FxjiMate vs Sharp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
FxjiMate
Manage and share Fujifilm film simulations with this user-friendly app. Import recipes from your photos, create custom formulas, and share them via QR codes or posters. Enjoy an ad-free experience with a one-time purchase.
- Add unlimited film formulas
- Import recipes from Fujifilm photos
- Share recipes via QR codes and posters
- Categorize formulas by simulation or scene
- Searchable recipe database
- Diverse display options
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Brief Introduction: FxjiMate is a simple, user-friendly, and efficient Fuji film formula management app that allows you to add unlimited Fuji film formulas of your choice. This app has the following features: Ā· Diverse Display Options You can choose how the formulas are displayed, whether in detail or a simplified view. You can categorize them based on the film simulation or applicable scenes and utilize the search function. Ā· New Formula Import and Sharing Methods You can import formulas from your own Fuji photos with one click, including formula information. Additionally, you can export them as posters or QR codes for easy sharing on social media platforms. Of course, you can also import formulas shared by others; simply scan the dedicated FxjiMate QR code. Ā· Other Features An ad-free app with a one-time purchase, no subscription required. There will be future updates with new features and improvements. Feature Introduction: Ā· Add Recipe There are three ways to add new recipes: 1: Manually enter parameters after clicking the add button. 2: Import recipes from Fujifilm photos. Fujifilm photos contain recipe parameters stored in Fujifilm's own way in the photo information. FxjiMate can parse and display this information. If you have taken a masterpiece and want to share it, you can directly import it, saving you the trouble of checking parameters in the camera. Please note that photos compressed by beauty apps or chat tools often result in loss of this information, so it's best to import recipe information from the original Fujifilm photos. 3: Thanks to FxjiMate's sharing feature, you can read recipe information by scanning the QR code generated by FxjiMate. It supports directly scanning by opening the camera, or saving the FxjiMate QR code shared by others to the phone's album and then scanning it. Ā· Share Recipe You can generate your carefully crafted recipes in FxjiMate and share them with others in the form of QR codes. Others can directly read the recipe by scanning it with FxjiMate. In addition, FxjiMate provides simple poster design styles for you to generate beautiful sharing images with just one click. Of course, the poster still contains the QR code for scanning.
Sharp
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Shoot the same thing more than once, and Sharp puts the shots together. Six tools, one engine. Nothing here edits a single photograph ā everything here takes many frames of the same scene and gives back one picture. FOCUS ā sharp from front to back A lens holds one plane in focus, and close up that plane is thinner than the subject. Move the focus between frames and Sharp takes every part of the result from the frame that has it sharpest. Not sure how wide its detail size should be? Choose by Eye stacks a piece of your bracket at four widths, side by side, so you can see which one has no halo. CLEAN ā less noise, and long-exposure water Noise is different in every frame and the subject is not, so averaging frames takes it down by the square root of how many you shot: four halve it, sixteen quarter it. Water and cloud move between frames and average into smoothness, while everything that held still stays sharp. VANISH ā the people walk out of the picture Take a dozen frames a few seconds apart while the square empties and fills. At each pixel Sharp keeps the frames that agree and throws out the ones that do not, then averages what is left ā whoever was walking through is gone, and the noise goes with them. TRAILS ā every place the light went A hundred short exposures of a night sky, a torch drawing, headlights on a bend. Sharp keeps the brightest frame at each pixel, so every mark the light made is in the picture and the sky stays as dark as one frame had it. Or keep the darkest instead, and take the passing lights out. BLEND ā the shadows and the highlights both An exposure bracket, darker and brighter, into one picture: the sky from the dark frame, the shadows from the bright one, blended without a seam and with no curve to set. PICK ā the sharpest frame of the burst Twenty handheld frames, one of them caught between heartbeats. Sharp hands back the one that won, exactly as it came off the camera. BUILT FOR LARGE SETS ⢠Camera RAW, HEIC, JPEG, TIFF and PNG, read straight from Files or Photos ⢠Frames are read a strip at a time, so memory does not grow with the number of frames ⢠Alignment that covers focus breathing, drift and a rolled wrist, and checks its own work ⢠Compare the result with any single frame at exactly the same zoom, beside a map of how each pixel was decided PAINT IT BACK Every one of these tools is a guess made a pixel at a time. Choose the frame that has that part right and paint it back over the result ā one finger paints, two move the picture, an Apple Pencil presses harder for more. The repair is re-applied to the 16-bit file at full depth. FREE, AND THEN ONE PAYMENT All six tools run on up to 12 frames free, at full quality: the same alignment, the same merges, the same speed, the same RAW support, and a full-resolution JPEG with no watermark. Nothing about how good the picture is has been held back. The $9.99 unlock adds: ⢠Unlimited frames, for every tool ⢠The retouch brush, with retouches you can reopen and change ⢠16-bit TIFF, the maps, and every frame aligned for Helicon, Zerene or Photoshop ⢠Every bracket kept as a project, with its settings and its result ⢠Batches of projects run one after another, and long brackets stacked in slabs One payment, shared with your family. No subscription, no account, and not a timed trial. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No analytics, no tracking, no server, and no network of its own. Your photographs are read where they are, and the only thing that goes anywhere is what you share yourself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FxjiMate at every 3 days against Sharp's fortnightly. FxjiMate also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FxjiMate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sharp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FxjiMate ships an update every 3 days, Sharp fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FxjiMate | Sharp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days ā better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | ā |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 ā better | 27.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | å°ē£ å | Pablo Miranda |
In-app purchases
FxjiMate
- Unlock the FxjiMate.$6.99
Sharp
- Unlock Sharp 12$9.99









