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It is a pretty rare thing for me to take time out of my day to provide a written review of any of my many purchased iPhone apps. Rarer still are the apps that I am willing to pay more than $5.00 for…gosh I remember the days when a pricey app topped out at $1.50, and they were pretty high end stuff for their day. Focos, for me, is that unique gem of an app that deserves some well-deserved praise! I initially heard about the app through one of the many review sites as I was searching for photography apps that could highlight the power of my new iPhone 11 Pro. After a day of playing around with just the selectable focal plane feature in Focos, I happy took advantage of the In-App purchase option which took this app from amazing to absolutely incredible (your mind will be blown with the AR features)! Being a professional photographer, I am always viewing the world in a series of potential captured images. I either have a DLSR or my iPhone in my hand at all times throughout the day. As I explore Focos and delve deeper into the incredible image manipulation capabilities of this application, it could be that my DSLR may have to take back stage for a while. I have already recommended this app to several of my photographer friends, and it only takes a couple of quick demonstrations to show off the unique and powerful toolset that Focos provides to both the casual and professional photographer! Well done, highly recommended and 5 stars to the developers!!

Once you learn the basics, this app will completely blow your mind. It’s not an app for the casual user. It’s an app for the photo enthusiast who wants to win the photo contest every time. The possibilities are nearly endless when it comes to your 3D/portrait photos. Literally add new lighting sources (like a light bulb) to your photos as if they were there when the photo was taken, even allowing photos taken in the dark to spring to life with light and color; squeeze in blurring or glowing effects behind your photo subject that simulate motion or weather; heck, add in a completely different background. Once you’ve figured it all out, it’s up to YOU to just set the scene. This app along with the Hallide Camera App will make you feel like a photographer extraordinaire! Can’t say enough good things about it. My ONLY wish is that it allowed you to save photos with the depth map still embedded. Since Focos only really lets you change lighting and staging aspects (and not actually alter the photo) I would think this should be possible. But these guys are such geniuses with what they’ve done here, it must be something I’m not thinking about that makes this feature untenable.

I’m really enjoying using Focos. The app is well designed and, given the complexity of the things it can do, pretty darned easy to use. It’s also nice that recent versions of the app can work with all photos in your Photos library, not just photos shot in Portrait mode. I mostly use Focos for post-processing rather than live shooting because the recycle time between live shots in Focos is a little slow for my liking. I use the native Camera app, ProCam, ProCamera, or a stand-alone DSLR for shooting, and then use Focos for post-processing. Post-processing features are where Focos shines. Per its name, Focos enables you to easily adjust focus points in your image, regardless of where the focus point was in your original image. For example, say you have a photo of two people, one in the foreground and one in the background. You can simply tap on the screen to switch between putting one person into focus while blurring the other. You can also adjust depth of field, bokeh (blurring intensity and shape), and lens type. You can also adjust lighting, bokeh, exposure and other effects for different focal planes in your image or for the image as a whole. For example, you could apply a soft light on a focal plane that’s behind your primary subject. This kind of thing is really pretty easy to do — and you can do it without worrying much about the terms I’ve used here. The output produced by Focos is high quality — I’ll leave it to the medium-format camera aficionados to debate the meaning of “high quality” — but suffice it to say that I’ve been able to use Focos to produce results that have consistently “wowed” people, and the results look great printed at 8”x10”, which is the largest I’ve tried so far. Get this app. It’s way cool.

I had a iPhone 7 Plus and a Google Pixel 3 that had the hardware and software to take Bokeh effect pictures naturally. Well I wanted an iPhone 8. Not the 8 Plus because I wanted something smaller for my hands. The iPhone 8 doesn’t have the additional camera that it needs to take Bokeh pictures like the 7 and 8 Pluses have. It certainly doesn’t have the amazing software that the Google Pixel 3 has where it’s able to take Bokeh pictures with its ONE CAMERA! So I did the next best natural thing and searched online for any apps that can take Bokeh like pictures. Google recommended me this app! It certainly does take great Bokeh pictures, AND it also modified some of the past pictures you took that’s already in your gallery. So it makes those pictures have the Bokeh/Blur effect too! It’s wonderful and beautiful really! I am really pleased with this app. It also will either make a copy of the blurred/bokeh picture and you can keep your original unsalted photo, or it offers to overwrite/modify your original picture to make it seem like you originally took a picture with a Bokeh effect! It’s wonderfully and a Godsend for the iPhones who don’t have the portrait lenses! Like the 5s and above! 😍🤩

I do underwater photography with my iPhone and find this an indispensable tool. I love this app, and I recommend it to everybody who is shooting anything macro with their iPhone. There’s still a lot of things I would like to see improved. More zoom in patch and better patch options! The pop-up zoom window when working on details doesn’t actually zoom in more than the main window. I’d like to see better line definitions, or way to highlight the lines when trying to patch. Apple Pencil integration, my fat fingers can only do so well with the current set up. I realize it’s completely nich but better outlining and identification of sea creatures so that does a better job of mapping around fine hair like tentacles and fins (total corner cases). When shooting with raw, it removes any configurations already applied in other applications when you open it and focus, I’d like a way to either preserve the other edits or better editing, and particularly tools for color balancing. Color, brown blue and green waters specially within intense levels, such as in northern CA is an art form, So it’s frustrating to have to switch between so many apps to get it done… only to end up back to lose any of that work. Partly a workflow problem, but still frustrating. I’d like to be able to build a few of my own preset filters so I can quickly apply effects the images that I use as a regular basis, such as brightness split back ground down 80%, hdr 10, contrast 10 etc.

I had an iPhone X and a Nikon so although I could use this app it wasn't so interesting to me. Fast forward I pawned my camera to pay some bills and I have an iPhone 11 Pro so I thought let me stay active on social media and make the best photos I can with the tools I have. Lemme tell you this app if you give it the time to actually check it out is AMAZING. The level of computational photography at play here actually lets you do some things not even possible on a Pro DSLR or Mirrorless camera. Wow. I really like this app plus the price is not expensive. Of course the developers have to make money and this is not a product I choose for price. I choose this app for QUALITY, but the affordable price is just and added bonus that makes this app really attractive. I'm glad i've rediscovered this app. Great work developers!!!! Update: it’s 2021. I stopped using this app, but i’m back. Breathing new life into old photos. This app is better than ever! Wow. 🤍

I've used this app for some time. It has been my "go to" app for taking pics for selling my items on Poshmark, Mercari, EBay, etc. I am a full time retailer now!.... But lately when taking pics one after another, just as I always have, it freezes kind of. It will make the shutter sound and stop on the screen as tho it has taken the pic, but there is no pic below. I can continue to press the shutter button and it will continue to do those things and there will still be no pic. If I force close the app, SOMETIMES it will fix it, sometimes it will not and I just have to stop working altogether. This is a huge inconvenience! This was my last ditch effort before finding another app. I didn't want to delete it and re-install it because I'm not sure what work I would lose in the process? Idk. Maybe a developer might read this, maybe they don't even care about these. Who knows. It was worth a shot for me, if nothing else, I'll end up knowing I need another app... Is anyone else having this issue??? P.S. that's the only reason I deducted a star.

I’ve always been intrigued by bokeh. I have a f1.8 lens for my DSLR that I love. Since purchasing this app, I rarely take my DSLR and f1.8 with me. I have a iPhone 12 Max pro and with this app, most of the time I have what I need in my pocket. The fact that you can focus after taking the photo and dial in the aperature is amazing. Admittedly, I usually use it for photos of my dog, but is is great for still life or other types of photography as well. I typically don’t edit the DOF at the time of taking the photo- but wait until later when I have some time where I’m less distracted and have better light for editing photos. I find the UI to be very easy to use and mostly use the editing in Focus to get the desired DOF and then export a copy to edit in other apps, such as photos for a quick edit or Lightroom for more detailed edits. Personally, I don’t use a lot of the more advanced editing tool in Focos, as I have my workflow which doesn’t incorporate the Focos editing tools. For me personally, the DOF was always a big hurdle when taking photos with an iPhone vs. a DSLR and this app bridges that gap effectively- I feel. Just be careful, sometimes you can take the bokeh a little too far and make the photo seem over-edited, in my opinion. Would totally recommend and have. 👍👍

I got this app a while ago when I got an iPhone X. Mainly wanted to customize the bokeh of my portrait mode pics. But wasn’t super impressed so stopped using it. I just started using it again when I heard there was a way to add shallow depth of field to any photograph. The feature works amazing. I would say 95% of the time, it creates a very convincing depth of field blur, finding foreground, mid-frowns, and background elements and blurring them appropriately. I’ve been applying this effect to photos I’ve taken over the past 20 years. I currently have an iPhone 11 Pro and getting a native Portrait mode pix is still my fav option, but sometimes I don’t have enough space wherever I’m standing to get the portrait mode to activate. This app is able to turn those pics to great portrait mode pics. If they figured out a way to add this to videos, that would be amazing.

Love this app. I find myself going to this more than any other app now. Easily give that portrait style to photos. Tweak the bokeh with multiple choices or create your own. The lighting features can really add some depth and other tools like soft glow and tilt shift give another layer of character to your photo. You can view your picture in 2D, 3D or AR, which is pretty cool. You can do a lot to your photos for free. The only thing I don’t like is that if you have two objects, like people, in the photo, it only keeps one section in total clear focus. There may be a way to manipulate that, because there is a tool bar with shapes, but I haven’t figured that out yet. Otherwise, a very good app! I’d definitely recommend it.

Aside from the focus features the tool has a hidden gem called Patch. This utility allows you to modify the bump map of a Portrait photo to really enhance the 3D option in FaceBook. The tools take some experimentation. The color overlays options are too dark for the background. It lacks a magic wand selection tool fill color option and paint brush is just not as smart when it cones to borders as other image manipulation tools. If the author could add color gradient range fill users could create elements smooth basic like a 3D globe with realistic depth and planes in perspective. Maybe even a copy/paste of smoother perspctive planes? I’d also recommend that when the user selects a depth color, the tool jumps directly to the Brush tool for ease of use. Maybe a rub push / pull to have more fine control over the depth of the bump map. The 3D lens view is really good at spotting where the bump map needs to be fixed. I only wish the Augmented Reality mode had an edit mode so I could push pixels right where they need to be. The downside: The is nothing else out the that does bump map editing at all. That’s why I bought it.

There are instances that are too complex at this stage to pull it off with an older phone without LiDAR. I have IPhone X so smaller lines such as chain from a swing set get separated from the child’s hands and become blurred rven though the hand and the chain are in the same relative position in space. Overall it is a nice tool to have. ADDENDUM: After I saw how mediocre the app was at selecting foreground from background on many photos, I stopped the app. I upgraded my phone the 14Pro Max and the app is more accurate than when I first started using it. Now I use it most days of the week. It’s a good interface, is dependable and works very well since I upgraded my device.

I’m using this free, and I enjoy the tools. There are lots of functions I can’t reach without paying-I may subscribe eventually. It’s not completely intuitive, I think some of the tools are just over my head. I would like to be able to save an image that I edited to my photo stream when I hit save, that hasn’t seemed to work. I don’t normally review stuff because I want to play with it for a while before I give an opinion but this is certainly worth downloading and trying out. The 3D effects are great and I like switching the focal points in my photos. Update: I can do things to the image that I want to save. I haven’t found how to make that save happen. Yes, all images that are saved go to my photo album but I can’t save while it is doing bokeh.

I got to try out the app before I even got a dual lens phone and loved it. So it was my first download when I got my phone. I absolutely loved the app. But the downside for me was the lag taking a pic with portrait mode vs a regular picture (this is due to the phone, not focos) I love taking spur of the moment photos and couldn’t always use portrait mode. When I opened the app today to edit a picture and saw the new update that made it possible to use on all pics I excitedly tried a regular photo and it was absolutely perfect. I’m so thrilled that I just had to review. I have no real need for pro version but I think I’m going to buy it anyway just to support the developer. This is a must have app for photo lovers, hands down!!!

Mind boggling how deep this goes in terms of just the lighting alone. I’ve felt this way since I discovered how deep it went, nearly 4 years ago! I wish wish wish there was a desktop version. The mobile is great but sometimes when working on animations and videos I want to be at the helm with big screen and full controls, not hunched over an iPhone or iPad. I just saw clip drop released a “relighting” feature similar to focos but far less sophisticated. Still, since it’s on desktop and mobile I’m drawn to checking it out. Please consider a desktop version!! Focos is hands down my favorite app of all time

Super easy to use, portrait mode for older glow boxes, and most importantly free to use. There are some locked items, but it’s not a lot!! Thanks Focos ❤️❤️❤️😘😉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ (that part was generic, but I like totally agree 110% with that) See, I looooooooooooove loooove love photography. I absolutely love photography (incase you didn’t get that) and I lost my phone sooo I had to photographer on my iPad, which was hard. The camera was reaaal crappy (excuse my language) so I got this and it’s just the best, it’s Literally even better than my old camera. Then, my grandpa of all people got me another phone/iPad and I’m downloading it on all of them. Thanks so much focus

Right off the bat I can say I’m really enjoying this app. In a very long search of an app that has amazing quality blurring background effects I have come across many that just didn’t fulfill what I wanted until I came across this one. Not only do they have gorgeous effects, they have many options for everyone who is looking for a blurring background editing app that gives a truly professional appearance. Very easy to use as well. My photos look amazing and high definition which is why I love it so much! Just like most you’ll get the best effects with the pro version but I must say “ TOTALLY WORTH IT!!” You will not be disappointed that I can guarantee!

Focos is an amazing app that generates a depth map, similar to Apple’s PORTRAIT mode, and creates a great illusion of depth-of-field in photos for savvy photographers. The ability to change the point of focus after the fact is HUGE! It looks great for most uses but the lack of DNG format for output limits it to non-professional use. The latest generation of iPhones 12 and 13 ups the ante for apps and produces outstanding images capable of professional use, but does require post-processing as an option— that means DNG format. It’s too bad that FOCOS does not deliver to that level. It’s TIFF format comes close but is just not good enough. I hope they add DNG format as an option.

Apples native portrait mode was giving me a headache to use so I looked around for a better third party solution. This app is not only faster at processing the portrait, but it does so more reliably and with fewer errors. It is a very strong app that is much better than the stock apple app. It still has some issues with hair and any sort of stringy background pattern such as willow tree branches and cobblestones, but this is an issue with cell phone cameras in general. Overall I recommend this app completely as it makes mobile photography good enough that I don’t have to pull out my mirrorless that often anymore.

I really hope you see this! It would mean a lot! But I love this app so much everything about it is impressive! It’s not the worlds best but s crazy how much detail it can put into a phone that doesn’t even have portrait! Is there a way you can put it to where the face is blurred only? So I can take photos of my dog without going into another app and blurring it? If so that would be amazing I wouldn’t have to upgrade my phone and use this app all the time! It’s totally okay if u cant but it would mean a lot if you do!! :) although I’m rating it 5 stars because it’s the best app I’ve ever downloaded :).

I’ve paid an ungodly amount of money for photo manipulation apps over the years. Year after year I find myself editing more things in the photos app and not needing 3rd party. I paid for focos with my first portrait iPhone and forgot about it. Well I’m back and I love what this app can do that photos can not. Depth control and lighting control with an easy to use interface and a ton of lens presets from lenses I know and have wanted to emulate. Wow. Just wow. But wait. Missed the 5 star because I see there is a subscription model? Thanks for letting my purchase work, but it’s hard out there in the streets with all the stupid subscriptions.

I've had this app for a long time and have used it minimally here and there. Now since the iPhone 13 Pro models don't have the 2x focal length for Portrait mode it's been a hassle to use. The new 3x lens just seems to be way too close and doesn't give enough room to time the shot. I know it will have better results in other situations but my subjects tend to not stay still for more then a second. Now my new workaround is to capture a non Portrait mode image with the camera at the 2x length (a crop or so). I put that image into Focos and add the blur and it's perfect!

Once you go through the tutorial your photos will come out like if they were shot with a thousand dollar Nikon Len. This app has brought my photography to solid results, I’m very satisfied this app exist because the tools and effects are amazing. It got bokeh, lighting effects, blur effects, even a blur brush that is easy to use. When you open the app it already does it for you, you just need to use the brush icon tool to adjust the results. I highly recommend to purchase the features it provides, they are worth spending money on.

Got a response from the developer on the following rating/question, told me the studio effects in B&W were “better” than black background effect. What if I’m tryin to get a studio effect with color? Still miss this effect and the rating will still be just a solid 4 without it. Will have to find another app to fill in the gap. What have you done with "black background"?! This was a feature I most enjoyed about this app. The new models are a welcome addition, but why must something always be lost when new is added? Return this option and it would be the most used app on my device and would get a solid 5 stars.

I love this so much, there is little to complain about. The AI is amazing at detecting the depth. And I’m so happy you can extract and export the depth map out of the photo. However, I really want one feature, and that’s to be able to import a depth map. I have been dying to do this as I like to make 3D posts on Facebook because it’s super fun. The patch function is cool, however, for things such as art and media, it’d be cool if we could import our own depth map. Everything else about the app is great though, from my time being on there. OH AND ALSO LIDAR SUPPORT PLEASE

I’ve been buying apps since 2009 and never felt compelled to write one. I’ve been using Focos for about 10 months now and it’s simply the most powerful camera app on the store. The ability to capture, view and edit depth maps allow you manipulate an image artistically doesn’t exist to my knowledge. The free version is great but I felt it was worth paying for out of principle. I use it more than the camera app itself. The developers have made this app run more smoothly over the last several months and added new features. (Great work). Highly recommended

EDIT from my original post: The app does wonders! Really good at what it does. The issue I have is how expensive it is. In USD it is $3.99 per week!! That’s $17 per month or $200 per year!! That’s insane! That is paying for the top tier of Netflix! They do NOT provide that much value. I understand if they are adding new revolutionary features, or if they are adding some ongoing value that is a cost to them. But I don’t think there are any backend costs that I’m unaware of. So yes, I think this app does an amazing job, but I think you need to pay for the subscription only as needed and not on a recurring basis.

With the advent of this app I now rarely tote around my DSLR on trips these days. The ability to control the DOF and amount of blur is mind boggling and addicting. So much so I find myself using this app on photos I probably shouldn’t 😉. I think there is a way to paint in a mask so certain smaller details in the photo don’t get blurred but I can’t quite figure it out so I’ll have to watch some tutorials. Otherwise I have zero complaints and only wish something this amazing and powerful was available on the desktop. Hint hint…

Bought the full edition for 12 bucks and it is the BEST 12 bucks I ever spent. There is a very large learning curve so you need to be patient. It isn’t for beginners neither, it is for those that want to really get into video editing in a 3D dimension. For 2D dimension, stick with photoshop express. My only complaint for lack of better term is using the various lenses for effects. It’s very difficult to find the effect when applying the lens filter as it is extremely subtle changes. I am sure it is user induced as I am only 24 hours into using this app.

Honestly, this is the first time I ever write a review on something, nothing has impressed me this much before! At first I couldn’t believe the features it offers, and how advance it is, I got a feeling I’m at least 5 years in the future! The app offers amazing focus on a chosen point, it than creates a 3D version of your picture which is very close to how it would really looked like, if your picture is focusing parts around the object you wish to be focused, the app offers coloring corrections - the darker the color the more depth it represents. And like that’s not enough, it also offers you lightning options, to add a light by your choice of type and place it on coordinates in the 3D version to be as close to the object you wish to set the light on as you want, (similar to Autodesk Maya). All this on a tiny phone! And most of these options are FREE! UNBELIEVABLE good. Well done guys, hats off.

Been seeking a camera with RAW capabilities as well as an intuitive interface. Could this be the one? Am loving it so far with the easy controls and so didn’t even think twice to score it a 5. I’m still exploring and hope to provide a more valuable feedback in the future. So far it’s pretty much giving some of the professional capabilities at a touch away without making me think twice. Am amazed at how it’s actually able to apply effects to existing pictures while making them look good without much tweaks.

I love taking pictures. Sometimes it’s hard getting a picture of my toddlers. Sometimes I hate the background when I get a good shot in regular mode pictures because I forgot to push portrait mode on my iPhone. You can fix it with this app. I just love it. It’s worth my money to be able to fix any picture into portrait mode where the background is blurry and the main subject is focused. I will keep this app as a main staple because I love taking pictures!!

This app is so powerful, as a photgrapher, it scares me. I put a lot of friggin’ money and time into my photography and even the free version of this app can render an iPhone 8 shot into a dramatic, effective image in minutes. You can even re-light the bloody image! If you shoot in RAW then use the pro version of this app, you can TECHNICALLY relight your whole shot! It doesn’t quite work like that, but it is powerful enough to alleviate the hobbyist photography from a $900 lighting setup purchase. You still need to put effort into your images; this app won’t build the foundation for you, but it can take a good foundation into the stratosphere. UI is solid. Straightforward. Editing images on a phone still makes me want to kill myself, but in a pinch, if I must, this app represents a UI that removes as much of that pain as one could ask. I think that an entry-level dslr with wireless connectivity, or an SD card reader for a phone, a basic kit lens, and this app, would be an incredible bang for your buck setup. You would have all the tools you would need to make top tier images. You might not have Photoshop and Lightroom, and your pace of editing large volumes would be too slow, leaving professional work out of reach, but the only thing stopping you from having a beast Instagram account would be your own skillset. There are still physical-technical barriers that even the best AI cannot surmount. The sensor on phones will inherently never compare to the sensor on an APS-C or Full Frame camera. This app cannot turn your garbage shot into a great one. But with that being said, while Focos may not let you work actual magic, its incredible AI gets you about as close as you possibly can to doing so.

So happy with this app it’s amazing for making your everyday pictures look professional and totally free as long as you don’t get pro!🥰👌

The Best Photo App

Very clean and user friendly. Makes photos look amazing. Thank you.

Previous status restored. 5 stars! I loved this app so much that I took the lifetime option even though I do not use the app extensively. Today I opened the app to find I have to subscribe weekly at $5 per. Not cool. You’ve lost an early supporter

This app is so fun to use and is a must have for phone-photography. Works best on an iPad for more complex edits, but the phone application is fire too.

Its easy to use simple no complication and updated regularly so go for it if you dont have one

And has more advanced features if you want to experiment more

Awesome

Best

Works fine thanks

Unbelievable

Thank you for all your’s hard work

I love this app. Its easy to use. highly recommended for editing for focus on sudject. One thing why I cant get a focus pro?

UPDATE: I am still unable to use the app on my iPad, as the rotation issue and missing toolbars still are there. Now there has been a recent update to the iPhone so that puts the tools directly ON TOP of the picture you are trying to edit, leading to frequently tapping tools by mistake. Also having issues where using the brush to manually adjust the blur will become unresponsive, and I have to switch to another tool and back before it works again. I REALLY wish there was another app out there that did the same things this does. — I used to LOVE this app. I had been searching far and wide to find a good app that I could use to blur backgrounds from my photos, and this app gave me so much control over it. Some months ago, there was an update to the app that broke the orientation on my iPad. No matter which orientation my iPad is in, the app only opens in portrait mode (orientation lock is not on). I contacted support back on Nov. 4, 2022, and they initially responded back relatively quickly asking for more information about the app, my iPad, etc. It wasn’t until TODAY (Jan. 25, 2023) that I finally received a response asking me to update the app to the latest version, which also released today. I downloaded and installed the updated app, and even rebooted it for good measure. Not only did it NOT fix the orientation problem, but now, the toolbar is missing from the side of the app, effectively making it useless. Thank goodness they make an iPhone version that I am able to use in a pinch. Otherwise, I would give this app beyond 5 stars. UPDATE: Five months later, and the issues have still not been addressed, and this app is completely unusable on my iPad. I have contacted the developers numerous times, but no longer receive any responses. The iPhone app works great, but I can not recommend the iPad app to anyone. AVOID.

Focos is very handy if you like portrait mode. It can take flat photos and retroactively "guess" their depth data, turning them into portraits. It's also the only app I know of that lets you edit the depth data stored in portrait photos. If your phone messes up depth calculations and body parts get cut off in portrait mode, this app lets you fix it. Unfortunately, the interface and stability leave a lot to be desired. The controls are both obscure and mostly undocumented. No in-depth guides exist, so you will be spending a lot of time figuring out how to work it. Worse, the app is quite buggy, with the depth brush often failing to work unless toggled a few times and the app sometimes crashing without any warning. The app only saves upon exiting an image, so when these crashes happen, you lose all of your work. Several times I've lost hours of work due to crashes, which is unacceptable. It's also very difficult to make good, precise edits on iPhone due to the small screen. The built-in zoom doesn't go far, and using your finger to draw gets uncomfortable. Probably not as bad on iPad, but this app should be made available on Mac so that editing is more feasible. Exporting images should include an option to preserve the EXIF data of the original. Overall Focos offers a lot of compelling features, with far more options than Apple's portrait mode. Focos also shines as a way to fix portrait photos with improper depth perception. However, the app needs significant improvements to interface and stability before its expensive ongoing price is justified.

Where did the custom near-far depth/focus sliders for the bokeh effect go? It was your BEST feature! It seems like the app has been simplified for the sake of usability but sadly at the expense of removing this golden fine tuning control. I admit there was a bit of a learning curve, but sooo worth it. (About a day or two of fiddling for me.) One or a series of short video tutorials could have easily overcome this. I got introduced to this app two years ago when I endeavored to take the family Christmas photos with my iphone when our usual photographer was unavailable due to Covid. I achieved professional results all on my iPhone using primary this feature, which is now gone. The single auto depth slider is not sufficient for photos with multiple subjects at varying depths, even slightly apart. Focusing one subject, unfocuses another. A real bummer. You had a good thing…

Bending Spoons... Bugs will always exists, and they are many times reasons for improvements in many areas. Be honest, Bugs are understandable, but when you make the app exactly the same as if it wasn't available at the AppStore or as it had never existed useless, that's a different thing. Don't know what's going on inside Bending Spoons, but I will assume that it has to be an extreme amount of will on F! your end users... I couldn't even image the science behind bring in back the toolbar so we could be able to use the application on the iPad Pro's as it was working on the past. As I mentioned, couldn't imagine how difficult or what a science or magic wand you need to bring in back (sarcastic), but in a situation like this, if I were really commited to my end users to have a great experience through using my app, I would just begin to start thinking in the most basic ways. What about, Which was the last version fully functional regardless of bugs or introduction of a new fantastic feature... Oh there's one, and is very recent as November 2022, Oh yes, version 2.5.23, explain the situation to Apples and just bring it while you take the required actions towards a solution for future updated versions. C'mon, I'm pretty sure that a lot of users will appreciate that effort from your team. Has been a full month without the app basically. If you need some guineapigs for testing anything as far as will resolve the existing HUGE issue just ask for it, you'll be surprised. 5 stars, after the app gets back. Thanks in advance.

This used to be my go to app for editing photos, but it seems like with every update things get worse. The first thing that happened is they took away the ability to send a photo to the app from camera roll by using the share function. This made it extremely inconvenient to try to find one out of 1000 pictures from that I wanted to edit. This last update completely broke the app. When using the patch tool it no longer gives you the zoomed in window on the top right or left to help guide you. If that’s not bad enough if you zoom in and try to use the tool, it does not line up with a picture meeting that. When you try to draw line the line that you draw is well above where your finger is on the screen. I’m hoping that there’s a enough feedback that these problems get fixed but if they don’t, I’m probably going to have to cancel my subscription

Before my mom passed, I used this app on my iPad to edit some photos for her. I went in and used the brush feature with my Apple Pencil to get the depth effects exactly right and the photos turned out amazing. Fast forward to yesterday when I opened the app to edit some portraits I had taken for someone at work, I didn’t bring the lens I needed for shallow depth of field so I remembered this app and figured I’d go in and add it manually with my pencil, only to discover that that’s no longer an option. Every feature is now on sliders and I have no manual control. I still have this level of control on my phone, but Pencil doesn’t work on phones and using my finger is incredibly slow and tedious. I used to love this app and recommend it to everyone, even fellow photographers but now I can’t in good conscience tell people to use it because sliders just don’t cut it.

It used to be you could export your edits in a lower quality without paying, which was good enough for posting to social media. Now you can’t even do that. It’s also worth noting you can still export a low-quality version to your iCloud storage, then from there download it to Photos. If this workaround exists I’m not sure why the devs felt the need to put that speed bump there in the first place, except maybe to incentivize people to pay to avoid that hassle. Disappointing. The depth of field adjustment has been removed; it never felt buggy or incomplete so I’m not sure why it was removed. That set it apart from other editors. The price has gone up for no discernible reason, and it’s still only weekly. No monthly, yearly, or (ideally) pay-once option. I’d have spent $100-$200 on the app if I could have just paid once and been done with it, but $4/week is laughable.

I have been using this app for years. It has been the only way to make janky portrait mode photos look even sort of professional. For this reason, I’ve also shared it with many of my photographer friends. I love being able to convert almost any photo to a portrait photo with one tap. I love all of the amazing lens simulation features. I love being able to even go in and hand-customize your depth map with a brush and other tools! However, the most recent update removed the most important feature of all: editing the depth of the focus effect itself. A host of new depth effects have been added which are very cool to have. Being able to edit everything from sharpness to contrast based off of the depth map is awesome! However, no depth maps (whether made by the focos app or by the iOS camera) are perfect. For this reason, I often have to edit the near and far distance of any focus effect being applied, so that certain areas or items stay in focus that would look incorrect without being able to edit the depth of the focal plane. Technically, this is possible using the brush to edit the depth map itself, but this leads to poor results since finger painting is much less accurate than a simple slider. All this to say, that feature seems to have been removed. All of the aforementioned new depth effects are now using the area of the app that used to edit how deep lighting and focus effects were applied. This has ruined the app for me and made it almost impossible to create good looking portrait photos. Until this is fixed, the app is unusable. I have sent messages to the developers for support with no answer. Don’t purchase until this feature is returned.

Dec. 2022 update: Happy Holidays from Focos, now you can’t even save a copy of your edited image! 🙄 I’m a professional photographer and I enjoy playing with this app using iPhone snapshots — it’s a cool app but $4 a week is crazy. That’s $208 a year before tax! $208!! 🤪 It’s still functional without the subscription but you’re punished with reduced-size 720-pixel images and unending prompts to pay up. I also find it takes a long time to load this app, which is a problem if you’re someone who pulls out their phone to quickly snap a photo. How is that compatible with that sort of price tag? The app also seems to either take forever to load or doesn’t load at all if you’re not connected to the internet. Again, fun to play with but if you enjoy shallow DOF images, for $200+ I’d say you should invest in, you know, a real camera and lens

I would give this zero stars if I could. A while ago, I used to be able to use a limited selection of the emulated lenses and other features, which was more than enough for me. It was fair for a free version. Now when you open the app, the first thing you see is a subscription page and a free trial button. There was no “continue to free version” or anything like that, so I clicked on the free trial. Nope. It just opened an App Store popup for authorizing a payment after however many days. So I clicked around a bit and finally got the subscription page closed. This lead me to a screen of my photo library, and when I tapped on a photo, of course, it just opened the subscription page again. Don’t waste your time with this. Apple stop letting these companies market paid subscriptions as free apps.

I originally downloaded Focos several years ago and it was an awesome app, especially for those photos that wouldn’t register portrait mode correctly or if you forgot to take it in portrait mode! but it has seemed to get worse with every update and with the most recent update, it’s very hard to customize the focus on a photo. you can only use the “patch” feature if you are able to perfectly highlight the subject without zooming in. otherwise it gets totally messed up! and most of all, you now can only use the app if you purchase a subscription which is $10 a week or $100 a year, which seems way overpriced in my opinion. so unfortunately I will be discontinuing using the app after several years :(

The app is great BUT they’ve nuked the limited/free version which was great for my purposes. There was a time when I spent a lot of time doing photography but now I’m caring for my elderly dad. It’s not worth $60/year for the frequency I now need it. To me, the app devs are declaring that they’re not interested in anyone except serious photographers. I’m disappointed. If they had never offered a free version before I wouldn’t be as annoyed. I understand that there are apps geared to a specific audience but the switcheroo rubs me wrong. They need to edit the app description because as of 8/5/24, under “In App Purchases” it still says you get unlimited lifetime access for $12. (BTW I would willingly pay $12-15 for the free version but now I have to delete it.)

This has to be one of the sleaziest developers I’ve ever seen. Did you buy the app back in the day? Too bad, they push updates anyway that remove all free functionality. Over the past year or two they’ve been gradually stripping functionality away from the free version, and now there’s zero functionality left. If you try to anything, it pops up the intrusive purchase advertisement. Before, you could dismiss it and use the app’s very limited functionality, but now that’s no longer an option. This is not at all a free app and should be removed from the App Store for being falsely listed. Oh, and even if you’re a paying customer from back in the era before they forced a $208/yr subscription model, the company won’t return your support request emails.

You list several different options for subscriptions and even a lifetime subscription, yet when you open the app or click “Get PRO” in the settings, you’re only offered the $2/WEEK option. That’s $104/yr for an app that I guarantee most people will use only a handful times a month and there’s plenty of other apps that do the same thing without this predatory pricing model. Developers will learn sooner or later, I refuse to support an app with this type of price model, a once a month, year or lifetime subscription is perfectly acceptable as long as the price matches the value of the product you’re getting. I seriously hope you reconsider your subscription model, if you do I’ll happily revisit this app and subscribe. Best of luck.

I’ve been using Focos for quite a while and enjoyed the free features it offered. However, after the recent updates, it seems that almost all functionality is locked behind a paywall. What was once a great free app is now nearly useless unless you pay for the premium version. This feels like a bait-and-switch, and I’m very disappointed by the drastic change in the app's accessibility. I understand the need for in-app purchases, but the entire app being essentially unusable without them is a huge letdown. I would not recommend this app to anyone who is looking for a free experience as it’s now clearly designed to push you into making a purchase.

After trying this a a couple of photos, I’m having trouble finding the results. I expected to see the updated pic in my camera roll. And that is indeed where they are copied, but only TEMPORARILY. It appears there is metadata attached to the modified pic so the app can delete it after one minute. Particularly not cool since I could not a place where it’s mentioned on the app page. Hard to know if this is a “free” version feature or not. I suspect it is, but now I’m concerned this “feature” could wreak havoc if/when a bug is introduced. I understand the developer should be paid for an app of this quality, but I seems a watermark would achieve the same without removing pictures from my library.

This used to be my all time favorite ever since portrait mode was brought to the masses. This app enabled it on all iPhones. The original app developer used to provide personal updates and even called out Apple for copying his work. There used to be small purchases to enable features and support the developer or even a larger purchase for lifetime access. Because the quality and features and personal updates to the users was consistent I didn’t mind providing financial support. Now I think the developer sold to another bigger company and switched to a subscription model which completely disables any functionality, even for previous customers who’ve paid for access, unless you subscribe to the $3.99 a week service model. This equates to over $200 a year. Considering portrait mode is available on most recent iPhones and many other apps offer similar functionality for much less if not free it’s unfortunate on the direction this app has taken. I’ll be deleting this app and using other apps moving forward.

This app was truly a unicorn, and the developer is a genius. In the past I rated it 5 stars and used to rave about it to friends. This is an app that I would have gladly paid for. It allowed a creator to manually adjust focal minutia that the AI cannot capture, and the results are amazing. For some unknown reason, the developer a) locked the app into portrait mode, which is a serious pain for working on a large iPad; and b) all of the manual editing functions were omitted. So while the app is still useful for the average person doing pics for Instagram, it’s become next to useless for any serious photographer or graphic artist. It’s such a complete waste of some incredible development and algorithms. There’s no other app out there that I’ve found which can let a user manually paint the focus by brush or eraser size and percentage on a granular level. I rated it two stars because—like a gazillion other apps—it automates selective focus. This is redundant for me, so I’m trying to be fair. Otherwise it would be one star.

Paid the old fee for the app and got all features and then suddenly after an update, most of those features became unavailable and locked behind a (sit down for this) 4.99 per WEEK subscription. So yeah, another app that used to be nice that ended up going the capitalist subscription route even though it has no ongoing cost per app and it’s excluding previously available features. Total joke and I’m not interested in this gimmicky feature set for a monthly fee. Deleted and devs added to ignore list, you’ll never get another cent from me.

I don’t care if this app has waltzing pandas spinning on a carousel. Even photo shop and adobe don’t have that gall and they are about as bad as they come. TOO FREAKIN EXPENSIVE!!!

From a former user who purchased this app - this subscription switching behaviour has got to stop. Terrible business practice.

No way to get the lifetime purchase in the app. Fix your app or edit the app description.

App looks cool, but for 4.99 a week! As the only option. Me: uses app for five minutes. Values app at worth about $10-15. Erases app minutes later. Greedy greedy guys.

What a scam of an app!!! They set it up as weekly payment because they’re banking on people forgetting to cancel after the free trial. I found this app was not worth what they’re charging so I cancelled immediately after I got the charge on my account and they wouldn’t give me my $25 back. Even after appealing the refund they still wouldn’t give it back. I used this app maybe once or twice and i’m out $25!! Such dishonest business practice!!

After being met with a paywall when opening the app - which I closed - I proceeded to select a photo and I was met with the paywall again. You have to pay to use this “free” app. Very misleading.

Downloaded it and delete it. As soon as I open the app the asking me to pay. Red flag

This was purchased as per license agreement, and paid for in full, but update forces monthly payment to use now. This is normally considered fraud, but appears to be good in the iTunes world. Works as you would expect it to. Solid. Adjustable aperture works better that my old school manual camera, of course

I paid to unlock the app which I use occasionally, but after recent update they switched to a ridiculous $5/week scam. This is not $240/year app lol it’s not full photoshop, it’s a plugin.

They used to have a free version with an option for a paid PRO account … after I updated my app, it got rid of it and now I can’t use it unless I pay weekly or yearly. It is a fully pay-for app now if you’re wondering!

Hey Focos, what’s that about not recognizing that your customers already paid for the app and just think we will “forget it” and pay the subscription. The option to restore my purchase does not work and prompts me to buy the subscription which I will not. If this is a mistake I will be glad to edit my review, but if it’s not a mistake I will ask Apple or my credit card company for a refund :)

Was my favourite then became a money grab

Totally unusable unless you sign up for the free trail first, which will automatically start charging you a few days after you forgot all about the free trial.

This app used to be good and offered a lot. Now it’s a paid subscription weekly which is a terrible direction from the developers. They have essentially killed this app. Unless you pay weekly this will not be of any value to you. The developers have forgotten where they came from.

They track you across apps and the web, and likely collect your images too. Do you really trust a company that does that? See the App Privacy section of their App Store page for details.

Default features used to be free and now its behind a monthly subscription. Do worth paying nor downloading this app

After you set your level of obtrusiveness by the app with your information, and you want to see what the app can do… send money for free trial. There is no free trial.

Very disappointed… there is no free version. These guys only want money

I feel ripped off. Evaluated the program using 7 day trial. Trial expires on the 30th. I cancelled on the 29th and still got charged! All confirmations reference the 30th and fine print specifies cancelling the day before (on the 29th) which I did. How can they take money the day before renewal? Ridiculous business practice. The free trial isn’t free unless you cancel TWO days before and that you will not find written anywhere. People might love the software but I surely do hate the company. Give me back my money.

I purchased the app in 2018 and unable to access the lifetime subscription

Umm…it won’t let me cancel. I click cancel in subscription and it just flicks. Wrote them and yet to hear back. Hoping I don’t have to do a chargeback on visa :/

If it's lifetime or Pro in the beginning, respect your legacy users. It's ridiculous. I' give it 1 star and also post on reddit. It never should be like that.

Don’t download this app. It’s garbage. I can’t even try and is asking me to pay $3.99/week fee. No way..!!

They ask you for $5 per week right after you turn on the app.

Does it work well? Yes. Is it worth a few bucks a year or maybe a few months? Yes. Is it worth $5 a week? Absolutely not. This is an photo app that does only does ONE THING: compute the depth data and apply some blur filter. That’s it. In what world is this more expensive than Adobe Photoshop AND Adobe Lightroom combined?

On the app store it says you offer lifetime unlimited access. Where is that??? I cannot find it anywhere. The only option I find is for weekly which I do not want.

I occasionally need to use software like this to edit a photo. Maybe once or twice a year. I want to be able to buy it and have it in my app collection for those rare times it is needed. But no, the only option is to continue to pay a subscription fee monthly? That’s so stupid I’m almost speechless. In addition, they offer a free trial but they won’t let you start the free trial until you have already agreed to paying them after the free trial, and if you don’t cancel promptly they’ve already got your payment. There should be a free trial and THEN it asks for payment. Developer, you have a lot to learn about business practices. I am deleting the app and will look elsewhere for my needs.

This used to be my favorite editing app, and I've had it installed for over a year and then suddenly I can't use it anymore because it's not free anymore. It doesn't bother me, I would've paid, but these prices are ridiculous. $4.99/week?! That's $20/month and $240/year! How can you go from free to $240.. If it wasn't so expensive I would've 100% get a subscription because I love this app so much. So upsetting.

Paid for the app, but they switched to weekly payments. Not worth it, especially after paying for the app initially they took away your features and require you to subscribe for 5.99 a week to use them. After paying. Very sus. 👀

I understand the concept of acquiring something to try to profit off it but at $12.99 per week, one would rather spend that $50 per month in a Hasselblad camera. No one sane would pay that much for a DoF app.

This app is so confusing. Every time I get the photo correct in one way, editing the next step undoes everything from the last step 🤬🤬🤬

Can’t even use the app without paying, just make the app paid at this point. No point in letting users download it for free if you don’t allow them to use any feature..

Too greedy, app is completely soft locked until you pay

You can’t even use a single feature without a subscription. 4.99 per week? Are you kidding? 99.99 per year? You can find way better, far MORE professional and LESS expensive tools out there. This app is a TOTAL RIP-OFF and clearly the people running it are not tethered to reality.

Should have known that you have to purchase the pro version to use features. Wouldn’t have downloaded.