BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant vs Journey Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant
Effortlessly create compelling before-and-after photo comparisons. This app automatically arranges your chosen images into a shareable format, complete with customizable watermarks, privacy features, and borders. It's designed for quick and easy social media sharing.
- Automatic before-after image creation
- Customizable text/image watermarks
- Automatic censor-bar for privacy
- Auto layout for different photo sizes
- Add and customize borders
- Square image formatting for social media
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Simply choose 2 photos & this app will automagically create a perfect & ready-to-be-shared before-after image. No setup needed. The result image will be put in a perfect layout, it will have your business watermark, censor-bar for privacy, border, etc. The features: • Put your own professional text/image watermark • Option to automatically apply censor-bars on your model's eyes to protect their privacy • Auto Layout, applies the best layout for different photo sizes. • Add & customize border. • Make Square! It squarifies your before-after image, so you can share the entire image to any social media without cropping it. • Auto resize image to make the sharing process easier and much faster. • And many more to come! We have those important features that other apps don't have. Try it yourself.
Journey Tracker
Visually document life's transformations with this app. Turn photos into inspiring before-and-after comparisons for fitness, baby growth, home projects, and creative evolution. Capture and celebrate every step of your journey.
- Visual progress tracking
- Before-and-after photo comparisons
- Fitness transformation documentation
- Pregnancy and baby growth timelines
- Home project progress tracking
- Creative evolution showcase
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You can finally see progress over time. You see yourself every day, so change hides. Journey Tracker lines up every new photo with your last one and shows you the difference with a slider. Use it for body, gym, and weight-loss progress, or for hair, beard, skin, nails, braces, tattoos, outfits, pregnancy, pets, plants, art projects, and home projects. Your photos are backed up to your account, so they are still there on a new phone or after a reinstall. Your first collection is free. Capture consistent photos • Keep each journey in its own collection • See your last photo in the camera, as an Outline or a Ghost, and line up the next shot • Add dates and notes • Reorder photos or move them between collections • Add photos offline; they upload when you're back online See the difference • Drag a slider across any two photos • Put two photos side by side and pinch to zoom them together • Scrub through your whole timeline • Export a time-lapse video of the change Share your progress • Turn any before and after into a share card • Choose from several card styles • Save the card or share it Stay motivated • Set reminders on your schedule, with your own message • Add the Home Screen widget: your day count, this week's photos, and the camera one tap away • Earn medals for milestones and streaks • See them all on the Achievements page Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Journey Tracker at 100% against BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant's 25%. Journey Tracker also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.3). BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (123 vs 3). On ads and monetization model 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
Journey Tracker is free to download; BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant costs $3.99 up front. Journey Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant asks for nothing beyond the download.
Journey Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant has 123 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant's written reviews are positive against 100% of Journey Tracker's.
BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant ships an update every 7 months, Journey Tracker every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant | Journey Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (123 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Daniel V.W | Novee Group LLC |
Customer experience
BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant
Journey Tracker
In-app purchases
BeforeAfter PRO, Smart Instant
No in-app purchases
Journey Tracker
- Journey Tracker Premium — Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$34.99
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