Comparison

Passport Photo vs Video Subtitle Hardcoder

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

Head to head
About

Passport Photo

Easily create compliant passport photos using your iPhone or iPod touch. Select a photo from your album or take a new one, then precisely position and scale it to fit standard templates. Adjust brightness and contrast before saving or emailing your compliant photo.

Highlights
  • Create passport photos from existing images or camera
  • Scale and position photos with finger gestures
  • Supports US and UK passport photo standards
  • Adjust brightness and contrast
  • Save photos to Photo Album
  • Email photos to others
  • Generate six 2x2 photos per print
Features
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Passport Photo makes it easy to create print-ready passport photos from your iPhone. Use the live camera guide to frame your head and shoulders, capture your photo, remove the background, replace it with white, adjust brightness, and generate a 4 x 6 sheet with six passport photos ready for printing or sharing. The app is designed for a simple step-by-step flow: Frame your photo with the on-screen passport guide Capture with the front or back camera Remove the background and replace it with white Adjust brightness if needed Generate a 4 x 6 image with 6 passport photos Save to Photos and share using the standard Apple share sheet Features: Passport head-and-shoulders camera guide Front and back camera support Automatic background removal White background replacement Brightness adjustment before export 6-up passport photo sheet generation 4 x 6 print layout Save directly to Photos Share with AirDrop, Messages, Mail, and more Passport Photo is great for preparing a clean passport-style photo sheet quickly and conveniently from your phone.

About

Video Subtitle Hardcoder

Permanently embed subtitles into videos for better engagement on social media. Supports SRT/ASS files or allows in-app subtitle creation with customizable font, size, location, and timing.

Highlights
  • Hardcode subtitles into videos
  • Supports SRT and ASS subtitle files
  • In-app subtitle editor
  • Customizable font, size, and color
  • Adjust subtitle display location (top, bottom, middle)
  • Set subtitle start time and duration
  • Inbuilt video previewer
Features
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Hardcode subtitles into a video. When a subtitle is hardcoded, it is permanently written into a Video and it is displayed whenever the video plays on any device or social media websites. Since videos autoplay without sound on social platforms, most of the viewers watch videos without sound. By uploading videos with hardcoded subtitles, you’ll get more engagement and higher viewer retention rates. The application provides two ways to hardcode the subtitles. ** Inbuilt support for SRT and ASS files : If you already have a SRT or ASS file, you could directly hardcode it to the video. In this case, the application will automatically take all formatting, font and location settings from the SRT/ASS files and hardcode it directly to the video. ** You could also create your own subtitles and merge them into the video right from the application. The application comes with its own editing interface. On this interface the video preview is displayed. You could traverse through the video and add the subtitle lines wherever required. ** Font, Size and Location : When you are defining your own subtitle lines, there is an option to set the font name, font size and the text color. These settings are universally applied to all subtitles lines that are added. ** Subtitle display location : For each subtitle line, you could specify whether that line should appear at Top, Bottom or Middle. These settings could be specified for individual lines. ** Start Time and duration to display subtitles : You could define the start time from which the subtitle should start displaying and the duration till which it should be displayed. This will ensure that the subtitles are displayed at exactly the right moment in your video. The application has its own inbuilt previewer where you could directly preview the created video with subtitles.

Screenshots

Passport Photo3 screens
Video Subtitle Hardcoder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Passport Photo at Free against Video Subtitle Hardcoder's $3.99. Video Subtitle Hardcoder's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 11%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Passport Photo is free to download; Video Subtitle Hardcoder costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Passport Photo versus Video Subtitle Hardcoder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPassport PhotoVideo Subtitle Hardcoder
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating—4.2 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.9% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB356 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlteru Inc.Nikhil Anshuman

Customer experience

Passport Photo

Written reviews64 reviews
Positive10.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative89.1%

Video Subtitle Hardcoder

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Passport Photo

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • Cannot resize paper
  • Won't print
  • Send button not functional
  • App crashes on import
  • Photo distorted
Show 11 more
  • Cannot choose resolution
  • Cannot choose print sheet size
  • Does not work
  • Blank screen
  • White screen
  • App not working
  • Doesn't work at all
  • App help email address is dead
  • Doesn't work and charging for nothing
  • No photo appears
  • Final photo clipped and compressed

Requested features

14 requests
  • Update to produce single digital image
  • Allow resizing of paper
  • Allow choosing resolution
  • Allow choosing print sheet size
  • Fix distorted photos
Show 9 more
  • Allow resizing photos to fit guidelines
  • Allow sending photos via email
  • Fix background not changing
  • Fix guide placement
  • Fix warping dimensions
  • Allow compatibility with Apple compatible printers
  • Fix US passport size discrepancy
  • Fix guiding lines disappearing
  • Fix contrast slider

Video Subtitle Hardcoder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Passport Photo

No in-app purchases

None

Video Subtitle Hardcoder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Passport Photo free?
Passport Photo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Video Subtitle Hardcoder free?
Video Subtitle Hardcoder costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Passport Photo or Video Subtitle Hardcoder have ads?
Neither Passport Photo nor Video Subtitle Hardcoder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Passport Photo or Video Subtitle Hardcoder?
Passport Photo ships an update every 17 months, and Video Subtitle Hardcoder every 17 months. Most recently, Passport Photo was updated on September 19, 2026 and Video Subtitle Hardcoder on August 14, 2026.

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