Comparison

Koloristika vs 9PM

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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Koloristika builds the picture itself. Open the stock camera and the phone hands you a finished photo. Face detection, scene recognition, exposure blending, a neural network deciding what your sky should look like. All of it decided before you ever see the shot. Koloristika starts a step earlier, at the sensor, and assembles the image from raw data. Demosaic, tone, noise, color, the whole build. Two things do that work, and they hold each other up. One is the color science. SUCOMO3 shaped the biggest films of the last decade. DSTOCK is what came next, and it lands here first. The cinema industry gets it after you. Film is chemistry. So is this. SILVERLITH carries density from rich dye layers to silver-retained bleach bypass. Saturation comes out the way film subtracts it, never the way a slider adds it. The result is a photograph, not a render. The other is the RAW engine. Every shot keeps the full-sensor RAW, whole, the way the sensor saw it. Because the negative is always there, nothing you decide is ever spent. Reframe a shot to a longer lens or a cinema format a year later, and nothing is cut from the RAW. Let Auto Horizon straighten a tilt at capture, then put it back if you disagree. Change the look a hundred times. The edit sits on the negative and never touches it. The two are not really separate. The color science is what makes the picture worth keeping. The RAW engine is what keeps it yours to change. Nothing else is built this way. The shot is yours. So is everything you make from it. THE PROOF THE EDITOR. Six sliders, each modeled from real film. Density, exposure, upper density, temperature, tint, subtractive saturation. Horizontal for big moves, vertical for fine ones. Every edit non-destructive, every edit auto-saved. REFRAME. A director's viewfinder for a shot you already own. Recompose after capture, with a longer simulated lens in real millimeters and cinema or photo formats. The RAW never gets cut. AUTO HORIZON. Straightens a tilted horizon at capture, up to ten degrees. Change it or clear it in Reframe. DOUBLET. A real double exposure as a new RAW. Two of your captures added at the sensor, photon for photon, before the picture is built. One editable negative, not a JPG overlay. The densities come out right because they were never faked. The first on iOS to do it in RAW. DRX. Two extra stops of dynamic range. One shot, two renders, fused by luminance. Not HDR, not bracketing. CLR. Color Locus Reset. Chroma noise that falls outside real color gets walked back to the edge of what light can actually be. The grain stays. SCOUT MODE. Cinema and photography ratios. Focal-length equivalents across Super16, Super35, VistaVision, and 65mm. Simulated lenses beyond the physical one. FrameStamp burns format, focal length, ratio, coordinates, and date into one black bar. GPS stays on the device. CHROMOGRAM. The seven dominant hues of a frame, read live and sized by area. Burn it into the export with the color data. FORMULATIONS. F1, F2, F3. Your look, applied at capture. Change it later. The edit is always there. TONE SEED. Every edit in eight characters. Share the code, share the look. GALLERY. Chronological, with badges on every thumbnail. Calendar view. Map view. EXPORT. JPG or TIFF. Full or half resolution. 8-bit or 16-bit. QUICK ACCESS. Lock Screen widget, Control Center, Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later. Thirty-six shots free, no clock. Then a subscription, monthly or yearly. Your photos stay on your device. No accounts with us, no tracking, no ads. iCloud sync, if you want it, is your own. 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

9PM

This app allows users to share daily photo and video dumps with trusted friends and family. Posts are automatically published at 9 PM, revealing everyone's day. It offers a private space for creative expression without pressure from strangers.

Highlights
  • Daily photo and video posting
  • Automatic 9 PM posting
  • Private social network
  • Trusted contact sharing
  • Visual life diary
  • React, reply, and share
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9PM IS REALLY SIMPLE 1. Choose photos and videos from your camera roll. 2. Your daily photo dump is automatically posted at 9:00 PM. 3. At 9PM, everyone’s day is revealed together. 4. React, reply, hug your friends. 9PM is built around one simple daily habit: share your day with the people you trust, then come back at 9PM to see theirs. Over time, your profile becomes a visual diary of your life, one 9PM at a time. There’s no algorithm. Every post comes from someone you added, and every profile is private. New to 9PM? Use invite code 95466 and add fredd. That’s me, the founder. MEMBERSHIP Some features require a membership. CONTACT hello@9pm.app Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Koloristika4 screens
9PM4 screens

Verdict

The call

Koloristika and 9PM both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of Koloristika's written reviews are positive against 50% of 9PM's. Koloristika also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Koloristika sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and 9PM sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Koloristika against 5.0 for 9PM. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Koloristika's written reviews are positive against 50% of 9PM's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Koloristika ships an update every 3 days, 9PM every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Koloristika versus 9PM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKoloristika9PM
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB111 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTHE BRIM - FZCO9PM Inc.

Customer experience

Koloristika

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

9PM

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Koloristika

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
6 purchases

9PM

Subscriptions2
  • 9PM Membership Weekly$4.997 Days
  • 9PM Membership Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • Claim a Username$4.99
  • Claim a 3-Letter Username$49.99
  • Claim a 2-Letter Username$499.99
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  • Claim a 1-Letter Username$999.99

Questions

Is Koloristika free?
Koloristika is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 9PM free?
9PM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Koloristika or 9PM?
Koloristika and 9PM are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Koloristika or 9PM have ads?
Neither Koloristika nor 9PM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Koloristika or 9PM?
Koloristika ships an update every 3 days, and 9PM every 6 days. Most recently, Koloristika was updated on October 24, 2026 and 9PM on October 25, 2026.

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