Focus Stacking vs Sharp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Stacking
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Focus Stacking Camera: Professional Focus Stacking for Macro Photography Ever taken a macro or close-up photo with your phone and found that only a small part of the subject is sharp while the rest falls out of focus? Focus Stacking Camera brings a dedicated focus-stacking workflow to mobile photography. Capture or import multiple images with different focus distances, then combine the sharpest areas into one detailed image with greater apparent depth of field. Instead of choosing a single focus plane, Focus Fusion helps you bring more of the subject into focus. It is designed for mobile photographers, content creators, product sellers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone who wants more detail from close-up photography. KEY FEATURES Advanced Focus Stacking Combine multiple frames captured at different focus points into one sharp composite image. Capture fine details that a single close-up exposure may not show clearly. Intelligent Focus Fusion Analyze each focus layer and use the sharpest areas from the available frames to create a natural-looking final image. Extended Depth of Field Bring more of the foreground, subject, and background into focus at the same time. Focus stacking is particularly useful for macro, product, nature, and landscape photography. Automatic Image Alignment Help correct minor shifts between frames, making it easier to create a clean stack when shooting handheld. For the most demanding subjects, a tripod or stable support is recommended because significant movement and perspective changes can create artifacts. High-Resolution Export Export your finished composite while preserving fine textures, edges, and small details for editing, sharing, product listings, or printing. A Dedicated Mobile Workflow Process your focus stack directly on your phone instead of moving every image to a desktop workflow. Capture, align, fuse, and review your result in one focused experience. PERFECT FOR Macro and Close-Up Photography Photograph insects, flowers, leaves, textures, jewelry, collectibles, and other small subjects with improved front-to-back sharpness. Product and E-Commerce Photography Create clearer product images for jewelry, watches, models, crafts, accessories, and online listings. Nature and Landscape Photography Combine focus layers to keep important near and distant details sharp when one exposure is not enough. Food, Models, and Technical Subjects Show more of a carefully arranged subject in focus, from tabletop scenes to miniatures and technical specimens. HOW IT WORKS 1. Capture or import a sequence of images with different focus points. 2. Align the source frames to reduce the effect of minor camera movement. 3. Fuse the sharpest areas from each frame into one composite image. 4. Review and export your finished photo at the available output quality. For the best results, keep the camera as steady as possible, maintain consistent exposure, and make sure the focus sequence covers every area you want to appear sharp. Subjects that move substantially between frames may require additional care during capture or editing. Download Focus Stacking Camera today and explore the detail of professional focus stacking on your smartphone. Terms of Use: https://focusall-api.talk-translator.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://focusall-api.talk-translator.com/legal/privacy
Sharp
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Shoot the same thing more than once, and Sharp puts the shots together. Six tools, one engine. Nothing here edits a single photograph โ everything here takes many frames of the same scene and gives back one picture. FOCUS โ sharp from front to back A lens holds one plane in focus, and close up that plane is thinner than the subject. Move the focus between frames and Sharp takes every part of the result from the frame that has it sharpest. Not sure how wide its detail size should be? Choose by Eye stacks a piece of your bracket at four widths, side by side, so you can see which one has no halo. CLEAN โ less noise, and long-exposure water Noise is different in every frame and the subject is not, so averaging frames takes it down by the square root of how many you shot: four halve it, sixteen quarter it. Water and cloud move between frames and average into smoothness, while everything that held still stays sharp. VANISH โ the people walk out of the picture Take a dozen frames a few seconds apart while the square empties and fills. At each pixel Sharp keeps the frames that agree and throws out the ones that do not, then averages what is left โ whoever was walking through is gone, and the noise goes with them. TRAILS โ every place the light went A hundred short exposures of a night sky, a torch drawing, headlights on a bend. Sharp keeps the brightest frame at each pixel, so every mark the light made is in the picture and the sky stays as dark as one frame had it. Or keep the darkest instead, and take the passing lights out. BLEND โ the shadows and the highlights both An exposure bracket, darker and brighter, into one picture: the sky from the dark frame, the shadows from the bright one, blended without a seam and with no curve to set. PICK โ the sharpest frame of the burst Twenty handheld frames, one of them caught between heartbeats. Sharp hands back the one that won, exactly as it came off the camera. BUILT FOR LARGE SETS โข Camera RAW, HEIC, JPEG, TIFF and PNG, read straight from Files or Photos โข Frames are read a strip at a time, so memory does not grow with the number of frames โข Alignment that covers focus breathing, drift and a rolled wrist, and checks its own work โข Compare the result with any single frame at exactly the same zoom, beside a map of how each pixel was decided PAINT IT BACK Every one of these tools is a guess made a pixel at a time. Choose the frame that has that part right and paint it back over the result โ one finger paints, two move the picture, an Apple Pencil presses harder for more. The repair is re-applied to the 16-bit file at full depth. FREE, AND THEN ONE PAYMENT All six tools run on up to 12 frames free, at full quality: the same alignment, the same merges, the same speed, the same RAW support, and a full-resolution JPEG with no watermark. Nothing about how good the picture is has been held back. The $9.99 unlock adds: โข Unlimited frames, for every tool โข The retouch brush, with retouches you can reopen and change โข 16-bit TIFF, the maps, and every frame aligned for Helicon, Zerene or Photoshop โข Every bracket kept as a project, with its settings and its result โข Batches of projects run one after another, and long brackets stacked in slabs One payment, shared with your family. No subscription, no account, and not a timed trial. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No analytics, no tracking, no server, and no network of its own. Your photographs are read where they are, and the only thing that goes anywhere is what you share yourself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Focus Stacking at 16.6 against Sharp's 27.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Focus Stacking sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Sharp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus Stacking ships an update every 9 days, Sharp fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Stacking | Sharp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days โ better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad โ better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 โ better | 27.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ้ฆ่ฃ ้ | Pablo Miranda |
In-app purchases
Focus Stacking
- Focus Stacking - Macro Camera$4.997 Days
- Focus Stacking - Macro Camera$12.991 Month
- Focus Stacking - Macro Camera$39.991 Year
Sharp
- Unlock Sharp 12$9.99









