Comparison

The Photos Booth vs FX Pro Editor

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

Head to head
About

The Photos Booth

Transform your photos with a wide array of real-time live effects and color presets. Capture fun and elegant images, even in low light, with adjustable settings and various aspect ratios. Easily view, share, and manage your creations.

Highlights
  • 39+ real-time live effects
  • Apply effects and color presets simultaneously
  • Screen Flash for low light photos
  • Front and rear camera support
  • Adjustable effects level
  • Multiple photo crop sizes
  • Built-in photo gallery
Features
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The Photos Booth bring the original iPad Photo Booth amazing, elegant, and funny face that make you laugh all days long, into iPhone and beyond. Capture your photo with real time super fun effects and elegant effects. It boost to more advanced level, with more effects, adjustable effects level, and can apply effect with enhance color preset at the same time. Even in the dark time, all the captured photos just look great with Screen Flash. FEATURES: • Up to 39 real time live effects and color presets • Apply both effects and color preset at the same time • Great low light photo with Screen Flash for all devices • Capture with front and rear camera • Support dual and triple rear camera lens devices • Preview your photo after capture • Crop photo size: Standard 4:3, Square 1:1, Widescreen 16:9 and UltraWide 21:9 • Automatically save your photo to camera roll • Built-in photo gallery for photo viewing and easing sharing • Turn on flash to bright the dark • Level photo position with grid line • All effects are: Terminal, Mirror, X-Ray, Negative, Light Tunnel, Squeeze, Twirl, Stretch, Bold, Pixellate, TV Dot, Vegnette, Focus Blur, Zoom Blur, Beauty, Posterize, Emboss, Sketch, Cartoon, Edge, Stone Stamp, Hue Color, Clone, Fish Eye, and Shift Blur • All color presets are: Black & White, Grayscale, Sepia, Fade, Chrome, Deep Shadow, Etique, Cross Process, Aqua, Cool, Pale Bright, Yelly, Redy, and Greeny INFO: • Some effects required tap or pinch gesture to adjust effect position or effect level • Double tap to focus and set exposure (iPhone and rear camera only)

About

FX Pro Editor

Apply a vast array of realistic visual effects, filters, and editing particles to your videos and photos. Enhance your creations with superhero, fantasy, and magic elements. Easily save and share your edited content on social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Vast collection of FX effects
  • Realistic VFX, powers, and magic
  • Superhero and fantasy video effects
  • Multiple filters
  • Editing particles
  • GIF image editing
Features
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Choose from a lot of fx effects and be amazed. Many different filters to apply and other editing particles. Just save your creation and share your edited video or photo on any social media platform like Instagram or Tiktok.Fx-pro app contains a huge collection of realistic VFX ,powers & magicapp contains different superheroes video effects, fantasy Fx-pro also provides all features needed to edit GIF images.

Screenshots

The Photos Booth4 screens
FX Pro Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: FX Pro Editor at 100% against The Photos Booth's 62%. FX Pro Editor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. The Photos Booth sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and FX Pro Editor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Photos Booth ships an update every 7 months, FX Pro Editor every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
The Photos Booth versus FX Pro Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Photos BoothFX Pro Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (715 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings715 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB306 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRatha SouICT Mind Solutions

Customer experience

The Photos Booth

All ratings715 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative11.2%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive61.8%
Neutral14.7%
Negative23.5%

FX Pro Editor

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

The Photos Booth

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Doesn't take pictures
  • App doesn't work
  • Glitch: doesn't work if you go to the rest
  • Doesn't let me take the photo on the app, have to screenshot it

Requested features

2 requests
  • More than 26 fx
  • Ability to edit existing photos, not just take new ones

FX Pro Editor

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

The Photos Booth

One-time1
  • No Ads$1.99
1 purchases

FX Pro Editor

Subscriptions1
  • FXpro monthly$9.991 Month

Questions

Is The Photos Booth free?
The Photos Booth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FX Pro Editor free?
FX Pro Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Photos Booth or FX Pro Editor have ads?
The Photos Booth shows ads; FX Pro Editor does not.
Which is updated more often, The Photos Booth or FX Pro Editor?
The Photos Booth ships an update every 7 months, and FX Pro Editor every 3 weeks. Most recently, The Photos Booth was updated on October 19, 2026 and FX Pro Editor on September 26, 2026.

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