Comparison

Photo Measures vs Sardines Carpool

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

Head to head
About

Photo Measures

Easily measure and annotate dimensions directly onto your photos. Perfect for home improvement, real estate, or any project requiring precise measurements. Save, organize, and share your annotated images with ease.

Highlights
  • Draw measures directly on photos
  • Zoom for precision
  • Add text comments
  • Support for angles
  • Imperial or metric units
  • Organize photos by category
  • Export as PDF or JPG
Features
Currently charting
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Photo Measures is the most elegant and the easiest way to save measures on your own photos on iPhone and iPad! Architectural Digest - "Very useful when shopping or meeting with contractors" Tuaw.com - "It's perfect for your own work around the house, and handy for creating plans to bring to a contractor" AppSafari - "So incredibly convenient" Featured on the front page of the AppStore under New & Noteworthy and Staff Favorites in more than 70 countries, including the US, France, Germany and Canada. Recommended by many reference magazines, websites and blogs all around the world: Architectural Digest, Tuaw.com, This Old House, AppOfTheDay.com, AppSafari.com, etc... ◆◆◆◆◆ Constructing a house? Engineering a new project? Moving to a new place? Take some photos and note down the dimensions on the photos to remember the exact layout, and to make sure that everything will fit easily. Need to keep in mind the exact dimensions of an object? Just take a photo and quickly write them on it. Are you decorating? Want to buy a new frame or a new furniture but not sure it will fit? No problem since you can have all your house dimensions always with you! ◆◆◆◆◆ You are a real estate agent? A contractor? An engineer? A designer? Working in the construction industry? Someone who wants to keep his house's measure easily accessible? Whenever you need to save dimensions, sizes, angles or write down a detail you need to remember, Photo Measures will help you to be more efficient and more accurate. ◆◆◆◆◆ Photo Measures helps you to: . Take a photo and directly draw measures on it . Zoom into and out of your photo when you need more precision . Edit your measures with a very intuitive interface . Quickly add text as comments when measures are not enough . Native support for angles . Save your measures in imperial or metric units . Easily organize your photos by category . Export your dimensions in high resolution by email or to the photo library . Export as PDF or JPG . Import photos of any size and aspect ratio . Support Retina display Keep posted, a lot of new features are planned for the next versions!

About

Sardines Carpool

Effortlessly organize carpools directly within iMessage. Create ride polls, manage multiple vehicles, and save your car details for quick setup. Everything stays within your conversations, no accounts or servers needed.

Highlights
  • Create ride polls in iMessage
  • Support for multi-vehicle trips
  • Save custom vehicle seat layouts
  • Automatic name saving
  • No accounts or server reliance
  • Trip scheduling with date and time
Features
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Sardines makes organizing carpools effortless — right inside iMessage. No accounts, no downloads for your friends, no switching between apps. Just open Sardines in any conversation and start filling seats. **Create Ride Polls in Seconds** Pick your vehicle, assign a driver, add passengers to seats, and share the ride poll with your group. Everyone in the conversation can see who's riding where at a glance. **Multi-Vehicle Trips** Need more than one car? Add multiple vehicles to a single trip and assign passengers across all of them. The message preview adapts automatically — from a detailed single-car view to a compact multi-vehicle summary. **Your Vehicle Garage** Save your cars, vans, and SUVs with their exact seat layouts. Support for regular seats, shotgun, car seats, and boosters — so you always know who fits where. Switch vehicles with a tap when plans change. **Names That Stick** Sardines remembers your drivers, passengers, and trip names. The more you use it, the faster it gets. Names from rides other people send you are saved automatically too. **No Accounts. No Servers.** Everything stays in iMessage. Your ride details are encoded directly in the message — no sign-ups, no cloud storage, no tracking. It just works. **Trip Scheduling** Add a date and time to any ride so everyone knows when to be ready. **Built for Real Life** Whether it's the daily school run, a weekend trip, or coordinating rides to the game, Sardines keeps everyone on the same page without the group text chaos.

Screenshots

Photo Measures4 screens
Sardines Carpool3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sardines Carpool at Free against Photo Measures's $6.99. Sardines Carpool also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Photo Measures's advantage is ratings volume (530 vs 13) and chart position (#65 vs unranked). On rating, 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

Sardines Carpool is free to download; Photo Measures costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Photo Measures against 4.7 for Sardines Carpool. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Photo Measures has 530 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Photo Measures's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sardines Carpool's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Measures ships an update every 3 months, Sardines Carpool every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Photo Measures versus Sardines Carpool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto MeasuresSardines Carpool
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (530 ratings)4.7 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings530 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#65 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCubentRobert Mc Cord Hoehn

Customer experience

Photo Measures

All ratings524 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews803 reviews
Positive88.8%
Neutral4.9%
Negative6.4%

Sardines Carpool

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Photo Measures

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Measurements not aligning properly with photos
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Inability to edit or delete measurements

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sync across devices (iCloud, Google Drive, etc.)
  • Ability to import/export PDFs
  • Integration with laser measuring tools
  • More advanced drawing/annotation tools
  • Improved photo organization and management

Sardines Carpool

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Photo Measures

No in-app purchases

None

Sardines Carpool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Photo Measures free?
Photo Measures costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sardines Carpool free?
Sardines Carpool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Photo Measures or Sardines Carpool?
Sardines Carpool is rated higher. Photo Measures averages 4.6 out of 5 from 530 ratings, while Sardines Carpool averages 4.7 from 13 ratings.
Do Photo Measures or Sardines Carpool have ads?
Neither Photo Measures nor Sardines Carpool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Measures or Sardines Carpool?
Photo Measures ships an update every 3 months, and Sardines Carpool every 4 days. Most recently, Photo Measures was updated on November 10, 2026 and Sardines Carpool on November 8, 2026.

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