Comparison

SOFTO vs Stills

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

Head to head
About

SOFTO

Apply vintage 35mm film and Polaroid filters to your photos. Add custom date and location stamps in a handwritten font. Offers various film types, flash, timer, and selfie modes.

Highlights
  • 35mm film filters
  • Polaroid photo effect
  • Custom date and place printing
  • Handwritten font
  • Multiple film types (Fuji, Kodak, Agfa)
  • Flash, Timer, Selfie modes
Features
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SOFTO Polar Film Camera ■ Photo With 35mm Film Filter ■ One shot! Two Photos Film Photo & Polaroid ■ Print date and place in special handwritten font - Package Mode - Date print - Print city name - Fuji, Kodak, Agfa 36mm film filter - Flash, Timer, selfie Mode Instagram Share #Softo We will choose your photo. https://www.instagram.com/filca.app/

About

Stills

This app simulates a disposable camera experience, letting you capture moments without previews or retakes. Once a roll is full, your photos develop, revealing what you've captured.

Highlights
  • Simulated disposable camera
  • No photo previews
  • Delayed photo development
  • On-device search
  • Friend connection via proximity
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Stills is a disposable camera for your phone, and now it has friends. You can't see the photo. Sorry. That's the camera. Then you send one to a friend that vanishes after one look. Load a roll, shoot your frames, and get nothing back until it's full. No preview. No retakes. No quietly deleting the bad one before anyone sees it. Just you, a shutter, and the terrible confidence that you probably got it. Then the roll develops, and you find out. PRESENCE: FRIENDS, MADE IN PERSON Add a friend by scanning their code. No usernames to guess, no requests from strangers, no algorithm deciding you two should know each other. You have to actually meet. The moment you're friends, you each take a first photo. Two prints, one from each phone, kept on your friendship forever. FLICKS Flick a photo up and it's theirs. It develops on the spot, they see it once, and it's gone. Flicks are end-to-end encrypted, so not even we can see them. Cover one in emoji and stickers, write on it, react to one, take one more look, or save the ones you love to your chat or your Photos. Send each other a flick every day to keep a streak going. Chats are here too: swipe to reply, double-tap to love, press and hold to react, edit or unsend, and see when your message is read (you can turn that off). IT LOOKS LIKE FILM, BECAUSE WE MADE IT LOOK LIKE FILM Every frame runs through Stills 400: warm highlights, real grain, that glow around streetlights at 1am. Bright by day, and it holds up after dark: flash looks like flash, neon keeps its colour, and faces in dim rooms come through. It all happens on your phone in about a second. No uploading, no waiting on a server. YOUR PHOTOS STAY ON YOUR PHONE All of them. We can't see them, which is genuinely the point. Search runs on the device too. Ask for "that night we walked home in the rain" and it just finds it, without a single pixel going anywhere. Shoot a roll. Forget about it. Develop it later.

Screenshots

SOFTO4 screens
Stills4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stills at 100% against SOFTO's 42%. Stills also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.9 vs 3.8). SOFTO's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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

Stills is free to download; SOFTO costs $1.99 up front. SOFTO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stills asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stills holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of SOFTO's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stills's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SOFTO versus Stills: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSOFTOStills
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (6 ratings)4.9 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings617 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB223 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCheol KimSiarhei Karanchuk

Customer experience

SOFTO

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive42.1%
Neutral26.3%
Negative31.6%

Stills

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SOFTO

One-time1
  • UPGRADE PRO VERSION$1.99
None

Stills

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SOFTO free?
SOFTO costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Stills free?
Stills is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SOFTO or Stills?
Stills is rated higher. SOFTO averages 3.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Stills averages 4.9 from 17 ratings.
Do SOFTO or Stills have ads?
Neither SOFTO nor Stills shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SOFTO or Stills?
SOFTO ships an update every 9 days, and Stills every 9 days. Most recently, SOFTO was updated on October 21, 2026 and Stills on October 24, 2026.

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