Comparison

ToonCamera vs Queryable

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

Head to head
About

ToonCamera

Transform your photos and videos into live cartoons with real-time art effects. Choose from various styles, customize them, and share your creations instantly. Convert existing media or capture new moments with artistic filters.

Highlights
  • Live cartoon and art effects
  • Real-time preview
  • Multiple art styles (pencil, ink, stipple)
  • Customizable effects
  • Convert existing media
  • Direct sharing to social media
Features
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Transform your world into a live cartoon. Selected by Apple for iTunes Rewind Hot Trends In Apps and as an App Store Essential. "An amazing piece of technology." - Terry White, www.bestappsite.com "Best toon app out there, and totally worth the price!" - Robin Rhys, AppAdvice Daily ToonCamera is an amazing video and photography app that turns your world into a live cartoon. Apply real-time cartoon and art effects to your camera feed, record video, snap photos, and convert existing video and photos from your albums to create instant works of art. Save your creations and share them with friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube, all from within ToonCamera. Features: • Choose from multiple cartoon, pencil, stipple, and ink effects • Customize your effects with unique line art styles • Take photos and record videos with a real-time preview of the effects • Convert existing photos and videos from your albums • Save your creations and share them with friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and YouTube • Create canvas prints, posters, and more See a video of ToonCamera: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mo7OAQGDGsQ Subscribe or purchase ToonCamera to unlock all features. Find out more about ToonCamera and our other apps at www.codeorgana.com and follow us on Twitter @codeorgana. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Queryable

This app allows you to search your personal photo collection using natural language descriptions. It works entirely offline, ensuring your privacy, and understands complex queries beyond simple tags. Build an index once and then quickly find any moment in your album.

Highlights
  • Natural language photo search
  • Offline functionality
  • Open-source
  • Privacy-focused
  • Complex description understanding
  • One-time indexing
Features
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A product that has reached #1 on the front page of Hacker News and topped the paid tools chart across all European countries, while ranking #2 in the US on the same day. Queryable is an open-source, offline photo album search tool unlike anything you've used before. Search your photos with natural descriptions like "two people by the sea," "a blonde woman holding a glass of red wine," "a girl in red on the lawn," or even emotional moments like "We fell in love." Queryable understands longer, more human descriptions instead of only simple tags. New in this version: search in your own language. Non-English queries are translated on your device before searching, so your photos and your words never leave your phone. You can also search by photo, filter results by time, batch-select and share, clean up duplicates more precisely, and view Live Photos and videos more reliably. Pay once and use it forever. Queryable works completely offline after download, protecting the privacy of your photo library. FAQ: 1. What languages can I search in? You can search in your own language. Queryable translates your query on device before searching, while keeping the accuracy of the English search model. The app interface is currently localized in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. 2. How is my photo privacy protected? Queryable works completely offline. You can even disable the app's network permissions if you have privacy concerns. 3. How do I use it? After downloading, build an index for your photos. This takes a few minutes depending on your library and device. On an iPhone 12 mini, Queryable processes about 2,000 photos per minute, and indexing is only required once. Once indexing is complete, you can search instantly. When you add new photos, you can update the index at any time. Contact: - Email: myfancoo@gmail.com - Twitter: @immazzystar - GitHub: https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable Preview page created with https://screenshots.pro/.

Screenshots

ToonCamera4 screens
Queryable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ToonCamera at Free against Queryable's $4.99. ToonCamera also leads on ratings volume (8.6K vs 92) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Queryable's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On rating, review sentiment, ads and monetization model 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

ToonCamera is free to download; Queryable costs $4.99 up front. ToonCamera sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Queryable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for ToonCamera against 4.7 for Queryable. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ToonCamera has 8.6K ratings behind it against 92, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of ToonCamera's written reviews are positive against 78% of Queryable's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ToonCamera ships an update every 3 months, Queryable every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
ToonCamera versus Queryable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToonCameraQueryable
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.8 (8.6K ratings) — better4.7 (92 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better78.1% of reviews
Number of ratings8.6K — better92
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#116 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB197 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCode OrganaSmashMelon LLC

Customer experience

ToonCamera

All ratings8,608 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.9%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews1,016 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.5%

Queryable

All ratings87 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative15.6%

User reviews

ToonCamera

From 8.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Wonderful tool for enhancing and developing images
  • 👍 Amazing, fun, and easy to use
  • 👍 Excellent, intuitive, and versatile
  • 👍 Great for creating interesting and artistic photos
  • 👍 Fantastic for transforming photos into cartoons/art

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes when trying to save multiple images
  • 🐛 Glitches with video recording and sound
  • 🔍 Limited filter options and effects
  • 🔍 Mediocre and basic filter results

Queryable

From 92 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and effective search
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Innovative AI search technology
  • 🔒 Privacy-focused (offline processing)
  • ✅ Finds photos missed by native search

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Freezes and crashes
  • 🐛 Inconsistent results (false positives/negatives)
  • 🐛 Videos appear black
  • 🐛 Not working on Mac
  • 🐛 UI is basic/rudimentary

Bugs and requests

ToonCamera

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when trying to save multiple images
  • Issues with video recording and sound
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to edit/manipulate specific areas of photos
  • Improve video recording quality and features
  • Provide more advanced filter and editing options
  • Add ability to search and use photos from camera roll

Queryable

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App freezes after analyzing ~12k photos
  • App freezes when selecting a photo and searching for similar
  • App crashes during indexing
  • App freezes on Mac
  • Videos won't playback, appear black
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  • App returns black photos and irrelevant results on Mac
  • App crashes immediately after search
  • App doesn't work on iPad Pro
  • App doesn't work on older iPads (A12X)
  • Indexing stops if app is used while indexing
  • Deleted photos are blank
  • App crashes when trying to view image

Requested features

39 requests
  • Multi-select for many images
  • Copy/move selected images to other apps
  • Open images in native Photos app
  • Masonry-like image display
  • Fix iPad horizontal mode image shrinking
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  • Select all photos feature
  • Move selected photos to Files folder
  • Support for Chinese language
  • Search in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Search in Spanish
  • Search in German
  • Search in French
  • Choose clip model for keywords
  • Access to photo location/folder
  • Voice search
  • Incremental index building
  • Automatic background index updating
  • Gestures for navigation
  • Display metadata by default
  • Show photos taken around same time
  • Sort results by date
  • Filter by location
  • Work with arbitrary folders on macOS
  • Better photo app integration
  • Zoom in on images
  • Share images from the app
  • Swipe left/right to browse images
  • Refined UI/UX
  • Add a nuage de mots-clés for results
  • Add more languages
  • Add gestures
  • Add ergonomics
  • Order results by timestamp
  • Filter by location
  • Show info about photo by default
  • Show photos taken around the same time
  • Better photo app integration
  • Delete photos
  • Fix blank deleted photos

In-app purchases

5 purchases

ToonCamera

Subscriptions4
  • ToonCamera2 variants$4.997 Days
  • ToonCamera2 variants$9.991 Month
  • ToonCamera3 Days trial2 variants$19.991 Year
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  • ToonCamera3 Days trial2 variants$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • ToonCamera2 variants$49.99
None

Queryable

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ToonCamera free?
ToonCamera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Queryable free?
Queryable costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ToonCamera or Queryable?
ToonCamera is rated higher. ToonCamera averages 4.8 out of 5 from 8.6K ratings, while Queryable averages 4.7 from 92 ratings.
Do ToonCamera or Queryable have ads?
Neither ToonCamera nor Queryable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ToonCamera or Queryable?
ToonCamera ships an update every 3 months, and Queryable every 2 weeks. Most recently, ToonCamera was updated on October 30, 2026 and Queryable on October 30, 2026.

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