Comparison

Profile Border vs Northlight DP

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

Head to head
About

Profile Border

Easily add stylish frames to your profile pictures for social media. Create eye-catching circular avatars with a variety of custom borders, including popular styles like Instagram Story and Donut. Enhance your online presence with unique photo frames.

Highlights
  • Add custom frames to profile pictures
  • Create circular avatar images
  • Variety of border styles
  • Instagram Story border
  • Facebook and Instagram Close Friends Stories
Features
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Your photo. Framed beautifully. Make your profile picture feel like you with Border. Add a circular frame to a selfie, portrait, emoji or Memoji, explore different styles, and save your favorite look. FIND YOUR STYLE • Choose colorful gradients, floral, botanical, patterned and minimal frames. • Adjust the frame color to match your photo or mood. • Try different designs and see how they look around your image. CREATE AND SAVE Choose your image, pick a frame, and save the result to Photos. Use it as your profile picture in social apps and messaging services that let you upload an image. From a subtle outline to a bold statement, find a frame for your everyday look or a special occasion. Some frames and features require an in-app purchase. Choose a photo. Find your frame. Make it yours.

About

Northlight DP

Features
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Northlight predicts how your lights will actually render on camera — before you roll. If you light people for a living — cinematographers, gaffers, DPs, camera operators, and serious content creators — you know the guesswork. A fixture's box-spec Kelvin is a claim, mixed sources fight each other, and you burn set time on white-balance tests instead of shooting. Northlight replaces the guesswork with real color science: tell it your fixtures, your camera, and the look you want at the subject, and it solves how every source renders at your camera's white balance — then hands you the exact Kelvin and tint to set on each light and the white balance to set on the camera. It's a planning instrument, not a control surface. Northlight computes the targets; you dial them into your own gear by hand. Nothing to connect, no accounts, no subscriptions. — Design the look Place your fixtures on a top-down plan around your subject, set each one's color and intensity, and dial the look you want at the face. Northlight solves it live: the combined color at the subject, the key-to-fill contrast ratio, and the illuminance, with warm/cool and gel-equivalent read-outs. A master level fader and a subject color dial push the whole look while your ratios hold. — Calibrate with your phone A fixture's nominal Kelvin is a claim; a measurement is the truth. In the Measure tab, point your iPhone at a grey card under a light and Northlight reads how it really renders — median-aggregated across frames, held steady by a stability gate — and records it against that fixture. From then on your predictions match the gear you actually own, not the marketing spec. — See it rendered On ray-tracing-capable Apple silicon, a path-traced preview shows a head lit by your exact setup: real perspective from your camera's spot, your chosen lens, a skin tone or neutral clay reference, bounce cards and negative fill, windows and room bounce. Read the modeling and the color cast before you're on set. Every other feature works without ray-tracing hardware. — Three ways to balance Camera-locked holds your white balance and re-dials your bi-color sources to reach the look. Follows-subject anchors the camera to the mix at the face. Explore sweeps every lever at once. Pick the instrument that fits your intent. — Yours, everywhere Your fixture and camera libraries and every saved look sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac over iCloud, automatically, in your own iCloud account. No account to create, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, no data collection. The camera is used only on your device to meter a grey card — no images ever leave it. Northlight opens on a ready-made Demo look, so you can start experimenting immediately. Northlight is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any manufacturer named in the app. Product names are used for identification and compatibility reference only, and catalog values are published nominal specifications — measure your own units for accuracy.

Screenshots

Profile Border3 screens
Northlight DP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Northlight DP at none against Profile Border's 7. Northlight DP also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Profile Border's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Profile Border sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Northlight DP asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Profile Border ships an update monthly, Northlight DP every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Profile Border versus Northlight DP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProfile BorderNorthlight DP
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDima KomarMatthew Grdinic

Bugs and requests

Profile Border

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to delete or remove borders
  • Inconsistent border appearance across devices
  • Difficulty canceling subscription

Requested features

4 requests
  • More holiday-themed borders
  • Ability to add custom text or designs
  • Metallic/glossy border options
  • Improved color customization

Northlight DP

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Profile Border

Subscriptions7
  • One Month Borders and Memoji3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • One Month Borders Pro$6.991 Month
  • One Year Borders Subscription3 Days trial$6.991 Year
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  • Borders Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • One Year Borders Pro$9.991 Year
  • Custom Profile Borders Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • One Year Borders Pro$19.991 Year
None

Northlight DP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Profile Border free?
Profile Border is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Northlight DP free?
Northlight DP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Profile Border or Northlight DP have ads?
Neither Profile Border nor Northlight DP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Profile Border or Northlight DP?
Profile Border ships an update monthly, and Northlight DP every 2 weeks. Most recently, Profile Border was updated on October 21, 2026 and Northlight DP on October 7, 2026.

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