Comparison

Calibration Plus vs Chronodev

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Fine tone control for digital negatives
  • Correction curve design
  • Reference chart generation
  • Alternate process printing aid
  • Improved print quality
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Calibration Plus4 screens
Chronodev3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calibration Plus ships an update every 21 months, Chronodev monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Calibration Plus versus Chronodev: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalibration PlusChronodev
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLe bord de la piscineKevin Olmats

Customer experience

Calibration Plus

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Chronodev

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Calibration Plus

No in-app purchases

None

Chronodev

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calibration Plus free?
Calibration Plus costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronodev free?
Chronodev is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Calibration Plus or Chronodev?
Chronodev is rated higher. Calibration Plus averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Chronodev averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Calibration Plus or Chronodev have ads?
Neither Calibration Plus nor Chronodev shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calibration Plus or Chronodev?
Calibration Plus ships an update every 21 months, and Chronodev monthly. Most recently, Calibration Plus was updated on October 14, 2026 and Chronodev on September 29, 2026.

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