PicScratch vs ReelyUs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PicScratch
Create and send personalized digital scratch cards with hidden photos and text. It's a fun and easy way to surprise friends, family, or loved ones with unique greetings and invitations.
- Interactive scratch cards
- Hidden photo and text
- Customizable templates
- Personalized greetings
- Party invitations
- Easy creation process
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Make your messages more fun with PicScratch. Send friends and family a photo and personal message hidden behind a card they scratch to reveal. Whether you want to make someone laugh, say happy birthday, share exciting news, be romantic, or simply make someone smile, PicScratch turns an ordinary message into a little surprise. Creating a PicScratch takes seconds: 1. Choose a card 2. Add your photo 3. Write your message 4. Send the surprise Your friend can scratch and reveal your message right from the web. No app is required to receive a PicScratch. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from fun card designs for birthdays, love, celebrations, holidays, funny messages, and more. Unlock the full collection to find the perfect card for every surprise.
ReelyUs
This app allows groups to collaboratively build a shared feed of photos from events. Hosts can then create a music-backed recap reel from these photos, which can be saved and shared.
- Create shared event experiences
- Invite others with a join code
- Collaborative photo and comment feed
- Build music-backed recap reels
- Save reels and photos
- Content reporting and blocking
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ReelyUs turns a group's photos from a shared event into a recap reel everyone can keep. Create an "experience" for any get-together — a birthday, a trip, a graduation, a day at the park — and invite the people who were there. Everyone adds their photos as "moments," with captions and comments, so the whole event comes together in one shared feed instead of scattered across everyone's phones. When you're ready, the host builds the photos into a short recap reel set to music — a simple, finished video you can save and share. FEATURES - Create a shared experience and invite others with a join code - Everyone adds photos, captions, and comments to one feed - Build a recap reel from the group's photos, set to music - Save your photos and finished reels to your device - Report or block content and members to keep experiences comfortable - Light and dark mode, with large, readable text ReelyUs is built for everyone — easy enough for any age to pick up, and made for the people you actually share moments with.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ReelyUs at every 4 days against PicScratch's every 6 months. ReelyUs also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). PicScratch's advantage is ratings volume (58 vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. PicScratch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ReelyUs sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ReelyUs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PicScratch has 58 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of PicScratch's written reviews are positive against 100% of ReelyUs's.
PicScratch ships an update every 6 months, ReelyUs every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PicScratch | ReelyUs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (58 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guy Gubi | Ben Reyes |
Customer experience
PicScratch
ReelyUs
In-app purchases
PicScratch
- Premium Features$0.99
ReelyUs
- 3 Movie Credits$1.99
- 8 Movie Credits$4.99
- 15 Movie Credits$9.99
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- 35 Movie Credits$19.99









