Prequel vs Meitu 美图秀秀
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Prequel
Trend-first mobile photo/video editor with 800+ filters and AI avatars
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Meitu 美图秀秀
China's beautification app empire, now layering AI credits on VIP
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.2 / 10 | 6.7 / 10 |
| Capability | — | |
| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free with basic filters and watermarks | — |
| Paid from | Prequel Gold ~$7.99/week or ~$34.99/year | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 100M+ downloads (2022) | — |
| Founded | 2018 | — |
| Maker | Serge Aliseenko, Timur Khabirov | — |
| Verdict | Prequel earns its downloads on aesthetics, not tooling. The draw is a deep bank of filters and one-tap looks (the D3D moving-photo effect and AI avatars get the most screen time) that make an ordinary phone clip look sty... |
Meitu has been the default Chinese beautification app since 2008 and it shows: retouching, body shaping and filter presets are polished to a degree few competitors match, and its AI portrait styles reliably go viral in C... |
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