Comparison

Snappy vs Before & After

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

Head to head
About

Snappy

This camera app automatically captures photos based on sound, motion, brightness, or specific objects appearing in the frame. Set custom triggers and thresholds to capture moments hands-free, perfect for when you're busy or want to be in the shot.

Highlights
  • Automatic capture by sound, motion, brightness, or object detection
  • Customizable trigger thresholds
  • Continuous and standby trigger modes
  • Max shot count and interval settings
  • Front and back camera support
  • Grid, inclinometer, and aspect ratio options
Features
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A camera that shoots without you pressing the shutter. Sound, movement, brightness, heading, what's in frame — Snappy watches the sensors and releases the shutter the moment the condition you set is met. Use it with the phone on a tripod or a table, from a distance, when your hands are busy, or when you want to be in the picture yourself. The shutter button still works, of course. It's an ordinary camera too. ā–  Eight trigger conditions • Shake — shoots when you shake the phone • Sound — shoots when it hears a loud noise • Motion — shoots when something moves in frame, with a threshold you can set by performing the movement once • Brightness — shoots when it gets brighter • Distance — shoots when something comes closer than the distance you set, using LiDAR or TrueDepth • Compass — shoots when the phone faces a heading you choose • Object — shoots when something you picked appears in frame, from 77 kinds including people, cats, dogs, birds, animals and cars • Gesture — shoots on a peace sign held up to the camera, or on both arms raised, which reads from right across a room Most conditions can be flipped to shoot when the value *falls* instead. When it goes quiet, when it gets dark, when the movement stops — the reverse works too. ā–  Set the threshold with your finger The indicator just above the preview shows what the sensor is feeling right now. Drag the white line and the threshold moves with it, while you watch the frame. No need to open Settings. ā–  Two trigger modes • Continuous — keeps shooting for as long as the condition stays met • Standby — shoots once, then waits until the condition is no longer met before it will shoot again Choose Standby when the situation holds steady — someone standing still, a room that stays bright — so you don't end up with a hundred of the same photo. ā–  Features • Shot count (1–10; 11–100 or unlimited with Pro) • Interval Time between shots, from 0.0 to 99.9 seconds • Delay Time before the shot, from 0.0 to 99.9 seconds, with a countdown ring around the shutter button • A sound when the condition is met, so you know it noticed even from behind the camera • Automatic capture lock — the sensors keep watching, but nothing is taken • Grid (thirds / center) • Inclinometer showing side-to-side and front-to-back tilt at once, turning with the way you hold the device • Aspect ratio (default / square) • Saved size (1/4; Full and 1/2 with Pro) • Save to Photos, or with Pro to a folder on this device or in iCloud Drive • Add location • Capture review • Disable Auto-Lock, so a long session isn't cut short by the screen turning off • Front and back camera Photos are saved to the iOS Photos library — or, with Pro, to a dated folder on this device or in iCloud Drive — with what triggered the shot written into the file's EXIF. ā–  Some ways to use it • Leave it by the door or in the garden and catch whoever — or whatever — turns up • Clap your hands to take the shot from across the room • Raise both arms from across the room and be in the photo yourself • Catch fireworks and lightning on brightness • Put it beside a path and shoot whatever comes within a metre • Shake the phone to shoot • Shoot when the phone faces a particular direction Open the Quick Guide from Description in Settings. It includes recipes like these. This app shows ads. The Pro in-app purchase removes them, and unlocks the Full and 1/2 sizes, saving to this device or iCloud Drive, and shot counts of 11 or more and unlimited. Without Pro, photos are saved at 1/4 size to the Photos library, and Shot Count is 1 to 10.

About

Before & After

Features
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Pay once. No subscription, no ads, no account. Your photos never leave your device. Before & After lines up two photos of your face automatically — eyes locked, angle corrected, scale matched — and morphs between them so the change is all you see. No pinching, nudging, or ghost-overlay guesswork: pick two photos (or shoot them in-app with a ghost guide) and the alignment happens by itself. Features • Automatic face alignment — eye-locked rotation, scale, and position correction • Smooth morph between the two shots — drag the photo or use the slider • Looping GIF export, ready for iMessage and social • Full-resolution crossfade video export for Reels and Stories (Pro) • Labeled BEFORE / AFTER side-by-side photo export (Pro) • In-app camera with ghost overlay for matched retakes • Mirror toggle for selfie chirality • Works completely offline — no account, no cloud, no analytics For anyone tracking a change that is hard to see day to day: fitness and weight-loss progress, skincare routines, hair growth or regrowth, braces, glow-ups, a year of aging. Free to use: compare unlimited photo pairs and make your first 3 GIF exports free. A one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited exports, removes the watermark, and adds the video and side-by-side formats. No subscription, ever. Privacy: everything runs on your device. Photos are processed locally and never uploaded anywhere.

Screenshots

Snappy4 screens
Before & After2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snappy at none against Before & After's 1. Before & After's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Before & After sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snappy asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 6 level
Snappy versus Before & After: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnappyBefore & After
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews45.8% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB5 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperMasayuki AkamatsuRoman Kopaliani

In-app purchases

None

Snappy

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Before & After

One-time1
  • Before & After Pro (lifetime)$4.99

Questions

Is Snappy free?
Snappy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Before & After free?
Before & After is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Snappy or Before & After have ads?
Snappy shows ads; Before & After does not.

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