Comparison

DeepColors vs Bring Back Red

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

Head to head
About

DeepColors

Enhance your underwater photos and videos with automatic color correction. This app brings scuba diving footage to life, offering professional HDR adjustments. Edit videos with keyframes for vibrant, colorful memories.

Highlights
  • Automatic HDR color correction
  • Keyframe video editing
  • Import photos and videos
  • Professional adjustments
  • Watermark removal (subscription)
  • 4K HDR video export (subscription)
Features
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Instantly bring your scuba diving footage to life with DeepColors! The best HDR underwater color correction for photos and video. Water absorbs color with depth: red disappears within a few metres, and every dive turns blue-green. DeepColors reverses it. Open a photo or clip and it is corrected automatically. The lost red is recovered, every color channel is balanced and a true black point is set, so your footage looks the way the dive felt, not like a filter. Made by divers, for underwater photographers and videographers, scuba divers, freedivers and snorkelers. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. FOR EVERY DIVE AND EVERY CAMERA • Scuba diving, freediving and snorkeling, on reefs, wrecks, in lakes and in the pool • Blue ocean water and green lake or quarry water alike • Photos and videos from action cameras, cameras in dive housings and your iPhone • No red filter needed: correct your colors after the dive, even when the depth changes during a clip • Save to your photo library or share your dive straight away AUTOMATIC UNDERWATER COLOR CORRECTION • Corrected the moment you open a photo or video • Built for the way water absorbs light, not a generic filter • Keeps full HDR, so sun rays and highlights stay bright instead of clipping GRADE YOUR WHOLE DIVE • A full underwater video editor with keyframe grading: the correction follows your clip from bright shallows into the deep blue • Trim your clips and re-analyze any moment in one tap • Export 4K HDR video in HEVC, or ProRes for editing A COMPLETE GRADING TOOLKIT • Masks for photos: select a subject with on-device AI, paint with a brush, or add linear and radial gradients, each with its own full set of adjustments • Color channel mixer, exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation and vibrance • White balance eyedropper, with separate temperature and tint • Clarity, dehaze, sharpening and noise reduction • Live histogram • Crop, rotate, flip and straighten • Undo and redo every step • Compare with the original at any time • A built-in guide to every tool TAKE YOUR LOOK ANYWHERE • Export your grade as a .cube LUT and use it in your desktop video editor • Full-resolution photo export that keeps your image quality ON MAC TOO • A native Mac app with the same color engine • Open camera RAW files, including Sony ARW • Precise sliders, masks and keyframe video editing on the big screen PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no sign-up • Your photos and videos are processed on your device and never uploaded Available in English and 21 other languages. DEEPCOLORS PREMIUM DeepColors is free to download. A Premium subscription unlocks: • Exports without the watermark • 4K HDR, HEVC and ProRes video export • .cube LUT export • Your own watermark: upload your logo, add your name beneath it, set the opacity, size and position Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://deepcolors.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://deepcolors.app/privacy/

About

Bring Back Red

Features
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Your whole dive, restored. Bring Back Red is AI underwater color correction for the photos, Live Photos and video you bring home from scuba diving, snorkeling, freediving or an action camera. It measures what the water took from each shot and restores natural color without repainting the scene. AI FINDS YOUR DIVES BY ITSELF You do not tag anything or pick anything. Bring Back Red reads your camera roll, recognizes your underwater shots and groups them back into the dives they came from: photos, Live Photos and clips together. Open one and correct the whole dive in a single pass. Shots that are already balanced stay out of the way. Only the exceptions ask for your decision. VIDEO THAT SURVIVES THE EXPORT Supported 8K HDR video keeps its resolution, frame rate, audio and HDR intent. Correction follows the clip as the light changes through it, rather than freezing one look over the whole thing. Every export is reopened and checked before Bring Back Red calls it finished. If a long save is interrupted, you can finish it without processing the video again. IT TAKES WHAT YOUR CAMERA WRITES RAW and ProRAW from a housing, ProRes and Apple Log from an iPhone Pro, Dolby Vision and HDR video, and the everyday JPEG and HEIC. YOU KEEP CONTROL Preview photos and video before you commit. Adjust Intensity when you want to, or leave it alone. Export a corrected copy to Photos or Files, at full quality. Your originals stay exactly as they were, byte for byte. IT RUNS ON YOUR PHONE Correction happens on the device, so it works on the boat with no signal. There is no account to make, and your photos are never uploaded. ON IPHONE AND IPAD One app for both. On iPad the inspector stands permanently beside the photograph or the clip. AI that measures, never invents. Your dive is corrected, never repainted.

Screenshots

DeepColors4 screens
Bring Back Red4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bring Back Red at none against DeepColors's 3. Bring Back Red also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DeepColors sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Bring Back Red asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DeepColors ships an update every 2 weeks, Bring Back Red weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
DeepColors versus Bring Back Red: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeepColorsBring Back Red
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHugo AIbert RouwenhorstJerome Sommerfeldt

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DeepColors

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Sub1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • 6-Month Sub6 Months trial$9.996 Months
  • Yearly Sub1 Year trial$14.991 Year
None

Bring Back Red

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DeepColors free?
DeepColors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bring Back Red free?
Bring Back Red is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DeepColors or Bring Back Red have ads?
Neither DeepColors nor Bring Back Red shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DeepColors or Bring Back Red?
DeepColors ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bring Back Red weekly. Most recently, DeepColors was updated on October 30, 2026 and Bring Back Red on October 25, 2026.

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