Save Frame vs Video Freezer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Save Frame
Extract high-quality HDR photos from videos with pro-level metadata. This tool allows frame-accurate selection and batch processing without needing full photo library access, ensuring your media stays on your device.
- Extract HDR stills from videos
- Retain original metadata (date, GPS, lens)
- Frame-accurate scrubbing
- Batch extraction
- Export in HEIC, AVIF, JPEG
- On-device processing
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Turn your videos into photos and Live Photos. Save Frame combines precise frame controls with batch extraction, helping you capture favorite memories and create thumbnails, covers, and social posts from footage you already have. FIND THE EXACT MOMENT Open a video from Photos or Files, slow down playback, and zoom in to inspect expressions and details. Step forward or backward one frame at a time to find your favorite moment. Saved-frame markers help you keep track of the photos you’ve already captured. CREATE LIVE PHOTOS Keep the movement around your chosen frame by saving it as a Live Photo. Capture the smile, the celebration, or the little moment that deserves more than a still image. You can also extract still photos from existing Live Photos. SAVE A SERIES AUTOMATICALLY Create more from footage you’ve already shot. Built for content creators, batch extraction helps you pull thumbnail candidates, video covers, and images for social posts from a single video. • Save frames at regular time intervals • Extract every nth frame • Choose a total number of images spread across the video Review the results in Photos and pick your favorites. CHOOSE HOW YOU EXPORT Save frames at the video’s original resolution, including from 4K footage. Choose JPEG or HEIC, with AVIF available on supported devices, and adjust compression quality to balance image detail and file size. Preserve HDR color and brightness with compatible videos, devices, and export settings. Keep capture dates, times, and location information when available. YOUR VIDEOS STAY PRIVATE Choose a video using Apple’s photo picker or open one directly from Files. No full photo library access required. Save Frame processes your video directly on your device, with no video uploads required. No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. You already captured the moment. Save the frame.
Video Freezer
Extract high-resolution still images from any video on your device. Precisely select individual frames or entire sequences with frame-by-frame control. Save your captures in various formats directly to your library or share them.
- Full-resolution frame extraction
- Single frame capture
- Range mode for sequences
- Frame-by-frame navigation
- Multiple export formats (HEIC, PNG, JPEG)
- Saves to dedicated album
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Every video on your phone is thousands of photos you can't see yet. Video Freezer is a free app that lets you reach in and grab any one of them at the video's full resolution, not a phone-screen screenshot. Pick a video, or share one in from Photos, Files or another app. Slide along the filmstrip to find the moment. Nudge a single frame at a time, or jump a second back and forth, until you've got the exact face, the exact stride, the exact splash. Tap Grab Still and Video Freezer pulls the real frame from the video file (a 4K video gives you a 4K photo), then saves it to your library or share sheet. Need the whole sequence, not just one frame? Switch to Range mode: mark a start and an end, and Video Freezer saves every frame in between at full resolution — or every 2nd, 5th, or 10th to thin out longer spans. Preview the captured series frame by frame, choose your format, and save the whole set to your album at once. Perfect when the keeper is somewhere in a fast moment and you don't want to miss it. Great for: • The action shot you missed because still photos always fire a split-second late • The candid laugh, the perfect blink, the moment between two photos • Pets and kids, who move faster than your shutter • Sports highlights, stunts, dancing • Capturing an entire sequence — a swing, a jump, a splash — and picking the best frame later • Pulling stills out of slow-motion clips at their real resolution What you get: • Full-resolution capture, so a 4K video gives you a 4K photo • HDR video stays HDR: stills save as real HDR HEIC, one frame or a whole range • Grab a single frame, or a whole range of frames at once with Range mode • Step one frame at a time, or jump a second back and forth • Choose HEIC, PNG, or JPEG when you save • Saves to its own "Video Freezer" album, or share straight from the app • Each still keeps the video's location and the moment its frame was recorded, so it lands beside the clip in your library • Originals stay untouched. Your video is never re-encoded or modified • Everything runs on your device, with no upload and no login Free to download — no subscription, no account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Save Frame at 100% against Video Freezer's 50%. Save Frame also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (72 vs 2). Video Freezer's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Save Frame holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Save Frame has 72 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Save Frame's written reviews are positive against 50% of Video Freezer's.
Save Frame ships an update fortnightly, Video Freezer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Save Frame | Video Freezer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (72 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Geospike Pty Ltd | Cow Cow Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Save Frame
Video Freezer
In-app purchases
Save Frame
No in-app purchases
Video Freezer
No in-app purchases
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