Comparison

Apate vs Parallaxly

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

Parallaxly

Features
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Turn the frames you already have into a wigglegram โ€” an aligned, looping GIF or video where your subject stays still and the world around it rocks in 3D. Parallaxly starts from frames, not from the camera. Import a scan from a multi-lens film camera (the frames side by side on one strip), or 2 to 6 photos taken a small step apart. The app finds the frames, lines them up on your subject and plays the loop right away. โ€ข SPLITS YOUR SCAN โ€” one scan with 2, 3 or 4 frames side by side is split automatically at the gaps between frames. Adjust any split line, or change the number of frames. โ€ข ALIGNS ON YOUR SUBJECT โ€” tap the point that should stay still (or let the app pick one). Every frame is registered on that point to a fraction of a pixel, so the subject holds steady while the background and foreground move. Edges that aren't in every frame are cropped away, so the loop never shows an empty border. โ€ข EVENS OUT EXPOSURE โ€” film frames scanned one by one differ in brightness and color. Match exposure brings every frame to the same look, so the loop doesn't flicker. โ€ข STRAIGHTENS HAND-HELD SHOTS โ€” an optional correction for a small tilt between phone photos. โ€ข YOUR LOOP, YOUR WAY โ€” back and forth (1-2-3-2-1) or a straight loop, speed from 40 to 400 ms per frame, and crops for posts and stories: original, 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16. Reorder or remove frames at any time. โ€ข GIF OR MP4 โ€” a GIF that loops forever, or an H.264 video that repeats the loop for about 6 to 10 seconds, so it plays smoothly where videos don't loop on their own. Save to Photos or share. โ€ข PRIVATE โ€” everything happens on your device. No account, no upload. Works with scans from multi-lens film cameras such as the Nishika N8000, Nimslo 3D and Reto3D, from any stereo pair, and with photos from your phone: take 2 or 3 shots of a subject, stepping a few centimeters sideways between them. What it doesn't do: it doesn't invent depth. You need at least two frames taken from slightly different positions; a single photo can't become a wigglegram here. Importing, aligning and the animated preview cost nothing. A one-time purchase unlocks exporting the GIF and MP4 files. Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com

Screenshots

Apate4 screens
Parallaxly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Parallaxly at daily against Apate's every 45 months. Apate's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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 Parallaxly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Apate ships an update every 45 months, Parallaxly daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Apate versus Parallaxly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApateParallaxly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 45 monthsDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter MaciasJhomar Maravillas

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Apate

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

Parallaxly

One-time1
  • Unlock Export$4.99

Questions

Is Apate free?
Apate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Parallaxly free?
Parallaxly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Apate or Parallaxly have ads?
Neither Apate nor Parallaxly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Apate or Parallaxly?
Apate ships an update every 45 months, and Parallaxly daily. Most recently, Apate was updated on November 3, 2026 and Parallaxly on October 26, 2026.

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