Comparison

Matcha Filter vs trailwork

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

Head to head
About

Matcha Filter

Transform your photos into a matcha-themed visual experience. This application allows you to apply a unique matcha filter, giving your images a distinct aesthetic.

Highlights
  • Apply matcha filter
  • Transform photos
  • Matcha aesthetic
  • Photo editing
Features
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Apply a matcha filter to your photos and transform your photo into a matcha photo!

About

trailwork

This camera app captures images with two distinct visual styles: one mimicking trail cameras with data stamps, and another applying regional colors based on location. It embeds precise GPS coordinates into every photo, encouraging attention to specific places and their inhabitants. The app offers limited zoom and overlay options, with captures saved directly to your device's photo library.

Highlights
  • Trail camera visual style with data stamps
  • Regional color overlays based on ecoregion
  • Embedded GPS coordinates with high precision
  • Multiple optical and digital zoom options
  • IR or color options for trail-cam mode
  • Lossless TIFF print mode for ecoregion captures
Features
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trailwork is a camera that produces images in two visual languages. The first is the language of trail cameras — infrared monochrome or specialized color, a soft halo around highlights, a data stamp burned into the bottom edge with date, time, place, weather, and moon phase. The second is the language of regional color: every photograph in this mode is cast in the dominant color of the EPA Level III ecoregion where you stood, so a picture taken in the Willamette Valley is gold, one taken in the Mojave is bleached silica, one taken in the Tongass is rainforest blue-green. Every photograph in either mode is signed with the coordinates where you stood at the moment you made it. This GPS precision to four decimal points, or about 30 feet, is part of the work, not an oversight. trailwork is interested in attention to specific places and the way in which people, animals, and plant life inhabit them. The app is intentionally limited. Three optical lenses (0.5×, 1×, 3×) and one digital crop (2×). The user may zoom up to 15× digitally. Two overlays: trail-cam or ecoregion. Within trail-cam: IR or color. Within ecoregion: a print mode that saves a 48-megapixel lossless TIFF alongside the JPEG, for prints and gallery output. Flash on, off, or auto. Tap to focus, drag to bias exposure. The shutter. An interactive atlas of every ecoregion and its corresponding color, accessible from the about screen. Captures save to your Photo Library. There are no filters, no settings menus, no editing, no in-app gallery, no sharing. To browse your photographs, use Photos. trailwork is a functional art piece by Adam DeSorbo, an artist working in photography, woodworking, and material processes related to time, place, and ecological attention. It extends an earlier web-based work, On Trail, into a portable form. It is free, ad-free, and collects no data beyond what is required to make and stamp the photographs. See the full privacy policy at adamdesorbo.com/trailwork-privacy. See more of Adam DeSorbo's work at adamdesorbo.com.

Screenshots

Matcha Filter2 screens
trailwork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Matcha Filter at daily against trailwork's every 3 weeks. trailwork's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Matcha Filter against 5.0 for trailwork. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Matcha Filter ships an update daily, trailwork every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Matcha Filter versus trailwork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMatcha Filtertrailwork
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMath Folder LLCADAM JOHN DESORBO

Customer experience

Matcha Filter

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

trailwork

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Matcha Filter

No in-app purchases

None

trailwork

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Matcha Filter free?
Matcha Filter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is trailwork free?
trailwork is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Matcha Filter or trailwork?
Matcha Filter and trailwork are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Matcha Filter or trailwork have ads?
Neither Matcha Filter nor trailwork shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Matcha Filter or trailwork?
Matcha Filter ships an update daily, and trailwork every 3 weeks. Most recently, Matcha Filter was updated on October 1, 2026 and trailwork on October 7, 2026.

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