Comparison

BlendPic vs Emulsion Lab

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

Head to head
About

BlendPic

Features
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You. Your favorite place. In the same photo β€” without ever being there. BlendPic blends two images together with pixel-perfect control. AI background removal does the hard part automatically. Double exposure art, dreamy composites, impossible selfies β€” the only limit is your imagination. "How to Use This App" You can easily create photos in the following 3 steps: (1) Select two photos. The image selected with the left icon will be placed on top, and the image selected with the right icon will be placed on the bottom. You can also use photos prepared in advance by the app. (2) Touch the photo to erase the top image and reveal the bottom image. You can also change the transparency of the top image with the slider. (3) Once completed, you can share the created photo using LINE, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and more. ・Undo/Redo You can undo or redo your edits at any time (up to 20 steps). ・AI Background Removal Automatically remove the background from a photo using AI (Vision Framework), making it easy to composite subjects onto new backgrounds. ・Trimming Crop and adjust your images to the perfect composition.

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Emulsion Lab

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Emulsion stacks photographs and blends them into something new. Add a photo. Add another on top. Choose how the two mix - Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Difference, Glow and ten more - then adjust, distort and stack until it becomes yours. It is built to be fast. Everything runs on the GPU, so the picture keeps up with your finger instead of catching up after it. No ads, no account, nothing to subscribe to. LAYERS - Stack as many photos as you like - Fourteen blend modes - Per-layer opacity, position, scale and rotation - Pinch to resize a layer, drag to place it, twist to rotate - Reorder, duplicate and merge ADJUSTMENTS - Levels, with a live histogram of the layer you are working on - Curves, with an editor big enough to actually use - Auto-Level, Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast - Posterize, Sepia, Black and White, Invert Colors EFFECTS - Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Unfocus - Sharpen and Glow - Emboss, Relief, Edge Detect, Outline - Bulge, Pixelate, Kaleidoscope - Chromatic Aberration, Scanlines, Slice Glitch - Halftone and Dot Screen - Duotone, and Color to Alpha for knocking a colour out of a layer so the layers beneath show through NOTHING IS BAKED IN Adjustments and effects are stored as settings rather than burned into the pixels, so you can change your mind about any of them at any point - including one you applied twenty steps ago. History lets you step back through everything you have done, and you can see the picture while you scrub. FULL RESOLUTION WHEN IT COUNTS Editing runs against a fast preview so it stays responsive on large photos. Saving renders the whole thing again at your photo's true size. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Your photos never leave your device, because Emulsion contains no networking code at all. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is collected, and there is no account to make.

Screenshots

BlendPic4 screens
Emulsion Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

BlendPic and Emulsion Lab are too close to call on the numbers: across 3 compared parameters β€” price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BlendPic versus Emulsion Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlendPicEmulsion Lab
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksβ€”
AdsYesβ€”
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone β€” betterβ€”
Requires iOS17.617.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size36 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTOSHIYUKI HIRATAScott Stout

In-app purchases

None

BlendPic

No in-app purchases

None

Emulsion Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BlendPic free?
BlendPic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Emulsion Lab free?
Emulsion Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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