Comparison

mrgr vs Apate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

mrgr

Easily combine multiple video clips from your device into a single video. Select your desired clips, preview the merged video, and save the final result.

Highlights
  • Merge multiple videos
  • Select videos from camera roll
  • Preview merged video
  • Simple interface
Features
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Quick and simple way to merge multiple videos from your camera roll. Select first and second video, preview and save.

About

Apate

Features
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Bring your hand creations to life. Apate is a hand pose recording app built for animators, linguists, and ML engineers. For Animators Record a hand pose session and export in the format that fits your workflow: - Hand skeleton video (.mov) — clean animation ready for compositing - GIF — shareable looping preview (free, with watermark) - PNG Sequence — frame-by-frame export for full control - AE Keyframe Data — 21 joint keyframe files for After Effects - FCP XML — sync raw video and hand video directly in Final Cut Pro For ML Engineers Live confidence scores for all hand joints are displayed during capture, making it easy to debug Vision framework output and evaluate detection quality. Free & Pro GIF export is free. Unlock all export formats with Apate Pro — $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Feedback Use the in-app feedback button to reach the developer directly, or shoot an email - fractia@gmail.com Apate was the goddess of deceit, trickery, and guile — one of the spirits released from Pandora's Box, daughter of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness). Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

mrgr4 screens
Apate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: mrgr at none against Apate's 2. mrgr also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 45 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Apate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. mrgr asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mrgr ships an update every 4 months, Apate every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
mrgr versus Apate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermrgrApate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 45 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlake BarrettPeter Macias

In-app purchases

None

mrgr

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Apate

Subscriptions2
  • Apate Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Apate Pro Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is mrgr free?
mrgr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Apate free?
Apate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do mrgr or Apate have ads?
Neither mrgr nor Apate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mrgr or Apate?
mrgr ships an update every 4 months, and Apate every 45 months. Most recently, mrgr was updated on October 3, 2026 and Apate on October 13, 2026.

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