Comparison

Before/After vs Half

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

Head to head
About

Before/After

Easily create before-and-after slider videos and collages from two photos. Ideal for professionals in aesthetics, construction, and fitness to showcase transformations with automatic alignment and customizable formats. Offers privacy features like eye hiding.

Highlights
  • Slider and crossfade videos
  • Side-by-side and top-and-bottom collages
  • Automatic alignment for faces, bodies, and rooms
  • Progress camera with ghost overlay
  • Client and visit tracking
  • Logo branding
  • Eye privacy options
Features
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Before/After turns two photos into a before-and-after slider video or a side-by-side collage in every social format, and keeps each client's progress in one place. FOR CLINICS AND SALONS Aesthetic and cosmetology clinics, med spas, dental practices, lash, brow, nail and hair artists: photograph every client with the same framing at each visit, add your logo and post the result the same day. Hide the eyes with one tap when a client prefers privacy. FOR CONTRACTORS AND CLEANERS Renovation, painting, landscaping and cleaning crews: shoot the after photo over a ghost of the before, and Before/After lines up the room, including rotation and perspective. FOR FITNESS AND PERSONAL PROGRESS Coaches and anyone tracking their body: the progress camera and full-body alignment make week 12 match week 1. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose two photos, or take the next one with the progress camera. 2. Before/After lines them up automatically. 3. Pick a style and a format, and save. FEATURES • Slider and crossfade videos, side-by-side and top-and-bottom collages • Every format: square, 4:5 posts, 9:16 Reels and Stories • Auto-align for faces, full bodies and rooms, with rotation and perspective • Progress camera: before photo as a ghost overlay, match meter, grid, level, exposure lock • Manual framing: two-finger rotate, zoom out, flip, straighten, vertical and horizontal perspective • Clients and visits: take the next photo, reminders, compare any two visits, search • Projects saved automatically • Your logo on every video and collage • Hide or pixelate eyes for privacy • Filters, animation curve and slide direction • "Also save as": the same result in another format in one tap • Siri and Shortcuts: "Take a progress photo" Photos taken with the progress camera stay inside the app and are not added to your Photos library. SUBSCRIPTION Before/After is free to try. Saving videos and collages requires Before/After Premium, an auto-renewing weekly, monthly or annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://fancygames.net/beforeafter/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://fancygames.net/beforeafter/privacy.html

About

Half

This app automatically detects and splits half-frame film scans into individual photographs. You can then rejoin any two frames to create new pairs, perfect for printing. It offers flexible export options and works entirely offline for privacy.

Highlights
  • Automatic half-frame scan splitting
  • Manual splitting option
  • Rejoin any two frames
  • Customizable print aspect ratios
  • High-quality TIFF export
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Half-frame cameras fit two photographs where a normal 35mm frame goes. So when the lab scans your film, you get back one wide image holding two separate pictures, divided by the dark strip of unexposed film between them. Half-Frame Joiner finds that divider, splits the scan into its two real photographs, and lets you rejoin any two of them into a new pair — ready to print. SPLIT YOUR SCANS Pick your half-frame scans straight from your photo library. Each one splits automatically, cropped from the original at full resolution and never resampled. Scans the detector isn't sure about are left whole, so a real picture is never cut in half by accident — and you can always split those by hand. REJOIN ANY TWO Tap two frames and see them joined instantly. Pair them back the way they were shot, or combine frames from completely different rolls to make something new. Every combination is a tap away. MADE FOR PRINTING Choose 4×6, 5×7, or the original aspect ratio before you save, and the app composes to exactly that shape so a lab won't crop your photographs unexpectedly. Pinch to zoom, drag to reposition, and rotate each photo inside its half of the frame until it sits right. The black divider between the two pictures is recreated the way film actually looks, not pasted in as a hard line. EXPORT WHAT YOU NEED Save joined pairs, or export single frames on their own — as TIFF for maximum quality or JPEG for smaller files. Everything goes back to your photo library. KEEP TRACK Tap the info button on any photo to see every join it appears in, and browse everything you've made in the Created tab. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Half-Frame Joiner works entirely on your device. No accounts, no analytics, and no network requests at all — it runs in Airplane Mode. Your photographs never leave your iPhone.

Screenshots

Before/After4 screens
Half4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Half at 100% against Before/After's 64%. Half also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Before/After's advantage is ratings volume (209 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Before/After sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Half asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Half holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Before/After has 209 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Before/After's written reviews are positive against 100% of Half's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Before/After versus Half: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBefore/AfterHalf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (209 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings209 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFancygames, Ltd.Optimized Machining LLC

Customer experience

Before/After

All ratings210 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative33.3%

Half

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Before/After

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Cannot save projects
  • App doesn't work (black screen, photos not loading)
  • Unexpected fees charged
  • Cannot cancel subscription
  • Editing not as advertised
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  • Saved work shows as black screen

Requested features

3 requests
  • Aspect adjustment
  • Ability to go to files easily
  • Saving projects

Half

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Before/After

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Premium Annual1 Year trial$19.991 Year
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  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$44.991 Year
None

Half

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Before/After free?
Before/After is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Half free?
Half is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Before/After or Half?
Half is rated higher. Before/After averages 4.6 out of 5 from 209 ratings, while Half averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Before/After or Half have ads?
Neither Before/After nor Half shows ads.

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