Fx Stencil vs yuCamera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fx Stencil
Transform your photos into unique stencil art. Easily edit, customize colors, and apply gradients to create personalized designs for printing on various materials or sharing with loved ones.
- Create stencils from photos
- Edit and customize stencils
- Gradient stencil effects
- Save and share stencils
- Simple drawing tools
- Invert stencil option
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Fx Stencil lets you make a stencil from photo you takes or from your photo album.Very simple and quick. You can edit, share on facebook, save to your album or mail it to your friends and family. With a stencil you can use to print on the wall, clothes, fabric or make amazing gifts that imbued with your own personality. New features with version 3.3.0 - Support Dark mode - New Design UI for app - New core processing - More color for stencil - New Gradient stencil - Save your stencil - Share stencil to social networks and some action for stencil - Crop Image - Custom color - More tool - A simple drawing tools to help you edit image stencil. - Invert Stencil Wish you have fun with Fx Stencil. Sincerely!
yuCamera
Transform your photos into unique cartoon and comic styles. Adjust tones, brightness, and color levels to create artistic images. All processed pictures are securely saved to your device's photo library.
- Cartoon photo creation
- Comic style filters
- Monochrome 4-tone styles
- Adjustable brightness
- Tone and color level control
- Save to Photos library
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Take a picture in cartoon format, and create cartoon pictures from your photos. Totally free! - Make a monochrome comic picture in 4 tone styles. - Make beautiful cartoon pictures. - You can change brightness. - You can change tones, a tone level, a gradation level and a color level. - Pictures are stored into Photos. You will find hidden beauty of the world around you. I recommend to take ordinal items around you. This app is made in Japan. Any information about your picture are never sent anywhere. Totally secure.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: yuCamera at 5.0 against Fx Stencil's 4.5. yuCamera also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.4 vs 17.0). Fx Stencil's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Fx Stencil sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. yuCamera asks for nothing beyond the download.
yuCamera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fx Stencil has 1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fx Stencil | yuCamera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tien Le | Yu Software LLC |
Customer experience
Fx Stencil
yuCamera
Bugs and requests
Fx Stencil
Reported bugs
4 issues- Only lets you do one stencil
- App closes when selecting photo
- Zooms in to one corner
- Doesn't display entire picture
Requested features
4 requests- Two-tone image options
- Ability to add more photos
- Bring back old invert option
- Allow access to photo albums
yuCamera
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fx Stencil
- Remove Watermark$0.99
- Add Picker Color$0.99
- Gradient Stencil$0.99
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- Remove Advertisement$2.99
yuCamera
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Fx Stencil free?
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