Comparison

Koloristika vs Border Pro

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

Head to head
About

Koloristika

This app captures photos using raw sensor data, bypassing computational photography to deliver authentic film-like results. It offers advanced editing tools based on photochemical processes and allows for sharing unique looks via short codes.

Highlights
  • Bypasses computational photography for raw sensor data
  • Film-inspired photochemical editing tools
  • RAW + JPG capture
  • Non-destructive RAW editor with six sliders
  • DRX Dynamic Range Extension
  • Tone Seed for sharing looks
  • Scout Mode with focal length equivalents
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Your phone finishes every photo before you see it. Face detection, scene recognition, exposure blending, a neural network deciding what your sky should look like. Koloristika keeps the negative, a RAW, and develops it with color made for cinema. It comes from The Brim® Industrial Imaging Bureau, the cinema color-science lab that has defined what "cinematic" looks like since 2014. Color for IMAX features, global campaigns, Netflix and Apple TV+ series. Every shot is saved as a RAW and a JPEG, paired. Your edits sit on top of the RAW and never touch it, so you can change the look tonight or a year from now. Reframe to a longer simulated lens in real millimeters, in cinema or photo formats, and the RAW is never cut. Auto Horizon straightens up to ten degrees at capture. If you disagree, put it back. Nothing else is built this way. MONOLITH. Not a black & white mode. A new kind of photograph, and a world first: the first panchromatic black & white RAW from a color sensor. It never makes a color photo. It builds the black & white straight from the sensor data, every color counted by how bright it looks to the eye, like black & white film. One 16-bit channel, no color noise. Neutral, Red, Yellow, Green and Blue filters go into the negative, like glass on the lens. Long-press any older Koloristika RAW to make a mono negative from it. No AI. DOUBLET. The first app to make a true double-exposure RAW. The two frames are added at the sensor-data level, before the picture is built, and saved as one negative. DSTOCK. Seven years of R&D. Every stock is measured from motion picture film. SILVERLITH. Bleach bypass built in film density, the way a lab does it. Slide it the other way and only the dye moves. FORMULATIONS. F1, F2, F3. Set your look before the shot. Change it after. THE EDITOR. Six sliders modeled from film: density, exposure, upper density, temperature, tint and subtractive saturation. Horizontal for big moves, vertical for fine ones. Saved as you go. DRX. Two extra stops from one shot, two renders fused by luminance. Not HDR, not bracketing. CLR. Color Locus Reset. Color noise that falls outside real color is walked back to the edge of what light can be. The grain stays. ON SET. Scout Mode adds cinema and photo ratios and simulated lenses beyond the one on your phone. Chromogram reads the seven dominant hues of the frame live and sizes each by how much of the frame it fills. Turn on FrameStamp when you export. TONE SEED. A whole edit in eight characters, short enough to text to the DP. GALLERY. Chronological, with a badge on every thumbnail. Calendar view. Map view. EXPORT. JPEG or TIFF. Full or half resolution. 8-bit or 16-bit. QUICK ACCESS. Open the camera from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later. 36 shots free, no clock. Then a subscription, monthly or yearly. Your photos stay on your device. Location is off until you turn it on. No accounts with us, no tracking, no ads. iCloud sync is optional and runs on your own account. The negative is yours. So is everything you make from it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.thebrim.pictures/koloristika-privacy.html

About

Border Pro

Enhance your photos and videos with professional, customizable borders. Preserve EXIF data, print shooting information directly onto images, and export in various formats for social media or print. Works offline and supports batch processing.

Highlights
  • Preserves EXIF data
  • Calculated percentage-based borders
  • Print shooting data onto borders
  • Customizable color and shape borders
  • Social media and video export formats
  • Batch export up to 100 photos
  • Offline functionality
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Border Pro is the photographer’s tool for adding beautiful, precise borders to your photos — whether you shoot on iPhone, mirrorless, or film. Built for people who care about their images, Border Pro preserves your EXIF data on every save. Your camera model, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed and date all stay intact. BORDERS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Borders are calculated as a percentage of your image, so they stay perfectly consistent across every aspect ratio and resolution — from a phone snap to a 102MP medium format file. PRINT YOUR SHOOTING DATA Turn on Metadata Print and your camera data is printed directly onto your border — just like a lab print. Choose from 20 fonts including elegant scripts, classic serifs and clean sans-serifs. Set the colour to auto or pick any custom colour. Print on any edge — bottom, top, left or right — with the weighted border following automatically. COLOUR BORDERS Choose from curated classic tones, vibrant presets, or sample any colour directly from your photo using the built-in eyedropper with magnifier loupe. Save up to 6 custom colours for quick access. SHAPE YOUR BORDERS Control each corner independently — from fully rounded to square, mixed, or anything between. Create arches, D-shapes and compositions that are entirely your own. SOCIAL MEDIA READY Export to Instagram square, portrait, landscape or Story/TikTok formats with a single tap. Preview the canvas before you save. EXPORT YOUR WAY Choose JPEG, HEIC or lossless PNG. Set your own quality level. Your images, your format. EVERYTHING ELSE • White, black and custom colour borders • Double border with custom keyline colour — black, white, or any colour • Weighted border on any edge for that classic print look • Save up to 10 named profiles, synced to iCloud • Batch export up to 100 photos at once • Works completely offline • Saves to a dedicated Border Pro album in Photos VIDEO SUPPORT Photos and videos, treated the same way. Add gallery-style borders without cropping, compression, or loss of quality. Border Pro is for photographers who want their images to look considered, not filtered.

Screenshots

Koloristika4 screens
Border Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Koloristika at Free against Border Pro's $2.99. Border Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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

Koloristika is free to download; Border Pro costs $2.99 up front. Koloristika sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Border Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Border Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Koloristika's written reviews are positive against 100% of Border Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Koloristika ships an update every 5 days, Border Pro weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Koloristika versus Border Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKoloristikaBorder Pro
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#156 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHE BRIM - FZCOPAUL JOHN PRIDE

Customer experience

Koloristika

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Border Pro

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Koloristika

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
None

Border Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Koloristika free?
Koloristika is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Border Pro free?
Border Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Koloristika or Border Pro?
Border Pro is rated higher. Koloristika averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Border Pro averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Koloristika or Border Pro have ads?
Neither Koloristika nor Border Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Koloristika or Border Pro?
Koloristika ships an update every 5 days, and Border Pro weekly. Most recently, Koloristika was updated on November 5, 2026 and Border Pro on November 5, 2026.

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