Blear vs SplitCrop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blear
Create unique blurry wallpapers from your own photos or pre-loaded images. Easily adjust blurriness and crop to personalize your device's home and lock screens. Share your creations directly from the app.
- Transform photos into blurry wallpapers
- Adjust crop and blurriness
- Use pre-loaded images
- Action Extension for quick editing
- Save and set as wallpaper
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Transform your photos into stunning blurry wallpapers. Make your Home/Lock screen shine! Drag the image horizontally to change the crop. You get the best result with bright colorful photos, like a handful of jellybeans or unicorns. The app comes bundled with some beautiful photos to get you started. Just shake to get another one. When you have swiped your preferred blurriness, tap the save button on the right. In the Photos app, go to the image you just saved, tap the action button, and choose “Use as Wallpaper”. The app also comes with an Action Extension. So instead of opening the app, you can start by finding a photo in the Photos app, tap the action button, and then choose “Make Blurry Wallpaper”. Blear is open source: https://github.com/sindresorhus/blear
SplitCrop
Easily remove inner sections from images and PDF files. Stitch multiple images or PDF pages together. Ideal for cleaning up screenshots or creating collages, with simple export options.
- Remove inner image areas
- Stitch images and PDFs
- Crop screenshots
- Export as JPEG, PNG, or PDF
- Open files from Photo/Document Picker
- Share files from other apps
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Remove inner areas of any image or PDF file. Stitch images or (pages of) PDF files. Ideal to cut out inner parts of screenshots (e.g. chats) . Easy export (as JPEG or PNG Image or PDF File) of cropped image to Photo Library and other Apps. Open images or PDF files using the Photo Picker, the Document Picker (files on your device or iCloud Drive) or sharing files from other apps or the iOS Screenshot screen. SplitCrop is the easiest and fastest way to quickly clean up and save full page Safari screenshots as image. SplitCrop is totally free, In-App-Purchases allow you to tip the developer and have no impact on the app's functionality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blear at none against SplitCrop's 3. SplitCrop's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. SplitCrop sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Blear asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Blear against 4.9 for SplitCrop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 64 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Blear's written reviews are positive against 100% of SplitCrop's.
Blear ships an update every 3 months, SplitCrop every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blear | SplitCrop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (77 ratings) | 4.9 (64 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 64 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Michael Klug |
Customer experience
Blear
SplitCrop
In-app purchases
Blear
No in-app purchases
SplitCrop
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
