Comparison

Squaready Pro vs Hipstamatic® Analog Camera

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

Head to head
About

Squaready Pro

Easily transform any photo, landscape or portrait, into a perfect square for social media. Add creative backgrounds, borders, and effects to make your images stand out. Includes a full suite of editing tools for professional-looking posts.

Highlights
  • Crop photos to square shape
  • Post entire photos without cropping
  • Support for Instagram rectangle format
  • Colorful backgrounds and borders
  • Stylish filters and effects
  • Text input and meme creation
  • High-resolution export
Features
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*** For all Instagram Lovers!! *** Squaready Pro is a application you can crop the photo into square shape. Not only landscape but also portrait photo can be put in the square area. ► Highly recommend Instagram users! ▹ Post Entire Photos On Instagram Without Cropping !! ▹ Make a rectangle photo into square shape "Insta-size". ▹ Support for the Instagram-specific new Rectangle format. ▹ Choose a colorful background. ▹ Simple and Useful Effects. - BG Effects (e.g. Drop shadow) - Border Effects - Soft Edge Effects - Color Tone Filter ▹ In app sharing posting to Instagram. ▹ And also "Ads FREE"!! ► Built-in Full-featured and Poweful Photo Editor ‣ Various Stylish Filters with level control ‣ Color Splash ‣ Tilt-Shift Blur ‣ Vignette ‣ Draw Lines ‣ Text Input and Meme ‣ Crop and Straighten ‣ And many other features! ► Other Great Features - High-res export. - EXIF/GPS Location data ready - Load a image from Clipboard at startup. - One-touch Easy cropping - Easily correct centering. - Support for Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

About

Hipstamatic® Analog Camera

This app simulates shooting with a vintage analog film camera, applying effects like lenses and films before you take the photo. Explore over a thousand unique analog combinations and connect with a community of photographers without algorithms or ads.

Highlights
  • Analog film camera simulation
  • Pre-shoot effect application
  • 1000+ lens and film combinations
  • Chronological community feed
  • No ads or algorithms
  • Photo challenges and stamps
Features
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Your iPhone takes perfect photos. Hipstamatic® doesn't. That's the point. Hipstamatic is not a photo editor. It's a camera... the original analog film camera for iPhone, made since 2009. —— SHOOT FIRST. EDIT NEVER. Pick a lens. Pick a film. Shoot. Hipstamatic® applies the analog look before you press the shutter — exactly the way a real film camera works. No editing. No tweaking. No second-guessing. The photo is finished the moment you take it. —— 200+ LENSES. 200+ FILMS. EVERY ONE A REAL CAMERA. Over 1,000 analog combinations across TinType, Instant, Classic Toy and more. Each one gives you grain, color shifts, light leaks and vignettes you can't fake and can't replicate anywhere else. None of them perfect. All of them honest. Don't want to choose? Shuffle, and let the camera surprise you. —— NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ALGORITHM. EVER. Hipstamatic® runs on members, not advertisers. No VC funding. No data harvesting. No feed deciding what you should look at. When you join, you're keeping an independent camera alive… One that's been here since before Instagram existed. —— A SMALL, QUIET ROOM. If you want it, there's a community of people who shoot the way you do. Chronological. No algorithm. No brand accounts. No promoted posts. No follower math. Just photographs people actually meant to make. And it's opt-in — if you only ever want a private camera, that's the whole app too. —— FREE TO START. MORE LOOKS WITH MEMBERSHIP. The camera is free. Join the Hipstamatic® Camera Club to open the whole shelf. Every lens, every film, every camera we've made in 15+ years and go as deep as you want to go. Your first month is on us. —— P.S. Hipstamatic was Apple's very first App of the Year (2010). We just never stopped pointing the camera at something.

Screenshots

Squaready Pro4 screens
Hipstamatic® Analog Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hipstamatic® Analog Camera at Free against Squaready Pro's $3.99. Hipstamatic® Analog Camera also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Squaready Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (67% vs 39%). On ads 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

Hipstamatic® Analog Camera is free to download; Squaready Pro costs $3.99 up front. Hipstamatic® Analog Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Squaready Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hipstamatic® Analog Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hipstamatic® Analog Camera has 2.8K ratings behind it against 124, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Squaready Pro's written reviews are positive against 39% of Hipstamatic® Analog Camera's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Squaready Pro ships an update every 6 months, Hipstamatic® Analog Camera monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Squaready Pro versus Hipstamatic® Analog Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquaready ProHipstamatic® Analog Camera
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (124 ratings)4.6 (2.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.1% of reviews — better39.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1242.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#142 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.8 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB184 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFANG Inc.Hipstamatic, LLC

Customer experience

Squaready Pro

All ratings124 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral4.0%
Negative12.9%
Written reviews152 reviews
Positive67.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative27.0%

Hipstamatic® Analog Camera

All ratings2,798 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews380 reviews
Positive39.5%
Neutral12.1%
Negative48.4%

User reviews

Squaready Pro

From 124 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 🎨 Versatile framing and border options
  • 📸 Perfect for Instagram photo formatting
  • ⏱️ Quick and efficient processing
  • 🎯 Maintains photo quality and resolution

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
  • 📱 Poor optimization for larger screens (iPad, iPhone Pro Max)
  • ⚠️ Quality degradation on export
  • 🖼️ Blurry output in some cases
  • 🎬 No batch processing capability

Hipstamatic® Analog Camera

From 2.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Simple and intuitive interface
  • 👍 Variety of creative filters and effects
  • 💡 Ability to create custom camera presets
  • 🤩 Fun and engaging community features

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Locked features behind paywall
  • 😞 Loss of previous purchases and customizations
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
  • 💸 Expensive subscription model

Bugs and requests

Squaready Pro

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App crashes when opening images
  • Black screen when accessing camera roll
  • Freezing and unresponsiveness during use
  • Photo loading failures requiring reinstall
  • Blank thumbnails on iPad Pro
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  • Gyro crop feature overly sensitive
  • Export resolution issues despite full resolution setting
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
  • Ads appearing in paid/Pro version
  • Image quality loss on export

Requested features

10 requests
  • Batch processing for multiple photos at once
  • Frame positioning option (inside or outside photo borders)
  • Larger screen optimization for iPad and Plus-sized iPhones
  • Ability to save custom border templates with logos
  • Direct Instagram export functionality
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  • Color picker to select background from photo
  • Saved settings/templates for repeated tasks
  • Support for images larger than 2048x2048 pixels
  • Option to disable gyro/scissors crop feature
  • Additional frame designs and styles

Hipstamatic® Analog Camera

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to save custom camera presets
  • Inconsistent behavior when editing photos
  • Syncing issues with photo library and cloud storage

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to import photos from camera roll
  • Option to change aspect ratio beyond square format
  • Restore previous purchases and customizations
  • Improved search and organization for lenses/films

In-app purchases

None

Squaready Pro

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Hipstamatic® Analog Camera

Subscriptions3
  • Hipstamatic Camera Club$7.991 Month
  • Hipstamatic Camera Club3 Months trial$19.996 Months
  • Hipstamatic Camera Club1 Month trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Squaready Pro free?
Squaready Pro costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hipstamatic® Analog Camera free?
Hipstamatic® Analog Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Squaready Pro or Hipstamatic® Analog Camera?
Hipstamatic® Analog Camera is rated higher. Squaready Pro averages 4.3 out of 5 from 124 ratings, while Hipstamatic® Analog Camera averages 4.6 from 2.8K ratings.
Do Squaready Pro or Hipstamatic® Analog Camera have ads?
Neither Squaready Pro nor Hipstamatic® Analog Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Squaready Pro or Hipstamatic® Analog Camera?
Squaready Pro ships an update every 6 months, and Hipstamatic® Analog Camera monthly. Most recently, Squaready Pro was updated on October 17, 2026 and Hipstamatic® Analog Camera on October 20, 2026.

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