Comparison

Smart Photo Widget vs SpatialCapture

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

Head to head
About

Smart Photo Widget

This app automatically frames and displays your photos in widgets, eliminating manual cropping. Its AI handles framing, filtering, and rotation, offering options to skip unwanted images and add overlays like dates or frames.

Highlights
  • Automatic photo framing for all widget sizes
  • AI-powered cropping and selection
  • Option to skip blurry or dark photos
  • Rotates best photos throughout the day
  • Add date, time, or location overlays
  • Apply photo effects and filters (Premium)
  • Add picture frames
Features
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Smart Photo Widget is the best photo widget on the App Store, and the last one you'll ever need. It uses advanced AI to do all of your work for you, making it the simplest, easiest to use photo widget app out there. There are two types of results you'll get from all of the other photo widget apps: 1. You end up with poorly framed photos with your loved one's head missing. 2. You have to painstakingly choose and crop each photo to make sure it displays properly in each widget size. Using Smart Photo Widget, simply choose a photo folder and install the widget and you're done. Smart Photo Widget's advanced AI does all of the work for you: 1. Properly frames each photo in every widget size automatically! 2. Options to skip bad photos (blurry, too dark, screenshots, etc.). 3. Rotates the best photos throughout the day. 4. Optionally add handy overlays like current weekday/date/time or show the photo's date and location. 5. Apply photo effects/filters to make your photos pop (Smart Photo Premium required). 6. Optionally add picture frames for some whimsy in your widgets. Give Smart Photo Widget a try and see that it really is the easiest to use photo widget app on the App Store by far. Smart Photo Widget is free to download and use. Within the app you can purchase Smart Photo Premium which allows you to have unlimited photo collections and adds features like photo effects. If you purchase a Premium subscription, it will be applied to your iTunes account at the end of the free trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime within your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. The privacy policy for this app is located here: https://www.cromulentlabs.com/smart-photo-widget/privacy/ The terms of use for this app are the standard Apple terms located here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SpatialCapture

Features
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Turn an iPhone or iPad into a camera for agents. SpatialCapture records the visual and sensor evidence that external AI tools, Blender scripts and reconstruction workflows need to understand a real scene. Make one take, then share one documented ZIP containing video, calibrated camera movement, timestamps and the sensors you selected. WORKS WITH OR WITHOUT LIDAR Every supported ARKit device records video and a calibrated camera pose for each accepted frame. A device with a LiDAR Scanner also records measured scene depth and confidence. On a standard iPhone or iPad, the same workflow produces a pose-and-sensor package without invented depth. CAPTURE • Select the physical 0.5× ultra-wide or 1× wide camera when both are available • Video with optional microphone audio • Calibrated camera positions, orientations, intrinsics and timestamps • Optional gyroscope, accelerometer, gravity and device orientation • Optional GPS coordinates, altitude, speed and accuracy when available • LiDAR scene depth, confidence and matched color references when supported EXPORT FOR AGENTS AND BLENDER Export a ZIP containing the movie, frame-by-frame JSONL metadata, sensor streams, a readable manifest, a README and a Blender Python importer. LiDAR takes also include lossless depth buffers and color reference images. Recordings remain available in the Files app. The bundled Blender importer creates an animated camera from every take. For LiDAR captures, it also creates measured surface patches. Use the package as source evidence for manual modeling or with an external reconstruction agent you choose. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, subscription, advertising or automatic upload. GPS is off by default. Everything stays on your device until you use the system share sheet. SpatialCapture has no built-in AI service and does not send recordings to a developer server. FOR BEST RESULTS The app starts with the 0.5× ultra-wide camera when ARKit supports it, giving agents more scene context in each frame. You can switch to 1× before recording. Move slowly around still subjects and capture several angles. Pose-only captures do not contain measured geometry. LiDAR can miss glass, reflections, distant surfaces and hidden areas. GPS provides approximate geographic context; it does not register the ARKit world to a map. Requires an ARKit world-tracking iPhone or iPad with iOS/iPadOS 26 or later. The recorder uses an available HD format, preferably 30 FPS. It does not record 120/240 FPS slow motion or create a finished 3D model on the device. Privacy: https://www.carspecslab.com/docs/spatialcapture-privacy.html Support: https://www.carspecslab.com/docs/spatialcapture-support.html

Screenshots

Smart Photo Widget4 screens
SpatialCapture4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SpatialCapture at none against Smart Photo Widget's 2. Smart Photo Widget's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Smart Photo Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. SpatialCapture asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Smart Photo Widget versus SpatialCapture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Photo WidgetSpatialCapture
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (90 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings90 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCromulent LabsJIRI CHOMAT

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Smart Photo Widget

Subscriptions1
  • Smart Photo Premium Yearly14 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$14.99
None

SpatialCapture

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Photo Widget free?
Smart Photo Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SpatialCapture free?
SpatialCapture is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smart Photo Widget or SpatialCapture have ads?
Neither Smart Photo Widget nor SpatialCapture shows ads.

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