kyu vs Chromagraph Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
kyu
Easily record and share short, memorable video clips with friends and loved ones. This app focuses on capturing moments as they happen, allowing you to look back on them later. It prioritizes privacy, ensuring your shared memories are only seen by those you choose.
- Record instant video clips
- Share memories privately
- Live in the moment recording
- Easy to use interface
- Look back on past videos
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Welcome to kyu :) kyu app is a video camera that easily shares memories. - Live in the moment. - Ours to Share, No One Else’s. - Press the button, we do the rest. *We cannot create perfect and creative content. However, we can easily record, share, and look back on videos for our friends, partners and ourselves.
Chromagraph Camera
This app offers a unique approach to mobile photography, bypassing default camera processing for custom color and texture rendering. It allows for artistic adjustments and stores original raw files alongside the processed look.
- Custom color and texture rendering
- Raw image data processing
- Post-capture look preview
- Adjustable color, tone, and texture
- Gallery with original raw files
- Exportable processed images
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Replace your phone camera’s default processing with bespoke, curated color and texture rendering designed by cinematographer Steve Yedlin and used on the Knives Out films. Chromagraph starts from raw image data and builds the image its own way: not a filter laid over the usual look processing, but a different process from the start. (Chromagraph is a stills-only camera; it does not shoot video. Note that on some devices such as the iPhone 11, not all cameras support raw capture and will not be usable in Chromagraph) SHOOT FIRST, SEE THE LOOK AFTER As with a film camera, you frame through the viewfinder and see the finished look only after the image is processed. Take the picture, then open the gallery to see it with the Chromagraph look applied. ADJUST WITHOUT LOSING THE LOOK Intuitive yet powerful tools for color, tone, and texture give you real control while keeping every image true to the look that’s the core of the app. A GALLERY THAT KEEPS THE ORIGINALS Store full-quality raw files and view them in the app with the look applied live, along with any adjustments you make. Export smaller files to share with friends or save to your photo library, or turn on auto-export in Preferences to send every photo to your library right away as a JPEG or HEIC with the look applied. NOT A FILTER A filter sits on top of the processing your phone has already done. Chromagraph skips that processing and uses its own methods for the curated look preferred by director Rian Johnson and cinematographer Steve Yedlin.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: kyu at Free against Chromagraph Camera's $12.99. Chromagraph Camera's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (244 vs 2). On rating, ads, 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
kyu is free to download; Chromagraph Camera costs $12.99 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 — 4.0 for kyu against 4.1 for Chromagraph Camera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chromagraph Camera has 244 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of kyu's written reviews are positive against 69% of Chromagraph Camera's.
kyu ships an update monthly, Chromagraph Camera every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | kyu | Chromagraph Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.1 (244 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.8% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 244 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #2 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TranSe Inc. | Chromatic Applications LLC |
Customer experience
kyu
Chromagraph Camera
In-app purchases
kyu
No in-app purchases
Chromagraph Camera
No in-app purchases









