Calibration Plus vs Instacrop.app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calibration Plus
This app aids in creating digital negatives for alternate process printing, offering fine tone control. It helps achieve better prints with improved dark, white, and halftone tones by designing correction curves. Generate reference charts and use image processing software to refine your digital negatives for perfect prints.
- Fine tone control for digital negatives
- Correction curve design
- Reference chart generation
- Alternate process printing aid
- Improved print quality
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Calibration+ helps you for alternate process printing, by allowing fine tone control on your digital negatives. For instance, the cyanotype process is contrasted with poor half tones. Calibration+ helps you to have better prints with dark, white and halftones by designing a correction curve. With Calibration+, generate a reference chart on your device. Use your favorite image processing software :Adobe Photoshop™, Gimp, Affinity Photo™, Lightroom™… to generate digital negative. Invert. Flip. Print (as usual). Photograph the print! Calibration+ computes the adjustment curve in your photo software to have perfect prints.
Instacrop.app
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A minimal app for framing Instagram posts. No clutter, no distractions, just beautifully framed photos, ready for sharing. Choose your frame format, adjust the border size, and export. That's it. Simple and clean. Free, No In-App Purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Instacrop.app at Free against Calibration Plus's $2.99. Instacrop.app also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 21 months). Calibration Plus's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Instacrop.app is free to download; Calibration Plus costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Calibration Plus ships an update every 21 months, Instacrop.app every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calibration Plus | Instacrop.app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Le bord de la piscine | Dorin Vancea |
In-app purchases
Calibration Plus
No in-app purchases
Instacrop.app
No in-app purchases
Questions
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