Parallax Layers Lite vs Apate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parallax Layers Lite
Bring your illustrations to life by adding images and arranging them to create a 3D movement effect. Record and share your animated creations on social media. Save your work as projects for later editing.
- Import images from camera or gallery
- Arrange images into a canvas
- Create 3D movement effects
- Record and share animations
- Save projects for editing
- Supports images with alpha components
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Parallax Layers Lite allows you to bring your illustration to life. 1. Add your images from the camera or the gallery 2. Arrange them into the canvas to build the final illustration 3. Tap play 4. Move your device and tilt it and see the 3D movement effect You can record the animation and share through your favorite social platform. Also you can store your images as projects in order to recover or edit them in any moment. To achieve awesome results, use image with alpha components. Lite version limitations: - You can create 2 projects - You can import 2 layers per project
Apate
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Bring your hand creations to life. Apate is a hand pose recording app built for animators, linguists, and ML engineers. For Animators Record a hand pose session and export in the format that fits your workflow: - Hand skeleton video (.mov) — clean animation ready for compositing - GIF — shareable looping preview (free, with watermark) - PNG Sequence — frame-by-frame export for full control - AE Keyframe Data — 21 joint keyframe files for After Effects - FCP XML — sync raw video and hand video directly in Final Cut Pro For ML Engineers Live confidence scores for all hand joints are displayed during capture, making it easy to debug Vision framework output and evaluate detection quality. Free & Pro GIF export is free. Unlock all export formats with Apate Pro — $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Feedback Use the in-app feedback button to reach the developer directly, or shoot an email - fractia@gmail.com Apate was the goddess of deceit, trickery, and guile — one of the spirits released from Pandora's Box, daughter of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness). Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Parallax Layers Lite at none against Apate's 2. Parallax Layers Lite also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 45 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Apate's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Apate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Parallax Layers Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Parallax Layers Lite ships an update every 2 months, Apate every 45 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Parallax Layers Lite | Apate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 45 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Lao | Peter Macias |
In-app purchases
Parallax Layers Lite
No in-app purchases
Apate
- Apate Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Apate Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
