Disposable Life vs Cliché
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Disposable Life
Capture photos with an authentic disposable camera feel, complete with grain, light leaks, and film-edge stamps. Shoot limited 24-frame rolls, develop them frame by frame, and share rolls with friends for collaborative memory-making.
- Authentic disposable camera filter
- 24-shot rolls with slide-to-wind
- Private or shared rolls with friends
- Custom film-edge stamps
- Likes and comments on shared photos
- Lock Screen integration for active rolls
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Disposable Life is the shared disposable camera app where everyone contributes to the same film roll. Create one disposable camera roll and invite your friends with a join code. Give everyone a limited number of photos, just like passing around a real disposable camera. Whether you're at a music festival, vacation, wedding, road trip, camping weekend, concert, birthday, party, ski trip, beach day, or simply spending time together, everyone contributes to the same shared film roll. The best part? You decide when everyone gets to see the photos! Before your event begins, choose a reveal date. Set it for the morning after the festival, when everyone gets home from vacation, after your wedding, or whenever you want. Until then, nobody can see the photos. No spoilers. No scrolling through pictures while the event is still happening. No sending photos in group chats. When the countdown reaches zero, everyone unlocks the complete disposable camera roll at exactly the same moment. Just like collecting a freshly developed disposable camera from the photo lab, everyone experiences the memories together for the very first time. Inspired by disposable film cameras from the 1990s and early 2000s, every photo is automatically transformed with authentic film grain, warm vintage colors, nostalgic flash, subtle imperfections, retro film texture, and optional film date stamps. The result captures the feeling of real disposable film photography without needing a real film camera. Disposable Life recreates the complete disposable camera experience—not just the look. After every photo, you'll need to wind the film before taking the next shot, just like using a real disposable camera. Slowing down makes every frame feel valuable. Instead of taking hundreds of nearly identical photos, every click becomes intentional. Once your roll is complete, it's sent to the darkroom. Your memories stay hidden until the reveal date arrives, building anticipation while everyone stays present instead of constantly checking photos. Waiting is part of the experience, making the final reveal even more rewarding. Create private rolls just for yourself or shared rolls with friends. Choose exactly how many photos each person can take. Give everyone 5 photos, 10 photos, 15 photos, or recreate the classic disposable camera experience with 24 shots each. Once someone has used all of their photos, they're done until the roll is revealed. See who captured every photo, react with likes, leave comments, and enjoy discovering moments you never knew happened. Disposable Life is perfect for music festivals, concerts, vacations, road trips, camping, weddings, bachelor and bachelorette parties, birthdays, school trips, cabin weekends, family holidays, beach days, nights out, backpacking, and everyday memories. Features: • Shared disposable camera rolls • Private disposable camera rolls • Invite friends with a code or username • Choose your own reveal date • Everyone unlocks the roll together • Individual photo limits for every participant • Wind the film after every photo • Darkroom development experience • Authentic disposable camera filter • 1990s and early 2000s film camera style • Film grain, vintage colors, flash effects, and retro date stamps • Likes and comments on shared rolls • User profiles and usernames • Push notifications • Lock Screen widget • Fast on-device photo processing • Built for iPhone Disposable Life brings back everything people loved about disposable cameras while creating a completely new way to experience them together. One disposable camera. One shared film roll. One reveal. One collection of memories you'll never recreate. Download Disposable Life today and start your first shared disposable camera roll.
Cliché
This app creates a shared album for event guests, automatically collecting photos taken by everyone. It focuses on capturing genuine moments and delivering a curated album of your event's memories.
- Shared event album creation
- Guest photo collection
- Automatic photo compilation
- Bluetooth-enabled guest connection
- Private event albums
- Film-like photo reveal
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One camera. Everyone invited. 12 photos each. Cliché turns your night into a disposable camera. Your guests scan a QR code, everyone shoots, and nobody sees a thing until it's over. Then the roll develops and you all get photos of the same night. WHY IT BEATS THE GROUP CHAT ALBUM - 12 photos each, not one more. Every shot counts, so people put their phones away and actually show up. - Nothing to see until the end. Nobody's comparing photos at the table, nobody's begging you to take it again. - Bluetooth picks up who you were with. You get your moments, even the photos you didn't take. HOW IT WORKS - Create the roll and hold up its QR code. Your guests are in within seconds. - Everyone shoots their 12 photos during the night. The roll stays closed while it develops. - You open it when the party's over, up to a week later. Forget to, and it opens on its own. - You get the whole roll, everyone else gets their moments. MADE FOR - Weddings, birthdays, festivals, bachelor and bachelorette parties - At work: conferences, trade shows, offsites, company parties and happy hours - Weekends away with friends, housewarmings, family reunions - Or just a Saturday night, for no reason YOUR PHOTOS STAY BETWEEN YOU - No feed, no followers, no ads - Only the people who were there see the photos - You pick how many photos everyone gets, 12 by default No photographer. No 2,000-photo album where you don't recognize anyone. Just your night, developed for the people who lived it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Disposable Life at 5.0 against Cliché's 4.2. Disposable Life also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). Cliché's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Disposable Life holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cliché has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Disposable Life ships an update fortnightly, Cliché every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Disposable Life | Cliché |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Matias Ljostveit | Disket |
Customer experience
Disposable Life
Cliché
In-app purchases
Disposable Life
No in-app purchases
Cliché
No in-app purchases





