Color Thief vs Bimostitch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Thief
This app allows you to transfer colors from one image to another, creating unique filters from your existing photos. It's a quick and playful way to discover new color palettes and harmonize the tone of multiple images. The edited photos are saved at their original resolution.
- Transfer colors between photos
- Create custom filters from photos
- Discover new color combinations
- Harmonize photo tones
- Save results at original resolution
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Color Thief transfers colors from one photo to the next. - Every one of your photos is a new filter. - Playful and quick, it's easy to discover new color combinations. - Harmonize a group of photos to have the same tone. - Results are saved at original resolution. 4.5 / 5 "Color Thief is an app with a singular purpose and it does that task very, very well. ... Highly recommended!" - Life in LoFi iPhoneography 5 / 5 "the results are truly astounding and appear with unusual speed." - iCommePhoto "This little mobile photography gem is a one-trick pony, but the trick is an extremely clever one." - Ars Technica "(Color Thief) is the Robin Hood of the photo world. It takes great colors from one photo and gives those colors to other photos in need." - iOSAffairs "One of the best color manipulating apps I have ever used, hands down! It is amazing!" - REGI on iPhoneArt
Bimostitch
Effortlessly create high-resolution panoramas from your photos or videos. This app automatically stitches overlapping images into stunning wide-view images, offering advanced features for professional results. Share your creations instantly with friends and family.
- Stitch hi-res panoramas (single-row, multi-row, 360°)
- Stitch 2 to 200+ overlapping photos
- Automatic crop, exposure balancing, and straightening
- Video-to-panorama conversion
- Ultra high output resolution (up to 1 Gigapixel)
- JPEG or PNG output format
- Auto-lens calibration for distortion compensation
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Automatically stitch high quality, high-res panoramas on-device, right in the palm of your hands. -- KEY FEATURES -- +Stitch hi-res single-row, multi-row, vertical, horizontal, 360° panoramas or photospheres. +Stitch many (2 to 200+) overlapping photos into impressive wide-view panoramas. +Simple and intuitive yet powerful panorama stitcher app. +Share your awesome panos with family and friends via Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and many more. +Automatic crop with minimal reduction in resolution. +Automatic exposure balancing. +Automatic straightening of panorama. -- PRO FEATURES -- + Fast stitching. + High quality output (Maintains quality of source photos). + No ads. + Ultra high output resolution of up to 1 Gigapixels. + Video-to-panorama for converting videos of panning motion into panoramas. + JPEG or PNG output format. + Compress large panoramas to save space on your device. + Auto-color balancing. + Seam detection modes like optimal cuts for high quality output. + Save previews & load them up later + Adjust seam detection quality + Adjust intensity of auto-exposure/color balancing feature + Control the blending intensity + View source images in panorama while in preview mode + Auto-lens calibration for lens distortion compensation when stitching images captured from wide-angle, ultra-wide angle and fisheye lens. HOW IT WORKS? Simply select/get images or a video in the following ways: > Press the gallery icon then select photos to open the default photo picker, select the images then press done. > Press the gallery icon then select videos to open the video selector, select a video then press done. > Use your favourite camera app to snap overlapping photos. > Use a drone to capture aerial photos. Bimostitch will then automatically match, align and blend together the selected images or video frames into a wonderful panorama using advanced on-device image stitching algorithms. NOTE: You get multiple outputs at once if more than one set of overlapping photos are detected in your selection. All this takes just a few minutes depending on your choice of maximum output resolution and your device’s computational power. You can visit the apps settings page to change properties such as the output album name, maximum resolution and many more choices to suit your needs. You can also shoot a video while panning about a fixed reference point (the camera lens should be the reference point) then select the video in Bimostitch which will automatically merge the key video frames into a panorama. NOTE: At least 4GB RAM required for 1 GigaPixels. WHY USE THIS APP? – Works with photos from any source such as DSLR cameras, downloaded from the web or drones. – Merge vertical, horizontal, multiple rows or a grid of overlapping photos into awesome panoramic images. – Lightweight on your device and will make high quality panoramic photographs. – Create panos conveniently while on the go like on a tour and get immediate high quality results, no need to carry all that equipment anymore and it’s fully an offline app too, no Internet? no problem. – No gyroscope or special sensors needed. It doesn’t matter whether you are a professional or newbie panoramic photographer, this app will work great for you. Hope you enjoy using this panoramic app and that you will make memorable pano shots with it. Enjoy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bimostitch at every 3 days against Color Thief's every 2 months. Bimostitch also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 62%) and chart position (#140 vs unranked). Color Thief's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $7.99) and iOS requirement (8.2 vs 15). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Color Thief costs $1.99 and Bimostitch $7.99 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 Color Thief against 4.5 for Bimostitch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 33 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Color Thief's written reviews are positive against 83% of Bimostitch's.
Color Thief ships an update every 2 months, Bimostitch every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Thief | Bimostitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (32 ratings) | 4.5 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #140 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yellow Cedar Software, Inc. | Chomba Bupe |
Customer experience
Color Thief
Bimostitch
Bugs and requests
Color Thief
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes on launch with newer iOS versions
- Images turn black after a few minutes of use
- Cannot access camera roll photos properly
- Location services requirement blocking app access
- Incompatibility with iPad Pro and newer devices
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- Photo access permission issues
- App not working after iOS updates
- Pixelation issues on larger displays
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to adjust effect strength/intensity
- Access to photo folders for easier selection
- Swap/flip functionality between top and bottom images
- Video support
- Album organization for quick access to favorite photos
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- LUT (Look-Up Table) generation capability
- Landscape orientation support for iPad
- Restore previous version interface with dual-image switching
Bimostitch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Color Thief
No in-app purchases
Bimostitch
No in-app purchases
Questions
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