Comparison

Liquid Canvas vs Second View

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

Head to head
About

Liquid Canvas

Transform your TV into a dynamic art gallery with a vast collection of digital art, including animations and personal media. Create custom playlists to set the mood for any occasion and share media with loved ones.

Highlights
  • Streaming digital art service
  • Curated art collections
  • Animated paintings and photographs
  • Personal photo and video uploads
  • Custom playlist creation
  • Share media with family and friends
Features
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Liquid Canvas is a streaming art service for TVs - unique digital art for televisions. With Liquid Canvas, you can turn any TV into a work of art and transform any room into an art gallery. Create custom playlists from curated art collections and a gallery of more than 6,000 pieces of art, including animated paintings and photographs. With kids birthday animations, holiday animations, rotating inspirational and spiritual quotes, Liquid Canvas turns your TV into the ultimate home decor element. Curate the mood for any room or any event. You can also upload personal pictures and videos and turn your TV into a connected picture frame, sharing personal media with the TVs of family members and friends. Liquid Canvas is the ultimate way to stay connected to loved ones. Once a TV is connected and a playlist is created, then it´s easy to push the playlist to any TV, transforming your TV from a big, boring black screen on the wall, into a vibrant focal point for any room Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Second View

This tool assists photographers in planning shots by simulating their actual camera's field of view and aspect ratio. It includes a light meter, filter logging, and reciprocity correction for film stocks. Features like LiDAR distance measurement and composition guides help refine framing and exposure before taking the shot.

Highlights
  • Precise field-of-view matching
  • Real-time light meter with spot metering
  • ND, polarizer, and color filter logging
  • Reciprocity failure correction for 60 film stocks
  • LiDAR distance measurement
  • Composition and grid tools
  • Panorama simulation
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PLEASE READ FIRST Second View is not a camera app and does not take photos for you. It helps you frame, meter, and plan shots before you press the shutter on your own camera. The photos it saves are framing aids, not final images. --- Second View turns your iPhone into a precision field toolkit for analog photographers. Set your lens and format, and it crops the ultra-wide camera to match what your film camera will capture: same field of view, aspect ratio, and framing. Supports 35mm, medium format (6x4.5 through 6x17 panoramic), large format (4x5, 5x7, 8x10), digital sensor sizes, and custom sizes. VIEWFINDER Precise field-of-view matching for any focal length and format. Portrait or landscape, control side of your choice, even upside down. WORKSPACES Design your own bottom control panel. Arrange the controls you use, then switch layouts with an edge-swipe. Start from built-in layouts or build your own per kit. FREEZE MODE Pause the frame on a full-resolution still to compose rise and shift, spot-meter, and measure distance, all without the scene moving. LIGHT METER Select your aperture and the app calculates the shutter speed. EV compensation, hyperfocal distance, auto/manual modes, readout in shutter speed or EV, and whole/half/third-stop increments. BELLOWS COMPENSATION A meter cell folds close-focus light loss into your reading for macro and large-format work, set manually or by LiDAR. SPOT METERING Meter the whole frame, or switch to spot mode to read a small area with a reticle, calibrated against your reference meter. LENS FILTERS Log the ND, polarizer, and color filters on your lens. The meter compensates automatically, and every capture records them. RECIPROCITY CORRECTION 60 built-in film stocks with accurate reciprocity curves, plus your own. Exposures over one second are corrected automatically. Portra, CineStill, Tri-X, Velvia, and more, plus an ECN-2 category. Custom stocks support color or B&W, white balance, and a tunable curve. FILM AND FILTER PREVIEW Simulate B&W film with color filters in the preview and captures, and preview color-film white balance from the loaded stock. LONG EXPOSURE TIMER A countdown timer for long exposures, with a 3-second pre-countdown and a full-screen progress ring. LIDAR DISTANCE MEASUREMENT On iPhone 12 Pro and later, measure the distance to your subject with LiDAR by tapping the viewfinder. On other devices, enter it manually. PARALLAX CORRECTION Compensates for the physical offset between the iPhone and the taking lens, using LiDAR or a manual distance, applied automatically. RISE, FALL AND SHIFT Simulate the movements of a view or technical camera. Offset the crop up, down, left, or right in 1mm steps. COMPOSITION TOOLS Rule of thirds, phi grid, golden triangle, square 1:1, and a custom grid up to 12x12. Bubble level with roll and pitch readout. PANORAMA SIMULATION Preview a stitched multi-frame panorama before you shoot it, and save it as a plan. SHOT CHECKLIST Build a step-by-step checklist per kit and run through it in the viewfinder. One step can fire the shutter automatically when you reach it. CAMERA KITS Save complete configurations and switch instantly. Each kit stores its lenses, format, preferred stocks, workspace, parallax offsets, and checklist. Pick a body and the format picker narrows to the masks it can shoot, with a film-advance guide for multi-format cameras. FILM ROLL TRACKING Track your rolls from first frame to last, so you always know which is loaded and when it was exposed. CAPTURE AND GALLERY Save a reference photo cropped to the exact framing, with full metadata: focal length, format, stock, filters, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, rise/shift, GPS, and timestamp. Optionally export a frame with a data overlay. Edit data, add notes, group into rolls, and export a CSV log. --- Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy : https://secondview.app/privacy

Screenshots

Liquid Canvas4 screens
Second View4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Liquid Canvas at none against Second View's shown. Liquid Canvas also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 56%) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Liquid Canvas sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Second View sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Liquid Canvas holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Liquid Canvas's written reviews are positive against 56% of Second View's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Liquid Canvas ships an update every 2 weeks, Second View weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Liquid Canvas versus Second View: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiquid CanvasSecond View
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (14 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size161 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian FitzgeraldBenoit Linard

Customer experience

Liquid Canvas

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

Second View

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Liquid Canvas

Subscriptions10
  • Buy Additional Content Storage3 variants$0.991 Month
  • Buy Additional Donwload Add-on7 variants$1.991 Month
  • Buy Additional TVs Add-on3 variants$1.991 Month
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  • 10x 30GB Download Add-ons$1.991 Month
  • Basic Package Monthly1 Month trial3 variants$2.991 Month
  • Basic Package$2.991 Month
  • Premium Package Monthly1 Month trial3 variants$4.991 Month
  • Premium Package$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium Package7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium Package$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Second View

Subscriptions2
  • Second View Basic Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
  • Second View Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Liquid Canvas free?
Liquid Canvas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Second View free?
Second View is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Liquid Canvas or Second View?
Liquid Canvas is rated higher. Liquid Canvas averages 4.4 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Second View averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Liquid Canvas or Second View have ads?
Second View shows ads; Liquid Canvas does not.
Which is updated more often, Liquid Canvas or Second View?
Liquid Canvas ships an update every 2 weeks, and Second View weekly. Most recently, Liquid Canvas was updated on October 9, 2026 and Second View on October 2, 2026.

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