Comic Life vs Rain Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Comic Life
Create comic books and graphic novels from your photos. Add speech balloons, captions, and sound effects to tell your stories. This version is for volume purchase program customers and will not receive further feature enhancements.
- Create comic books
- Add speech balloons
- Add captions
- Add sound effects
- Use photos
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*** If you've already purchased Comic Life you can now upgrade at a discount *** *** by purchasing the Comic Life 3 Upgrade Bundle. You will receive credit for *** *** your Comic Life purchase. *** * Please note: Due to an App Store limitation, App Store Bundles do not work with the Volume Purchase Program for Education. * This version is being provided for volume purchase program customers in order to fulfill their outstanding orders. No further feature enhancements are planned for this version.
Rain Camera
Enhance your photos and videos with a variety of realistic rainfall effects. Add drizzle, storms, or sun showers to your existing media or capture new moments with added atmospheric elements. Customize raindrop size, wind direction, and more for unique visual results.
- Add various rainfall effects
- Support for photos and videos
- Combine rain with photos for movies
- Adjust rainfall and wind direction
- Direct camera shooting
- Customizable raindrop size and amount
- Adjustable fall speed and wind direction
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Add rainfall effects to your videos and photos. There are various expressions in the rain, and each has its own taste. Various effects such as drizzle, light rain, heavy rain, storm, squall, sun shower, shower, etc. can be added. It supports output to videos and still images, and it is also possible to combine rain with photos and output as movies. You can also change the rainfall and wind direction while outputting the video. Not only movies and photos saved on the smartphone, but also camera shooting is supported. Uninteresting monotonous videos and photos will be reborn just by raining. [Source] - Camera shooting: Video, photo - Camera roll: Read videos and photos [Settings] - Raindrop size - Amount of rainfall - Wind direction - Fall speed - Video length (when selecting photo) - Save resolution: 20-100% of original resolution [Output] - Save to camera roll: video, photo - Video / Photo sharing: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, ...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Comic Life at 3.6 against Rain Camera's 1.0. Comic Life also leads on review sentiment (61% vs 33%) and ratings volume (46 vs 1). Rain Camera's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Comic Life costs $4.99 and Rain Camera $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Comic Life holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Comic Life has 46 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Comic Life's written reviews are positive against 33% of Rain Camera's.
Comic Life ships an update every 6 weeks, Rain Camera monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Comic Life | Rain Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (46 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 194 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | plasq LLC | Masanori Katsuta |
Customer experience
Comic Life
Rain Camera
Bugs and requests
Comic Life
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on opening/editing
- Text/image manipulation issues
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
- Unreliable saving and loading of projects
Requested features
5 requests- More templates and layouts
- Ability to import/export to desktop version
- Higher resolution export options
- Customizable fonts and text formatting
- Improved alignment and snapping tools
Rain Camera
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Comic Life
No in-app purchases
Rain Camera
No in-app purchases
