Grimace vs HighFive Cinema
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grimace
Record video selfies with amusing facial distortions and effects. Add a funny voice to your creations. Share your unique videos with others.
- Video selfie recording
- Funny face effects
- Voice modulation
- Easy sharing
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Record a video-selfie with funny faces.
HighFive Cinema
Transform your videos into immersive cinematic experiences with real-time depth, parallax, and AI-powered camera intelligence. This app offers a new visual language for storytelling, allowing you to watch content with true motion and presence.
- Real-time spatial depth rendering
- Cinematic tilt and motion control
- AI-powered framing and movement
- High-end color system and LUTs
- Immersive mobile playback engine
- Next-gen storytelling tools
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HighFive Cinema is a next-generation spatial video experience. Transform your videos into immersive cinematic motion using real-time depth, parallax, and AI-driven camera intelligence. FEATURES: • Real-time spatial depth rendering (BG / MID / FG layers) • Cinematic tilt and motion control • AI-powered framing and movement • High-end color system and LUTs • Immersive playback engine designed for mobile • Built for creators, filmmakers, and next-gen storytelling Watch content like never before with true motion, depth, and presence. HighFive Cinema is not just video playback. It’s a new visual language.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HighFive Cinema at 100% against Grimace's 44%. HighFive Cinema also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and ads (none vs shown). Grimace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (31 vs 4). On price, update cadence and device support 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. HighFive Cinema sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Grimace asks for nothing beyond the download.
HighFive Cinema holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grimace has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Grimace's written reviews are positive against 100% of HighFive Cinema's.
Grimace ships an update every 4 weeks, HighFive Cinema every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grimace | HighFive Cinema |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 233 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Trend L | Higherkey, Inc |
Customer experience
Grimace
HighFive Cinema
In-app purchases
Grimace
No in-app purchases
HighFive Cinema
- Episode 1$1.99
- Episode 3$1.99
- Episode 2$1.99
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- Episode 4$1.99
- Episode 5$1.99
- Episode 6$1.99
- Episode 7$1.99
- The Friendly$4.99
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