Crown & Flint vs Simple Passe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crown & Flint
This app helps analog photographers manage their film, track camera settings, and meter light accurately. It allows users to record detailed metadata for each shot and organize their film collection from purchase to archival. The interface is optimized for ease of use, even for left-handed operation.
- Accurate light meter
- Record camera and lens settings
- Track film stock and metadata
- Manage film collection lifecycle
- Reference images for film identification
- Optimized for left-handed operation
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Level up your analog photography with Crown + Flint. Meter the light, keep track of camera settings, record location and reference images, manage your collection of film. LEVEL UP YOUR ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY - Accurate light meter uses your iPhone camera's advanced scene analysis to ensure perfect exposures. - Master your equipment, learn its strengths & quirks, and improve your skills by recording equipment settings with each shot. COLLECT METADATA - Film stock - Rated speed, and special notes - Camera and lens settings, and lens filters - Time, date, and location - Reference image for correlating with your film TRACK YOUR FILM - Know what film is loaded into which camera. - Manage your collection of film, from purchase, storage, shooting, development, and archival. - Reference images let you quickly identify your films after development. GETS OUT OF YOUR WAY - Optimized for left-handed operation so you don't have to put your camera down. - As easy to operate as a hand-held meter. - Never lose time fiddling with impossible settings, because Crown + Flint knows all about your equipment Free app version lets you record up to 5 rolls of film. When you're ready for more, upgrade in-app to unlimited films with Pro Mode
Simple Passe
Easily add custom borders to your photos. Select border color and width, then apply to any image. The app saves a new image with borders, perfect for enhancing your social media galleries with an elegant look.
- Add custom borders
- Select border color
- Adjust border width
- Save bordered images
- Enhance social media photos
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Simple Passe allows you to effortlessly add beautiful borders to your images. Simply select the border color and width, choose an image, and a new image with borders will be saved to your Photos. With the default settings, this application creates images that enhance your Instagram gallery with an elegant sense of air and space.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Passe at none against Crown & Flint's 1. Simple Passe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Crown & Flint's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Crown & Flint sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Passe asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Passe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crown & Flint has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Crown & Flint ships an update every 9 days, Simple Passe every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crown & Flint | Simple Passe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Don Goodman-Wilson | Ari Jaaksi |
Customer experience
Crown & Flint
Simple Passe
In-app purchases
Crown & Flint
- Pro Mode$19.99
Simple Passe
No in-app purchases
