KLIM Film Scanner vs PhiFrame
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KLIM Film Scanner
Digitize and enhance your film rolls with this intuitive iOS app. It offers high-quality scanning for negatives and slides, powerful editing tools, and AI-powered restoration. Perfect for both beginners and experienced film photographers.
- High-quality film scanning
- Powerful editing tools
- AI-powered enhancement
- Advanced camera controls
- Artistic filters
- Non-destructive editing
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Bring your old memories back to life with Film Scanner, the all-in-one app to scan film negatives, slides, restore photos, animate memories, and even send physical postcards worldwide. Turn 35mm film, old negatives, color slides, and printed photos into high-quality digital images directly from your phone. Whether you're preserving family memories, digitizing film archives, or restoring vintage photography, Film Scanner gives you professional tools in a simple workflow. Scan Film Negatives & Slides • Scan 35mm negatives and photo slides with your phone camera • Support for color negatives, positive film, black & white film, and old slides • Live negative inversion preview while scanning • Automatic frame detection and auto-cropping for faster digitization • Manual crop adjustment when needed Restore & Enhance Old Photos • AI photo restoration for damaged or faded images • Colorize black & white photos • Improve old family pictures and vintage film scans • Remove imperfections and enhance image quality • Upscale low-resolution photos Professional Editing Tools • Adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, shadows, highlights, and more • Apply film-inspired filters and creative effects • Non-destructive editing so originals remain untouched • Export high-quality images Smart Capture Features • Bluetooth remote shutter support • Delayed shutter mode for shake-free scanning • Optimized workflow for light boxes and film holders • Easy scanning setup for home digitization Bring Memories to Life • Animate old photos using AI • Transform still images into moving memories • Share restorations instantly with family and friends Print & Send Worldwide • Turn restored memories into real physical postcards • Send postcards worldwide directly from the app • Share family moments across countries with global shipping support Perfect for: • Film photography enthusiasts • Vintage photo collectors • Family archives and memory preservation • 35mm film scanning • Negative digitization • Slide conversion projects • Restoring old family photos Rediscover forgotten memories, preserve your film archive, and transform old negatives into beautiful photos. Download Film Scanner today and give your memories a second life. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PhiFrame
This camera app helps you compose better photos with visual guides like the rule of thirds and golden ratio. It offers precise controls and full-quality capture, allowing you to burn guides into your images or keep them visual.
- Composition guides (rule of thirds, golden ratio, etc.)
- Precision horizon level with haptic lock
- Tap to focus, pinch to zoom
- Full-quality capture with ProRAW support
- Option to burn guides into photos
- 100% private, photos stay on device
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PhiFrame is a camera built for one thing: composition. Frame every shot against classic guides — rule of thirds, golden ratio, Fibonacci spiral, golden triangles, diagonals, and a draggable vanishing point — drawn live on your viewfinder and aligned exactly to the captured photo. • Precision horizon level with haptic lock • Tap to focus, pinch to zoom, 4:3 / 16:9 / 1:1 • Full-quality capture, ProRAW (DNG) support • Guides are visual only — or burn them in, your choice • Pay once, own it forever. No subscription, no account • 100% private: your photos never leave your device PhiFrame is for anyone who wants to stop cropping their way to good composition and start shooting it: photographers learning the classics, and pros who want a clean, honest viewfinder. Privacy Policy: https://whit3hawks.com/apps/phiframe/privacy Terms of Use: https://whit3hawks.com/apps/phiframe/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PhiFrame at 100% against KLIM Film Scanner's 34%. PhiFrame also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). KLIM Film Scanner's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and ratings volume (195 vs 2). On ads 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
KLIM Film Scanner is free to download; PhiFrame costs $2.99 up front. KLIM Film Scanner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. PhiFrame asks for nothing beyond the download.
PhiFrame holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KLIM Film Scanner has 195 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of KLIM Film Scanner's written reviews are positive against 100% of PhiFrame's.
KLIM Film Scanner ships an update every 10 days, PhiFrame daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KLIM Film Scanner | PhiFrame |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (195 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 195 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxime Gheysen | Sharif Khaleel |
Customer experience
KLIM Film Scanner
PhiFrame
Bugs and requests
KLIM Film Scanner
Reported bugs
19 issues- App crashes regularly
- App closes by itself
- App crashes after every recording
- App crashes immediately upon opening
- App no longer works after update
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- Camera is jittery
- App crashes every 10 seconds
- App crashes with some frequency
- App shut down iPhone completely
- New version crashes every 3 scans
- No longer has smart detection
- Manual reframing required
- Randomly crashes with adjustment sliders
- Saves images at a weirdly low resolution
- App crashes while adjusting sliders
- App cannot be opened
- Not compatible with iPhone 15
- App closes when trying to sharpen
- App closes itself mid-editing
Requested features
6 requests- Adapt app for larger text display
- Come up with a new version quickly
- Add black and white function
- App should remember previous settings for scans
- Improve image sharpness
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- Fix app crashing when sharpening
PhiFrame
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
KLIM Film Scanner
- Weekly, 3 Days Free3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Weekly, 3 Days Free3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Monthly, 7 Days Free$12.991 Month
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- Monthly, 7 Days Free7 Days trial$29.991 Month
- Yearly, 7 Days Free3 Days trial$59.991 Year
PhiFrame
No in-app purchases
Questions
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