picTrove vs Flow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
picTrove
Easily find and save images and animated GIFs from across the web. Search multiple online sources simultaneously and organize your discoveries. Enjoy a slideshow of your saved content.
- Search internet photos
- Animated GIF support
- Saved Searches
- Save photos with one tap
- Image Slideshow
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The best app to search the Internet for photos. Search images from multiple image, photo and GIF sources on the Web. * Animated GIF support * Saved Searches * Save photos you like with 1 tap * Image Slideshow EULA: https://traversient.com/terms-and-conditions/
Flow
Consolidate your photos and videos from various social media platforms into a single, convenient browser. Access content from Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Mastodon timelines, user pages, and search results.
- Browse photos and videos from multiple social media
- Supports Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Mastodon
- Access timelines, user pages, and search results
- Consolidated media browsing experience
- Future support for more media sources
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Flow is a multimedia browser. Using Flow, you can easily browse photos and videos of your commonly used social media in one App Flow currently supports the following media sources: - Photos albums - Twitter timeline - Twitter's user page - Twitter search results - Tumblr Timeline - Tumblr blog content - Tumblr liked posts - Instagram Timeline - Instagram user pages - Mastodon Public timeline - Mastodon Home timeline - Mastodon User's posts In the future, Flow will continue to support more media sources, bringing your multimedia browsing experience to the next level
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Flow at none against picTrove's shown. Flow also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). picTrove's advantage is ratings volume (76 vs 3) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, 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
Both are free to download. picTrove sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Flow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flow holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: picTrove has 76 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of picTrove's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flow's.
picTrove ships an update every 3 months, Flow every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | picTrove | Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (76 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Traversient Incorporated | 健 刘 |
Customer experience
picTrove
Flow
Bugs and requests
picTrove
Reported bugs
3 issues- Search results not loading properly
- Inability to access certain search engines
- Saved searches and history not persisting
Requested features
3 requests- Add option to filter out inappropriate content
- Improve search result quality and relevance
- Restore ability to save images directly to device
Flow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
picTrove
- No Ads Monthly$1.991 Month
- No Ads Yearly$19.991 Year
Flow
- Unlock full version$4.99
