Comparison

Reframe vs ChatVideo

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

Head to head
About

Reframe

This app allows you to capture, annotate, and share frames from videos. It offers transcription, translation, and summarization features, with the ability to export content to PDF. Seamlessly syncs across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Capture and annotate video frames
  • Share videos from other apps
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Video transcription and translation
  • AI-powered transcription summarization
  • Export annotations and transcripts to PDF
Features
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Review, annotate, and organize videos with powerful tools designed for developers, students, attorneys, investigators, content creators, coaches, and anyone who needs more than a media player. Capture important moments frame by frame, mark them up, search spoken words, and export your findings into professional reports. **Key Features** • Import videos from Files, Photos, Safari, and other apps • Capture high-quality video frames with precise timestamps • Annotate frames using Apple Pencil or Logitech Muse • Extract text from frames with built-in text recognition • Copy text directly into other apps • Organize videos with notes, favorites, and tags • Sync your videos, frames, and annotations across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and Apple TV using iCloud **Find Information Faster** Large videos don't have to be watched from beginning to end. Generate searchable transcripts, instantly locate specific words or phrases, and jump directly to the moments that matter. Translate transcripts into another language and search in either language to quickly find important content. Apple Intelligence can also generate concise summaries to help you understand long videos at a glance. **Create Professional Reports** Export Apple Intelligence summaries, captured frames, annotations, and transcripts to a single PDF that's easy to share with colleagues, clients, classmates, or friends. Whether you're reviewing training sessions, legal evidence, classroom lectures, business presentations, sports footage, product demonstrations, or family videos, Reframe helps you find, annotate, and share the moments that matter.

About

ChatVideo

Instantly understand any video with AI analysis. Get summaries, transcripts, and answers by asking questions about the content, visuals, and audio. Supports YouTube links, uploads, and audio files.

Highlights
  • AI-powered video analysis
  • Instant summaries and transcripts
  • Visual and audio content extraction
  • Transcription and translation in 150+ languages
  • Content creation tools
  • Supports YouTube, uploads, and audio files
Features
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Hours of video. Seconds to understand. ChatVideo AI is the only AI analyst that sees and hears everything in the video. ChatVideo AI analyzes audio, visuals, slides, and scenes, giving you answers, summaries, and transcripts instantly, so you get answers without watching everything. Upload a video, paste a YouTube link, add a public URL, or import audio, then ask AI anything. It can identify and extract both visuals and words. Get accurate answers, timestamps, transcripts, translations, key takeaways, and more in seconds. Whether you're a professional, student, researcher, or content creator, ChatVideo AI helps you get more out of every video, faster and simpler than ever before. KEY FEATURES ◆ ASK ANYTHING ABOUT ANY VIDEO Simply add a video and start chatting. Ask any question and get accurate, instant AI-powered answers about key moments, details, topics, action items, speakers, and more directly from the video content. - What is this video about? - Summarize the key points - What did they say about X? - Give me the top 5 takeaways ◆ POWERFUL AI ANALYSIS Go beyond watching. Let AI do the heavy lifting and extract everything you need from any video instantly. - AI Summaries — get the key points without watching the full video - Key Insights — extract the most important ideas automatically - Smart Notes — generate clean, structured notes in seconds - Action Items — identify next steps and decisions instantly ◆ IMAGE ANALYSIS Identify objects, read text, analyze charts and recognize scenes instantly. For example: - Identify objects & scenes: AI recognizes products, locations, logos, people and environments in any frame - Extract any text on screen, OCR: Extract phone numbers, URLs, addresses or any text that appears on screen - Read whiteboards & screens: Capture text, diagrams and notes from whiteboards, screens and displays - Read slides & presentations: AI extracts text, charts and data from every slide in a video - Analyze charts & graphs: AI reads and interprets any chart, graph or diagram shown in the video ◆ TRANSCRIBE & TRANSLATE Get word-for-word transcripts of any video with speaker detection and timestamps. Translate instantly into 150+ languages. - Accurate auto-transcription - Timestamps & speaker detection - Translate to 150+ languages - Copy, share or export anywhere ◆ CREATE & CONVERT IN SECONDS Transform any video into powerful content with one tap. - Social posts & captions - Flashcards & quizzes - Study guides & outlines - Blog posts & newsletters - Meeting notes & action items ◆ WORKS WITH EVERYTHING ChatVideo AI works with virtually any content source. - YouTube videos & playlists - Uploaded videos - Audio files & podcasts - Recordings - Public URLs & web links ◆ PERFECT FOR - Professionals: summarize meetings, interviews & presentations - Podcasters: transcribe and repurpose episodes effortlessly - Students: turn lectures into notes and study guides instantly - Creators: turn videos into posts, threads & newsletters - Researchers: extract insights from hours of content in seconds - Language Learners: translate and study in any language And many more! ◆ PRIVACY & SECURITY Your content is private and secure. We do not sell or share your data with third parties. ◆ GET STARTED FREE NOW Download ChatVideo AI free and start asking questions about any video in seconds. Upgrade to Premium for more video minutes, advanced AI analysis, and full access to all features. Privacy Policy: https://www.zsoft.ai/privacy Terms Of Use: https://www.zsoft.ai/terms

Screenshots

Reframe4 screens
ChatVideo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Reframe at every 6 days against ChatVideo's every 3 months. Reframe also leads on device support (5 vs 2). ChatVideo's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Reframe sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ChatVideo sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Reframe against 5.0 for ChatVideo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reframe ships an update every 6 days, ChatVideo every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Reframe versus ChatVideo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReframeChatVideo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIntrepid Reality, LLCZSoft Labs

Customer experience

Reframe

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

ChatVideo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Reframe

Subscriptions4
  • Intrepid Reframe Standard1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Intrepid Reframe Premium1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Intrepid Reframe Standard1 Month trial$19.991 Year
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  • Intrepid Reframe Premium1 Month trial$29.991 Year
6 purchases

ChatVideo

Subscriptions6
  • ChatVideo AI Plus Weekly$6.997 Days
  • ChatVideo AI Plus Month$10.991 Month
  • ChatVideo AI Pro Weekly$14.997 Days
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  • ChatVideo AI Pro Month$29.991 Month
  • ChatVideo AI Plus Six Month$44.996 Months
  • ChatVideo AI Pro Year$199.991 Year

Questions

Is Reframe free?
Reframe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChatVideo free?
ChatVideo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reframe or ChatVideo?
Reframe and ChatVideo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Reframe or ChatVideo have ads?
Neither Reframe nor ChatVideo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reframe or ChatVideo?
Reframe ships an update every 6 days, and ChatVideo every 3 months. Most recently, Reframe was updated on October 19, 2026 and ChatVideo on October 14, 2026.

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