Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera vs Dazed Lens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera
Transform your everyday scenes into a mesmerizing light show with real-time video effects. Explore elastic color and shape, and use the back camera for a funhouse mirror experience.
- Eight real-time video effects
- Elastic color and shape manipulation
- Transforms everyday scenes
- Funhouse mirror effect
- Back camera integration
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Turn your world—or any photo in your library—into surreal art in real time. Liquid Lens is a playful effects camera with 17 animated looks: liquid silver, shimmering soap film, a glowing wireframe that tracks your face, cosmic color, comic-book ink, VHS, glitch, pixel art, sketch, ghost trails, and more. Swipe between effects or search for one by name, then add left–right, top–bottom, four-way, kaleidoscope, or Droste symmetry—which spirals the frame into itself—plus animated warp. CREATE YOUR WAY • Use the front or back camera • Import photos from your library • Capture exactly what you see • Record video with sound or muted audio FREE TO EXPLORE • All 17 effects • Real-time, on-device rendering • No account, ads, or subscription • No data linked to you Saved photos include a small Liquid Lens mark. Video capture and watermark-free photos are available as separate one-time upgrades. Point. Swipe. Bend reality.
Dazed Lens
Apply a variety of unique holographic and iridescent filters to your photos and videos. Customize filter effects like opacity, grain, and color. Offers various aspect ratios for social media.
- 50 unique holographic filters
- Customizable filter settings
- Video and image modes
- Trim and speed controls for video
- Multiple aspect ratios for social media
- Grain, scanlines, and distortion effects
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Wash your content in 50 unique filters on offer across 10 Packs. Begin your v a p o r w a v e adventure in distortion & color with our free #holo Pack. #holo is a simple, yet beautiful introduction to post-Internet Iridescence. Customise filters with personalised user settings; イ . Opacity ロ . Grain ハ . Scanlines ニ . Displacement ホ . Tint / Blendmode ヘ . Chromatic Aberration チ . Saturation リ . & Border Switch between video / image modes! イ . Trim ロ . Speed ハ . Glitch ニ . Random Crop sizes include - 2:3 / 3:2 / 4:5 / 5:4 / 9:16 / 1.9:1 - to cover all instagram post and storey sizing requirements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dazed Lens at 100% against Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera's 44%. Dazed Lens also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera's advantage is ratings volume (219 vs 17). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Dazed Lens sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dazed Lens holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera has 219 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dazed Lens's.
Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera ships an update every 6 weeks, Dazed Lens monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera | Dazed Lens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (219 ratings) | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 219 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Miles Egan | Merriment Ltd |
Customer experience
Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera
Dazed Lens
Bugs and requests
Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera
Reported bugs
10 issues- App doesn't save videos
- App crashes constantly
- Won't film video in panorama
- Won't save videos over half the tries
- Video function is useless
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- App not compatible with older devices
- Video feature has no sound
- App doesn't let me take pictures from library
- Entering password doesn't work
- Won't allow user to pick own photo
Requested features
7 requests- Restore password button
- Fix video saving
- Add flash
- More controls for effects (speed, palettes)
- Allow microphone input for visualizer
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- Ability to record video with no effect
- Ability to record video with kaleidoscope feature
Dazed Lens
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Liquid Lens Cosmic Camera
- Remove Watermark$1.99
- Enable Video Recording$1.99
Dazed Lens
- Total Ruin Pack$0.99
- Heatwave Pack$0.99
- Hearth Pack$0.99
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- Radio Smog Pack$0.99
- Pink Frost Pack$0.99
- Green Room Pack$0.99
- Fabric Pack$0.99
- Melt Banana Pack$0.99
- Collapsing Scenery Pack$0.99
- Infinitely Dazed$7.99
Questions
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