Face Blender is an app that does exactly what it says. It blends multiple faces together to create one unique face. The developer uses the word “average” many times in the app's description. The idea is that you take a bunch of photos that will be blended together to create an average. So, you can put in twenty pictures of yourself over the years and get one average photo. Sounds complicated right? That's what I thought when I first started using this app. I just didn't get it at first.

You start off in your list of blends. There are two sample blends for you to check out before you start your own. The samples are one average male made of 27 faces and one average female made of 40 faces. This screen allows you to add or delete blends from your list. The next menu is your photo library. The app is preloaded with 100 faces to experiment with. These faces are organized by traits such as gender, relation, skin type, hair color, and age. In this menu you can add your own photos. You can add photos from your library or you can take a picture with your camera. When you enter your own photo, you can name the person and select that person's traits.

The third menu is your settings where you can change the resolution, clear your library or blends list, and toggle show tips. Let's get back to the resolution setting. The default is set to .5x, which is the lowest resolution setting but offers the fastest blend time. Don't bother increasing the resolution because the app can't handle the res increase and will consistently crash on you. This is by far the worst part of the app. Even at 1x resolution, the app will crash, leaving you with the default .5x. This is definitely frustrating. But, let's just say you are content with the app working at .5x resolution and let's get into the actual blending concept.

When you enter a new face into your library, after you enter the traits, you must select the positions of the two eyes and mouth. This allows the app to line the face up with other faces. So, let's start blending! When you start a new blend you are given three options. You can blend all of your faces at once, manually select your faces, or blend faces based on your selected criteria. Let's focus on the manual selection. You are taken to your library in the app where you will scroll through a list of faces and tap on the ones you want to blend. This process is not a smooth one. First of all, the photos are not named, so if you have 200 photos and you want to find your friend Jane quickly, you can't. You have to scroll through the entire list just scanning through the actual faces. Also, when you scroll you will inevitably select faces you don't want and have to tap on them again to deselect. You can't just scroll without selecting photos. This was incredibly frustrating.

You can select any number of faces to blend together. For example, you can blend your face with an old woman's face to see how you'd look at age 90. This seems interesting until you actually look at the final product. When the faces are blended you can still see pieces of both pictures. You can see the straight lines from each picture, tilted a bit so the eyes and mouths line up correctly. Sometimes it looks interesting, and other times it's just silly and unrealistic. The blending is done better when you use more faces at once. You can't see as many picture borders when you use thirty photos instead of just two. It's a bit hard to describe what each blend actually looks like. You have to see for yourself to understand.

The app is an interesting concept. The idea of being able to see what you'd look like at an old age is intriguing. But, I don't think this app really succeeded. Even when an update comes out to fix the crashing issues, it's still not going to be fun. You will become bored with its gimmick very quickly. I have way more fun with apps like Juxtaposer. By the time this review is posted, this app will have been deleted from my iPhone. It's just not worth 99 cents.