Comparison

Blear vs ElePhotos

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

ElePhotos

Personalize your mobile desktop with customizable photo widgets. Choose from a variety of frame themes and transparent components to display your favorite pictures. Each widget offers rich options for direct web page jumps or shortcut commands.

Highlights
  • Photo frame widgets
  • Transparent components
  • Customizable widget options
  • Direct web page jumps
  • Shortcut commands
  • Multiple frame themes
Features
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ElePhotos is an App that displays photos decorated with rich photo frames in the form of widgets. We offer a wide variety of photo frame themes and transparent components to allow you to better display your favorite pictures. At the same time, we also provide all the widgets with rich options to make your mobile desktop more personalized. # Lots of topics We have carefully designed a wide range of photo frame themes, each in a different style, allowing you to display your favorite photos in a fresh and refreshing way. # Rich features Each widget can be individually configured with the function after clicking, you can directly jump to open your favorite web page, you can also directly run powerful shortcut commands. # Transparent components Some themes combined with the transparent component effect will make your mobile desktop more vivid and personalized. # Clean and tidy page design No ads, no ads, no ads! The pure and simple page makes the app experience smooth and smooth from beginning to end! # Constant updates We will continue to update and introduce more and better photo frames. At the same time, we will also add more useful and rich features to the Widget! Stay tuned! Description of sales method Early Bird Membership: Get the full features of a small ElePhotos at a very good price Lifetime membership: Access to the full functionality of the ElePhotos It is recommended that you choose early bird member, this way we only in the product new push stage "limited time" sale, purchase within the time limit can enjoy lifetime price, high cost performance ~~ expired no longer sold this way ~~ Payment method description · After you select the method of sale and confirm the payment, the system will charge your iTunes account according to the method and price you choose. Contact us You can contact us by leaving a message on our social media accounts, or you can email us directly from the email address inside the ElePhotos. We also welcome you to use AppsStore reviews to express your opinion of the ElePhotos. Weibo: https://m.weibo.cn/u/7646937792 The little red book: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/6424320d0000000012011962 Privacy Policy and User Agreement Privacy policy: https://www.xunshanapp.cn/privacy_cn.html Use agreement: https://www.xunshanapp.cn/useragreement_cn.html

Screenshots

Blear1 screens
ElePhotos4 screens

Verdict

The call

Blear and ElePhotos both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of Blear's written reviews are positive against 33% of ElePhotos's. Blear also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (77 vs 1). ElePhotos's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ElePhotos sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Blear asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ElePhotos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blear has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Blear's written reviews are positive against 33% of ElePhotos's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blear ships an update every 3 months, ElePhotos every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Blear versus ElePhotos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlearElePhotos
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (77 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings77 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB97 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSindre Sorhus正峰 蒋

Customer experience

Blear

All ratings77 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative10.0%

ElePhotos

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

Blear

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ElePhotos

One-time2
  • Early bird ticket$1.99
  • Lifetime Vip Member$2.99

Questions

Is Blear free?
Blear is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ElePhotos free?
ElePhotos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blear or ElePhotos?
ElePhotos is rated higher. Blear averages 4.8 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while ElePhotos averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Blear or ElePhotos have ads?
Neither Blear nor ElePhotos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blear or ElePhotos?
Blear ships an update every 3 months, and ElePhotos every 3 weeks. Most recently, Blear was updated on November 1, 2026 and ElePhotos on November 3, 2026.

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