Comparison

Pulse vs GridMakr

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

Head to head
About

Pulse

Record, edit, and caption short video clips directly on your device. Export high-quality portrait videos to your organization's server without needing accounts or third-party clouds. Works offline and prioritizes your data privacy.

Highlights
  • Record video in short clips
  • Import and convert videos
  • Stabilization and call interruption protection
  • Non-destructive editing
  • On-device caption generation
  • Direct server export
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Record a quick walkthrough, caption it on your phone, and send it straight to your organization's own server. No accounts. No third-party cloud. RECORD IN CLIPS • Shoot short clips instead of one long take. Reorder them, or redo just the one you fumbled. • Import videos from Photos. Pulse converts them to match your recordings. • Stabilization built in, and phone calls never silently ruin a take. EDIT WITHOUT LOSING QUALITY • Trim, change speed, and reopen any clip to keep editing. • Every edit works from the original and is applied once, when you export. • Exports as full-quality portrait video (1080×1920). CAPTIONS ON YOUR PHONE • Captions are generated on the device. Your audio never leaves it. • Fix any word in the caption editor. SEND TO YOUR SERVER • Scan your organization's QR code to connect. No sign-up. • Video, captions and thumbnail arrive together, ready to attach to a ticket, a record or a page. • Uploads retry on their own when the signal drops. WORKS OFFLINE • Record, edit and caption with no connection. • Share drafts between devices as .pulse files. Light, Dark or System appearance. An About page shows your version and server compatibility, with logs you can share when reporting a problem. Your organization runs the server, so your videos stay on your infrastructure.

About

GridMakr

Features
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Your feed. But couture. You take the photos. GridMakr does the rest: hang a gallery wall across the slides of a carousel, turn one wide shot into panels that line up at the seams, stack a few favourites into one post — and mix all three in a single carousel. Or hand a pile of photos to Magic and get the whole post in one tap. Then hand Instagram numbered, full-size files. MAGIC Pick a pile of photos. Magic deals them into a complete post: stacks, mosaics, panoramas and gallery walls, mixed. Not that one? Tap again for another take. Two knobs: Vibe, from calm to wild, and Order, which sorts your photos by colour so neighbours blend or pop. Every take is one undo away. STACK Two to six photos in rows or columns inside one 9:16, 3:4, 4:5 or 1:1 post. Drag the dividers; they snap to halves and thirds. SLICE One wide shot spread across up to 20 carousel panels. Pan and zoom it as one canvas; the seams snap so the swipe is seamless. HANG A GALLERY WALL Pick a handful of photos and get a proposed hang across the slides. Shuffle, tweak scatter and sizes, pin the frames you love, move the rest by hand and turn any of them with two fingers. MAKE IT YOURS Colour the paper behind every slide, from your photos or any colour you like. Give frames a shadow or a border, or style one on its own. On Wild, Magic dresses and leans them for you. TEXT ON YOUR SLIDES Write on one slide or across the whole post: 15 fonts, any colour, uppercase if you like. Drag it anywhere, even across the seam between two slides. CUT IT OUT Hold a gallery frame and choose Cut out subject: the person or thing stays, the background goes, and the frame's border and shadow follow the outline. Cut a panorama or a gallery at any slide, and that slide becomes one of its own. VIDEO, TOO Videos go wherever photos go: a stack of clips playing side by side, a video hung on the gallery wall, a panorama cut from one wide clip. Shaky clip? Send it to Video Stabilizer Pro and it comes back steady, into the same cell. ONE CAROUSEL, ANY MIX A stack, then a panorama, then a gallery — in one post. Ratio and frame are shared across every slide, just like Instagram wants it. Trade photos and clips with Swap with…, even across slides, and hold and drag in the strip to reorder. Close the gaps in the canvas to preview the post edge to edge. Leave it unfinished and pick it up from Home later. BUILT FOR HOW INSTAGRAM WORKS • 3:4, 4:5 and 1:1 for the feed; 9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok • Every slide previewed before it goes out, then exported in order at 1080 px — or 1440 px with Pro • Plain JPEGs and videos that are yours — post them, send them, print them NOTHING LEAVES THIS IPHONE No upload, no account, no tracking, no ads. GridMakr uses Apple's photo picker, so it only ever sees the photos you hand it, and it never asks for access to your library. GRIDMAKR PRO Every feature is free to use and export. Free exports carry a small GridMakr mark in the corner of each slide; GridMakr Pro removes it and exports at 1440 px. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: • GridMakr Pro Weekly — billed every week • GridMakr Pro Yearly — billed every year, starting with a 3-day free trial Prices are shown in the app before you buy and may vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. A subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gridmakr.dmrschmidt.de/privacy/

Screenshots

Pulse4 screens
GridMakr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pulse at none against GridMakr's 3. Pulse also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). GridMakr's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). 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. GridMakr sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Pulse asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pulse ships an update every 3 months, GridMakr weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Pulse versus GridMakr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPulseGridMakr
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMedical Informatics Engineering, Inc.Dennis Schmidt

In-app purchases

None

Pulse

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

GridMakr

Subscriptions3
  • GridMakr Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
  • GridMakr Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • GridMakr Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Pulse free?
Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GridMakr free?
GridMakr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pulse or GridMakr have ads?
Neither Pulse nor GridMakr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pulse or GridMakr?
Pulse ships an update every 3 months, and GridMakr weekly. Most recently, Pulse was updated on November 5, 2026 and GridMakr on October 31, 2026.

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