Comparison

Compass Camera vs Life2Film

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

Head to head
About

Compass Camera

Record videos or take photos with embedded directional and environmental data. Features include compass, time, date, level, and pitch angle indicators. Save original photos and access media easily from your library.

Highlights
  • Embed compass, time, date, level, pitch angle
  • Capture photos with embedded info
  • Capture videos with embedded info
  • Show/Hide info overlays
  • Pinch to zoom
  • Save original photo option
Features
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Compass Cam – Easy Scene Documentation Get scene direction quickly and easily with a compass indicator and more. Compass Cam lets you record videos or take photos with useful information embedded directly into them. The embedded info includes Compass, Time, Date, Level, and Pitch Angle. Standard Camera Features: • Pinch to zoom • Rear camera with auto exposure/focus mode • Supports both landscape and portrait modes App Features: • Capture photos with embedded info • Capture videos with embedded info • Show/Hide time and date • Show/Hide compass • Show/Hide grid • Show/Hide level gauge • Show/Hide pitch angle indicator • Option to save the original photo in photo capture mode Usage Examples: • Travel journaling – record your journey with embedded data • Monitor object direction and orientation • And many more uses, limited only by your imagination This is a fast and easy way to capture photos or videos with direction and date embedded — just snap, and your photo will include all the info automatically. Notes * Video and photo captures are saved to your photo library for fast and easy access * Supported pitch angle range: -60° to 60° Thank you for your support! Visit nitrio.com for more great apps for your iOS devices.

About

Life2Film

Automatically creates short, engaging videos from your existing camera roll footage. It intelligently selects the best moments, syncs them to music, and allows for easy editing and style customization. All processing happens on your device, ensuring your privacy.

Highlights
  • Automatic video creation from camera roll
  • Intelligent clip selection based on movement and faces
  • Music synchronization and beat-matching
  • On-device processing for privacy
  • Multiple video styles and editing options
  • Customizable film length and format
  • Visual timeline editing
Features
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Your camera roll already holds the film. Life2Film finds it. Pick a day, a trip, a month of your kid. The app watches every second of that footage on the phone itself: where the movement is, who is in frame, which takes are steady and which are forty seconds of pavement. Then it cuts the good parts into something short enough to watch twice. A FILM CAN WAIT FOR YOU While the phone charges, a good day can become a short film in Films, with one quiet notice. Made on the phone, never saved to Photos; off in Settings. YOUR FOOTAGE STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE No footage upload, no account, no queue. Faces and framing come from Apple's Vision framework; the scene cuts and the tempo are measured on the phone by a native engine, which also assembles the timeline. Films take up to a minute, airplane mode too — if the clips are local, not in iCloud. NINE WAYS TO START The Make sheet asks what the film is for, and the answer sets the length, the shape and the cut: • Just a film: the best moments, half a minute • Summary of a day, a month or a year: the period's own name as the title • Reels: vertical, on the beat, 15 to 60 seconds • Travel: day by day, with the date in the picture at every change of shooting day • Chronicle: everything in the order it happened, up to ten minutes • Vlog: speech leads the cut, the phrases go on screen, and the track sits under the voice • Happy birthday: people in frame outrank scenery, and the track steps back under the voices • New Year, in December: lights, people and the toast • Set it up yourself: every row by hand A preset is starting values, not a cage. One row on the setup screen swaps the style, and the eight say what they do to the footage rather than repeat their names: Film, Music video, Family, Travel, Documentary, Transcript, Chrono, Quality. MUSIC YOU DECIDE ABOUT Pick a track and the cuts land on the beat, though not on every beat: one shot spans several of them, so the film has a pulse instead of a stutter. Skip the music and the film keeps the sound the clips were shot with. Where somebody is talking, laughing, cheering or applauding, the track drops to a fifth of its level and the voices come up, so the "Happy Birthday" is audible over the music. ARGUE WITH THE DRAFT The app says how many moments it found and how many it used. Tap any shot and the clip opens as one image of its whole length, every moment marked along it. Choose a different moment and only that shot changes. Drag a shot somewhere else and the film re-cuts around it at the same length. Three arrangements of the same footage sit side by side. FOURTEEN LOOKS Ten are .cube tables of the kind a colourist hands you, four are built in. The look you pick is drawn on a frame of your own film, graded by the same table the export runs. A BETTER LENS ON THE PHOTO LIBRARY The iPhone library is a long scroll. Life2Film reads it as a calendar wheel: spin to any month or day and see what you filmed. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Turn hours of raw clips into 15, 30, 60 or 180 seconds, or ten minutes of chronicle • Cut to a track from your library, to one you import, or to none at all • Trim, reorder, rotate and drop clips by hand • Vertical, horizontal, square, or whatever the footage mostly is • Burn an opening title, or a date caption at each change of shooting day • Export in full quality • Speaks 36 languages, including Bashkir and Tatar, which iOS itself does not offer FOR THE CURIOUS The optional chat agent takes plain sentences and answers on Apple's on-device model, on our model with Pro Monthly or Yearly, or on your own API key. Off until you open it. GOOD FOR Travel footage that never got edited, birthdays, a kid growing up a month at a time, and gigs where cutting to the beat does the most work. The footage is already there. Life2Film makes it worth watching again. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://life2film.com/privacy

Screenshots

Compass Camera4 screens
Life2Film4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Life2Film at 100% against Compass Camera's 50%. Life2Film also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 49 months). Compass Camera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Life2Film is free to download; Compass Camera costs $2.99 up front. Life2Film sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Compass Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Compass Camera ships an update every 49 months, Life2Film every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Compass Camera versus Life2Film: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompass CameraLife2Film
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 49 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeng Jia LiangRustam SALAVATOV

Customer experience

Compass Camera

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Life2Film

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Compass Camera

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Life2Film

Subscriptions2
  • Life2Film Pro — Month7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Life2Film Pro — Year7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Life2Film Pro — Forever$24.99

Questions

Is Compass Camera free?
Compass Camera costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Life2Film free?
Life2Film is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Compass Camera or Life2Film have ads?
Neither Compass Camera nor Life2Film shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Compass Camera or Life2Film?
Compass Camera ships an update every 49 months, and Life2Film every 4 days. Most recently, Compass Camera was updated on November 3, 2026 and Life2Film on November 9, 2026.

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