Gifive vs e
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gifive
Easily transform videos, live photos, and still images into animated GIFs or Live Photos. This free tool supports various conversion types, allowing you to create custom animated content from your existing media.
- Convert video to GIF
- Convert live photos to GIF
- Convert photos to GIF
- Convert video to Live Photo
- Convert GIF to Live Photo
- Convert photos to Live Photo
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This is a completely free ( no ad ) GIF/Live Photo conversion tool. 1. Convert GIF, video, etc., into live photos 2. Convert live photos, video, etc., into gifs 【Making gifs (GIF)】 * convert video to GIF * convert live photos to gifs * convert photos to gifs * convert snapshot to GIF 【Creating Live Photo】 * convert video to live photos * convert gifs to live photos * convert photos into live photos * convert continuous snapshots into live photos
e
This app offers advanced manual controls for creating timelapses, allowing individual adjustments for focus, shutter speed, and ISO. It supports saving videos as .mov files or RAW .dng images, with additional features like focus peaking and an auto mode.
- Manual focus, shutter speed, ISO control
- Focus, shutter speed, and ISO ramping
- Save as .mov or RAW .dng
- Focus peaking
- Auto mode
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Take full control of your timelapse with easy to use manual settings: - SET focus, shutter speed, iso, and interval individually. - RAMP focus, shutter speed, and iso, all individually and at different durations. - SAVE as .mov to your Photos Library, or as RAW .dng files to your Files App. Other features: - Focus peaking - Auto mode It's easy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: e at none against Gifive's 1. Gifive's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Gifive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. e asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.6 for Gifive against 3.5 for e. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gifive has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Gifive's written reviews are positive against 50% of e's.
Gifive ships an update every 4 months, e every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gifive | e |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (10 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 雷 戴 | Quentin Reiser |
Customer experience
Gifive
e
In-app purchases
Gifive
- Get Pro$0.99
e
No in-app purchases
