Comparison

Panoramic Photo vs Acetate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Panoramic Photo

Easily split a single photo into multiple panels for seamless full-screen sharing on social media. Select your image, choose the number of panels, and export to your camera roll for posting.

Highlights
  • Split photos into 2-10 panels
  • Seamless full-screen sharing
  • Export to camera roll
  • Preview post appearance
  • Easy to use interface
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Spreads is the best app for sharing full screen photos on Threads. It's so easy! 1. Choose a photo 2. Choose from 2-10 panels to split the photo 3. Export to your camera roll 4. Choose the exported images in Threads and Post That's it! Spreads shows you preview exactly what it will look like when your post

About

Acetate

Features
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The Digital Darkroom for Purists. Acetate bridges pure RAW capture and the soul of analog film — now for stills and motion. Built for image-makers who understand that a frame is made, not taken. Every adjustment runs on-device: no cloud, no account, no tracking. PURE RAW CAPTURE Shoot Apple ProRAW (DNG) on every supported iPhone. Acetate bypasses standard processing and writes the sensor's uncompressed data straight to your library, preserving every stop of dynamic range for post. PRO SHOOTING MODES Full manual or assisted: Auto, Program (P), Shutter Priority (S), ISO Priority, Manual (M), Night, and Long Exposure to 30 seconds. Swap ultra-wide, wide, and telephoto with a tap, or flip to the front camera. Self-timer and burst on the hardware shutter. MOTION — SHOOT CINE Video with the same discipline as stills. Full manual ISO, shutter, white balance, and focus. Up to 4K, high frame rates on supported devices, 10-bit Apple Log, ProRes 422, or HEVC. Cinematic stabilisation, Cine mode with shutter-angle control, broadcast timecode, and multi-source audio with a live meter. Bake a LUT into the file, or keep it monitor-only and grade later. THE VIDEO EDITOR Open any clip — from your library or shared straight into Acetate. Trim with frame-accurate handles, scrub and step a frame at a time, apply any look or your own .cube LUT, push exposure and tone, hold to compare, and export at source quality. The same colour pipeline as the photo editor, frame by frame. FILM LOOKS Twenty 3D LUTs in two families: research-informed film-stock emulations (Soft 400, Warm 200, Slide 100, Mono, Noir…) and art-directed looks (Teal & Orange, Bleach Bypass, '90s Cinema, Golden Hour…). Press and hold to preview live. OPEN LUT Tap any filter and the editor sliders move to reflect the look — see exactly what each LUT is doing and tweak from there. A tick mark shows the filter's value; reset snaps back, long-press clears to zero. Works for built-in films, looks, and imported .cube LUTs. BAKE YOUR OWN LUTs Save any edit as a portable .cube LUT and apply it to photos and videos with one tap — or load it in the camera and shoot your own signature look. Import from Files, iCloud, or AirDrop, in the camera or the editor. Export to Lightroom, Premiere, or DaVinci. THE EDITOR Full-strength tools: three-way colour grading wheels with per-range luma, OkLab perceptual HSL, RGB curves, split toning, filmic highlight rolloff, dehaze, texture, edge-aware denoise, and selective masks — radial, linear-gradient, and one-tap Subject / Person / Background / Sky via Apple's Vision framework. ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE Smart tools that run on your iPhone — and explain themselves. Smart LUT writes a per-scene recipe, then drops it onto editable sliders so you see and adjust every move. Plus auto-enhance, auto-straighten, and one-tap Object Removal (A15 / M1 or newer). PRO TOOLS Live RGB and luminance histograms, a luma waveform, zebras, false-colour exposure, focus peaking, a manual-focus loupe, framing guides, and a haptic level indicator. Continuous Kelvin/tint white balance with lock, plus AE lock — in photo and video, no drift mid-shot. PRIVACY FOCUSED Your photos and videos are yours. No account, no cloud, no analytics. Location is used strictly for EXIF geotagging on what you capture, and never leaves your device. Capture, edit, AI, and export all work offline. Don't just filter. Develop.

Screenshots

Panoramic Photo4 screens
Acetate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Acetate at Free against Panoramic Photo's $2.99. Panoramic Photo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Acetate is free to download; Panoramic Photo costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Panoramic Photo ships an update every 2 days, Acetate every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Panoramic Photo versus Acetate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanoramic PhotoAcetate
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB246 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRecentralizedBMB ENTERPRISES LTD

In-app purchases

None

Panoramic Photo

No in-app purchases

None

Acetate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Panoramic Photo free?
Panoramic Photo costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Acetate free?
Acetate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Panoramic Photo or Acetate have ads?
Neither Panoramic Photo nor Acetate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Panoramic Photo or Acetate?
Panoramic Photo ships an update every 2 days, and Acetate every 6 days. Most recently, Panoramic Photo was updated on November 3, 2026 and Acetate on October 30, 2026.

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