PictOrb Movable Lens Camera
Live Effects for Photo & Video
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Snow and rain inside your lens. Try the new free Sepia and Mono effects, plus Snow and Rain with PictOrb Pro.
Flip part of a scene. Break it into pixels. Bend it like light through glass.
PictOrb places a movable optical lens over the live camera view, transforming the scene wherever you put it. Choose a round Orb or a rounded, rotatable Cube.
Drag from anywhere in the preview to move the lens, pinch anywhere to resize it, and rotate Cube with two fingers. Use the vertical slider to zoom only the scene inside the lens; its shape and position stay put. The available zoom-out range adapts to the framing and lens position. Touch and hold to adjust focus and exposure. See every change live, then capture a high-resolution silent photo or 1080p video at 30 fps.
Import a photo or video and add a lens to it. Choose media from the in-app gallery, or pass a photo or video to “Edit Media in PictOrb” in Shortcuts and start editing. Turn a still photo into a silent video as you move the lens. For videos, choose a starting point, play while adjusting the lens, and save up to the point where you stop. Keep the original audio or mute it. Your originals stay unchanged; each result is saved as a new creation.
EFFECTS
• Plain: Keeps the scene’s colors while adding the clear glass edge and highlights
• Flip: Reverses the image inside the lens
• Pixel: Pixelates the image inside the lens
• Crystal: Creates crystal-like refraction
• Shine: Casts iridescent light from the center and beyond the lens
• Stained Glass: Turns the scene's colors and boundaries into stained glass
• Prism: Separates colors
• Kaleido: Splits the image like a kaleidoscope
• Fisheye: Applies fisheye-style distortion
• Aura: Refracts the image through a slowly moving liquid wave
• Sepia: Adds warm sepia tones inside the lens
• Mono: Turns only the lens interior black and white
• Snow: Snow keeps falling and settles at the bottom, responding to tilt and lens movement
• Rain: Adds falling rain and small droplets inside the lens
Plain, Flip, Pixel, Crystal, Sepia, and Mono are free to use with both photos and videos.
In Settings, show, hide, and reorder effects to fit your workflow.
PictOrb Pro is a one-time purchase. It lets you save photos and videos made with Shine, Stained Glass, Prism, Kaleido, Fisheye, Aura, Snow, and Rain, both when capturing and when editing imported media. Preview every Pro effect before you buy. There is no subscription.
CAPTURE FEATURES
• High-resolution silent photos
• 1080p video at 30 fps
• Front and rear cameras
• Portrait and landscape orientations
• FULL, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, and 9:16 capture ratios
• Front camera mirroring option
• Orb or Cube shape, position, size, Cube angle, and effect parameters
• Zoom the scene inside the lens without resizing it
• Optional effect-free copies saved with captured photos and videos
• Continuous zoom with Camera Control on supported iPhones
• In-app gallery for media saved by PictOrb
IMPORT AND EDIT
• Add effects to a photo and save a new image
• Adjust lens-only zoom when editing imported photos or videos
• Choose a photo or video from the in-app gallery
• Receive a photo or video from Shortcuts and open the editor
• Create a silent video from a photo while moving the lens
• Record effects on a video from your chosen start to your stopping point
• Keep or mute original audio, preview the result, and try again
• Preserve the input aspect ratio and export video at up to 1080p, 30 fps
Launch PictOrb from supported Lock Screen controls or Camera Control. Creations captured while locked are imported into the gallery after you unlock your iPhone.
Photos, videos, and effects are processed on your device. Capture and editing media are not uploaded to a developer server. No account, ads, or tracking. Only when you choose to send a support inquiry are your message, optional reply email address, and app/device information sent to our support service.
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Four new effects are here.
• Sepia and Mono: Transform colors only inside the lens, free for photos and videos
• Snow: Falling snow settles at the bottom and responds to tilt and lens movement
• Rain: Add falling rain and small droplets inside the lens
• Snow and Rain are included in your existing PictOrb Pro purchase
• Improved effect orientation in landscape photos and settings handoff to the Lock Screen camera
The developer, akira kawakami, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Other Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- akira kawakami
- Size
- 15.1 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PictOrb Pro $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 AkkyApps

