Frame.io vs str33m
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Frame.io
This app enables seamless video review and collaboration on mobile devices. It offers precise commenting, asset management, and customizable sharing features for teams and clients, anywhere in the world.
- Precise video scrubbing and commenting
- Asset search and organization
- Customizable share links
- File and folder management
- Annotated comments
- Granular notification controls
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Supercharge your mobile workflow with the Frame.io experience on the smaller screen. Now it’s easier than ever to collaborate, review, and manage work with your team, clients, and other stakeholders from anywhere in the world using the Frame.io app for iPhone and iPad. Rebuilt from the ground up Customize how you view your assets — then scroll, scrub, zoom, and comment with incredible precision and responsiveness. Built natively in Swift, the Frame.io iOS and iPadOS apps allow you to bring the Frame.io experience with you anywhere. Find what you need faster Search comes to the Frame.io iPhone and iPad apps for the first time. Quickly find the assets, folders, or projects you need on the go. Experience a faster workflow Group, tag, and sort assets by out-of-the-box and custom metadata. Edit those fields right in the player — like Status or Rating, when you need to quickly approve on-the-go. Review more accurately Scroll, scrub, zoom, and comment with incredible precision and responsiveness. Pinch-and-zoom videos and images up to 400% to inspect fine details. Navigate quickly between assets by swiping left or right. Control your playback speed and resolution, and double-tap to skip backwards and forwards. Comment more effectively Leave anchored comments, include links and attachments for reference — even include emojis. Or draw annotations using the new full-screen experience. Over a dozen new commenting features help you get the point across faster. Customize your Shares Curate and send professional-looking shares from your iPhone or iPad. All the settings and controls are right there at your fingertips — title, description, appearance, visibility, and more. See everything the way you’d like to see it Customize your view including List and Grid options, thumbnail size, and aspect ratio. Reorder visible fields like Status and Rating, or easily sort by fields for more control over your browsing experience. Enhanced file and folder management Manage files and folders as easily as using Frame.io on your desktop. Rename, move, copy, export, and delete files and folders, modify files in bulk, or navigate through all your assets with full folder path support. Reduce notification fatigue Get more granular control over which notifications you get and where you get them. Terms & Conditions: Your use of this application is governed by the Frame.io Terms of Service https://frame.io/terms-linkfree and the Frame.io Privacy Policy https://frame.io/privacy-linkfree and any successor versions thereto. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information: https://www.adobe.com/go/ca-rights-linkfree
str33m
A gamified social media platform where users post photos to a feed, build their "source," and compete on leaderboards. Customize your profile, engage with friends through direct messaging, and level up through in-app quests.
- Rating-based feed for content discovery
- Friend-focused chronological feed
- App-wide and friend leaderboards
- Flexible photo aspect ratio support
- 24-hour disappearing direct messages
- In-app quests for leveling up
- Customizable profile "aura card"
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gamified social media is here. post photos to the str33m. find new users and content served by user consensus and build your source. compete app wide or amongst friends with our leaderboard systems. customize your aura card. whisper your friends. have fun. level up. gain aura. grow. come play in the str33m. features: str33m feed: a rating based feed to explore new content where you give aura, restack, or pass photos source feed: a chronological feed of your friends leaderboards: compete based on your aura or level on an app wide basis or see which friend has the most aura posting: use any aspect ratio you want. our feeds support any aspect ratio and even provide a rotated full screen view on horizontals without compromising your grid whisper: direct messaging that resets after 24 hours. users must have established a friendship to whisper. quests: gain EXP and level up your stats based on your engagements in app. profile: customize your aura card and enjoy freedom from gridlock. show off your personality with custom colors for your aura card, badges, and even export and share your aura card as a new digital business card. your str33m of photos is shown here with no aspect restrictions, alongside your restacks, and best performing photos feed. no ads
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: str33m at 90% against Frame.io's 50%. str33m also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Frame.io's advantage is ratings volume (908 vs 22) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
str33m holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Frame.io has 908 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Frame.io's written reviews are positive against 90% of str33m's.
Frame.io ships an update fortnightly, str33m every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Frame.io | str33m |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (908 ratings) | 4.7 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.3% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 908 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Frame.io | Digital Str33m LLC |
Customer experience
Frame.io
str33m
Bugs and requests
Frame.io
Reported bugs
4 issues- Comments disappearing or not saving properly
- App freezing or crashing frequently
- Playback issues (buffering, out of sync audio/video)
- Login loop and authentication failures
Requested features
5 requests- iPad app
- Ability to sort and filter files/comments
- Offline mode with reliable sync
- Improved notification and comment management
- Integration with more video editing software
str33m
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Frame.io
No in-app purchases
str33m
No in-app purchases









