Comparison

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow vs Queryable

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

Head to head
About

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow

Create stunning, animated slideshows from your photos and videos in seconds. Add music, customize transitions, and export as videos. Seamlessly sync across devices and cast to your TV for an enhanced viewing experience.

Highlights
  • Animated slideshow creation
  • Add custom music
  • Seamless transitions
  • Smart photo animations
  • Export as video
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Cast to DLNA-compatible TVs
Features
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Enjoy Your Photos and Videos Like Never Before! With SlideFlow, turn your favorite moments into beautiful, animated slideshows — on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or TV. Create and play slideshows in seconds, customize them if you wish, and share them as videos with family and friends. Instant Slideshow Playback No rendering, no waiting: SlideFlow generates slideshows on the fly, so playback starts almost immediately. A Different Slideshow Every Time Turn on shuffle to vary the order, transitions, filters, and music every time you press play — and again with every loop. Leave a slideshow running on your TV at a family gathering, and it keeps changing. SlideFlow can apply a different filter on every playback, so you enjoy your photos and videos in a new way every time — without creating multiple versions in different styles. Customize Your Slideshow • Add music from a wide selection of built-in tracks across various genres, or add your own. Your tracks join your personal music library, synced via iCloud and ready for any slideshow. Music fades smoothly and steps aside while videos play their own sound. • Choose from 33 transitions — dissolves, wipes, slides, whip pans, glitches, and more — plus an ending transition for a graceful finish. • Bring photos to life with smart animations: zoom in on faces or subjects, or start close and zoom out to reveal the full scene. • Apply stylish filters such as Monochrome, Sepia, Chrome, and Noir. • Add text or image overlays for titles, captions, logos, and more. • Mix photos and videos freely in the same slideshow. • Shuffle, loop, and fine-tune settings for the whole slideshow or individual photos and videos. Set your favorite defaults once, and every new slideshow uses them. Watch on Your TV Cast slideshows or individual photos and videos to your TV. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to the same Wi-Fi or Ethernet network — nothing to install on the TV. Works with many DLNA-compatible TVs. Export and Share as Video Export your slideshows in horizontal, vertical, or square format for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and more. Choose 720p, 1080p, or 4K resolution, with H.264 or HEVC encoding to balance quality and file size. Create Slideshows Automatically Pick a date range, and SlideFlow groups your photos and videos into Moments — temporary slideshows named after their dates and places, made for exploring your memories. Save the ones worth keeping with a single tap. You can also create saved slideshows directly from a date range, a Photos album, or a smart album, with filters such as favorites only, photos only, and skip screenshots. Photos, Files, and Folders Build slideshows from your Photos library, individual image and video files, or whole folders. Drop in a folder containing photos, videos, and music, and get a finished slideshow. Choose whether files are copied into SlideFlow or referenced in place to save space — ideal for large collections stored on external drives. Sync Across Devices With iCloud sync enabled, your slideshows are synced across your iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Photos and videos from your Photos library must be synced with iCloud Photos. Free to Download Try SlideFlow for as long as you like. In unlimited free trial mode, generated slideshows include app promotions. Full access is available through subscriptions or a one-time lifetime purchase. Your purchase unlocks all features on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and can be shared with your family through Apple Family Sharing. Terms of Use: https://veprit.com/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://veprit.com/VeprIT-PrivacyPolicy.pdf

About

Queryable

This app allows you to search your personal photo collection using natural language descriptions. It works entirely offline, ensuring your privacy, and understands complex queries beyond simple tags. Build an index once and then quickly find any moment in your album.

Highlights
  • Natural language photo search
  • Offline functionality
  • Open-source
  • Privacy-focused
  • Complex description understanding
  • One-time indexing
Features
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A product that has reached #1 on the front page of Hacker News and topped the paid tools chart across all European countries, while ranking #2 in the US on the same day. Queryable is an open-source, offline photo album search tool unlike anything you've used before. Search your photos with natural descriptions like "two people by the sea," "a blonde woman holding a glass of red wine," "a girl in red on the lawn," or even emotional moments like "We fell in love." Queryable understands longer, more human descriptions instead of only simple tags. New in this version: search in your own language. Non-English queries are translated on your device before searching, so your photos and your words never leave your phone. You can also search by photo, filter results by time, batch-select and share, clean up duplicates more precisely, and view Live Photos and videos more reliably. Pay once and use it forever. Queryable works completely offline after download, protecting the privacy of your photo library. FAQ: 1. What languages can I search in? You can search in your own language. Queryable translates your query on device before searching, while keeping the accuracy of the English search model. The app interface is currently localized in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. 2. How is my photo privacy protected? Queryable works completely offline. You can even disable the app's network permissions if you have privacy concerns. 3. How do I use it? After downloading, build an index for your photos. This takes a few minutes depending on your library and device. On an iPhone 12 mini, Queryable processes about 2,000 photos per minute, and indexing is only required once. Once indexing is complete, you can search instantly. When you add new photos, you can update the index at any time. Contact: - Email: myfancoo@gmail.com - Twitter: @immazzystar - GitHub: https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable Preview page created with https://screenshots.pro/.

Screenshots

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow4 screens
Queryable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow at Free against Queryable's $4.99. Queryable's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 36%) and in-app purchases (none vs 7). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow is free to download; Queryable costs $4.99 up front. Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Queryable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Queryable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 210 and 91 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow's written reviews are positive against 78% of Queryable's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow ships an update fortnightly, Queryable every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow versus Queryable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlideshow Maker・SlideFlowQueryable
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.4 (210 ratings)4.7 (91 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.2% of reviews78.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings210 — better91
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#38 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size165 MB197 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVeprITSmashMelon LLC

Customer experience

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow

All ratings210 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral5.2%
Negative11.0%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive36.2%
Neutral13.8%
Negative50.0%

Queryable

All ratings87 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative15.6%

User reviews

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow

From 210 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use for slideshows
  • 🚀 Fast creation of slideshows
  • ✨ Produces professional-looking results
  • 🔄 Good control over timing and transitions
  • 📺 Easy to cast/connect to TV

Room to improve

  • ⚠️ Not easy to connect to TV
  • 🎶 No music fade in/out
  • 🎶 Cannot mix music and video sounds
  • 🎶 No control over individual music segment length
  • 🎛️ Overlays are basic and not selective

Queryable

From 91 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and effective search
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Innovative AI search technology
  • 🔒 Privacy-focused (offline processing)
  • ✅ Finds photos missed by native search

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Freezes and crashes
  • 🐛 Inconsistent results (false positives/negatives)
  • 🐛 Videos appear black
  • 🐛 Not working on Mac
  • 🐛 UI is basic/rudimentary

Bugs and requests

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Cannot export video
  • Song order is never the same
  • Could not upload photos/videos, received error
  • Cannot load item error
  • Die Reihenfolge lässt sich leider nicht einstellen
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  • Cannot hear background music on iPhone 15 pro
  • No Editing!
  • Video timeline on iPad does not sync with TV
  • No way to save a slideshow
  • Plays slideshow backward
  • Music doesn't work
  • Cannot select music from network or local folder
  • Cannot define or change picture order
  • App doesn't work on Apple TV

Requested features

21 requests
  • AI-guided setup wizard
  • Ability to fade music in and out
  • Ability to select how long each musical segment plays
  • Smooth music transitions
  • Ability to make overlays on selected slides
Show 16 more
  • Export in 4K format
  • Mark duplicate photos
  • Add own music from iTunes
  • Add music from Google Photos library
  • Option to add music from Apple Music
  • Layout for 1 pic per slide
  • Option to add music from iTunes
  • Ability to sync song library with playlists
  • Ability to save slideshows
  • Access to Google Photos library
  • Ability to use own music
  • Control over picture order
  • Apple TV version of the app
  • Ability to fast forward, pause, or rewind on TV
  • Ability to select different slide transitions for each photo
  • Music fade out option

Queryable

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App freezes after analyzing ~12k photos
  • App freezes when selecting a photo and searching for similar
  • App crashes during indexing
  • App freezes on Mac
  • Videos won't playback, appear black
Show 7 more
  • App returns black photos and irrelevant results on Mac
  • App crashes immediately after search
  • App doesn't work on iPad Pro
  • App doesn't work on older iPads (A12X)
  • Indexing stops if app is used while indexing
  • Deleted photos are blank
  • App crashes when trying to view image

Requested features

39 requests
  • Multi-select for many images
  • Copy/move selected images to other apps
  • Open images in native Photos app
  • Masonry-like image display
  • Fix iPad horizontal mode image shrinking
Show 34 more
  • Select all photos feature
  • Move selected photos to Files folder
  • Support for Chinese language
  • Search in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Search in Spanish
  • Search in German
  • Search in French
  • Choose clip model for keywords
  • Access to photo location/folder
  • Voice search
  • Incremental index building
  • Automatic background index updating
  • Gestures for navigation
  • Display metadata by default
  • Show photos taken around same time
  • Sort results by date
  • Filter by location
  • Work with arbitrary folders on macOS
  • Better photo app integration
  • Zoom in on images
  • Share images from the app
  • Swipe left/right to browse images
  • Refined UI/UX
  • Add a nuage de mots-clés for results
  • Add more languages
  • Add gestures
  • Add ergonomics
  • Order results by timestamp
  • Filter by location
  • Show info about photo by default
  • Show photos taken around the same time
  • Better photo app integration
  • Delete photos
  • Fix blank deleted photos

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow

Subscriptions5
  • SlideFlow Weekly$4.997 Days
  • SlideFlow Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • SlideFlow Monthly$12.991 Month
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  • SlideFlow Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • SlideFlow Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • SlideFlow ForeverFree
  • SlideFlow Forever$49.99
None

Queryable

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow free?
Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Queryable free?
Queryable costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow or Queryable?
Queryable is rated higher. Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow averages 4.4 out of 5 from 210 ratings, while Queryable averages 4.7 from 91 ratings.
Do Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow or Queryable have ads?
Neither Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow nor Queryable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow or Queryable?
Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow ships an update fortnightly, and Queryable every 2 weeks. Most recently, Slideshow Maker・SlideFlow was updated on October 26, 2026 and Queryable on October 27, 2026.

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