Negative Me vs PictoScanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Negative Me
Transform your photos by converting them between color negative and positive images with a single click. Easily develop color negatives or create color negatives from existing photos. Save and share your transformed images directly from the app.
- Color negative to positive conversion
- Positive to color negative conversion
- One-click negative film developing
- One-click color negative creation
- Select photos from album or camera
- Save and share results
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Create polished negative and inverted color in seconds with Negative Me. Create classic film negatives, monochrome inversions, and striking reversed-color artwork. Designed for fast, visual editing: • Compare the original and edited image with a live split preview • Explore curated presets made for different photo styles • Blend the effect with your original for a subtle or bold finish • Save favorite effect settings in My Looks and reuse them • Share a labeled before-and-after image • Undo, redo, and resume your last edit • Save and share at high resolution • Process photos directly on your device Choose a photo, try a preset, and adjust until the result feels right. The focused editor keeps the image and its transformation visible throughout the process. Start creating for free in this ad-supported edition.
PictoScanner
Easily transform your photos into negatives or black and white negatives using your iPhone camera. Save your creations directly to your device in zoom mode for instant archiving.
- Convert negatives to positives
- Convert normal photos to B/W negatives
- Convert normal photos to negatives
- Save photos in zoom mode
- Instant archiving to PictoScanner folder
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PictoScanner is the easiest way to capture through iPhone's camera and convert all your image into negatives, B/w Negative & Normal * Convert any negative into positives. * Convert the normal photos into b/w negative. * Convert the normal photos into negative. * Save button for instant archiving into your iPhone's PictoScanner Folder. * Save photo in zoom mode also. PictoScanner application is very simple and easy to use to developed any photo to its negative or vise-versa.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Negative Me at 4.0 against PictoScanner's 2.8. Negative Me also leads on ratings volume (56 vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). PictoScanner's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Negative Me holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Negative Me has 56 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Negative Me's written reviews are positive against 45% of PictoScanner's.
Negative Me ships an update every 3 weeks, PictoScanner every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Negative Me | PictoScanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (56 ratings) — better | 2.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews — better | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 福恩 毛 | Simon Lautrop |
Customer experience
Negative Me
PictoScanner
Bugs and requests
Negative Me
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes when selecting or loading photos
- Incompatible with iOS 11 and newer versions
- Crashes when tapping 'No' on premium upgrade prompt
- Save functionality broken or inaccessible
- App no longer works after Apple OS updates
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- Crashes on older devices
- Photo quality degradation after inversion
- Inconsistent performance across different iOS versions
Requested features
10 requests- Live camera preview with real-time inversion
- Color correction for C-41 and C-22 film
- Image rotation capability
- Advanced color adjustment filters
- Remove or hide original image during editing
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- Better UI/UX design for saving functionality
- Video inversion support
- Pinch-to-zoom and standard iOS photo manipulation
- Batch processing for multiple images
- iOS 11+ and current iOS version compatibility
PictoScanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Negative Me
No in-app purchases
PictoScanner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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