Comparison

ClearLab vs Portal Frame

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

Head to head
About

ClearLab

This mobile toolbox offers laboratory-grade image analysis for engineers, researchers, and students. It provides advanced processing tools, enabling offline experimentation and visualization of images directly on your device.

Highlights
  • Image operations (crop, resize, rotate)
  • Image type conversion (RGB, grayscale, multi-bit)
  • Image enhancement (brightness, contrast, CLAHE)
  • Edge detection and feature extraction
  • Filtering and noise processing
  • Color mapping and visualization
  • Analysis tools (histogram, profile plotting)
Features
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ClearLab is a professional mobile image processing and analysis workspace for iPhone and iPad. Enhance images, inspect pixels, analyze histograms and waveforms, convert formats, and export results directly on your device. Built for photography, computer vision, engineering, education and scientific imaging, ClearLab combines practical image processing tools with technical analysis in one focused workflow. Image Tools • Crop and resize images • Scale images up or down • Rotate and flip • Inspect image properties and dimensions Enhancement • White Balance • CLAHE • Contrast • Gamma • Sharpening • Color Balance and Color Boost • Noise Reduction and Median Filtering Image Analysis • Histogram with RGB and luminance channels • RGB Parade • Waveform monitor • Horizontal and vertical Line Profile • Pixel Inspector with RGB, HSV, Lab, HEX and luminance values • Image statistics including mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values • Canny, Sobel and Laplacian edge detection Analysis results can be exported as PNG or CSV where supported, making ClearLab useful alongside MATLAB, Python, Excel and other technical workflows. Conversion & Export Convert and export images in multiple formats, including PNG, JPEG, TIFF and HEIF, with dedicated controls for output settings. ClearLab is optimized for high performance on mobile hardware, using native image processing for a fast and responsive workflow. Whether you are working with photography, computer vision, engineering, education or scientific imaging, ClearLab provides practical image-processing and analysis tools directly on your device. ClearLab is not just a photo editor — it is a mobile image processing laboratory.

About

Portal Frame

Features
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Frame the shot with your hands Portal Frame turns the simple "finger frame" gesture into a real-time effects camera. Hold up both hands, shape a rectangle with your thumbs and index fingers like you're framing a photo, and the app locks onto it instantly. Whatever effect you've picked plays out live, inside the frame you made, while the rest of the shot stays untouched. Hand tracking runs entirely on-device, so it keeps up in real time even without a signal. THE PORTAL EFFECT Open your palm and a glowing ring forms beneath it. Close it into a fist and the ring charges brighter, faster, more energy. Throw a punch and that hand's portal bursts outward in the direction you threw it. Each hand runs its own portal completely independently, so both can be open, charging, or bursting at the same time. 60+ REAL-TIME EFFECTS A full GPU-accelerated effects library across eight categories Color, Artistic, Retro, Distortion, Light, Cinematic, Experimental, and the signature Portal effect. Pixelate, glitch, VHS, oil painting, kaleidoscope, bloom, thermal, hologram, and dozens more, all rendered live at full frame rate. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Portal Frame doesn't have a backend. Your camera feed, microphone audio, and recordings are processed on your device and never transmitted anywhere there's no server for them to go to. No account, no analytics SDK, no ad tracking. Read exactly what the app touches and why in the in-app Privacy Policy. RECORD, SAVE, SHARE Record straight from the live preview, review it in your library, and save finished clips to your Photos app in one tap. Works offline record in airplane mode and every effect still runs. PORTAL FRAME PRO Unlock the complete 60+ effect library with no watermark, and run the portal effect on both hands at once. Weekly, monthly, yearly, and lifetime options are available manage or cancel anytime from your Apple ID subscription settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/fingerframeprivacy/home

Screenshots

ClearLab4 screens
Portal Frame4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Portal Frame at Free against ClearLab's $4.99. Portal Frame also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). ClearLab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Portal Frame is free to download; ClearLab costs $4.99 up front. Portal Frame sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. ClearLab asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ClearLab versus Portal Frame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClearLabPortal Frame
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhoturion, Inc.Oussama Oumlil

In-app purchases

None

ClearLab

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Portal Frame

Subscriptions3
  • Finger Frame Weekly pro$3.997 Days
  • Finger Frame Monthly pro$6.991 Month
  • Finger Frame Yearly pro$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • FaceFlow Lifetime pro$0.99

Questions

Is ClearLab free?
ClearLab costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Portal Frame free?
Portal Frame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ClearLab or Portal Frame have ads?
Neither ClearLab nor Portal Frame shows ads.

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