Saga vs Chromahora
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Saga
This app lets you capture a short video clip each day to create a visual diary. It compiles these daily moments into a year-end recap video, allowing you to preserve everyday memories. You can also fill in missed days and export your creations in various formats.
- Daily video clip capture
- Year-end recap video creation
- Calendar view of captured days
- Fill in missed days
- Customizable export options
- Daily reminders and prompts
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Your whole year, one second a day. Saga turns a second or two of every day into a video you'll actually want to rewatch. Add a short clip each day, see your life fill in on a calendar, and when the year ends, press Play on all of it. Most days aren't big events. They're a coffee on the balcony, a walk home, a kid laughing at dinner. They're also the days you forget first. Saga keeps them. ONE CLIP A DAY • Add a short video from your camera roll to any day in seconds • Pick the moment that best sums up the day as its highlight • Trim, rotate and frame each clip so it's just right • Missed a day? Fill it in later — every day stays open • When you start, Saga previews your last four weeks as a reel, one second a day, picked on your phone • Autofill fills a month's empty days at once with each day's best second, picked on your phone YOUR LIFE ON A CALENDAR • Every day you capture appears on a calendar you can scroll through • Tap any date to rewatch exactly what that day looked like • Keep separate journals for different parts of your life • Import a whole album of short clips at once to catch up PRESS PLAY ON YOUR YEAR • Turn any date range into one continuous recap video • One tap for This Year, Last Year or All Time — or choose custom dates • Show the date on every clip so you always know when it was • Export in portrait or landscape, up to 4K • Share your finished recap with family and friends, or keep it for yourself KEEP THE HABIT • A gentle daily reminder, with a fresh prompt each day if you want one • A Home Screen widget shows whether today is captured yet • Your year at a glance shows how your story is growing PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Saga is a personal journal, not a social network. There's no feed, no followers and no likes. Your days are yours; you decide what to share. Saga Pro, an optional subscription, unlocks 4K recap exports, removes the “Made with Saga” mark and keeps your highlights backed up in Saga Cloud. You can also back up to your Photos library. Start today. In a year, you'll have 365 seconds of your own life to look back on. Capture life, one second at a time. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Saga Pro renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.norseventures.co/saga/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.norseventures.co/saga/terms-of-service.html
Chromahora
Visualize your day's light conditions on a color-coded timeline. Plan shoots with golden hour, blue hour, and twilight predictions, integrated with weather forecasts and moon phases. Scout locations and dates with precision for optimal photography and filmmaking.
- Daily light timeline
- Golden hour and blue hour prediction
- Weather forecasting integration
- Moon phase and moonrise/moonset
- Location-based planning
- Astrophotography dark-sky windows
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Great light doesn't wait. Chromahora shows the light for your whole day on one timeline, painted in the colors of the sky, so you know when to be in place and when to shoot. THE LIGHT, HOUR BY HOUR - Golden hour and blue hour, morning and evening, clearly marked - Sunrise, sunset and every twilight in between - A "now" marker, so you always know how long you have left - Tap any phase to jump straight to it PLAN AROUND THE WEATHER - Rain, snow and cloudy spells laid over the timeline - The sky at sunrise and sunset, so you'll know whether clouds will light up or blot out the sun - Hourly UV index and visibility, including fog that cuts how far you can see AFTER DARK - Moonrise, moonset and moon phase - Dark-sky windows for astrophotography, and a clear note when the moon is up or the sky never gets fully dark ANY PLACE, ANY DAY - Use where you are, or search any town, park or landmark - Pick any date to scout a shoot weeks ahead - Times stay in the place's own time zone, so planning a trip abroad just works - Handles the edge cases: midnight sun, polar night and all-day golden hour MADE FOR APPLE DEVICES - Built with Liquid Glass - On iPad and in landscape, the day's details sit right beside the timeline - Supports VoiceOver and Dynamic Type Chromahora is made for landscape, portrait and street photographers, filmmakers, and anyone who chases the light. It's also open source! https://github.com/afollestad/Chromahora Sun and moon data from sunrise-sunset.org. Weather from Apple Weather.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chromahora at none against Saga's 2. Chromahora also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Saga sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Chromahora asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Saga against 5.0 for Chromahora. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Saga ships an update every 2 weeks, Chromahora weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Saga | Chromahora |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Norse Ventures LLC | Aidan Follestad |
Customer experience
Saga
Chromahora
In-app purchases
Saga
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Chromahora
No in-app purchases









