Comparison

Light Magick vs Contact Pics Adder

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

Head to head
About

Light Magick

Enhance your photos with beautiful glow effects. Easily add lines, text, and shapes with a simple touch interface. Save and share your creations to popular social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Add beautiful glow effects
  • Free line and color options
  • Free text with various fonts and colors
  • 100+ shapes and colors
  • Undo, Redo, and Reset editing
  • Share to social media
Features
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Light Magick add beautiful glow effect to your photo. Easy to use just move your finger or tap on the photo. -Free line and colors -Free text, fonts and colors -100 of Shapes and colors -Edit Undo, Redo and Reset -Share to other apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Line etc.

About

Contact Pics Adder

Easily add photos to your contacts to personalize your phone experience. Search the web or use your own pictures, then crop and save. Enjoy seeing faces instead of initials in calls and notifications.

Highlights
  • Add pictures to contacts
  • Web image search
  • Use photos from library
  • Image cropping
  • Personalize calls and notifications
  • Manual control over images
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Contact pictures can be enjoyed in various apps (Mail, Messages, Phone, FaceTime and Contacts). They look great in widgets, too. And you can see the face of the person when you get a phone call as well as in notifications. It's just so much nicer to have pictures instead of initials. It makes your apps way more personal. But how many contacts with pictures do you have? This app makes it easy for you to add pictures to your contacts from the web or from your library. It has a clean design, is easy to use, and it works astonishingly well. The app does not automate the process: Manual selection and cropping of images is still necessary, giving the user full control. ***** Contact Pics Adder made it to the list of Best Contact Apps for 2025 on Tom's Guide! https://www.tomsguide.com/round-up/best-contact-apps Contact Pics Adder made it to the list of Best iPhone Apps of 2023 on TechRadar! https://www.techradar.com/best/best-iphone-apps-2021/8 ***** How it works: - Tap a contact to do an image web search for the name of the contact - Add search words like city, email domain or company with one tap - After logging in, you can do searches on various social media sites with one tap - You can select most web pictures by just tapping them (not on iPad) - If this does not work, take a screenshot (by tapping the button labeled "Screen") - Optionally, add a picture from your Photos library - Crop an image before saving it Performance: - The app was tested on an (old) iPhone 6s with 10'000 contacts. Privacy and pricing: - Highest level of privacy: The developer does not collect any data from this app and your contacts are not uploaded. The app itself does not require signing up. Sign-in to social media sites happens within the browser so that the developer does not know about your sign-in credentials. - No costly subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads Tutorial: - https://www.tapsmart.com/tips-and-tricks/contact-pics-adder/ Customer feedback: - Reviewed by cirerebew (Thailand) ***** Simple, easy to use, very effective. A must-have app for tired boring Contacts (thumbs up, clap) - Reviewed by therealCuedaddy (USA) ***** Awesome App! This is a GREAT app! I can add photos of family and friends as well as logos of companies or stores to my phone list. I can identify callers quickly to decide if I want to take the call. I LOVE this app!!! - Reviewed by SolarEnergyEngineer (France) ***** Great app - does the job efficiently! Great app and good support from the developer. I spent a couple hours updating my contacts with LinkedIn photos in just a few days. App looks stable so far although I have 3000 contacts. Only downside : default search is using Bing and the photos shown by Bing are in my case completely irrelevant. - Reviewed by heolesgyn (Australia) ***** A great app. I saw the benefits of using the app a little while ago but it needed some tweaking and so, after a few discussions with the developer, the changes were made and the result (version 2.3.1) is a fully functional app. I'm now very happy to give it 5 stars and to highly recommend it. Get it!! - Reviewed by "jtylerhartley" (USA) ***** Great Product ***** This app is great, makes it so easy to add contact [picture]s. There is support for facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Very pleased overall! - Reviewed by "OSF" (Colombia) ***** Great app! ***** I love that you made this, it’s just so much better to have your own contact pics set! Acknowledgement: - The images used in the App Store and for the app icon are from unsplash.com.

Screenshots

Light Magick4 screens
Contact Pics Adder3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Contact Pics Adder at 100% against Light Magick's 50%. Contact Pics Adder also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Light Magick's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On 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

Light Magick is free to download; Contact Pics Adder costs $4.99 up front. Light Magick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Contact Pics Adder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Contact Pics Adder holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contact Pics Adder has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Light Magick's written reviews are positive against 100% of Contact Pics Adder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Light Magick ships an update every 2 weeks, Contact Pics Adder every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 1 level
Light Magick versus Contact Pics Adder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLight MagickContact Pics Adder
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.9 (44 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings144 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#188 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB2 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKenichi KobayashiVolker Koch

Customer experience

Light Magick

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Contact Pics Adder

All ratings44 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Light Magick

One-time1
  • Unlock 100 of Shapes and Remove Ads$0.99
None

Contact Pics Adder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Light Magick free?
Light Magick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Contact Pics Adder free?
Contact Pics Adder costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Light Magick or Contact Pics Adder?
Contact Pics Adder is rated higher. Light Magick averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Contact Pics Adder averages 4.9 from 44 ratings.
Do Light Magick or Contact Pics Adder have ads?
Light Magick shows ads; Contact Pics Adder does not.
Which is updated more often, Light Magick or Contact Pics Adder?
Light Magick ships an update every 2 weeks, and Contact Pics Adder every 5 days. Most recently, Light Magick was updated on October 13, 2026 and Contact Pics Adder on October 29, 2026.

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