image filter creations on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook. App will be updated over time with more filters. Supports Light and Dark Modes. Landscape and Portrait orientations supported. Fully Accessible with the VoiceOver screen reader for blind and low vision users.

About

Abstractify

Transform your photos into unique abstract line drawings with a signature artistic style. Select an image, choose an intensity level, and let AI create hand-drawn art in seconds. Save, compare, and share your creations.

Highlights
  • Photo to abstract art transformation
  • Custom AI model
  • Adjustable intensity levels
  • Side-by-side comparison
  • Unlimited saved transformations
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Abstractify transforms your photos into unique abstract line drawings. The signature style of Instagram creator Bennett Waisbren, now in your pocket. FROM PHOTO TO ART IN SECONDS • Select any photo from your camera roll or snap a new one • Choose your intensity: Subtle for clean lines, Normal for balanced abstraction, or Intense for full surreal transformation • Tap to transform and watch AI turn your image into hand-drawn style art • Swipe to compare your original and transformed images side by side A STYLE YOU WON'T FIND ANYWHERE ELSE This isn't a generic filter. Abstractify uses a custom AI model with settings I've painstakingly dialed in, tweaking, testing, and refining until every transformation matches my creative vision. It's as close as I can get to computer-assisted versions of my most authentic drawing style: organic flowing lines, surreal abstraction, and the distinctive visual signature from my hand-drawn work. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION • Save unlimited transformations to your personal library • Revisit, compare, and share your favorites anytime • Your photos never leave your device. Privacy by design. PERFECT FOR • Fans of Bennett Waisbren's art: get his signature style applied to your own photos • Content creators: generate unique visuals for Instagram, TikTok, or wherever you share • Artists & designers: find inspiration or create reference material • Anyone curious: no experience needed, just tap and explore FREE TO USE Generate up to 5 transformations per day for free. Free exports include a small watermark and are optimized for social sharing. ABSTRACTIFY PREMIUM ($4.99/month) • Watermark-free exports • Full 1024px resolution • Priority cloud processing • Cancel anytime From the creator of some of Instagram's most-viewed AI art (@bennettwaisbren). This is something more personal. Terms of Use: https://blwaisbren.github.io/abstractify-legal/terms.html

Screenshots

Image Filters Photo Editor +4 screens
Abstractify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Abstractify at 100% against Image Filters Photo Editor +'s 51%. Abstractify also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7). Image Filters Photo Editor +'s advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Image Filters Photo Editor + sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Abstractify sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Abstractify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Image Filters Photo Editor + has 32 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Image Filters Photo Editor +'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Abstractify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Image Filters Photo Editor + ships an update every 2 days, Abstractify every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Image Filters Photo Editor + versus Abstractify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImage Filters Photo Editor +Abstractify
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (32 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaulJAdam.comBennett Waisbren

Customer experience

Image Filters Photo Editor +

All ratings32 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral9.4%
Negative28.1%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive50.7%
Neutral8.0%
Negative41.3%

Abstractify

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Image Filters Photo Editor +

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Cannot save photos
  • Cannot send photos
  • Images saved rotated 180 degrees
  • App crashes on opening
  • Help menu leads to 404 error
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  • Strange haze around logo on invert
  • Automatic cropping to horizontal rectangle
  • App crashes frequently
  • Cannot open app on older devices (iPod 4)
  • App doesn't start up

Requested features

14 requests
  • Ability to save photos
  • Ability to send photos
  • Built-in save button
  • Fix image rotation on save
  • Add sharpen feature
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  • Make all filters available
  • Improve user interface clarity
  • Allow editing of own photos
  • Add tutorial
  • Fix app crashing
  • Update for iPhone X
  • Add control over filter levels
  • Make all filters available through photo extensions
  • Clear last pic or prevent holding

Abstractify

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Image Filters Photo Editor +

One-time8
  • Disable Ads$0.99
  • Enable All Filters$0.99
  • Blur Filters$0.99
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  • Color Adjustment Filters$0.99
  • Halftone Effect Filters$0.99
  • Sharpen Filters$0.99
  • Stylize Filters$0.99
  • Color Effect Filters$1.99
1 purchases

Abstractify

Subscriptions1
  • Abstractify Premium$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Image Filters Photo Editor + free?
Image Filters Photo Editor + is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Abstractify free?
Abstractify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Image Filters Photo Editor + or Abstractify?
Abstractify is rated higher. Image Filters Photo Editor + averages 3.7 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Abstractify averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Image Filters Photo Editor + or Abstractify have ads?
Neither Image Filters Photo Editor + nor Abstractify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Image Filters Photo Editor + or Abstractify?
Image Filters Photo Editor + ships an update every 2 days, and Abstractify every 3 days. Most recently, Image Filters Photo Editor + was updated on October 24, 2026 and Abstractify on October 25, 2026.

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