Comparison

Save Frame vs SortCam

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

Head to head
About

Save Frame

Easily extract high-quality still photos and Live Photos from your videos. Precisely select moments, create thumbnails, and export in various formats while preserving original resolution and metadata. Your videos remain private as processing happens on-device.

Highlights
  • Precise frame selection
  • Create Live Photos from videos
  • Batch frame extraction
  • Adjustable export quality
  • Preserve HDR and metadata
  • On-device processing for privacy
Features
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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.

About

SortCam

Features
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Take a photo and it lands in the right album. No more digging through thousands of shots to file them later. SHOOT INTO ANY ALBUM • Tap the camera button on an album and every photo you take is saved straight into it. • Photos keep their full EXIF details: phone model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and capture time, saved as HEIC. • Optionally save where each photo was taken. FIND ANY MONTH • Albums are grouped by month, with the capture date and time on every thumbnail. • Step through one month at a time, or pick a start and end month. • Show only photos, videos or screenshots, with a count for each. SELECT A WHOLE ROW IN ONE SWIPE • Swipe across your photos to select many at once, just like in the Photos app. The grid scrolls for you at the edge. • Select a whole month with one tap. • Add your selection to an album, remove it from the album, or delete it. ALBUM NAMES MADE ON DEVICE • When you create an album, Apple Intelligence looks at your selected photos and suggests three names, with the dates in front. • Photos are analyzed on your iPhone. If they have a location, the coordinates are sent to Apple Maps to look up place names. • Name suggestions require iOS 27 and an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on. DATE STAMPS • Stamp the date and time onto new photos in one of four styles: Retro, Modern, Tech or Cute. KEEP IT TIDY • See at a glance how many of your albums each photo is in, or spot photos that aren't in any album. • Hide albums you don't use, and reorder the rest by name, by size or by hand. • Create albums with Siri or the Shortcuts app. • Available in English and Traditional Chinese. SortCam works with the albums already in your Photos library. Adding a photo to an album never makes a copy, and deleting an album keeps its photos.

Screenshots

Save Frame4 screens
SortCam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Save Frame at 16.6 against SortCam's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Save Frame ships an update fortnightly, SortCam every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Save Frame versus SortCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSave FrameSortCam
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (86 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings86 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeospike Pty LtdSHU HAN CHEN

In-app purchases

None

Save Frame

No in-app purchases

None

SortCam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Save Frame free?
Save Frame is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SortCam free?
SortCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Save Frame or SortCam have ads?
Neither Save Frame nor SortCam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Save Frame or SortCam?
Save Frame ships an update fortnightly, and SortCam every 8 days. Most recently, Save Frame was updated on November 4, 2026 and SortCam on October 31, 2026.

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