Hoc Drop vs CrossLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoc Drop
Instantly share selected photos with up to 8 friends in the same room without handing over your phone. Photos are only displayed temporarily and are not copied or saved on viewers' devices.
- Local photo sharing with up to 8 friends
- Share photos without handing over your phone
- Photos are not copied or saved
- Private network connection via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Select specific photos to share
- Ad-free paid version available
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Hoc Drop lets you screen share photos fast with up to 8 friends in the room. When you are hanging out with friends, start Hoc Drop and point the camera at the Hoc Drop logo on your friend's phone. This will connect the two phones fast. Select ONLY the photos you want to share from your camera roll to display on your friend's phone. Hoc Drop creates a private network with the iPhones in the room, and only sends the photos locally. - Never hand that phone off again. Nobody likes to hand their phone off to the crowd so they can show a few pictures from their last adventure. With Hoc Drop you don't have to give your phone away. Just create a Hoc Drop session, and then show the photos that you choose to show. - Photos are NOT copied, only displayed on your friend's phones. Photos you show with Hoc Drop are never copied to the viewer’s phone. They are just displayed, and when the session is over, none of the photos remain on your friend's phone. Once the session is over, Hoc Drop doesn't remember anything. It doesn't save any information about you or your photos. You don't need another way to send a copy of photos to friends, but you do need a way to show the photos instantly in a fast and secure way to your friends while you are at dinner, or just hanging out at the house. - You control the photos you choose. We all want to show our photos to other people when we get together, but most of us have thousands of photos on our iPhones, and we don't want to give access to all of them to everyone. With Hoc Drop, you select ONLY the photos you want to show to people in the session. - How to download Hoc Drop fast. Point your iPhone camera at the Hoc Drop logo on your friend's phone, and you will be taken to the app store to instantly download the app. - Hoc Drop is NOT an internet application There is no web server. There are no accounts to set up, no email addresses, or personal profiles to fill out. Hoc Drop uses Wifi and Bluetooth to connect two iPhones directly, without the internet, in a private network. This private network allows you to select photos to show on the other phones in the session. - Paid version of Hoc Drop eliminates Ads. The free version of Hoc Drop works great, but has banner ads that may overlap your photos. Get the paid version of Hoc Drop for 99 cents to remove Ads. - Multiple sessions in the same room. If you are at dinner running Hoc Drop, the people at the next table can run Hoc Drop in a different session, that doesn’t interfere or overlap with your session. Small groups of people in a larger group of people can all run Hoc Drop sessions simultaneously without interfering with other Hoc Drop sessions.
CrossLens
Capture both vertical and horizontal videos simultaneously with your iPhone's dual rear cameras. Record once to get two perfectly synchronized video files saved directly to your Photos library, ideal for everyday recording without the need for multiple takes.
- Simultaneous dual camera recording
- Vertical video zoom
- 4K/1080p resolution options
- Dual focus and reference lines
- Flash control
- Ad-free experience
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CrossLens可通过 iPhone 的双后置摄像头,一次拍摄同时录制竖屏(9:16)和横屏(16:9)视频。只需按下一次录制,就能得到两个完全同步的视频文件,直接保存到你的「照片」图库中。非常适合日常生活记录者:无需拍摄两次,就能同时获得竖屏和横屏素材。 功能特性 • 双摄像头同步录制(主摄/长焦镜头 + 超广角/前置镜头) • 竖屏视频变焦(主摄像头+长焦镜头) • 4K / 1080p 分辨率,可选 30/60 帧率 • 支持双画面对焦和双画面参考线 • 闪光灯控制 • 无广告 注意:受限于硬件限制,部分旧款设备无法录制4K 60帧的视频,将自动保存为1080P,30/60帧。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hoc Drop at Free against CrossLens's $0.99. Hoc Drop also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). CrossLens's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, 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
Hoc Drop is free to download; CrossLens costs $0.99 up front. Hoc Drop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CrossLens asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Hoc Drop against 5.0 for CrossLens. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoc Drop has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Hoc Drop's written reviews are positive against 63% of CrossLens's.
Hoc Drop ships an update every 7 months, CrossLens every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Hoc Drop | CrossLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hoc Drop, LLC | 玺坤 李 |
Customer experience
Hoc Drop
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In-app purchases
Hoc Drop
- No Advertising$0.99
CrossLens
No in-app purchases









