Glowi vs PhotoRiver
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glowi
Enhance your photos and videos with precise lighting and color adjustments. Achieve flawless selfies and stunning visuals with smart brightness control and advanced RGB tuning.
- Smart brightness control
- Gesture controls for brightness
- Advanced RGB color tuning
- Real-time color preview
- Hexadecimal color codes
- Intelligent text color matching
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Glowi is your ultimate lighting app, designed to help you shine in every selfie, perfect your food shots, and create stunning visuals with just the right glow. Flawless Brightness Adjustment • Smart brightness control to enhance your natural skin tone • Quick screen brightness tweaks for on-the-go perfection • Gesture controls for effortless brightness adjustments Advanced Color Customization • Precise RGB tuning to find the perfect light for your complexion • Real-time color preview to match every mood and moment • Hexadecimal color codes for those who love creative control • Intelligent text color matching to keep everything looking seamless
PhotoRiver
Organize and display your photos with a professional management tool. Browse images in river or grid modes, manage albums, and create life diaries with customizable templates. Perfect for preserving your memories.
- River and grid photo display
- System and custom album management
- Photo and text life diaries
- Multiple photo wall templates
- Smooth photo browsing experience
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This app uses Apple's Standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ PhotoRiver makes organizing your photo library as easy as browsing it. Swipe through your photos and videos full screen, and favorite, tag, or delete each one as you go. IMMERSIVE BROWSING • Swipe up and down, one photo per screen, with videos playing automatically • Favorite, tag, categorize, add notes, or add to albums and diaries right on the photo • Recommended, Memories, and To Organize filters • Switch between four views: River, Grid, Immersive, and Cards CLEANUP HUB • Duplicates and similar photos: compare in groups and keep the best one • Blurry photos: find the shots that didn't come out • Bursts and Live Photos: keep the best frame, clear the rest • Screenshot archiving: clear out screenshots you no longer need, in batches • Large files and video compression: see what's using your storage and compress videos in the app • Monthly review: a few minutes a month keeps your library tidy CAPTURE AND CREATE • Photo diary: combine photos with text, mood, and weather • Photo walls: templates and backgrounds for shareable collages • Albums: manage system and custom albums together • iCloud sync: favorites, tags, and diaries sync across your devices PRIVACY AND SAFETY • All photo analysis happens on your device and is never uploaded to our servers • Every deletion is confirmed first, and deleted photos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glowi at none against PhotoRiver's 3. PhotoRiver's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. PhotoRiver sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Glowi asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Glowi against 5.0 for PhotoRiver. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Glowi | PhotoRiver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CoreSpeed Inc. | Naihe Hu |
Customer experience
Glowi
PhotoRiver
In-app purchases
Glowi
No in-app purchases
PhotoRiver
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Purchase$14.99
