Borderly vs Grade Recipe Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Borderly
Easily add aesthetic borders, captions, and filters to your photos. Enhance images with customizable frames and precise adjustments for a polished look. Save styles as presets and export in high quality for social media or personal use.
- Customizable borders and frames
- Adjust aspect ratio and image position
- Add captions with drop shadows
- Apply photo filters
- Save border styles as presets
- High-quality export
- Sync presets across devices
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Borderly is the easiest way to make your photos look clean, aesthetic, and ready to share. Create beautiful borders, captions, and filters to give every image your personal touch. Key Features: • Add customizable borders and frames for any photo • Adjust aspect ratio, scale, and image position with precision • Add captions and drop shadows for a professional look • Apply filters to enhance your photo’s color and tone • Save your favorite border styles as presets (Pro feature) • Export photos in high quality for any platform • Sync your presets across devices with iCloud (Pro feature) • View export history and manage your edits Borderly makes it simple to style and frame your photos without complex editing tools. Whether you are building a consistent social media feed, showcasing your photography, or enhancing your personal posts, Borderly helps you create aesthetic results in seconds. Upgrade to Borderly Pro for unlimited exports, advanced quality settings, preset syncing, and more creative control. Make every photo look its best with Borderly, the all-in-one photo border and editor app. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Grade Recipe Lab
Create and send custom "film looks" to your Ricoh GR camera via Bluetooth. Design your visual style with a tactile editor and share your creations with a community of photographers. Optimize your GR camera's settings remotely.
- Custom film recipe creation
- Bluetooth camera control
- Tactile editing sliders
- Community recipe sharing
- Remote camera settings adjustment
- Ricoh GR IV optimization
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GRade turns your Ricoh GR IV into exactly the camera you want to shoot with. Build Image Control "recipes" — the film- looks you love — and send them straight to the camera's custom slots over Bluetooth. No cables, no digging through menus. DESIGN YOUR LOOK A tactile editor with meter-style sliders for contrast, highlight and shadow, saturation, hue, toning, clarity, grain and film-simulation filters. SEND IT TO THE CAMERA Write recipes to the camera's custom slots over Bluetooth. Set white balance, ISO and exposure live, read the mode dial, and even power the camera on or off from your phone. A COMMUNITY OF LOOKS Browse recipes shared by other photographers, download the ones you like, and share your own with an optional sample photo. Browsing and rating stay anonymous. MADE FOR THE GR Everything is tuned for the way the GR shoots — quick, quiet, and ready when you are. GRade is an independent app. It is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd. “RICOH” and “GR” are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grade Recipe Lab at none against Borderly's 2. Grade Recipe Lab also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.6). Borderly's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Borderly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Grade Recipe Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Borderly against 5.0 for Grade Recipe Lab. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Borderly ships an update daily, Grade Recipe Lab weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Borderly | Grade Recipe Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sami Jandali Rifai | Mike Rene Graumann |
Customer experience
Borderly
Grade Recipe Lab
In-app purchases
Borderly
- Pro (monthly)$3.991 Month
- Pro (yearly)$39.991 Year
Grade Recipe Lab
No in-app purchases









