# Lensa review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Phone photo editor with AI effects, retouching and an eraser Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Lensa is a photo editor for iPhone and Android from Prisma Labs. It applies AI effects and presets, retouches faces and hair, erases objects, and upscales or restores low-quality photos. The app is free to download and sells access through in-app purchases. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** Prisma Labs, Inc. - **Website:** https://lensa.app - **Runs on:** iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to work on a computer, since Lensa is phone-only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Lensa has a free plan, and paid plans start at $2.99 for Unlimited Access (1 Week), per the App Store listing. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The app is free to download; the store listing does not say which features work without paying. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free download | $0 | The app costs nothing to install; the listing shows in-app purchases from $2.99 to $49.99. | | Unlimited Access (1 Week) | $2.99 for 1 week | Shortest access pass in the US App Store list. | | Unlimited Access | $29.99 billing period not shown on the listing | Amounts of $4.99, $29.99, $39.99 and $49.99 are all listed as Unlimited Access with no period. The store description separately gives a weekly plan range of $6.99 to $19.99. | | Membership | $35.99 billing period not shown on the listing | In-app purchase named Membership. | | Magic Avatars packs | $3.99 one-time packs, $3.99 to $11.99 | Avatar packs sold separately, listed as Pack 1 ($3.99), Pack 2 ($5.99), Pack 10 ($7.99) and Pack 11 ($11.99). | Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lensa-ai-photo-editor/id1436732536 on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Lensa before buying. ## Key features - **AI effects and presets:** One-tap looks and color presets that grade a photo for a consistent feed. - **Beauty and hair tools:** Retouching, makeup and hair adjustments, plus a hair try-on that restyles a selfie into different cuts. - **Object eraser:** Brush over a person or object and the app fills in the background. - **Enhancer:** Upscales cropped or low-resolution photos and brightens dark ones. - **Avatars:** The store listing describes artistic avatar creation, sold as separate Magic Avatars packs. ## Good for - Casual social-media editing from a phone - Removing a bystander or small object from a photo - Trying a haircut or a stylized look on a selfie ## Worth knowing - Billing periods are mostly not shown on the store listing, so what each in-app purchase costs per month is unclear before opening the app. - The app is phone-only; the vendor's site links to the App Store and Google Play and offers no desktop app. - Several reviews on the App Store listing complain about charges or avatar sets that did not arrive; the average rating there is about 4.7 across 418,000 ratings. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Lensa is a phone photo editor with AI effects, retouching, an eraser and an upscaler. It is free to download, but the store listing doesn't say what works unpaid or what period each charge covers, and some reviewers complain about charges. - **Value for money: C.** A $2.99 one-week pass or $29.99 and $35.99 plans whose billing periods aren't shown, so what you pay per month is unclear. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free to download, but the listing doesn't say which features work without paying. - **Features: C.** Effects, beauty and hair tools, an eraser, an enhancer and avatar packs. Avatars are bought separately at $3.99 to $11.99. - **Ease of use: A.** 4.7 from about 418,000 App Store ratings. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** iPhone and Android only. No desktop app or web editor. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Lensa's own pages on 12 November 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Lensa's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 49 of the 89 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on ease of use (A, above 84 of 89) and worst on features (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $12.96 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 44 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 9 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Lensa you would be making an image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $155.48 a year. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 418,160 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1436732536 **Tags:** Image generation, AI features ## Alternatives - [Remini](https://toolgpa.com/tools/remini): AI photo enhancer that sharpens old and blurry pictures. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lensa-vs-remini) - [Photoleap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/photoleap): iPhone photo editor with AI image generation and layered edits. 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