KiraKira Recorder vs StillFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KiraKira Recorder
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●Make yourself more beautiful! Make your child more cute! Make the memory of your trip more enjoyable! Make the food more delicious! ●Your precious memory photos and videos can be transformed into "glittering" decoration videos with your own ad-lib touch! ●Glittering stars and hearts spread, petals and fluff dance, balloons and soap bubbles fly, musical notes pop out, ... ●With more than 30 decoration elements, various effects, and a combination of multi-touch, you can express infinite decorations. ●You can also use decorations to draw letters and simple illustrations. Simply snapshots and photos and videos of important anniversaries will be transformed into wonderful videos that everyone will want to watch again and again. In free mode, just ad-lib touch and heal with "glittering" decorations ... Record ad-lib touch, output to video or photo and upload to SNS ... Exactly fun to touch, fun to see, fun to make, fun to share, It's a very unique app full of such 'fun'. Would you like to upload a video that has outstanding impact and can be expected to attract more attention to SNS as soon as possible? Supports animation composition for videos and photos. You can output to a video file. Not only videos and photos saved on your smartphone, but also shooting with a camera is supported. [Background material] - Camera shooting: Video, photo - Camera roll: Video, photo [Effect] - Decoration type: All 36 types Glitter (white) / Glitter (color) / Confetti / Balloons / Soap bubbles / Musical Notes / Hearts / Flower showers / Roses / Jewels / Rocket balloons / Paper planes / Bills / Cherry blossoms / Maple / Ginkgo / Dandelion fluff / Four leaves / Young leaves / Firefly / Snow / Explosion / Smoke / Feather / Coin / Umbrella / Drone / Darts / ... - Size - Quantity - Duration - Spread - Angle/Rotation/Blink - Video length (when photo is selected) - Saved resolution [Output] - Save to camera roll: videos, photos - Sharing videos: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, ...
StillFlow
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## Overview (Main Description) StillFlow is a creative camera app that turns your photos into “moving visuals” by layering geometric particles that drift, flow, and gather like living creatures. With face detection, particles can be set to avoid or attract faces so you can highlight your subject without breaking the mood of the original photo. ### Key Features - Photo import and normalization - Supports JPEG/HEIC. Automatically fixes orientation, normalizes to sRGB, and safely downsamples large images. - Face-aware particle behavior - Uses Vision to detect faces and lets particles avoid faces, gather around them, or mix both behaviors. - Radius, strength, and spawn ratio are adjustable with intuitive sliders. - Rich particle expressions - Multiple shapes (circles, boxes, capsules, triangles, diamonds, etc.) and patterns (check, stripes, dots, gradient). - Control particle count, density, brightness, additive blending, zoom, and motion chaos in real time. - Monochrome particles toggle for clean, high-contrast looks. - Background controls - Layer animated gradients over your photo and tweak mode (linear / radial / angular), intensity, speed, and saturation. - Optional photo monochrome toggle to desaturate the background image itself. - Capture modes - Single: Save the current frame as an image. - Burst: Capture multiple frames and pick your favorites from a grid with full-screen preview. - Video: Record full-screen video matching the preview, exporting in 720p (Free) or 1080p-class (Pro). - Modern UI - Minimal bottom sheet opened from the bottom-left trigger, with paged “Basic” and “Face” tabs. - Sliders and toggles are arranged near the bottom for easy reach and a clean, monochrome look. ## Who Is It For? - Creators and social media users who want to turn photos into moving designs. - Anyone interested in generative-style expressions that still highlight the subject. - Users who want high-quality previews and exports without a heavy editing workflow. ## Free vs Pro (In-App Purchase) - Free - Background gradient and monochrome particles are **preview-only** and are not applied to saved stills, bursts, or recordings. - A watermark is added to exported photos and videos. - Recording is limited to 720p-class and up to 15 seconds. Burst is limited to 5 frames. - Particle limits: Max=220, density up to 0.6. - Pro (non-consumable in-app purchase) - Background gradient and monochrome particles are applied to exports as well as preview, with **no watermark**. - Recording time limit is removed, enabling longer videos in 1080p-class resolution. - Particle limits are unlocked up to Max=400 and density up to 1.0 for richer, denser visuals. ## Quality & Performance - GPU-driven rendering keeps both preview and recording responsive, with GPU-based blits to avoid black frames or bars. - Auto LOD targets roughly 30fps on modern devices by adjusting particle count in real time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: StillFlow at Free against KiraKira Recorder's $0.99. KiraKira Recorder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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
StillFlow is free to download; KiraKira Recorder costs $0.99 up front. StillFlow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. KiraKira Recorder asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | KiraKira Recorder | StillFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masanori Katsuta | yoshihiro kunihara |
In-app purchases
KiraKira Recorder
No in-app purchases
StillFlow
- StillFlow Pro$4.99
Questions
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