GRPS vs Grade Recipe Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GRPS
Automatically sync location data from your iPhone to compatible Ricoh cameras. The app runs in the background, ensuring your photos are geotagged without manual intervention or excessive battery drain.
- Automatic location sync
- Background operation
- Camera power-on detection
- Photo syncing to phone
- Low battery consumption
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GRPS makes it easy to automatically start and stop location sync from your iPhone to your Ricoh GR III and GR IV cameras. Once the initial connection is made, the app will automatically wake up and start syncing whenever your camera is powered on with Bluetooth enabled within range of the iPhone – even in the background! This allows you to reliably get up to date location information in your images without having to interact with an app, set an explicit duration for location updates or excessively drain your iPhone battery. Basically, set it up once, then forget about it. GRPS also allows you to easily sync your photos to your phone library.
Grade Recipe Lab
Create and send custom "film looks" to your Ricoh GR camera via Bluetooth. Design your visual style with a tactile editor and share your creations with a community of photographers. Optimize your GR camera's settings remotely.
- Custom film recipe creation
- Bluetooth camera control
- Tactile editing sliders
- Community recipe sharing
- Remote camera settings adjustment
- Ricoh GR IV optimization
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GRade turns your Ricoh GR IV into exactly the camera you want to shoot with. Build Image Control "recipes" — the film- looks you love — and send them straight to the camera's custom slots over Bluetooth. No cables, no digging through menus. DESIGN YOUR LOOK A tactile editor with meter-style sliders for contrast, highlight and shadow, saturation, hue, toning, clarity, grain and film-simulation filters. SEND IT TO THE CAMERA Write recipes to the camera's custom slots over Bluetooth. Set white balance, ISO and exposure live, read the mode dial, and even power the camera on or off from your phone. A COMMUNITY OF LOOKS Browse recipes shared by other photographers, download the ones you like, and share your own with an optional sample photo. Browsing and rating stay anonymous. MADE FOR THE GR Everything is tuned for the way the GR shoots — quick, quiet, and ready when you are. GRade is an independent app. It is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd. “RICOH” and “GR” are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grade Recipe Lab at none against GRPS's 2. Grade Recipe Lab also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). GRPS's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. GRPS sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Grade Recipe Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grade Recipe Lab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GRPS has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
GRPS ships an update monthly, Grade Recipe Lab weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GRPS | Grade Recipe Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Willow & Oak AB | Mike Rene Graumann |
Customer experience
GRPS
Grade Recipe Lab
In-app purchases
GRPS
- Geotagging$5.99
- Image sync$5.99
Grade Recipe Lab
No in-app purchases







