Comparison

ThingLink vs Chromavid

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

Head to head
About

ThingLink

Create engaging interactive experiences with images, videos, and 360 media. Add clickable tags to build virtual tours and learning materials. Supports over 80 languages with Immersive Reader integration.

Highlights
  • Create interactive images, videos, and 360 media
  • Add clickable tags with text and audio
  • Build virtual tours and learning experiences
  • Immersive Reader integration for 80+ languages
  • Track engagement and learning analytics
  • Mobile device camera integration
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The easiest way to create exciting, interactive experiences and virtual tours! Quickly create and share interactive images, videos, 360 media, and 3D models with clickable tags. Build experiences that engage and excite. ThingLink’s Immersive Reader integration makes your materials readable in over 80 languages. Use ThingLink in education • Create personalized, adaptive learning learning experiences that are proven to improve learning outcomes. • Use ThingLink on iPads and tablets in the classroom to develop digital literacy and future-ready skills. • Track engagement on all learning materials, videos and virtual tours, also suitable for educational research. • Make interactive infographics, maps, virtual tours, curriculum organizers, project-based learning presentations, escape rooms and digital breakouts for blended and distance learning. • Ideal for blended and hybrid learning, self-paced online learning in higher education. Use ThingLink for corporate training • Easily recreate local work environments and situations to develop competencies, practical knowledge and skills. • Train employees using virtual learning environments, simulations, and scenarios. • Share instructions and status updates with annotated photos and videos. • Improve productivity, save in logistics, content production and translation costs. • Learning analytics: Automate and scale mandatory training, track completion rate per learner. • Technology integration with existing learning management systems (LMS). Use ThingLink for marketing and communications • Increase time spent and clicks on infographics, floorplans, maps, virtual showrooms, product catalogs, and videos. • Ideal for boosting product marketing, brand engagement, internal communications, company website, social media and customer engagement. • Track engagement and collect data for your next campaign. Easily go back to edit and improve projects any time directly from the mobile app! Trusted by over 8 million creators, teachers, and learners around the world, ThingLink is a must have app in your suite of 21st century digital content creation tools. We’re the pioneer of interactive media, easy virtual tours and immersive scenarios. ThingLink is transforming corporate training, teaching and learning with its innovative interactive media solution. Awards and mentions: The 101 Hottest EdTech Tools According to Education Experts (number 17!), UNESCO ICT in Education Prize. Shoot, snap or upload your media Integrated with your mobile device camera: Capture photos, video and even 360 media with your mobile device, then just select and annotate them with the ThingLink app in minutes! Be inspired Access our professional 360 degree image collection to clone for your own use. Use our integration with Unsplash to get access to unlimited images. Ideal resource for course design, professional development, trainers, curricula planning, homework and documenting assignments. Easy to Use Editor Add text and audio notes, links, quizzes, Google apps, and other embeds from websites, images and video to hotspots. Add transitions from one scene to another, change icons, adjust colors, even record audio directly into a tag or so that it plays when the image is viewed! Organize and share digital learning resources Organize folders and share your interactive media amongst colleagues, easily publish to the web, any learning management system, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Moodle, Moocs, or other platforms. Access your analytics all from within the mobile app. Virtual Reality 360 Scenes / Virtual Tours Use the tour tag to combine one scene with another and create an immersive walk-through or virtual tour. Visualize tours on VR Headsets, Oculus, Class VR, and Google Cardboard. Start creating now! Follow @thinglink on social media for tips. Need help or have a request? support@thinglink.com

About

Chromavid

Easily create professional-looking videos and photos with real-time chroma key effects. Replace any solid color background with custom images or videos, just like in movies and TV. Save and share your creations instantly.

Highlights
  • Real-time chroma key effects
  • Replace background with images or videos
  • Supports various chroma colors
  • Unlimited recording (subscription)
  • No app logo (subscription)
  • Save and share creations
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Introducing Chromavid - The best green screen chroma key app to shoot awesome videos and photos using chroma key effects in real time just like they do it in Movies and TV shows. Steps to create an awesome Chroma key video or photo: Choose the chroma color (Background wall / Curtain). It can be blue, green, yellow or red. Make sure it's plain color. Select the background image or video you wish to replace instead of chroma color in background. That’s it ! The Background Chroma color will be replaced with the photo or video you selected in the Camera. You can take a photo or record a video. Go ahead , be creative and try out with different background available in the app, you can also you any image in your phone as background. Share your creations with your friends on various social media platforms. You can even save your Chromavid on your device storage. Hope you enjoy using Chromavid. Please rate us on Appstore if you love us. Tag us on Social media.

Screenshots

ThingLink4 screens
Chromavid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ThingLink at 3.9 against Chromavid's 3.1. ThingLink also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Chromavid's advantage is ratings volume (465 vs 11). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ThingLink holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chromavid has 465 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of ThingLink's written reviews are positive against 34% of Chromavid's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ThingLink ships an update every 3 months, Chromavid every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ThingLink versus Chromavid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThingLinkChromavid
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (11 ratings) — better3.1 (465 ratings)
Positive reviews37.7% of reviews — better33.9% of reviews
Number of ratings11465 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB25 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperThinglinkNoam Koren

Customer experience

ThingLink

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive37.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative56.6%

Chromavid

All ratings465 ratings
Positive45.4%
Neutral15.7%
Negative38.9%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive33.9%
Neutral19.5%
Negative46.6%

User reviews

ThingLink

From 11 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 🎓 Great for educational purposes and student engagement
  • 🖼️ Excellent multimedia capabilities with video and image linking
  • 💻 Works across multiple devices (laptops and mobile)
  • 🔗 Multiple links can be added to single images

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes and glitches
  • ❌ Data loss - work deleted after saving
  • 🔐 Login and authentication issues
  • ⚠️ White screen glitches and broken functionality
  • 🔄 Inconsistent performance and reliability

Chromavid

From 465 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Good green screen quality
  • 💡 Useful for making videos/photos

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes
  • 🐛 Premium features not working as expected
  • 🔒 Subscription issues
  • 🔒 Watermark not removed despite subscription

Bugs and requests

ThingLink

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes when taking photos or videos
  • Icon options fail to download (infinite spinning)
  • Login functionality broken or extremely difficult
  • Projects deleted unexpectedly
  • White screen display on startup
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  • Image processing stuck in infinite loop
  • Video playback errors with skin loading
  • Caption text disappears
  • App shuts down immediately after opening
  • Signup page appears repeatedly
  • 360 image functionality not working
  • Incompatibility with VR headsets

Requested features

12 requests
  • Landscape mode support
  • Ability to edit images after publishing
  • Reduce size of hotspot symbols
  • Longer video duration limits
  • Ability to tag images within images
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  • Save projects to camera roll
  • Dark mode option
  • Open In feature for sharing to other apps
  • Better icon customization options
  • Zoom capability for embedded pictures
  • Content filtering for educational use
  • Account name change functionality

Chromavid

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to access premium features
  • Inability to save videos
  • Incompatibility with certain devices/OS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Longer video recording time
  • More background options
  • Ability to use own photos/videos as backgrounds
  • Rotation and zoom features

In-app purchases

None

ThingLink

No in-app purchases

None

Chromavid

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ThingLink free?
ThingLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chromavid free?
Chromavid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ThingLink or Chromavid?
ThingLink is rated higher. ThingLink averages 3.9 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Chromavid averages 3.1 from 465 ratings.
Do ThingLink or Chromavid have ads?
Neither ThingLink nor Chromavid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ThingLink or Chromavid?
ThingLink ships an update every 3 months, and Chromavid every 2 months. Most recently, ThingLink was updated on November 1, 2026 and Chromavid on November 1, 2026.

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