Image Blender 4+

My first and most important bullet point of this review: • It is not a subscription. Thank you to the developers of this app for not doing what so many other of my once-favorite editing apps have done, by switching to a $/week or $/month ‘service.’ This app is valuable and I use it often, even more so now that my tools have become more limited. The blending modes leave nothing to be desired (at least for my uses), pretty much anything in that department can be achieved with this app so long as you get creative with your layers. I’ve created multi-layered compositions with this app by inverting things and flattening one by one, and saving as a PNG to avoid compression. It’s amazing. The actual app itself can handle surprisingly large file sizes for an app, it’s taken some big images and chugged along like a champ even on my older iPhone models I’ve had. It does one thing and does it well. No unnecessary or unwanted extras. I would recommend this app to anyone, it’s a gem and should be part of your app toolbelt if you’re doing any editing on your mobile device.

Update 2021: This is pretty much the only app I have now that doesn’t charge me premiums or timed subscriptions to use its basic features.

I’ve been using the app when I got my first iPod Touch with a camera and it was awesome. Then moved up to a 4s and the app stayed very much the same-awesome.
I’m currently using a 6s and Image Blender has always been one of the strongest workhorses in my photo app line up. It’s fast. It’s smart. It does what other apps may include as features, except IB specializes in the one thing, blending layers. I love that they never even bothered to update the original looking app icon, only performance improvements.

The only thing I wish it could improve is the masking tool. The brush to create masks is very limited in function in regards to size and edges. I don’t recall it always being there so if it’s newer it will only get better I bet. If I need to I prep images in another app to do sharp masking but NOTHING works better at traditional layer blending modes easier and better than image blender.

Dear develops, seriously tho, can you work on the brush for masking?
Thanks for years of awesome photo editing help.

I’ve been using this app for years and find it to be a valuable tool in creating double exposures with unlimited possibilities . While I am knowledgeable in using photoshop for such layering , etc . Image Blender does many of these things with ease and immediacy . Of course it cannot replace the nuances and precision of PS but it is such a great app to begin exploring ideas and even use to achieve the final piece. I’ll admit that I have not taken the time to take advantage of all the tools except the move tool but for now that seems to be working . Bravo for developing an excellent app .Many Thanks .