Poloska vs (d)effect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poloska
This app transforms your phone into a slit-scan camera, capturing continuous slices of time to create surreal and dynamic images. Explore motion, distortion, and unique visual effects to unleash your creativity in photography.
- Slit-scan photography
- Dynamic image creation
- Motion and distortion effects
- Horizontal and vertical scanning
- Creative photo manipulation
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Experience time in a whole new way! Poloska transforms your iPhone into a slit-scan camera, letting you take surreal and mesmerizing pictures like never before. Rather than taking a single snapshot, Poloska records continuous slices of time, creating dynamic images that reveal motion, distortion, and unique visual effects. Unleash your creativity and have fun with photography! How it works: - Slit-scan magic: Poloska captures hundreds of frames per second, extracting a narrow slice from each frame and merging them into one flowing image. The longer you shoot, the wider your final image will be. - Unleash your creativity: Capture images of stretched cars, melting landscapes, or warped portraits—your imagination is the limit. - Customizable viewport: Choose between horizontal or vertical scanning to shape your shot just the way you want. - Pro tip: For the best results, use a tripod to stabilize your shots and unlock even more incredible effects. Download Poloska today and start bending time with your photos!
(d)effect
This camera app applies unique, real-time visual effects directly to your photos and videos as you capture them. It offers a variety of artistic filters, allowing for live previews and immediate saving without any post-processing steps. All processing is done on-device, ensuring your content remains private.
- Live filter rendering on viewfinder
- Real-time photo and video capture
- Stackable and adjustable filters
- On-device processing for privacy
- Variety of unique artistic filters
- Random effect generation
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(d)effect is a camera that shows you the effect before you take the shot. Every filter renders live on the viewfinder at full frame rate — no preview, no "apply" step, no waiting. What you frame is what gets saved. THE FILTERS • Riso Print — RGB plate misregistration and grain, like a badly aligned risograph • Dither — 4×4 Bayer ordered dithering, the look of a 1-bit screen • ASCII — the frame rebuilt from coloured glyphs on black • False Color — channel crushing and hue cycling • Halation — the bloom that film gets around highlights • Posterize — hard tonal banding • Exclusion — a solid hue blended straight through the image • Low Res — chunky pixellation that scales with the shot • Slow Shutter — a real exposure change on the camera, so the motion blur is genuine rather than faked Stack them. Adjust contrast, brightness and saturation on anything. Hit Random when you want the machine to decide. PHOTO AND VIDEO Shoot stills or record video with the same effects, with audio, in 4:5. What the viewfinder showed is what lands in your library — filters that are sized in pixels scale with the image, so the saved file matches the preview. YOUR SHOTS STAY YOURS Everything is processed on your iPhone using Metal and Core Image. Nothing is uploaded, stored on a server, or looked at by anyone. There is no cloud gallery and no server-side processing — captures go straight to your own Photos library, into a "(d)effect" album the in-app gallery reads back. We hold one piece of personal data: the email address attached to your sign-in. You can delete your account, and it, from inside the app. — (d)effect is free while in active development — every filter unlocked, no ads, no subscription. If something breaks, tell us at support@d-effect.com and we'll fix it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Poloska at 73% against (d)effect's 0%. Poloska also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (76 vs 2). (d)effect's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Poloska holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poloska has 76 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Poloska's written reviews are positive against 0% of (d)effect's.
Poloska ships an update every 4 months, (d)effect every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poloska | (d)effect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (76 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NIKITA SHANIN | Joao Campagnolo |
Customer experience
Poloska
(d)effect
In-app purchases
Poloska
No in-app purchases
(d)effect
No in-app purchases









