Depth Map Extractor vs ZPTH
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Depth Map Extractor
This tool uses on-device AI to generate depth maps from your photos and videos. Visualize, edit, and combine images with their depth data, then export for creative projects. Processing is done locally for privacy and speed.
- Generate depth maps from images and videos
- On-device AI processing
- Visualize and edit depth data
- Apply color filters and gradients
- Export results for creative workflows
- Local processing for privacy
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MAGMA turns photos and videos into detailed depth maps using powerful on-device AI models, including MoGe2, ZipDepth, Depth Anything, MiDaS and more. Process your media locally on your iPhone or iPad without uploading it to the cloud. Import images and videos from your library, capture new content with the camera, and compare the original media with its depth representation. Apply color maps, gradients, and visual filters to make depth information easier to interpret and present. Combine original images with depth data, preview the results, and export depth-aware images or videos for creative and technical workflows. MAGMA is built for developers, creators, filmmakers, photographers, and visual artists working with spatial media. By using this app, you agree to Apple's standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ZPTH
Transform your device's depth camera into a dynamic visual instrument. Explore 20 unique modes to render depth as light, contours, or abstract art. Capture photos and videos directly to your library, with advanced customization options for Pro users.
- Depth camera to visual instrument
- 20 unique depth rendering modes
- Real-time photo and video capture
- On-device processing, no network needed
- Creator Mode for custom effects (Pro)
- Saves directly to Photos library
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ZPTH reads the depth in front of you and paints it in real time. Point it at a face, a room, or your hand and watch it become light, contour lines, plasma, chrome, cut paper, or a drifting cloud of dust. Capture a photo or record video straight to Photos — or stream the live preview to your computer over NDI. Fifteen of the modes need no depth sensor at all: a Core ML model running on your device infers depth from a single camera, so they run on both the front and rear camera of any iPhone ZPTH installs on. The other thirty read the front TrueDepth camera, or the rear LiDAR scanner on Pro models. FIFTEEN MODES, NO DEPTH SENSOR NEEDED • Parallax — the camera orbits the scene from one still viewpoint. • Anaglyph — real red/cyan 3D from one lens, plus a glasses-free wiggle. • Aperture — a cinema lens: shaped bokeh, iris blades, a focus puller. • Vertigo — Hitchcock's dolly zoom, live. • Nebula — a cloud that wraps behind people rather than over them. • Motes — dust, snow and embers drifting in the air in front of the scene. • Godlight — sun shafts your hand casts a real shadow through. • Aerial — true atmospheric perspective: haze, distance, a warm sun glow. • Woodblock — an engraving whose hatch lines curve around every surface. • Stipple — ink dots sized by curvature and spaced like a Seurat. • Papercut — the scene as up to 20 torn paper plates, each shadowing the next. • Riso — a risograph print in misregistered spot-colour plates. • Lattice — a scan plane leaves a glowing wireframe mesh in its wake. • Hologram — scanlines, chromatic fringing, a projection cone from below. • Datamosh — codec smear, with depth deciding what tears and what holds. THIRTY DEPTH-CAMERA MODES Environment, Face, Raw, Plasma, Organic, Data, Contour, Hillshade, Chrome, Oil Slick, Pulsar, Sonar, Pin Screen, Voxel, Facets, Light Trails, Miniature, Iron Filings, Dither, Juicy, Aerochrome, Heat Ghost, Solarise, Cymatic, Aquarelle, Tessera, Chemigram, Ripplefield, Ferrofluid and Lichtenberg — from topographic isolines and liquid chrome to false-colour infrared, wet watercolour, Roman mosaic, a vibrating Chladni sand plate, and forking lightning. Pulsar and Cymatic can move to live sound. CREATOR MODE (Pro) Build your own mode. Start from an empty depth field and stack effect layers grouped by function — texture, lighting, lines, edge, colour, bloom. Each layer has its own controls, opacity and blend mode. Shape how they fall through near and far depth, import a photo as a depth-projected tileset, then save it as a named mode. CAPTURE • Tap the shutter for a photo; hold and swipe up to record video. • Everything saves straight to your Photos library. • Double-tap to toggle 3:4 and full-screen 9:16. • Cut to the plain camera and back, even mid-recording. NDI STREAMING (Pro) Broadcast the live preview to OBS, TouchDesigner, vMix and other NDI receivers on your local network, turning your iPhone into a depth-camera source for your desktop. A second optional stream carries the raw camera alongside the effect. Off by default; Wired mode over USB-C lowers latency. PRO ZPTH Pro is a one-time $2 purchase — no subscription. It unlocks the fifteen monocular modes, every other mode's settings, the colour maps, all presets, Creator Mode and NDI streaming. The thirty depth-camera modes are free to explore on their first preset; the monocular modes need Pro. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no tracking. Camera frames are processed on the device and never leave it — unless you save a photo or video, or turn on NDI to reach your own computer on your own network. The microphone is used only by Pulsar and Cymatic, is off by default, and is never recorded or transmitted. REQUIREMENTS iPhone only. The monocular modes run on any supported iPhone. The rest need a front TrueDepth camera (iPhone X or later) or a rear LiDAR scanner (Pro models).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ZPTH at 50% against Depth Map Extractor's 0%. ZPTH also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). Depth Map Extractor's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Depth Map Extractor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and ZPTH sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Depth Map Extractor holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Depth Map Extractor's written reviews are positive against 50% of ZPTH's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Depth Map Extractor ships an update every 3 months, ZPTH every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Depth Map Extractor | ZPTH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 195 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nelson Cruz | ari lintzeris |
Customer experience
Depth Map Extractor
ZPTH
In-app purchases
Depth Map Extractor
- Maga PRO weekly$1.997 Days
- Maga PRO monthly$3.991 Month
- Magma PRO yearly$9.991 Year
ZPTH
- ZPTH Pro Lifetime$9.99









