Comparison

ColorCamera vs Panostory Pro

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

ColorCamera4 screens
Panostory Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ColorCamera ships an update weekly, Panostory Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ColorCamera versus Panostory Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColorCameraPanostory Pro
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (288 ratings) — better4.1 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews88.5% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings288 — better22
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.018 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer文志 胡锐 王

Customer experience

ColorCamera

All ratings288 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral4.9%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews243 reviews
Positive88.5%
Neutral2.5%
Negative9.1%

Panostory Pro

All ratings22 ratings
Positive77.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.7%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

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

4 purchases

ColorCamera

One-time4
  • Donation1$0.99
  • Donation6$0.99
  • Invite the author a coffee$3.99
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  • Early Bird$14.99
5 purchases

Panostory Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly VIP$0.991 Month
  • Monthly VIP$2.991 Month
  • Yearly VIP$6.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Yearly VIP$16.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime VIP$24.99

Questions

Is ColorCamera free?
ColorCamera costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Panostory Pro free?
Panostory Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ColorCamera or Panostory Pro?
ColorCamera is rated higher. ColorCamera averages 4.6 out of 5 from 288 ratings, while Panostory Pro averages 4.1 from 22 ratings.
Do ColorCamera or Panostory Pro have ads?
Neither ColorCamera nor Panostory Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ColorCamera or Panostory Pro?
ColorCamera ships an update weekly, and Panostory Pro fortnightly. Most recently, ColorCamera was updated on November 7, 2026 and Panostory Pro on November 6, 2026.

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