Calibration Plus vs Chronodev
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.
Chronodev
This app transforms your iPhone or iPad into a darkroom enlarger timer. It uses HomeKit-enabled devices to control your enlarger and safelights, offering features like manual control, metronome for dodging/burning, and automatic test strip creation.
- iPhone/iPad enlarger timer
- HomeKit device control
- Manual enlarger focusing
- Metronome for dodging/burning
- EV stop time adjustments
- Automatic test strip creation
- Voice control support
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Transform your iPhone into an enlarger timer using Chronodev. Chronodev uses HomeKit-enabled wall plugs and lightbulbs to control your enlarger and safelights. Secondhand enlarger timers can be expensive and hard to find. This one costs the price of a wi-fi wall plug. - Control your enlarger and safelight with your iPhone or iPad - Expose prints accurately using the HomeKit-enabled timer - Manual enlarger control for focusing - Use the metronome for dodging and burning - Adjust times using EV stops - Automatically create test strips with incremental exposures, and keep track of exposure times using a handy graph - Automatically turn your safelight off when exposing/focusing - Voice control support for hands-free development - Safe to use in black and white darkrooms when using iOS's built-in red color filter A HomeKit-enabled wall plug and/or lightbulb is required to use all features of this app. Some features (like a basic timer and EV stop calculations) are available without a HomeKit-enabled device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chronodev at 100% against Calibration Plus's 50%. Chronodev also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.5 vs 3.0). Calibration Plus's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Chronodev is free to download; Calibration Plus costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chronodev holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Calibration Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chronodev's.
Calibration Plus ships an update every 21 months, Chronodev monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calibration Plus | Chronodev |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Le bord de la piscine | Kevin Olmats |
Customer experience
Calibration Plus
Chronodev
In-app purchases
Calibration Plus
No in-app purchases
Chronodev
No in-app purchases
Questions
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