Squaready Pro vs HiVideo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
HiVideo
Capture horizontal videos and photos effortlessly with your phone held vertically. This app offers one-handed operation, real-time zoom, and image stabilization for smooth, high-quality recordings. Easily access features like focus and exposure lock, and choose from various resolutions for both video and photos.
- Horizontal video recording
- One-handed operation
- Real-time zoom
- Image stabilization
- Focus and exposure lock
- High-quality FullHD images
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HiVideoは縦持ちで横長ビデオ、横長写真、スクエア写真が撮れるアプリです。 通知センターから写真／スクエア／ビデオを選んで、すぐに起動できます。 片手だけで手軽に撮影が可能です。 人混みのなかでiPhoneを横に持ったままのビデオ撮影や写真撮影は、なんだか気恥ずかしいですよね。 HiVideoはポケットから出して、片手でさりげなく横長のビデオ撮影や写真撮影ができます。 片手で縦に持ったまま、親指で撮影ボタンやズームが操作できます。 リアルタイムズームでスムーズな拡大・縮小ができます。 オートフォーカスマークが表示されるので、フォーカスがあったタイミングが一目でわかります。 移動しながらの撮影を手振れ補正機能がサポートします。 表示領域が小さくても最大でフルＨＤの高画質。 左右のフリックでビデオ撮影と写真撮影、スクエア撮影を簡単に切り換え。 通知センターからの起動： - どこからでも通知センターを表示して、「Video」「Photo」「Square」ボタンから起動できます。 （事前に、通知センターの編集からHiVideoを有効にしてください） 【機能】 - ビデオ撮影 - 写真撮影 - スクエア撮影 - 通知センターからの起動（ウィジェット対応） - プレビュー画面 - プレビュー画面からの削除 - メール送信、他のアプリで開く - リアルタイムズーム - 無音カメラ（本体のマナーモード時） - 手振れ補正 （解像度により指定可能） - フォーカスロック - 露出ロック - マイクのオン／オフ - フロントおよびバックカメラに対応 - 解像度の切り換え - ライト 【ビデオ解像度】 - 1920x1080（iPhone7以降） - 1280x720 （iPhone5s以降） - 1072x604 - 720x406 - 480x270 【写真解像度】 - 3024x2268 （iPhone6s以降） - 2448x1836 （iPhone5s以降） - 1080x810 - 720x540 【スクエア写真解像度】 - 3024x3024 （iPhone6s以降） - 720x720 撮影した動画・写真はカメラロールに保存されます。 【推奨機種】 iPhone5s以降 【その他機種】 iPad、iPodTouchは正式対応しておりません。 ※HiVideoが強制終了する場合はメモリ不足の可能性があります。iPhoneの再起動をお願い致します。 または、アプリを一旦削除してから再度インストールをお願い致します。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Squaready Pro at #102 against HiVideo's unranked. HiVideo's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Squaready Pro costs $3.99 and HiVideo $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Squaready Pro against 4.2 for HiVideo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 124 and 73 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.
Squaready Pro ships an update every 6 months, HiVideo every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Squaready Pro | HiVideo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (124 ratings) — better | 4.2 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.1% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #102 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.8 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FANG Inc. | sky-nexus Inc. |
Customer experience
Squaready Pro
HiVideo
User reviews
Squaready Pro
From 124 App Store ratingsWhat 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
HiVideo
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Unique vertical hold for horizontal shooting
- 👍 Convenient for quick snaps
- 👍 Useful for memos
- 👍 Good for low-light conditions
- 👍 Enables shooting from pocket
Room to improve
- 📉 Image quality is often poor
- 📉 Blurry photos due to camera shake
- 📉 App can be unstable
- 📉 Overheating issues
- 📉 Recording stops unexpectedly
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
HiVideo
Reported bugs
12 issues- Camera shake makes photos unusable
- App crashes frequently
- Recording stops after 5 minutes
- Audio becomes distorted or silent
- Recording doesn't stop when button is pressed
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- App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- In-camera video recording is horizontally flipped
- Timer does not work
- Zoom does not work during recording
- Video recording cannot be stopped
- Maximum recording time limit
- iPhone gets hot during recording
Requested features
13 requests- Vertical screen mode option
- Adjustable zoom speed
- Improved image quality for latest devices
- Higher frame rates (60fps)
- 4K video recording
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- Exposure adjustment
- Option to place shutter button on screen corners
- Apple Watch support
- Support for double lenses
- Ability to capture still images during video recording
- Left/right flip option from the start of recording
- Full-size image/video capture (12MP)
- Wider field of view
In-app purchases
Squaready Pro
No in-app purchases
HiVideo
No in-app purchases
