Comparison

Apate vs RecceBoard

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

Head to head
About

Apate

Features
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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) โ€” clean animation ready for compositing - GIF โ€” shareable looping preview (free, with watermark) - PNG Sequence โ€” frame-by-frame export for full control - AE Keyframe Data โ€” 21 joint keyframe files for After Effects - FCP XML โ€” 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 โ€” $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 โ€” 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/

About

RecceBoard

Features
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A recce board for directors, cinematographers. Previz made simple. Walk a location, film the shots you're thinking of, and push them around until the order feels right. Then press play and watch the whole thing as a film. The camera opens already framed to the board's format, and the lens buttons are labelled in millimetres โ€” the real focal length, so it means the same on any iPhone. Stop recording and you're in the trim. Next takes you back to the camera for the following shot. Shots sit where you put them, and the order of the film is the arrangement: left to right, top to bottom, the way a page reads. Move a shot and you've changed the cut. Record a voice-over over the whole thing or over a single shot, and lay music underneath. Export the film as a video or the board as a contact-sheet PDF, with your frame lines burned in. Boards sync through your own iCloud account, so you can start on the phone at the location and finish on the Mac. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Share a board with a six-character code. Nothing is collected โ€” no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. One purchase, no subscription. Want it to do something it doesn't yet? mail@carlooppermann.com

Screenshots

Apate4 screens
RecceBoard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RecceBoard at every 4 days against Apate's every 45 months. Apate's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Apate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and RecceBoard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Apate ships an update every 45 months, RecceBoard every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Apate versus RecceBoard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApateRecceBoard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 45 monthsEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter MaciasCarlo Oppermann

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Apate

Subscriptions2
  • Apate Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Apate Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
2 purchases

RecceBoard

One-time2
  • 7-Day TrialFree
  • RecceBoard$8.99

Questions

Is Apate free?
Apate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RecceBoard free?
RecceBoard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Apate or RecceBoard have ads?
Neither Apate nor RecceBoard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Apate or RecceBoard?
Apate ships an update every 45 months, and RecceBoard every 4 days. Most recently, Apate was updated on October 13, 2026 and RecceBoard on October 3, 2026.

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