Comparison

Frame Grab vs Twinlyvy

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

Head to head
About

Frame Grab

Easily extract still images from videos stored on your device. Select any frame, adjust playback speed, and save images in JPEG format. Supports videos from Photos, Music, Podcasts, and TV apps.

Highlights
  • Extract frames from videos
  • Save as JPEG
  • Adjust playback speed
  • Save single or multiple frames
  • Embed Exif metadata
  • Continuous frame grabbing
Features
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Frame Grab makes it easy to capture and share any moment from videos stored on your device as still images in JPEG or HEIF format. It supports not only videos stored in the Photos app, but also those in the Music, Podcasts, and TV apps, as long as they are downloaded to your device. ◇◇◇ How to Use ◇◇◇ ◆When you launch the app, a list of video categories appears: Photos, Live Photos, Music Videos, Home Videos, Movies, TV Shows, and Podcasts. ◆Tap a category to view its videos, then tap a video to open the player view. ◆Move the playhead to the desired frame. Use the buttons on either side of the play button to step forward or backward one frame at a time. ◆Save Option 1: Tap the Share button to save the displayed frame to the Photos app, or share it with other apps and services. ◆Save Option 2: Tap the gray circle button to temporarily save the displayed frame to the Queue. Repeat this for other frames as needed. When you’re ready, tap the red badge showing the number of queued items to open the Queue and save multiple frames at once to the Photos app, or share them with other apps and services. ◆Choose an image format: Choose JPEG or HEIF in “Settings” > “Image Export Settings” > “Format”. ◇◇◇ Settings ◇◇◇ ◆Live Photos: Choose whether to show Live Photos videos. ◆Format: JPEG or HEIF ◆Quality: Four levels: Low, Low-Mid, Hi-Mid, High ◆Size: Actual size of original video Half size of original video Maximum 1920, 960 or 640 pixels ◆Location Info: Choose whether to embed the location data as Exif metadata in the exported images. Applies only if the video contains location information. ◆Date-Time Info: Choose whether to embed the shooting date-time as Exif metadata in the exported images. Applies only if the video contains date-time information. ◆Show Format: Choose whether to show the format on thumbnails in the Queue. ◆Show Frame Time: Choose whether to show the frame time on thumbnails in the Queue. ◇◇◇ Other Features ◇◇◇ ◆Playback Speed: 0.5x, 1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x ◆Continuous Grabbing: Extract multiple frames at user-defined intervals and save them to the Queue. ◇◇◇ Note ◇◇◇ ◆No recording feature included. ◆Protected videos — such as movies downloaded from the Apple TV Store — cannot be displayed. ◆Images in the Queue may be cleared when either the app or the OS is updated. ◆Videos recorded on iPhone or iPad store only the location where the recording started. Images extracted from the same video will contain the same location information.

About

Twinlyvy

Features
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Twinly is two simple tools in one app. Dual Camera Capture a moment from both sides at once. One tap fires the back and the front camera together and saves both photos to your library, so you get the view and your reaction in the very same instant. Voice Recorder Record voice memos that keep running while you switch to other apps. iOS shows the orange microphone dot while recording, so you always know it is on. Private by default Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign up, nothing is uploaded.

Screenshots

Frame Grab4 screens
Twinlyvy3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Twinlyvy at none against Frame Grab's shown. Twinlyvy also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Frame Grab ships an update every 2 months, Twinlyvy daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Frame Grab versus Twinlyvy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrame GrabTwinlyvy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (97 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings97 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTranquillity BaseYura Zabrodskiy

Bugs and requests

Frame Grab

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • App freezes on launch with large photo libraries
  • Slow to load videos
  • Black frame displayed in the center of the screen during frame-by-frame selection
  • App crashes when scrolling through home videos
  • Screen grab doesn't always work
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  • App crashes when reaching a certain number of frames, losing images
  • Error message: 'Cannot load this video. PHAsset. PlaybackStyle:video'
  • App crashes on start
  • App crashes randomly, freezes
  • Does not load any videos
  • Has not worked since the update
  • Won't open videos on iPhoneX / iOS13
  • App crashes when I get a certain number of frames and I lose all my images
  • The scree grab doesn’t always take, and I paid for this app, but I’m still getting ads
  • The app freezes on launch on phones with huge photo libraries (huge = 100k+ items)
  • The screenshot will grab the frame directly before the one I’m trying to capture
  • App crashes when scrolling through home videos
  • Quality degradation upon extraction
  • Cannot load this video. PHAsset. PlaybackStyle:video

Requested features

10 requests
  • One-time purchase option to remove ads
  • Ability to pay to remove ads
  • Integration with file sharing for video import
  • Support for more video codecs (TS, MKV)
  • Apple shortcut integration for automatic frame export
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  • Zoom in while video is playing
  • More speed options for frame selection
  • Auto-capture all slides
  • Improvement for small subjects/brightness correction
  • Automatic photo extraction at intervals (e.g., every 3 seconds, 10 photos in 0.5 seconds)

Twinlyvy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Frame Grab

No in-app purchases

None

Twinlyvy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Frame Grab free?
Frame Grab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Twinlyvy free?
Twinlyvy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Frame Grab or Twinlyvy have ads?
Frame Grab shows ads; Twinlyvy does not.
Which is updated more often, Frame Grab or Twinlyvy?
Frame Grab ships an update every 2 months, and Twinlyvy daily. Most recently, Frame Grab was updated on November 11, 2026 and Twinlyvy on October 31, 2026.

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