Media Stitch vs Half
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Media Stitch
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DESIGNED FOR SIMPLICITY Stitch your photos and videos into elegant animated stories. Clean, minimal animation styles that enhance rather than overpower. Easily pan a landscape photo or scroll a vertical message thread. Create beautiful, content-focused animations that let your visuals shine. MANY STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM • Panoramic: Smooth horizontal reveals that showcase landscapes and wide shots • Grid Zoom: Sophisticated grid layouts perfect for portfolio presentations • Cross Fade: Seamless, cinematic transitions between key moments • Scroll: Clean vertical storytelling for social media and presentations • Grid Pan: Gallery-style collages with subtle movement • Card Stack: Refined sequential reveals with depth WHAT PREMIUM GETS YOU Unlock unlimited projects, add up to 20 media items per creation, and access to all animation styles. Create without limits for your biggest projects.
Half
This app automatically detects and splits half-frame film scans into individual photographs. You can then rejoin any two frames to create new pairs, perfect for printing. It offers flexible export options and works entirely offline for privacy.
- Automatic half-frame scan splitting
- Manual splitting option
- Rejoin any two frames
- Customizable print aspect ratios
- High-quality TIFF export
- Offline functionality
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Half-frame cameras fit two photographs where a normal 35mm frame goes. So when the lab scans your film, you get back one wide image holding two separate pictures, divided by the dark strip of unexposed film between them. Half-Frame Joiner finds that divider, splits the scan into its two real photographs, and lets you rejoin any two of them into a new pair — ready to print. SPLIT YOUR SCANS Pick your half-frame scans straight from your photo library. Each one splits automatically, cropped from the original at full resolution and never resampled. Scans the detector isn't sure about are left whole, so a real picture is never cut in half by accident — and you can always split those by hand. REJOIN ANY TWO Tap two frames and see them joined instantly. Pair them back the way they were shot, or combine frames from completely different rolls to make something new. Every combination is a tap away. MADE FOR PRINTING Choose 4×6, 5×7, or the original aspect ratio before you save, and the app composes to exactly that shape so a lab won't crop your photographs unexpectedly. Pinch to zoom, drag to reposition, and rotate each photo inside its half of the frame until it sits right. The black divider between the two pictures is recreated the way film actually looks, not pasted in as a hard line. EXPORT WHAT YOU NEED Save joined pairs, or export single frames on their own — as TIFF for maximum quality or JPEG for smaller files. Everything goes back to your photo library. KEEP TRACK Tap the info button on any photo to see every join it appears in, and browse everything you've made in the Created tab. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Half-Frame Joiner works entirely on your device. No accounts, no analytics, and no network requests at all — it runs in Airplane Mode. Your photographs never leave your iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Half at none against Media Stitch's 1. Half also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). 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
Both are free to download. Media Stitch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Half asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Media Stitch | Half |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Finish Line Labs, LLC | Optimized Machining LLC |
In-app purchases
Media Stitch
- Premium Features$0.99
Half
No in-app purchases








