FabFocus - Portrait Mode Blur App Reviews

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Blurs everything. This app randomly blurs thing in the photo ( like half of a persons head). Then when you try to fix it manually ( which is a pain ) it doesn’t save your work...so you have to start all over. Can’t believe I payed for this app!

Old Version Please. Is there any way to get the older version back? I really liked it a lot better than this upgrade.

Best Photo Editor. I spent hours looking and downloading apps to perfectly blur my pictures like the iphone x and i almost wanted to buy a new phone but then i only spent $4.00 on this app and it was definitely worth it because my friends think i have the iphone x when really i’m using this app

Tip to developer. Love the app, I just wish you can zoom in after you did the blur. To really detail the pic and catch imperfections.

What happened?!. The newest update has made the app almost unusable. The blur effect has such a crisp definition against the rest of the photo that it looks ridiculous. I used to LOVE this app, hopefully they revert back or update again with a user experience closer to what it used to be.

Great app. Awesome app putts ya right there with the 8+. You must hit share and save image to save picture when finished. Very cool app

Raphael Iwegbe Says this App is wonderful. Before paying for it I had a thousand thought if to or not to, well I took the risk after reading some reviews and now I am writing a review. The App is just what I was looking for needing a portrait pic app. Thanks for this wonderful work.

Works great!. Works great especially since I have an iPhone without the portrait mode! Easy to use and accurate. Recommend !!!

No longer Supported. I have an iPhone 7 and when one tries to open the application it crashes. Furthermore if the app manages to open the app will blur perfectly and beautifully but then crash. The app was one reliable and a good application but now it doesn’t work.

This last update made the app significantly harder to use. This last update made the app significantly harder to use by removing the cursor circle and the app went from being great to very terrible. The purple highlight is much harder to see than the bright green highlight. I wish I could downgrade.

Love the options. This app gives the effect of the 7 plus, 8 plus, and X in terms of portrait photos. I was bummed to find out just these phones have the portrait feature. This app takes care of that lack. Also, it’s way easier to edit photos on this app than other apps I’ve tried.

Wow (iPhone 6s Plus). I was very skeptical about how well this would work considering you have to paint the areas to keep in focus, but the results are dope. It’s not as dead simple as shoot and it’s done (a la iPhone 7/8 Plus or Pixel 2) but it’s not TOO tough and will definitely extend the life of my iPhone 6s Plus camera for at least one more generation. Word of advice: use a different camera to shoot and use this app to edit. The camera is TOO simple and not as nice to use as even the default camera app.

Amazing. This is my first time ever taking the time to write a review for an app. That alone should speak for itself. Does an amazing job of blurring and also does an amazing job of giving you control over what you want blurred and what you don’t as well as the intensity. Can’t think of anything else I would want from the app. Definitely worth the price.

Great app even if you have portrait mode on your phone.. There's alot of depth in this app (pun intended). It has bokeh styles and is simple and intuitive. Glad I bought it. I would modernize the design language tho to cater to a wider Audience. It could use a new ui skin and app logo. Otherwise don't even think just buy it.

I love it 😍🤣. I just downloaded and I'm in love 😍 with it. It is super easy to used. Fully recommend 😊

Love it!!. This is so awesome!! I love this. Only thing I would like them to fix is being able to press a done button or something so I don’t have to exit out of the app to do a new photo, but otherwise this is great!

Rip off..... $3.99??? It's not about the money. Come on really. But when you can get an app for .99 or even free, that has several dozen or more other editing features on top of the ONE portrait mode (and a poor one at that) that this app does... you can't help but feel like... "wow, what a total rip off". I would not recommend this to anyone.... ANYONE!

Yay!. I have been looking for an app to be able to blur photos and I have finally found one that I love to use!

Inconsistency. I’m afraid that I’m not happy with this app. In the pictures that I’ve try to blur the background, it blurred most of the background but left spots that were not blurred. There were also pictures that it made people’s hair look funky.

Best Blur App Ever. Easy to use, quality photo, been looking for this app and money well spent.

yaaasss. i’ve tried a total of 7 apps that are supposed to do what this app does. THIS APP IS AMAZING!!!!!! it works and is easy to use.👍👍👍

Love the app. I’m just wondering why it says photo & video when you can’t access your videos or shoot a video 🤔 I tried to ask for support but it took me to an unrelated link? 😮 I see that it’s just shown in the category.

Fab App. Easy to use. The effect is quite stunning and makes photos look incredibly professional. I use this a lot.

Amazing.. I was really skeptical on whether or not this would make my photos on my iPhone 5s look as good as the ones iPhone users with portrait mode were taking, ESPECIALLY for $4 (I'm cheap af) - HOWEVER, it may have been the best $4 I ever spent (on a mobile app). It most definitely delivers what it claims! 🙌🙌🙌

Wish it recognized animals. Many of my photos are of animals and they always need to be edited.

Disappointed. I was hoping this app would substitute for the iPhone 7S Portrait option but it isn't even close. There is very little control over the manual adjustments. A waste of money in my opinion.

Deleted it after five minutes. I just wanted to use it for one photo that had a beautiful image of my daughter, but the background needed to be blurred out. The app selected her face but was unable to accurately select her hair. I tried to modify the selection with the tools provided but could not come close to getting an acceptable result. Four bucks wasted.

So far so good!. Zoom feature is a little awkward, but overall, this app does the job! Quite a few people actually thought I had portrait mode and were shocked when I mentioned this app was the reason. The auto detect isn’t perfect obviously, but it does a great majority of the highlighting work for you. Clean it up a bit and bam, beautiful Bokeh effects! Def recommend!

Perfect. I own an SLR camera, since i got this app i dont bring my camera with me anymore when i go places or attend any occasions, it works perfectly, i guess i don't need to upgrade my 6 plus anymore and keep my phone for another 2 years! 😉😄🤣

A+. Purchased the Iphone 8 & realized there wasn’t Portrait Mode & for the money, not too happy. I almost went back to the store to trade in for 7+,8+ or X specifically for the Portrait Mode feature. Then I saw this app & it actually is equivalent too the Portrait mode feature on those devices! I’m extremely happy now that I don’t have to return the phone. xD The only downside about the app (which maybe I just haven’t found yet) is that once your done editing an image, I can’t seem to find a HOME button to edit or take another photo. I have to close the app & re open it. But other than that I’m rating a 5 on the app because it does exactly what I need it to do!

Low Quality Photo in FabFocus Please don't reduce qualit. Your app is awesome but if i take picture with FabFocus apps I Got very Low Quality. Even I try to edit my photo in FabFocus app worse photos I got. Please don't reduce quality in your apps. Please fix😰😭

Awesome. I am now addicted in using this very simple to use but very effective app. Try it and see how it will improve your portraits. I now constantly use this app for my portraits.

Amazing. Now I can take my photos to the next level.

Very easy. I hate paying for apps but this is a qualify app it’s super simple and looks pretty great I cant complain

Why export at only 1200pixels?. Overall love the app, 2 issues. Needs a zoom feature for more accurate selecting and by far the biggest is you take a huge 4k picture, work on it, the edit and export and it shrinks to a low res 1200 pixels. Basically only good for phone and social viewing Please fix to export at original size

Decent dual-camera alternative. So Apple decides not to use native software engineering to simulate bokeh effect on iPhones with one camera, unlike what Google has successfully tried on Pixel, fine. But there are still ways to avoid an extra cost for buying a probably bulky iPhone only for its portrait-taking capabilities, among which and among the ones I’ve tried so far Fab Focus is hands down the pioneer. Well worth the humble price, it’ll make your eyes sparkle.

Having problems using it.. Id like to contact the company because I may just not be understanding how to use it. The little tutorial may be enough for some people but it isn’t explaining enough for me. When I clicked on “help” it didn’t bring me to a help page but to an essay on “ Second Chances” which I cannot understand at all. Also, I paid $3.99 for this app but don’t know if that is one time or monthly. I need to communicate with the developers to get info. After that I may give it a high rating. I’d really like to be able to do that.

5 Star App. Easy to use and gives you the portrait effect.

One thing—save in original quality. First time ever writing a review—app is stellar and wonderful for those with a non dual lens iPhone to produce the same blurred effect (with many customization options) for photos! Needs to work on the auto detect however, hardly ever successful. The only true downer—the post-edited photos have a significant quality downgrade. If the developers can please figure out/allow the edited photos to retain the original high quality, this app would be perfect. Thank you!

Best photo app. I was looking for something like this for a long time now I got it. This is so the best portrait and focus photo App I have seen at the Appstore. Thanks to the developers

Better then them all. I’ve tested out a lot of portrait apps and this one is by far the best. It just blends en every thing in so well. This is definitely worth 4 bucks it make photos look professional

Black and white addition. I absolutely love this app it is such fun to take a moment and create a great photo. What would make this app even better is if another feature is to make the background black and white. But regardless this app is totally worth it

Newest changes. I preferred the app before, when you could adjust the level of blurriness for the background, and you could discard changes easily. Now I have two pictures that I cannot change back to original:(.

Great!. Soooo cute my pictures come out perfectly! since i discovered my iPhone 8 doesn’t have potrait mode I was very disappointed but now I’m over it 😅 I just hope there’s no hidden fees🙄 like you pay $3.99 and then two weeks like $300 will be gone from the acct.. lol but if that doesn’t happen then this is a great app

Amazing. This app is wayyyyy worth the money!! It’s even better than portrait mode on the iPhones!!

Surprisingly awesome. I was skeptical when I read an article that mentioned this as their favourite portrait/bokeh/depth of field app. I downloaded a different app that was free (for the first month) instead. But it was clunky and didn’t do a great job... Reluctantly I decided to pay for this one and was amazed at the difference. The natural way this recognizes faces and naturally adds bokeh/ blur is amazing. The first app made it look just blurry (kind of like Instagram), this actually looks like it was taken with a DSLR camera (or portrait mode on iPhone 8 Plus?) I have an serious DSLR (Canon 5D) which takes beautiful photos. But I don’t carry it with me all the time, plus when others take pictures and send me- I have now an amazing app to add depth of field. I am seriously in love with this app.

Great. This is a great app. Use it all the time. I have an iPhone SE and it does a great job with the pictures. Sometimes the automatic blur can't find faces. But the manual edit works great when needed.

Needs work. Every photo I do I have to edit. I want to just push and it be done right the first time. If I do have to edit I want more options. I would also like it to look more natural blur option.

Limited Functions & Not a High Quality Look. I think this product is expensive when you consider that all it can apparently do is blur the background on my photos. And I found that I had to be extremely precise in using the paint brush and eraser because it apparently has no AI to distinguish for itself the foreground from the background. Pictures came out looking amateurish and I found I could not use them for competition. Very disappointing.

My Business is BOOMING!. I’m in absolute awe over the professional look this app gives a standard photo! In my line of work, the online boutique world, photos are 100% the grabber of attention to consumers and now its grabbing SO MANY MORE!! I’m so thankful I found this and will be forever grateful!

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Good. I like the app but the automatic face detection needs to be improved. I also don’t like that I can’t save the photo to camera roll anymore. Please change this back.

Worst app. Guys pls don't waste your money like i did.!!

Good fun!. It's not always professional quality but it's fun to mess around with. The more you use it, the better your technique is. It's cheap and can make some good photos great!

Time consuming. It often doesn’t pick up faces so I have to manually do it which is tedious and time consuming.

So disappointed. I bought this after reading an online review article. I wish I could’ve tried it before spending the money. The auto face recognition is terrible so you have to manually edit the photo which is pointless! I could’ve done that on my laptop. I wanted an equivalent of the iPhone 7+ portrait mode....this is DEFINITELY not it. Wish I could get a refund. 😢

Great App. Great app for photos, easy to use, I use it all the time

Good but improvements needed. The concept is nice. Dont like the interface. The camera app should look much professional. Specially it even doesn't show which part I focused with tap. Improvements needed. Selecting a particular area also not very easy. However if selected it works fine.

Please change terrible interface. Can you please change the terrible interface and button choices, the app looks ugly and interface is not user friendly

Awesome app!!. No need for an iPhone 7+ works great and really easy to use

iPhone 7+ who needs it?. For a person who doesn't have an iPhone 7 plus but wants the portrait feature it offers this app is for you. It's not as intuitive as the apple camera but it definitely gets the job done. My ultimate suggestion? The UI could definitely use a more modern design. I love it for what it is currently though! Go devs!!

Doesn't work well at all. Well I bought this going on reviews I'd read, but when I put a number of pics through it the app just could not find the foreground image, resulting in areas of crystal clear background still visible. Face analysis simply inadequate.

Auto detection is terrible. Very disappointed. Detects face well, but can't work out outline of face or body automatically accurately.

Very awkward to use. Probably one of the worst photo editing apps I have ever used... feels like I’ve been ripped off.

Bad. Person detection is poor and you end up having to mask areas off yourself. Also the paintbrush too is no user friendly. Save you money and by the 7 or use a free app.

Great!. Don't need that iPhone 7 plus!

Waste of money. I should’ve believed the latest reviews here and not purchased this app. Nothing like portrait mode despite what the reviews said when I google the app. I want a refund.

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Not done in live time. The app does what it says, but not in live time. You take your photo (or upload from your Camera Roll), the app then analyzes it, then applies the blur. It takes about 15 seconds to do the process on each photo (iPhone 5s). I've used other apps that produce the same result, and this does a good job on its own that you can tweak afterwards. However, I can't justify the price when apps like AfterFocus are faster with more features.

Really Good!. It is very simple to use, and it is also very simple to edit. I recommend that you get the app.

Amazing app !!!. I love it. I use it all the time !!

No for Pets. I have taken a bunch of photos of my dogs. It does not detect faces on animals .... in my experience. Therefore it just blurs the whole photos. If your looking to take photos of your pets I wouldn’t recommend. I bought the app and wasted my $$

Background blurring for the rest of us.. I have a nice portrait 'true bokeh' lens that I rarely use, as like they say, the best camera is the one you have with you. This app does a great job doing a nice background blur that is very pleasing with the right portrait. Another reason my Canon SLR, will gather more dust sadly. I find using the edit to manually select areas I want to keep in focus works better than automatic recognition, and I do not use on so many images that this would be an issue for me personally.

Excellent.. Was disappointed that my 8 didn’t have the fancy camera function as the plus. This app creates a similar enough effect for you. Simple to use and effective.

Amazing!. Love his app! Keep up the work with those updates! Totally worth the money

Love this app!!!. This app has an easy to use interface and delivers perfect images every time!

Interesting approach. Works really well on passport photo type of shots. Minus one star for edge refining and blur interaction with the edge that need substantial improvement.

Great little tool. Have used it for several months and find it to be on of a few really useful little tools. Does just one thing, and does it very well.

So simple to use!. This app was referred to me through a google search! I’m so happy with the performance so far. It’s great at editing photos to make them look slightly blurred or portrait style. So happy with the purchase.

Good, but has some bugs, not exactly as advertised. All on all, this is the best app I've found for creating the bokeh effect without having to outline everything (although you can). It's good, and could receive 5 stars if it provided a more accurate description and removed some serious bugs. 1) It does a great job of facial recognition, keeping the face clear. It does an semi-okay job on the body (50-50). 2) While you "can" use the app to take pictures, it is the exact same process of creating the effect after the fact or from an existing photo. It does not do anything in real time (the description or picture hint that it does this, it does not). 3) It only works for about 1/3 of my photos that I've taken previously. Rather than loading the others, it's shows the picture as a blue-purple box and of course this doesn't work. So, a great start but needs much work and a more honest description.

So easy and fun to use. Really like the ease - just take a snap (one person at a time) and then hit the magic button and the pic transforms.

Wondering..... A friend downloaded FabFocus on his iPad and when trying to take a picture the shutter button seems to be missing. Wondering what the problem is?

Doesn't work. Cannot detect a face even when it takes up 1/3 of the frame. Even when the background is already soft focus and the subject in sharp focus it cannot find the subject. There are ad supported apps on this App Store which work far better. Save your money.

Fun. Some photos may take some tweaking, it delivers as promised, for a sample check their Facebook page I posted on it a before and after.

Keep the Focus!!!!. Great App! Works better than advertised and keeps getting better! 5⭐️‼️

FabFocus. Great app. Really performs. Sounds are quite annoying.

Great Alternative to iPhone 7s. Delivers as promised

Well performing app. This application has been great! I use an iPhone 7 plus and even with its selective application of the bokeh effect with the use of the stock camera app, FabFocus works wonderfully to enable me to add the Depth of Field appearance. The layout and the appearance of the UX could use some revamp.

Great app for those who don’t have “portrait mode”. Update: I don’t know what they did with this most recent update, but the app is no longer worth it. The blurring is harsh and the feathering option is gone. Such a shame - it was a great app. I was really upset when I found out that the iPhone 8 not had portrait mode in the Plus version as I find the Plus phones too large. Then I discovered this app which is just as good, and no longer makes me want to chuck my phone out the window! And while it’s tru what other reviewers have said (that the AI isn’t as good as recognizing bodies or non-human faces), I found the outline function to be super easy and quick to use so this apparent deficiency doesn’t really bother me.

Fab.... Not.... Worked for two photos, then app wouldn’t open 😡 Very disappointed would love to have my Money Back😐

Works quite well. So far so good. Still learning its capabilities

Perfect app. Loving it. Does exactly what I want and it's easy to use. Using on iPhone 7

Superb camera app as for a DSLR. Takes great pictures easily as a DEAR would but has some masking outline issues which will improve. Overall a great app

Easy to use background blur. A simple straight forward app to blur the background of portraits.

Great app! works as advertised. Great app! works as advertised

Not great. I had higher expectations for this app. The finished product looks like a sad attempt. Deleted it already.

Works well!. This software does a good job, I have to edit the pictures a bit to get the effect just right, but the photos come out looking much better!

I'm happy.. Works astonishingly well on iPhone 6s. Very pleasing results. It's a keeper.

Sooo good. This is a game changer of an app. The pixel selection could be a little better the way Color Splash (green apple icon) app utilizes your screen. But all in all it's really flexible and you can change the amount of blur and what not. I do subtle changes here and there to my work and it makes a huge difference.

What happened??. After the last update I have NO idea how to make the background blur happen. There are no instructions and they changed the process. Good god. I can’t do anything. I shouldn’t have to hurt myself figuring it out. Why didn’t you leave the app alone!!

App Doesn’t Work, Junk. Take a photo inside the app and nothing happens. Press Auto and nothing happens. After this latest update in March, the app is trash. Avoid it.

Must share feature sucks. The tool itself is crude but workable. The must share (or it deletes itself) feature is shameless promotion and sucks.

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FabFocus. Best enhancement app out the when it comes to blurring the background

Not good. App does not work well, wish I read the negative reviews before I bought it because they are accurate! I want my money back!

Great app for iphone. 5 Star, great app, easy to use, great results.

Love it, please add.... A zoom in feature so I can get a little more precise with the areas I want to stay in focus. Otherwise, this app is awesome and has really helped curb my iPhone 7s/8s envy :)

Mehhh. It’s ok but can’t take multiple photos and edit later. Super slow and most pics look fake. Not worth the time

Love this App. I love this app! It can do on it, what takes a long time to learn on a manual camera. Awesome app!

Disappointed. This app is too difficult! It doesn’t even have an easy way to save the picture. Don’t bother.

Cheaper than an IPhone 7s. I am loving this app. For $4, you get your money's worth.

Amazing app. This app is amazing and worth 3$

I made a mistake. The auto detection on this app is garbage. Like, why even bother? I can’t believe I paid for this. The app is so basic that I literally already had this function from several free Korean selfie apps. 0/10 Would not recommend.

Tested and trusted. This app is really working

Recent update ruined the app. Far less control over the cursor, bokeh effects are too extreme... what happened here???

Don’t waste your money. This is actual trash and it’s so bad don’t even waste your money

Picture enhancement. Love the ability to blur any part of the picture. Fun app!

Keeps crashing/freezing. Keeps crashing/freezing on my iPhone 8 plus

Decent Photo App. It’s a great photo app, however it can be sluggish at times.

I used to like this app. Until it stopped working 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

Vgood. This app is great and i really like it thank you sooo much

Nope. Not worth paying for. I just downloaded this app because it had great reviews. But I think it’s awful. Only half the time does it even identify the face on its own. Not worth the cost

Works as advertised. I’m very pleased on how easy and fast this app works

iPhone 6. I have my first iPhone and this app is great. Not perfect but it’s def the best I’ve used for portrait mode

Recommended for iPhone 7 by article. Does not work or iphone 7. Apple must be a good revenue stream for apps that only work with certain iPhones—and for cables that don’t work for new MacBook pros. I know the super rich have fabulous bunkers in New Zealand. Could not one bad thing happen to them? Like painful boils with no medicine to treat?

For objects. I like to see objects in portrait mold as well this is a great app

Missing. Please add live focus like Instagram stories. When you guys do that I’ll recommend you to everyone.

Not what I expected. I went through the tutorial but it only blurs the background and allows me to color everything green. It’s not what I expected.

Doesn’t work on pets. I didn’t realize it didn’t work on my dog. That’s the only reason I bought it. So disappointed.

FabFocus. It’s just that...fabulous!

Good and bad. It don't recognize the person or object in the pic so I have to manually edit the blur

Love app but needs a little more. Please add a selfie count down timer! Then this app would be Perfect!!

Used to work before update.. I used to love this app. Then it received an update, and now it’s so buggy I literally cannot use it.

Best portrait app ever. Best portrait app ever..do much loving it Now I am gonna stick to my iPhone seven as long as I have this app

Amazing!!. The effect I was looking for

Garage. For $3.99 I would've expected more. I could do a better job than this app does with my pictures by using a free photo editing app and just doing it myself.

The best. I love it was worth the money

Awful. Worst app ever. I wish I could get my precious money back. This app is so inaccurate & does not work at all. It blurs your feet & makes you look like you’re in a tube. Save yourself the time & get a good camera.

Awful. Don’t waste your money. This app is awful.

No auto outline feature?. Can never seem to get the pictures just right using the brush.

Best blur app. I am using on iPhone 6 and I love it

Meh. If you are wondering if this will get you what an iPhone with dual cameras can do, don’t buy it. Most photos I have had to manually edit what the “AI” automatically screws up. *flush sound* my $

Ok, but frustrating. Freezes after one edit, you’ll have to log out and log back in after each edit.

GREAT. I love this app it helps edit so many photos without using portrait mode!!❤️❤️ I love it and so will you!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻😀😃😁😆

GREAT EDIT TOOL FOR PHOTOS. This is the best editing tool I’ve found to create great background blur. Love it‼️

Great app. Wonderful app. No regrets

Love it. Love this app. I have enjoyed using the portrait style with my older iPhone.

Best program depth of Field. Works great

Me and my new Star Wars buddy Alonzo. I lve the way I can make the background soft looking like a pro photographer

really impressive and easy to use. this thing is bomb. quick, effective, intuitive. it’s not quite portrait mode but it’s pretty darn close. $4 is a small price to pay!

Terrible. Pictures are upside down.

Results are not satisfactory. I have no idea why everyone is raving about this app. I find the results wholly unsatisfying. I really wish I’d not purchased it.

Not Worth It. I thought this was more that it was. Basically a waste of 3.99 I can do the same effect on a free app. I wish I could get a refund 😑