Comparison

Frame Grab vs FrameAgain

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

FrameAgain

Easily recreate past photos by overlaying the original image onto your live camera feed. Organize your recreations into projects for before-and-after comparisons, tracking changes over time for personal, creative, or renovation projects.

Highlights
  • Live reference overlay with adjustable opacity
  • Frame, Collection, and Series project templates
  • Wipe and Side-by-side comparison
  • Then & Now composition
  • Photo history for every reference
  • Full project archive export and import
Features
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Recreate a photo with the original visible over your camera. Keep each return in the same project so you can compare photos and follow changes over time. Choose the project shape that matches what you are trying to repeat: FRAME: RECREATE ONE PHOTO Keep one reference beside the live camera while you recreate a family pose, revisit a childhood photo, return to a place years later, or repeat a composition for a renovation or creative project. Adjust the reference opacity, move your camera and pinch to zoom until the framing matches, then capture the new photo. The reference guides your framing but does not appear in the final image. COLLECTION: COMPLETE A RELATED SET Collect several references that belong together, then work through them whenever each place or moment is available. A Collection can be a set of filming locations, a music-video or game-inspired checklist, architectural details, public art, or any themed group of real scenes you want to recreate. Every reference is an independent item with its own capture state and history. There is no required order, so you can return to one location today and another months from now. SERIES: RETURN TO ONE VIEW Use a Series for the same viewpoint over days, months, or years: a growing plant, a changing room, a construction project, a seasonal scene, or an everyday moment worth returning to. Series keeps each return on one chronological timeline. Choose any two moments as Then and Now, and decide whether the next capture should use the original reference or the previous photo. COMPARE THE MOMENTS Review a reference and capture with Wipe or Side by side. Portrait photos sit naturally beside each other; wide photos are shown one above the other so the framing stays readable. Keep the photo history connected to the project that produced it. REFERENCE-LED CAPTURE - Live reference overlay with adjustable opacity - Fit or Fill reference presentation - Rotate the reference to suit your framing - Pinch to zoom and tap to focus - Portrait and landscape capture - Frame, Collection, and Series project templates - Wipe and Side-by-side comparison - Then & Now composition - Photo history for every reference - Optional capture location - Full project archive export and import Projects and media stay on your device. No account or login is required.

Screenshots

Frame Grab4 screens
FrameAgain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FrameAgain at 5.0 against Frame Grab's 4.4. FrameAgain also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Frame Grab's advantage is ratings volume (97 vs 1). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FrameAgain holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Frame Grab has 97 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Frame Grab ships an update every 2 months, FrameAgain weekly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Frame Grab versus FrameAgain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrame GrabFrameAgain
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (97 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings97 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTranquillity BaseLIFEVEN LLC

Customer experience

Frame Grab

All ratings97 ratings
Positive86.6%
Neutral1.0%
Negative12.4%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative25.0%

FrameAgain

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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)

FrameAgain

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Frame Grab

No in-app purchases

None

FrameAgain

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Frame Grab free?
Frame Grab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FrameAgain free?
FrameAgain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Frame Grab or FrameAgain?
FrameAgain is rated higher. Frame Grab averages 4.4 out of 5 from 97 ratings, while FrameAgain averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Frame Grab or FrameAgain have ads?
Frame Grab shows ads; FrameAgain does not.
Which is updated more often, Frame Grab or FrameAgain?
Frame Grab ships an update every 2 months, and FrameAgain weekly. Most recently, Frame Grab was updated on November 6, 2026 and FrameAgain on November 6, 2026.

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