Bluristic vs Alpha HDR Video
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bluristic
Create stunning long exposure photos with real-time object tracking. This app allows you to capture motion blur in the foreground and background by moving your device or tracking moving subjects after recording. It offers multiple capture modes and high-resolution export options.
- Real-time object tracking
- Post-capture object tracking
- Multiple capture modes (Blend, Additive, Negative)
- JPG and PNG export
- Capture images in 4K
- Exposure control
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Long & multi exposure photography with real-time tracking. Track moving or still objects with a real-time preview to create smooth background and foreground blur. You can also record first and apply tracking afterward, which is ideal for faster-moving objects. Combine multiple exposures and step back to remove the last one. Choose between four different capture modes: Blend – smooth, natural long exposure results Additive – bright light trails Negative - creative and experimental dark exposures Zebra - black & white pattern effect Additional features: + three tracking points available + Mirror Mode + long exposure up to 30 minutes + record video during live capture + capture images in 4K + and much more... No subscription. Pay once. Future updates included
Alpha HDR Video
Apply real-time HDR effects to live video for enhanced detail and unique visual styles. Explore the world through a new HDR perspective and capture expressive footage with adjustable parameters for noise reduction or increased image clarity.
- Real-time HDR effect application
- Live video recording with effects
- Adjustable effect parameters
- Increase image details
- Noise reduction
- Unique HDR visual perspective
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This amazing app lets in real time to apply a pseudo HDR effect on life video. You can look at the around world through HDR view and record amazing expressively video with incredible effects. You can adjust different parameters of effects. Particularly you can dramatically increase image details. Or opposite, decrease details and to have a swell noise reduction on your video. The world is beautiful and wonderful if look at this through an HDR camera view. Let’s imagine what if our eyes could see reality in HD range? How everyday life was looked then? New HDR vision could give unique opportunities to explore how familiar things may look in HDR dimension. Have you seen how to look a burning fire in HDR? Or how indeed looks clouds in the sky? Now you can see it all. The AlphaPlugins HDR video app allows open around world again and from a new side of view. It sounds as a fantastic but yes, it is a true. Now you have a unique possibility to see surrounding reality in HDR mode. The new AlphaPlugins app lets in real time to look at the real world through an HDR cam. Even not only just look but and record a life video. And of course, any video is beautiful if this an HRD video.
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Verdict
Bluristic and Alpha HDR Video both sit at 3.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 74% of Bluristic's written reviews are positive against 0% of Alpha HDR Video's. Bluristic also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months). Alpha HDR Video's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On rating, ads, 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
Bluristic costs $4.99 and Alpha HDR Video $1.99 up front. Alpha HDR Video sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bluristic asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Bluristic against 3.7 for Alpha HDR Video. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bluristic has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Bluristic's written reviews are positive against 0% of Alpha HDR Video's.
Bluristic ships an update every 2 months, Alpha HDR Video every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bluristic | Alpha HDR Video |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (27 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #107 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johannes Pfahler | Maxim Chernousov |
Customer experience
Bluristic
Alpha HDR Video
In-app purchases
Bluristic
No in-app purchases
Alpha HDR Video
- HDR Video Recording$1.99
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