Obscura vs Momento Marks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Obscura
This app offers a powerful yet intuitive photo editing experience. It provides a range of pre-set filters and advanced tools for creative adjustments. Unlock full functionality to save and export your masterpieces.
- Gorgeous pre-set filters
- Custom filter creation
- Pro editing tools
- Exposure, curves, white balance
- Grain and vignette adjustments
- Hue/saturation/lightness controls
- Edits saved between sessions
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Obscura Studio is a brand new image editor that’s intuitive to use, but allows for a lot of creativity. Obscura Studio evolved from working on Obscura, an award-winning, pro camera app. Now Obscura and Obscura Studio are deeply integrated, sharing edits and filters between them. This means that you can edit a photo, save your edits as a custom filter, and then use that filter in Obscura’s camera. Library Obscura Studio integrates with the system Photo Library, so you have access to all your images. It has smart filters to help reduce the clutter and by default, just shows you the photos you care about. You can browse all your albums too, for easy organisation and navigation. Organisation Obscura Studio lets you rate images with star ratings, or mark them as flagged or rejected, to help you stay organised. Editing Obscura Studio has a variety of pro editing tools that let you bring your own taste to your photos. Everything from the basics like Exposure and Contrast, to a Curves Editor, HSL tools, and so much more. Filters In addition to the range of built in filters, you can save any edits as a custom filter if you want to reuse it regularly. Custom Filters are shared with Obscura so you can use them live in-camera. ———— Privacy: https://benricemccarthy.com/apps/obscura-studio/privacy.html Terms: https://benricemccarthy.com/apps/obscura-studio/terms.html
Momento Marks
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Some things deserve an album of their own. Momento Marks turns an NFC tag into a shared album. Put the tag on the thing the photographs are about: the guest book at a wedding, the back of a frame, a caravan, a christening gift. Anyone who taps it with their phone opens the album and can add to it. They need no account, and they do not have to install anything. They tap, they add a photo, they type a name if they want to. That is the whole of it. YOU DECIDE WHAT APPEARS • Nothing a visitor adds is visible until you have approved it, unless you choose to let everything in for a day or two. • Anyone can report a memory or a comment, and a report hides it immediately, before anybody looks at it. • You can block someone from an album, and what they left goes with them. • You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. AN ALBUM THAT STARTS ON YOUR PHONE An album you make is yours and lives on this phone. Every photograph, full size, no account required. It moves to the internet on the day you want other people to reach it: a tag, a link, a second device. That is the part you pay for. WHAT IS IN IT • Photographs kept at the resolution you took them. Video is kept too. • Every copy anyone is shown is re-encoded from scratch, and the camera, the lens and the serial number never travel with it. • Where a photograph was taken does travel with it, because that is part of the memory rather than a detail of the file. • Comments and reactions, from people who never made an account. • A camera built for the album: looks you can choose before the shutter, and marks and stickers you can put on a photograph as you add it. • Everything mirrored back onto your phone, so an album opens in a cellar with no signal. WHAT IT COSTS Momento Marks is free to use, and an album that lives on this phone stays free. Putting an album on the internet, where other people can reach it, is the part you buy. • One album: one payment, yours to keep, in four sizes from 2 GB to 15 GB. A full album grows by paying the difference. • All your albums: a subscription, billed every month, covering every album you make. Subscriptions renew every month until you cancel them in the App Store. NO ANALYTICS, NO ADVERTISING, NO TRACKERS Not switched off. Absent. There is no analytics script, no advertising pixel and no third-party tracker anywhere in this application, and nothing you do here is reported to anybody else. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy notice: https://tap.nfc.cool/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Momento Marks at every 4 days against Obscura's every 5 weeks. Obscura's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Obscura sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days and Momento Marks sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Obscura ships an update every 5 weeks, Momento Marks every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Obscura | Momento Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ben McCarthy | Nicolo Stanciu |
In-app purchases
Obscura
- Obscura Ultra - Weekly$1.497 Days
- Obscura Studio+ Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Obscura Ultra - One Month7 Days trial$3.991 Month
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- Obscura Studio+ Annual7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Obscura Ultra - Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Obscura Ultra - One Time$74.99
Momento Marks
- All your albums$3.991 Month
- Small album$3.99
- One size bigger$3.99
- Two sizes bigger$8.99
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- This album$8.99
- Large album$12.99
- Three sizes bigger$12.99
- Extra large album$17.99









