Comparison

Appstar vs Foundform

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

Head to head
About

Appstar

Express yourself with quick, emotional text fragments instead of long messages. Create custom meme image packs directly from your keyboard to enhance any conversation.

Highlights
  • Expressive text fragments
  • Meme creation
  • Custom image packs
  • Keyboard integration
Features
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A keyboard for people who speak in moments. Instead of long messages, it lets you send quick, expressive fragments that feel more like emotion than text. With Appstar, you can turn any situation into a meme right inside your keyboard and even create your own image packs.

About

Foundform

This app helps designers and creatives build a visual field archive of found objects. It allows you to capture, organize, refine, and export design references from the physical world into a digital collection.

Highlights
  • Capture found objects with perspective correction
  • Organize finds into collections
  • Preserve metadata like location and date
  • Refine image properties and cutouts
  • Calibrate real-world scale for flat objects
  • Export clean PNGs with transparent backgrounds
  • Local storage for privacy
Features
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Collect the design around you. Foundform is a visual field archive for designers, creatives and anyone who notices the details. A bus ticket. A beautifully printed label. Interesting typography on a storefront. A sticker from a trip. Packaging you want to remember. Instead of letting these references disappear into your camera roll, Foundform turns them into a collection of individual digital specimens. CAPTURE FOUND OBJECTS Photograph an object directly in Foundform or import something you already captured. Perspective correction helps turn flat objects into clean, straight-on references, while cutout tools isolate irregular objects from their surroundings. BUILD YOUR FIELD ARCHIVE Organize finds into collections without duplicating them. One object can belong to several collections, and each object can contain multiple views — front, back, details or context photographs. PRESERVE THE DETAILS Keep where and when you found something alongside notes and other metadata. Foundform keeps the object connected to the place and moment it came from. REFINE YOUR SPECIMENS Adjust exposure, contrast, color and other image properties. Refine cutouts, correct perspective, add borders and choose how each view should be presented. CONNECT DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL SCALE For flat objects, optionally calibrate real-world scale by marking two points and entering the distance between them. Foundform can then derive the specimen’s physical dimensions. EXPORT FOR DESIGN WORK Export clean PNGs with transparent backgrounds. Calibrated specimens can be exported at their real-world scale and a chosen DPI — useful when bringing physical references into design workflows. MADE FOR VISUAL COLLECTIONS Foundform is designed around the objects themselves. Finds move naturally between your archive, collections and detailed views, making your digital collection feel closer to handling a collection of physical specimens. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your archive is stored locally on your device. Foundform doesn’t require an account or social profile. Find something worth keeping.

Screenshots

Appstar4 screens
Foundform4 screens

Verdict

The call

Appstar and Foundform both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Foundform's written reviews are positive against 75% of Appstar's. Foundform also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Appstar's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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. 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 Appstar against 5.0 for Foundform. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Appstar has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Appstar's written reviews are positive against 100% of Foundform's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Appstar ships an update weekly, Foundform daily. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Appstar versus Foundform: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAppstarFoundform
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size247 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDT Technology Systems, Inc.Linus Weber

Customer experience

Appstar

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Foundform

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Appstar

No in-app purchases

None

Foundform

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Appstar free?
Appstar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Foundform free?
Foundform is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Appstar or Foundform?
Appstar and Foundform are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Appstar or Foundform have ads?
Neither Appstar nor Foundform shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Appstar or Foundform?
Appstar ships an update weekly, and Foundform daily. Most recently, Appstar was updated on October 16, 2026 and Foundform on October 13, 2026.

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