Rake Plus vs RawMask Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Rake Plus
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Change the light, the air and the focus of a photo after you took it. Rake Plus reads how far away every part of your picture is and works from that, the way a real lamp, real fog and a real lens would. Four tools, all on your device. Portrait photos carry the depth your iPhone measured when it took them. Any other photo works too: Rake Plus estimates its depth on your device. CLEAR ā take the haze out Haze, smog and smoke thicken with distance. Clear measures how much haze lies at each distance in your photo and removes it by distance: far hills and skylines come back, and the foreground is left alone. Strength sets how much; Protect keeps the far distance and the sky from turning grainy. RELIGHT ā move the light Drag a lamp across the picture and watch the light wrap around a face and cast real shadows. ⢠Five looks in one tap: Rembrandt, Butterfly, Split, Softbox and Flash, a flash on the camera. ⢠Three lights like a studio: key, fill and rim. ⢠Drag a light to move it; pinch to pull it toward you or push it behind your subject. ⢠Power in stops, depth, size for crisp or soft shadows, warmth, and shadows on or off. ⢠Original sets how much of the photo's own light to keep. AIR ā fog, mist and shafts of light Fill the scene with fog that thickens with distance, so your subject stays clear while the background fades. Add a sun, and the fog catches its light: trees, windows and your subject block it, and the light falls through the gaps in shafts. ⢠Density, where the fog starts, glow and warmth. ⢠For the sun: power, depth, size, warmth and how strongly the beams show. LENS ā move the focus after the shot Tap where the photo should be sharp. Everything else blurs the way a real lens would: the farther from the focus, the softer, with your subject's edges kept clean. On Portrait photos of people, the outline your iPhone saved keeps the blur off the hair. ⢠Aperture, and how deep the sharp zone is. ⢠The character of the blur: round or bladed, an anamorphic oval, cat's-eye discs at the edges, and the swirl of old portrait lenses. ⢠Glow: how brightly lights spread into discs. TOGETHER The tools stack in order: haze removed first, then your light, then the air, then the lens the whole scene is seen through. Hold Compare at any time to see the photo as it was shot, and undo or redo any change. Save to Photos adds the result at full resolution as an edit of the original, which Photos can revert, depth and all. IN PHOTOS TOO Rake Plus is also in the Photos app: open a photo, tap Edit, then the ⯠menu, Extensions, Rake Plus. A photo you edited with Rake Plus opens there with its settings, so you can change them later. RAKE PLUS PRO ā four more tools, Live Photos, borders and Recipes, one purchase An optional one-time in-app purchase. Try every Pro tool and a Live Photo merge on your own photos in the app first; the purchase is needed to save or share, and to use them inside Photos. ⢠WINDOW: sun through blinds, panes or leaves, bending over your subject and shading the wall behind. ⢠WEATHER: rain or snow through the scene, hidden behind your subject, fading the distance. ⢠GRADE: colour your subject and the distance apart, with no mask to draw. ⢠MOTION: a short looping clip from the still ā a push-in, a sway or a Vertigo zoom. ⢠LIVE PHOTOS: merge the three seconds into one picture: smooth water, passers-by taken out, or light trails. ⢠BORDERS: white or black, with the camera and its settings written underneath. ⢠RECIPES: save an edit, every tool as you set it, and put it on other photos in one tap. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on your device, including estimating depth. Photos come in through the system picker, or from Photos when you edit there, without access to the rest of your library, and nothing is uploaded: there is no server to upload to. No account, no credits, no subscription, no ads. TIPS ⢠Portrait-mode photos work best. In Photos, they are the ones with the Ę depth control under Edit.
RawMask Studio
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Edit only the part of the photo you choose. RawMask Studio is a RAW photo editor built around masks: pick a detected subject or draw your own mask, then change the light, color, detail and focus of just that area while the rest of the image stays untouched. It opens RAW and ProRAW files as well as everyday JPEG and HEIC photos, and every edit happens right on your iPhone. MASKS FOR SELECTIVE EDITS - Automatic masks: on-device detection finds subjects such as people, cars and animals and turns them into ready-to-edit masks - Manual masks: radial, linear (gradient), brush and rectangle - Refine any mask with the Add and Subtract brushes - Soften the edge with Feather for smooth, natural transitions - Give every mask its own light, color, detail and focus adjustments RAW, PRORAW, JPEG AND HEIC - Pick photos straight from your Photos library with the system picker - Edit RAW and ProRAW captures with the same tools as regular photos A CLEAR, STEP-BY-STEP WORKFLOW - Frame: crop, straighten, rotate, aspect ratios and zoom - Light: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks - Color: temperature, tint, vibrance and saturation - Detail: texture, clarity, dehaze, sharpness and noise reduction - Focus: background blur with strength, range, feather and bokeh - Effects: vignette, grain and fade - Reorder or hide steps in Editor options to match the way you work COMPARE AND REUSE - Hold to Compare to check before and after at any moment - Save whole-photo adjustments as a Preset and apply it to another photo SAVE WITHOUT LOSING THE ORIGINAL - Save edit to Photos is non-destructive: the original stays intact and you can revert the edit in Photos anytime - Save a copy to Photos to keep the edited version as a new photo - Export as JPEG, HEIF or TIFF through the share sheet PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account, no sign-in and no ads - Editing and subject detection run entirely on device, so your photos are never uploaded - Free, with no in-app purchases Open a photo, pick a mask and make one part of it shine.
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Verdict
Rake Plus and RawMask Studio are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters ā price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rake Plus ships an update every 8 days, RawMask Studio weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rake Plus | RawMask Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pablo Miranda | Besarion Turmanauli |
In-app purchases
Rake Plus
No in-app purchases
RawMask Studio
No in-app purchases









