Panostory Pro vs Optika
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Optika
This app offers manual camera controls for professional-level photography on smartphones. Capture realistic colors and textures with Natural Mode, and fine-tune focus, exposure, and white balance. Shoot in advanced formats like RAW and ProRAW.
- Manual focus with peaking and loupe
- Adjustable shutter speed and ISO
- Customizable white balance
- True lens switching
- RAW and ProRAW format support
- Live histograms
- Composition grids and horizon levels
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Optika is a manual camera for iPhone with direct control over focus, exposure, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. Use it when you want more control over the photo instead of leaving every decision to the automatic camera. Natural Mode reduces the heavily processed look common in smartphone photos and keeps colors, details, and textures closer to what you see. MANUAL CAMERA CONTROLS • Adjustable aperture (iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max only) • Manual shutter speed and ISO • Manual focus with focus peaking and loupe • Manual white balance with Kelvin adjustment • Exposure compensation • Separate focus and exposure points • Direct lens selection RAW AND PHOTO FORMATS Capture photos in JPEG, HEIF, RAW, and Apple ProRAW depending on your iPhone. Optika keeps the selected physical lens active instead of automatically switching cameras in difficult lighting conditions. TOOLS FOR SHOOTING • RGB and luminance histograms • Grid • Horizon level • Focus peaking • Focus loupe • Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets • Camera Control support Natural Mode is designed for photographers who prefer a less processed image and want more control over the final result. Optika does not collect your photos or personal data. Note: Available features and Natural Mode results depend on the camera hardware of your iPhone. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Optika at free with in-app purchases against Panostory Pro's paid. Panostory Pro's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Panostory Pro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Optika sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Optika holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Panostory Pro's written reviews are positive against 75% of Optika's.
Panostory Pro ships an update fortnightly, Optika every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Panostory Pro | Optika |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (22 ratings) | 4.3 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 锐 王 | Alex Sieroshtan |
Customer experience
Panostory Pro
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In-app purchases
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
Optika
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual$14.991 Year
- One Time Purchase$24.99
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