Pinloops vs Mini Shoots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pinloops
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Pinloops online booking platform is now live, offering users a simpler and faster way to book appointments with service providers already in the app, even outside their regular hours.
Mini Shoots
This app streamlines the business operations for mini session photographers. It allows for event creation, client booking, payment processing, and waitlist management, all from a single platform. The goal is to simplify and professionalize the mini session experience.
- Create and manage mini session events
- Book clients and collect payment
- Build a waitlist
- Add session add-ons
- Professional homepage and booking pages
- Reschedule with ease
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MiniShoots is the booking and payment app built for mini session photographers. Create events, book clients, get paid, and build your waitlist — run your whole business all from one place. The app was built to help you get your time back and make stressful mini sessions fun again, and look professional and organized doing it, so you can get back doing what you love. When you don't have live sessions, your professional homepage keeps working for you — growing demand so your next mini session fills faster. Free to download. Just 3.9% per booking when you get paid (or pass the fee to your client at checkout, its up to you). • Create and manage mini session events • Book clients and collect payment • Build a waitlist to grow demand • Add session add-ons to increase revenue • Reschedule with ease • Manage past clients and relationships • Get your own professional homepage and booking pages Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Pinloops and Mini Shoots are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pinloops ships an update every 5 weeks, Mini Shoots monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinloops | Mini Shoots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DUK TECH | Kozi Publishing LLC |
In-app purchases
Pinloops
No in-app purchases
Mini Shoots
No in-app purchases
