ColorCamera vs Panostory Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ColorCamera
This app allows you to capture the world's colors by extracting key color palettes from your photos. It provides color matching inspiration for various aesthetic choices, from fashion to design. Easily share your color discoveries or import images from your album.
- Extracts five main colors from photos
- Provides color matching inspiration
- Supports photo import from album
- Quick social media sharing
- View photo EXIF information
- Customizable app icons
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Find colors in the world around you and turn them into reusable palettes. Capture a scene with the camera, choose a photo, or import an image to extract a color card. Build a visual library of your palettes. Open any card to explore its colors, refine the order, and inspect individual shades. See HEX, RGB, HSV, CMYK, and OKLCH values, check text contrast, and explore color harmonies. Share a palette image or export your work as a PDF, PNG, JSON, or developer-ready color values. Color extraction runs on your device.
Panostory Pro
Create personalized photo collages, widgets, and wallpapers with various layout styles. Stitch multiple images together, cut pictures with shape masks, and even take video screenshots. Share your creations easily to social media platforms.
- Photo widget for home screen
- Multiple collage layout styles
- Stitch photos horizontally, vertically, or in a grid
- Cut pictures with shape masks
- Take frame screenshots from videos
- Create custom wallpapers
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Panostory Pro turns your screenshots and photos into clean long images, grids, and swipeable posts. Everything runs on your iPhone. Your photos are never uploaded. STITCH SCREENSHOTS - Auto Stitch finds screenshots that belong together and joins them into one seamless long image - Perfect for chats, web pages, and articles - Stitch any photos vertically or horizontally, and fine-tune each joint by hand LONG IMAGE COLLAGE - Combine multiple photos into one long image, vertically or horizontally - Or arrange them into a 3x3 grid in a single image - Adjust spacing, borders, and background color SPLIT AND POST - Split any photo with a custom ratio and tile count, including 3x3 grids - Posts & Stories: cut a wide image into seamless swipeable slides, ready for Instagram carousels - Keep the original image or fill each tile SMART CURATION - Magic Collage arranges 3 or more photos into a complete layout automatically - Browse your library sorted by color, place, and category, each turned into ready-made collages - New collages from today's photos, every day COLLAGE TEMPLATES - Hundreds of layouts in every ratio, with new templates in every update - Change backgrounds, borders, and spacing in a tap MORE TOOLS - Batch watermark, white borders, and EXIF info - Subject blur backgrounds and quick blur - Video frame capture, wallpapers, and home screen photo widgets PANOSTORY PRO VIP Unlock every template, Smart Curation, and Magic Collage. Monthly, yearly, and lifetime options are available. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://wangruiapk.github.io/panostorypro/?lang=en Support: https://wangruiapk.github.io/about/?lang=en Questions or ideas? Email wrzxnx@gmail.com. Panostory Pro is made by an independent developer and updated regularly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Panostory Pro at Free against ColorCamera's $0.99. Panostory Pro also leads on iOS requirement (18 vs 26.0). ColorCamera's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (88% vs 71%). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Panostory Pro is free to download; ColorCamera costs $0.99 up front. ColorCamera sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Panostory Pro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ColorCamera holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ColorCamera has 288 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of ColorCamera's written reviews are positive against 71% of Panostory Pro's.
ColorCamera ships an update weekly, Panostory Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ColorCamera | Panostory Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (288 ratings) — better | 4.1 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 288 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 文志 胡 | 锐 王 |
Customer experience
ColorCamera
Panostory Pro
Bugs and requests
ColorCamera
Reported bugs
5 issues- App stuck on 'Synchronizing colors' screen
- Watermark persists even after rating
- Rating pop-ups appear constantly regardless of user action
- Crashes and freezes during use
- Color accuracy issues in certain lighting conditions
Requested features
7 requests- RAL color format support
- Remove or reduce rating pop-up frequency
- Ability to save images without watermark
- Image saving functionality
- More advanced color matching options
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- Dark mode option
- Ability to apply color picker to specific locations
Panostory Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ColorCamera
- Donation1$0.99
- Donation6$0.99
- Invite the author a coffee$3.99
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- Early Bird$14.99
Panostory Pro
- Monthly VIP$0.991 Month
- Monthly VIP$2.991 Month
- Yearly VIP$6.991 Year
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- Yearly VIP$16.991 Year
- Lifetime VIP$24.99
Questions
Is ColorCamera free?
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